Cheap home decorating ideas can make a great space

Using cheap home decorating ideas can be the secret to making this dining room living room makeover look so great.

I have somewhat completed my dining room living room, which I ended up using more modern home accessories than I usually do.

With David returning from Afghanistan, Christmas, and my nephews cancer, I was slow at getting this project finished.

The room is very close to complete,  just waiting on hardwood floors, crown molding, and a few home decor accessories need to be added.   Even though I changed my mind a gazillion times, I am very happy with the final result!

When we moved in a year ago, my living room dining room combo went from looking like this to this, and then this.

I was hoping to go with yellow and gray, I was crushing on that contemporary color combination.  However,  when that love affair was over, I moved on to this.

Because I couldn’t live with my daughter telling me we had racoon tails hanging from our curtains, I had to change my curtains again!

 I am so very happy to show you how it looks today!   Except my ceiling chandelier needs to be hung..

I did end up being able to use yellow and gray, just not a true gray, grays have always read lavender and baby blue in this house!.  I went with a blue gray and it was the perfect fit with my living/dining paint color.

We have a little bit more to do with my dining room before I will say it is totally complete.  Even then, I’m sure I will change my mind 100 times again.

I still need to print out family pictures for my picture frames, re gift the oil painting,

a tall houseplant to fill in this gap.

And the right centerpiece for my dining table.

I can’t wait until we get hardwood floors and crown molding, those are the details that will complete this room. But in the meantime, I am very happy with it.  I think it has just the right amount of modern home accessories to make it look young and current, with just enough tradional influence to show my style,  but has some rustic elements added to make it warm and inviting.  I just love it and it is so me!

 before pictures

And now it looks like this.

I think I have a great looking modernish space, that really was put together using cheap home decorating ideas.

What modern home accessories are you using to update a room in your house?

What are your favorite cheap home decorating ideas.

Please pray for Brandon and my family right now.  His testicular cancer has progressed very quickly.

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