Our homes are a place for us to relax and spend time with our loved ones, and if we do not feel especially thrilled in this environment, it will affect our overall enjoyment of our homes. However, we all have at least one room in our house that we are not particularly happy with, that we feel like is not quite up to scratch. Maybe our bedroom is not as relaxing or well-thought-out as possible, and lots of us need a drastic upgrade to our kitchen, but we never seem to have time for it. We all have such busy lives with kids, work, and all the other commitments, and besides hiring painters and decorators, there seems to be no way to make it any better.

Or is there?

Here, we look at some simple ways that you can give your home a new lease of life when you have limited time.