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Interior Design Ideas: 3 Ways to Style Your Home With Items You Already Have

This will be a total challenge! How can you redesign the look of your home with the items that you already have? Ooze up and be ready, as HGTV details three ways to upgrade the look of your home with the things that you already have.

1. Photo + Books + Hamper= Entryway

Surprise your guest with an inviting setup! Bring out your photo collections, the old books you're hiding and a chic looking stylish hamper, this three essentials will work best in your entryway.

How to create this look: "Turn a photo into poster-size art (framebridge.com can do it for you), then stack books on and under a bench. The finishing touch: a stylish fabric hamper filled with a potted fiddle-leaf fig tree."

2. Basket + Scarf + Mugs = Kitchen Sink Area

This three essentials will pump up the area in your kitchen sink. What you'll love most about this is how the scarf was used in another way, naturally women use scarf as a fashion statement but here it was used as a curtain for the kitchen.

How to create this look: "Have an electrician wire a hanging light socket, then slip a basket over it as a shade. For café curtains, cut and hem a colorful scarf, then hang the pieces from clip-on rings and tension rods. Finally, pot fragrant herbs in a set of mugs to keep on the counter."

3. Bookcase + Lamp + Glasses = Dining Room Bar

Does your dining area buzz off a monotonous look just like the rest of the areas in your house. If you have these three items, you can rouse up the setup of your dining room. Incorporate these three pieces on the side of your dining table and surely, visitors will have fun on this simple makeover.  

How to create this look: "Turn a bookish storage piece into a fun hub for entertaining. We painted the back panel inside our bookcase Great Green by Sherwin-Williams, then topped it with a lamp. Wine glasses and tumblers are stashed in the cubbies below." 


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