Easy and Affordable DIY Home Decor Ideas on a Budget

Hey guys, how's it going? I'm Edipo Kleber, an architect. Grab some paper and a pen, because this video is really cool. If you're about to renovate, if you're already renovating, or if you're building your house, this is gonna be really worth it. These tips I'm going to share with you here will even help you save money. First, guys, keep a color palette for painting your house, both inside and outside. What I want you to understand when I talk about a color palette, okay, okay, think with me. Imagine if you choose a palette in beige tones to paint your house inside. You put some papel picado in the living room, you put some algodon egipcio in the bedroom. This is a color palette that matches, that has harmony between them. Then you went there and put a color called chalet no campo in the living room on the television wall, which is a shade of brownish beige. Let's put it this way, a bit darker then. This creates a sense of harmony in your home's decor and increases the value of your property. It enhances, it enhances your home's decoration. When you work with color harmony, both inside and outside, it's no use choosing a good color palette, beautiful colors to paint your house inside and forgetting about the outside area. Okay, we need to have this color harmony. So value it and follow a color palette line. Okay, for you to paint your house, the indoor spaces and also the walls, right? The exterior facades of your house. Then you're going to decorate your ceiling, right? With spotlights, with tracks, with central light fixtures, that decoration full of details that we used to see in the past, right? Ras Godeluz, plaster island, illuminated curtain rod. Illuminated curtain rod is actually pretty cool, right? A LED profile that has a lot of accessories, a lot of details. I tell you guys, it's not that it's out of style, right? Is that it? It's very beautiful decoration. I really like and enjoy plaster decorations. Okay, I even have them at home. However, when you have a smoother, cleaner ceiling and then you work with LED profiles, spotlights and central fixtures, you will enhance the rooms in your house. You will bring a lightness to the lighting, to your ceiling, to your environment. When it comes to making islands, cuts and going around, you know, cutting the ceiling, cutting to create these decorations. Okay, one or another here, a little corner. Sure, if you're in a hallway, an entryway, you can put a thin strip of light there, right? A plaster island maybe in a dining room, it works. It looks really nice, but try leaving the ceiling smooth just with the lining and work with spotlights. To decorate a wall, decorate a living room, use a central light fixture in your television room, use a beautiful chandelier in your dining room. All right, so my tip is for you to stop just putting in plaster islands, islands and light strips everywhere. Suddenly you go there and create a lid curtain rod and then you start adding elements to your living room, to your house. Soon you end up cluttering the spaces too much and end up taking away the lightness, taking away the softness of your ceiling. So always try to keep it cleaner, softer. Look at this item here, guys, I won't even say anything. I'll let the video show you. It's a wall-mounted clothesline that doesn't even look like one. I posted it for you on our Instagram, TikTok and all our social networks. Right, this product here, look, the wall-mounted clothesline which when it's closed, it doesn't even look like a clothesline, okay? It went viral. A lot of people were asking me like, where do you buy this clothesline? What sizes does it come in? Is there a one meter one, a 60 cm one, an 80 cm one? Guys, think about a product that's gonna make your life easier and really add value to your laundry, your laundry room, your service area. Why? Think about it with me. You're there, you washed your clothes, everything went well and all that. You're going to hang them on a clothesline, maybe that ceiling-mounted one or the floor one. Try switching to this wall-mounted clothesline I'm showing you here. Look, you open it, you put your clothes there, right? There are four or five rods for hanging clothes available in different sizes, not just 60 or 70 cm, but up to one meter and 20 cm if I'm correct. And then you install it very easily. The installation is like, there's nothing to it. I'm using it, guys, I'm only gonna do laundry on the weekend. Everything is still in the basket and all, and the clothesline will stay here. It doesn't bother me. No, when you close the clothesline, it looks like there's not even a clothesline on your wall. I know you guys are gonna ask me, where do I buy this product? The link is down here in the description of this video. I'll leave it for you where we buy it, where I can recommend you to buy it. Various sizes, colors, also black, white, gray. The link for it is down here in the description. Television wall in your living room without a panel. That's right. You need to run a pipe to hide the wires first, okay? Don't forget that. Let's add value to your house. Let's add value to your living room. Now, with this simple tip, I'm gonna tell you here. You don't need to have a panel on your television wall. You don't need to fill your television wall with decorations. Just a low rack there to put the devices or some drawers. Some shelves and leave your television in the center of your wall. All right, your sofa is there, right? Like I said, you need to run a conduit behind your television down to the low furniture to run cables, HDMI, power outlets, those things. But there's no need for you to put up a panel. It looks much lighter. Really adds value to your living room. Gives it that clean look, you know, when you look at your living room and it's just your television and your low rack there. There's no panel full of stuff there. It gives that lightness, that softness. It really adds value. It really does. Guys, think with me. A panel, whether it's wood, plaster, or any material, it's nice, sure, but try leaving it out and see how much it will add value to your house. Profile instead of thresholds or strips at the divisions of your floors. Thresholds, I'm not even gonna tell you that we don't use them inside anymore, okay? I've already discussed using thresholds in our channel videos. We no longer use them inside. Strips, thinner mini thresholds, can work in places like bathrooms or between the kitchen and laundry. In some cases, they fit well and look good. Now, the profile dividing the floors, especially from the living room to the bathrooms, from the living room to the bedrooms and so on, is really nice. It's a very interesting look. That internally, strips, I even dare to say to you that in the division of spaces like floors, think about it with me. In the kitchen, you have porcelain tiles. In the living room, you have vinyl flooring. There's no need for a threshold, no need for a profile, no need for a strip. Now, if you want to separate these two floors, then you can put a small aluminum profile at the division, very close to the color of one of them, or maybe a different color to make it stand out. Forget about thresholds. Don't use thresholds inside or strips. In some cases now, if you want to use a divider, use the profile and you won't regret it. Two adapted showers. Check out this idea. It's amazing. You have a big bathroom, but only one shower. Look how cool this is. And then you want two showers, you, your husband, your wife. You want two showers there to take a shower together, have some fun, but you only have one. You're gonna break the wall. You're gonna break the ceiling. You're gonna tear everything up. Do a whole renovation in your bathroom just to put in two wall or ceiling showers. No, this idea I'm showing you here is an adaptation using aluminum pipes that you can do. The connection between one shower and the other will solve this problem. Pay attention, okay? I know you guys are going to comment. I'm keeping an eye on your comments here, okay? A lot of people are going to say this. Oh, but the water pressure will drop. I agree when you have more water outlets, right? From the same supply, opening more outlets makes everything weaker. That's obvious since there are more outlets. But if you already have a good flow, if you already have good water pressure in your house and you want to have two showers without breaking anything, without breaking anything, just buying the product here, making the adaptation there, installing it, and then you have two showers in your bathroom. If you have a big bathroom, if you live in an apartment, if you live in a house, this idea is for you. You don't need to break anything. Just make the adaptation, all right? Smart furniture for your kitchen countertop. I want to talk about this one with a lot of attention. You might even tell me that what I just showed you isn't the usual. We're not used to it. We don't have the culture of having this in our kitchens, in our Brazilian homes. I agree with you. But what if there's a project or a situation where you need an extra countertop in your kitchen, and maybe your kitchen is even small, it's narrower, or your kitchen is very big, and at some point you need an extra countertop, an auxiliary one. This idea I'm showing you in the video is for you. You can make a hidden countertop there, and it's true that you'll lose a little bit of cabinet space. I agree with you about the height, because vertically it's only gonna take up a little corner, but in terms of height, you will lose a little bit. I agree, but like I told you, these are smart ideas, just like I said at the beginning of the video. So if you need it, if you think it's necessary and feasible to put it in your kitchen, this one is a good option. Call your carpenter, because I'm sure that instead of making it out of stone, a stone countertop, which would be very hard to move around, this way a carpenter can make it for less, and you'll get another countertop option in your kitchen. Just reminding you that some of the items I mentioned here, I'll leave the links for them in the description. For example, the wall-mounted clothesline that you can use in your laundry room or utility area. Also the trim that you can use between different types of flooring, the aluminum trim. I'll also show you the shower adaptation here, which is really interesting. When I brought this item here for you, I did a lot of research and couldn't find it here in Brazil. Brazilian websites. So in general, if there's a product or item with good value for money and a good price for me to show you here, I'll leave an item here. You might say, but Ed, it's expensive. But you have to think like I want two showers, but the cost I'll have to buy this product during a full bathroom renovation is worth it, okay? So like I told you, I'll leave the links for these items down below for you. I hope you enjoyed and like these smart ideas for you to adapt to your house, to do in your home or your apartment. If you've made it this far and you're not subscribed to our channel yet, subscribe, like this video and leave your comment for me here. Remember the links are down below in the description. Take care.