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Innovative Ways to Keep Your Furniture

9 November 2017 by Eileen Leave a Comment

Innovative Ways to Keep Your Furniture Looking Fresh and Interesting

Furniture is expensive, so unsurprisingly most people find themselves unable to renew it as often as they would like. As a result, many homeowners struggle to keep their home looking as fresh and modern as they would like to. Fortunately, if you think outside of the box there are actually quite a few affordable ways for you to update the furniture in your home.

Innovative Ways to Keep Your Furniture Looking Fresh and Interesting

Rent something modern

In the not so distant past, it was quite common for people to rent rather than buy their furniture. As people became more affluent and it became easy to secure finance for big purchases this way of furnishing a home fell out of fashion. Now, it is coming back into vogue. Firms like Emblem Furniture (http://www.emblemfurniture.co.uk/furniture-rental/) are once again putting together furniture rental deals that make sense for private property owners.

This is also a great way to try out a new look. You can hire a whole suite of furniture for a couple of months as a way of making sure that you find it comfortable and that it really does suit your tastes. This is a far better option than spending thousands on items that you later decide you do not really like. If that happens, the only viable option is to sell those items on for a fraction of what you paid for it.

Re-arrange what you have

Sometimes all you need to do is to rearrange some of the furniture that you already own. It is surprising how much better a room can look when you do this. Swapping items between rooms is also well worth trying.

Often, over time, without really realising it we end up with too much furniture. Therefore, periodically it is worth going through your home seeing if you can move any items to the garage to create less cluttered spaces with cleaner lines.

Rework and renovate what you already own

If some of the items you already own are looking a little worn and tired it is well worth having a go at restoring them. Learning the necessary skills is not difficult and you can usually pick up the equipment you need second-hand. Once you have learnt the basics you can restore the furniture you already own or go out and buy some second hand items and update them.

In time, you will get very good and be able to make more drastic changes. Being able to strip a sofa down and re-upholster it in a different style is not as difficult as you think. This video series will give you a fair idea of what is involved and will help you to decide if tackling these types of task is something you could learn to do.

The above are the three most obvious ideas and are the ones that practically anyone can do, regardless of where they live. Other approaches like swapping furniture with friends and family or joining recycling co-operative and using unwanted items are also possible. However, how practical they are for you to do depends, in part, on where you live and the type of friends you have. If they are not interested in swapping items of furniture or you do not live near a recycling co-operative neither of these ideas will be practical for you.

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