It’s Spring — Rearrange the furniture!
Anyone in my family can tell you that from a young age, I was constantly rearranging my furniture. Trying to swap desks with a sister or create new curtains out of any fabric I already had. I usually find that this helps me to think out-of-the-box because, after all, necessity is the mother of invention. For instance, I had a great metal basket holding my makeup in my bedroom. When I decided that metal basket would be great to hold the remotes on top of the coffee table, I was in need of a replacement. I turned to my cake tray (like the one in the picture above) and it became an even better display of the beautiful bottles and makeup brushes.
Last week, I decided to pull my bohemian curtains from my bedroom and put them in the living room. It was a perfect fit. The colors in the living room were an even better match, and it was my favorite kind of transformation: FREE!
Here are some other quick tips when rearranging the furniture:
Switch Places
Try flip-flopping your room. Switch places with your couch and armchairs and see how that changes the space. Try putting the T.V. on the opposite wall. You may find that it opens the walkway, or makes the room look bigger. What’s the worst that could happen? You could just put it back!
New Art
Try your art and pictures in different rooms. Try grouping them together to form a focal wall of pictures. Hang a floating shelf and rest your pictures on the shelf. Above is a picture of a woman mapping out her picture arrangements. You can get how-to instructions here.
Kitchen Display
Take a door or two off your kitchen cabinets and display your colorful bowls, plates and glasses.
Clean the tabletops
Opening up the surface area on the furniture will go a long ways. By doing this you can open up new ways to organize your rooms. Ikea is a great resource for organizing in style. The picture above is how one woman, Julie, decided her office could be: colorful, tidy, and organized. You can see what she did with the rest of her house at the knot.