Tips to Refresh Beautifully on The Cheap
Decorating Tips and Tricks
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It's Spring Break! Enjoy a few DTT Classics while we, and we hope you, enjoy some time with family.
Buckle your seatbelt, thrills and spills await! We love making inexpensive changes to get a big result. We're calling this cheap thrills!
Here are a few of the tips shared today.
Paint old furniture for a new fresh look
Use unique objects for artwork
Paint old wicker furniture or baskets a fun color for a change
Use an oversized basket to store extra pillows in your room, then it becomes decor
Buy digital artwork on Esty and print it yourself for inexpensive, personal artwork
Display things in threes
Change your shower curtain
Replace your lampshades
Rearrange your bookcase
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I know you’ve mentioned that it’s no longer stylish to decorate the empty space between top of cabinets and ceiling but what can I do about that space? It’s awkward and I don’t like it looking cluttered but I think it should be utilized in some way.
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| 0:00.0 | Buckle your seat belt. |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkinsness, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:14.5 | Today we're sharing our cheap thrills, aka easy, inexpensive ways to get that refresh that you need. |
| 0:21.3 | We're all on some sort of budget. |
| 0:23.9 | And so these are just so great. |
| 0:25.5 | And so many of these, we've both done, Kelly. |
| 0:27.8 | So I think these are definitely tried and true ways to really kick your home up a notch. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.4 | And sometimes it's just the simplest little thing, |
| 0:38.7 | and maybe only you notice it, but that's okay because it's all about you, isn't it? In your home, |
| 0:44.4 | you want it. You want it the way you want it. And sometimes just making a little tweak or a little |
| 0:49.1 | improvement or switching something out or even just moving something around makes such a difference. If you do |
| 0:55.5 | move furniture, do let your family or friends know. So nobody tries to have a seat where there is |
| 1:00.6 | no longer a chair and things like that. Okay, Kelly. Kick us off. How about flipping your rugs around? |
| 1:08.6 | You can flip some rugs completely over. It has to be a certain type of rug. Obviously, |
| 1:14.7 | if it has some sort of plastic coating on the opposite side, but some rugs, the way the weave is, |
| 1:19.5 | it's a complete flat weave rug on one side, and then it's a little bit more toughed out on the |
| 1:24.9 | other side. You can actually turn the whole thing over, and it's a different look. Sometimes you'll come across a designer in a magazine, or maybe you've |
| 1:36.1 | seen it in real life, where they'll use the opposite side of the fabric. Oftentimes it's a little |
| 1:42.1 | more muted. Have you seen that, Anita? Oh, absolutely. Yes. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. Definitely. Sometimes the designer does use the fabric upside down. So you can do a similar thing |
| 1:51.7 | with your rugs. You can try that. But if that's not going to work for your rugs because of the |
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