25 Feb

10 Decorating Ideas for Fun, Frugal Homes

There are many wonderful tips out there about how to decorate your home on a budget. Those tips are important. However, that’s not quite what we’re writing about here today. Instead, we want to look at how you can decorate your home in a way that will inspire you to save more money. By putting little money-saving reminders all around your house, you can be more motivated to live a frugal lifestyle. From piggy banks to “frugal” building blocks, there are tons of little affordable things that you can add to your home to reinvigorate your desire to live frugally.

10 great options for decorating to inspire frugality include:

1. Start a piggy bank collection. Piggy banks are a great reminder that we’re trying to save money. You can put them all over your house so that you are regularly encouraged to drop your change into them to save a little bit at a time. Alternatively, you could create a wonderful little piggy bank display on a mantle or shelf in your home. Even if you don’t actually use them to collect your change, a set of fun piggy banks can be a daily visual reminder that will help you to stick with your money-saving goals.

2. Decorate with inspiration from the rain. Maybe you want to se a grey color palette in one of your rooms. Perhaps you want to put up some wall decals of children holding umbrellas. Maybe you want to change out your rain gutters to a more decorative design. All of these things are subtle little reminders to you that you enjoy saving for a rainy day. Also consider actually saving money with your rainy day decor by installing rain barrels and other rainy day savings tools.

3. Spell out money-saving phrases with building blocks. Children’s colorful building blocks can be used to spell out phrases like “save money” or “be frugal”. You can stack these on different surfaces throughout your home to remind everyone that this family is a money-saving family. The bright colors will add a nice little bit of boldness to your house and the phrases will keep that money-saving spirit alive. Scrabble tiles and refrigerator magnet letters can also be used in this manner.

4. Paint favorite frugality quotes on your walls. You can create a really powerful statement by adding famous quotations to your walls in decorative fonts. If you don’t want to actually re-paint the walls with text then consider writing out some of your favorite quotes on canvas and hanging them up. Alternatively, a chalkboard where you can change the frugality quotes up regularly would be another great idea.

5. Add a frugality inspiration board to your home. An inspiration board is a board where you collect ideas that you are playing around with. Fashion designers may add magazine clippings, fabric swatches and photographs to their inspiration boards. You should do the same thing but make it a board that’s inspiring frugality. It could include favorite frugal recipes, frugal vacation ideas or other things that you are inspired by to stay frugal in your life. Make a whole wall to hang several boards and let each member of the family make one. This is a rotating board so you can add photos from favorite frugal experiences or new tips that you come across.

6. Decorate with burlap. This is a fabric that just screams “frugal”. Interestingly, it’s also a fabric that has become increasingly popular in the home. Use it for window treatments or table clothes. Cut out pieces of burlap and handpaint them then hang them on the walls. Get creative. Having this fabric around your home in a new way can inspire your frugal side to start thinking creatively again.

7. Use money as a motif. You can make your own motifs around the home using your favorite symbols for money. Whether it’s the $ or the £, it can be a cool little image to repeat around your home. A series of the symbol can make great trim around the edge of a room. Tablecloths and linens can be patterned with it. Canvases can be painted with it. The more you see it around you, the more you’re going to have saving it on your brain. Plus you’ll have a cool new decorating option that you might not ever have tried in your home before.

8. Make use of your frugality books in your decorating. Money-saving people often have a number of books related to frugal living, simplicity, cooking frugally, de-cluttering, etc. Don’t just stick those books with all of the other ones on your bookshelf. Use them to decorate your home in a new way. Books can be lined up by color, stacked by size, propped open to display the best pages and used in any other number of ways around the house. Having them around you will, of course, remind you about different ways to be frugal.

9. Find unique ways of putting up pockets. Pockets are a symbol of money. They are the place where we put our money. Empty pockets means that we don’t have any money. So having pockets in your decor is a great reminder about why you want to live frugally. Plus they’re practical around the home. Cut out a bunch of colorful apron pockets and hang them side by side in the kitchen to hold utensils, scissors and mail. The pockets of old robes can hold bathroom necessities nicely. And denim pockets are a fun design item all throughout the home.

10. Add vintage wallets, purses and coin pockets to your decor. These true symbols of money are often designed in interesting ways. You probably already have a lot of them around the house. Take them out of their hiding places and make a pretty little collection where you can see it instead! You might even want to slip a few coins into each one as a good luck symbol for your money-saving efforts.

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