Although it might not seem like it, spring is just a few weeks away. It is time to think about freshening up your home with some new decorating ideas. You could take a “top to bottom” approach and redo your entire house or just focus on one room at a time. Makeover the living room in the spring and your bedroom at the start of summer. Here are some fresh decorating ideas you can put into action today:

Go Bold With Color

One of the biggest secrets of an interior designer is “color is cheap.” You’ll find that you can repaint a room for a lot less money than it would cost to replace all the furniture. If you’re thinking about repainting, then you want to think about going bold with color choices. Think outside your current color scheme. Instead of a white wall for the dining room, go red. In the living room, you can try a pastel yellow or green. The bedroom is a perfect place for soothing blue tones.

Before you break out the brushes, you might want to narrow your color choices down to three or four top picks. Then get small samples of those colors and paint a square on the target wall. This will let you see what that paint is going to look like when it dries and in the light.

DIY Your Decor

Décor is defined as any item that doesn’t serve a practical function but instead provides decoration “accents.” Your décor elements can be artwork, rugs, candles and other selective knick-knacks. Décor is always open to personal interpretation. In other words, what is appealing to you is what should go into the room but not all of these items have to be bought from a high-end decorating store. You can create keepsake mementos using things you collect on vacation. Arrange them in a frame or shadow box. You also have plenty of photos stored on your cell phone. Print them out and put them into frames, too. There is also plenty of kid artwork you can use as a whimsical “artwork” piece for your décor.

Before you take on any one of these decorating projects, you want to make sure you’re working in a home that is clear of clutter. You wouldn’t want to clear out a room to paint it and then bring back in all the worn out furniture and other rubbish. Instead, turn that all over to Junk King Philadelphia today. Let them do all the clearing work. One junk removal session with Junk King Philadelphia is all it will take to get your home clear of rubbish and ready for decorating.