Yesterday I was packing my hand me down items to move into my first small apartment that I was sharing with my girlfriend. Today I am helping my friend pack her things to move to her first apartment. That’s the way is seems. I do not know what happened to the twenty-four years in between the two events but they are gone. My friend is so excited about her first job and her first real apartment. She lived on campus for her first three years of college and then shared a house with several other girls her last year, but the house was furnished so this is her first chance to decorate her own space.

The apartment she was able to afford is a small one bedroom with a balcony. The bathroom was next to the bedroom and a nice size. The kitchen was the standard apartment U-shaped kitchen with appliances on one side and counter space on the other with cabinets lining the wall space. Two people could cook in it. The counter space could be used as a breakfast bar and had room for two stools. This counter was adjacent to the small dining area that had the patio doors that lead out to the balcony. She was on the second floor and her balcony overlooked the side of the building, which was a grassy area with a small flower garden. The living room was nice size however it was long and narrow. My friend wanted me to help her with decorating ideas for a living room that was so narrow. One end of the space had a gas fireplace the other end was a blank wall there were two large windows on the long wall. It was hard to think of decorating ideas for a living room that did not have any furniture in it. She had saved enough money from her summer job to buy some furniture. Her father and I told her that she could have the bedroom furniture from her room at our house because we were going to convert it to a home office space. So she needed to find a small dining room set and living room furniture.

I suggested that we start at a second hand store that I have shopped at through the years to see if we could find a table and chairs as well as lamp stands and coffee table for the living room. This would give her more money to spend for decorating ideas for a living room space that was going to be a challenge. We found a great deal on the table and chairs; we also found two chairs upholstered chairs that were in very good shape. I suggested she buy them to make a grouping by the fireplace and then have a television watching area in the other part of the living room. This turned out to be great decorating ideas for a living room shaped like hers. She loves her space and the feeling of independence that it gives her.the story of "decoriting living room continue with this story

There are times when just a few inexpensive adjustments can make all the difference in a room. My aunty and her husband were tired of throwing their money away on rent, but they could not afford a very big home. Our sister-in-law is quite handy with fixing things and so is her husband. We told them that if they wanted to invest in a fixer upper we would help them get it into shape. As long as the house had a solid foundation and support walls we could restore the rest as a family project. I love to paint and stain so I told them I would help also.

They began looking in different areas for a lower price house. They found a house that was on a large lot at the end of a dead end road. The lot butted up against a small city park. The house had sat empty for three years after the elderly woman that lived in it was moved to a nursing home. She had recently passed away and so it was now for sale. She had a niece and nephew that were settling her estate and they were in a hurry to sell the house to get things settled. There was a lot of furniture and other things in the house. They wanted to sell everything as it was. Because it the elderly woman was not able to do a great deal of cleaning and with it sitting empty so long it needed a great deal of cleaning. The price was a steal so the kids bought it and we went to help them get it into shape. We agreed that the first thing we needed to do was move everything out so we could see what we were working with. In the corner of the living room were several boxes of discount carpet tiles that she must have purchased and never got around to installing. The carpet in the living room was old and worn. We thought we could pull it up and lay down the discount carpet tiles. They were a neutral color and they were clean and new. We began pulling up the old carpet and the pad. There was a wood floor underneath; however it was not in very good shape in the center of the room; however the edges were perfect. We decided to leave the wood exposed around the parameter of the room and lay the discount carpet tiles in the rest of the room. By doing this we had enough to do the dining room also. The discount carpet tiles were made of Berber and fit together very well. Once we were done you could not tell that they were individual squares.

We put fresh coats of paint on all the walls and sanded and painted the kitchen cabinets. We reupholstered several of the furniture pieces that had come with the house. There were several neat items that they kept and the rest we put on a garage sale. The house is shaping up nicely and the kids know that they will make a huge profit on it when it comes time for them to move on.hope this is inspiring to complete your decoring ideas with this "how to get "affordable discount carpet tiles