Real Simple magazine sent me e-mail telling me they could give me 16 quick, inexpensive ways to get a room makeover. I looked around, and came up with my own makeover. Picked up and cleared out of my "room" everything that belongs somewhere else, dusted, vacuumed, threw the trash out. VOILA!! Instant makeover…all it cost me was cleaning supplies, electricity for the vacuum cleaner.
Do SENIORS have a different idea of what a "room makeover" is than other age groups? My room sure looks madeover to me!!!
lol I would probably drive you nutz…I decorate for all major holidays and every few years I switch out colors schemes…I keep my expensive items in neutral colors and use color in curtains, throw pillows, etc….
I do spring cleaning, fall cleaning…summer and winter too lol…
I like Gladys’s method altho I have a relative that only dusts on windy days….she opens all the windows….
A makeover means spending lots of dollars to make it happen. The way you did it doesn’t count. I’m with you on this. There seems to be a makeover phenomenon going on in recent years. I find it odd.
My mother (she loved doing housework) did a whole house make over 4 times a year.
It all started because she liked ornaments, so family and friends always gave her knickknacks of some kind or another for birthdays etc. Eventually she had to many to have out at once. She divided them into 4 boxes (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) She also got herself throws, cushions, curtains, towels and bath mats and even rugs.
4 times a year she cleaned and changed everything. I dreaded it as she made me help her wash and pack everything. Even the curtains, bedding and all in the spare room had to be done.
But the end result was a different house.
But no………..her daughter does not take after her!!!!!
Beulah
My idea of a make over (who came up with that anyway?) is cleaning up, clearing out, and changing the curtains. Maybe changing the throw rug. Much more than that is ‘remodeling’ to me.
My idea of cleaning a room is sweeping it with a glance. I’m still waiting on Sears to come out with a riding vacuum cleaner. In the meantime, I’ll continue doing my dusting with the leaf blower!
I have just given one of my bed rooms a makeover, doing exactly what you done.
You’re exactly right. We can spend a fortune on decorating, but if it’s weighed down with excess clutter, we might as well have saved our money. Less is definitely more. It surely feels great when I have a clean house greeting me in the morning, even though I haven’t spent much at all on furnishings.
I am with you there, although I usually move the furniture around as well for a complete room make over!
To me a makeover would be new not just rearranged..
A make over is when you get new or different bedding, window treatments, rug, furniture and paint. Cleaning the stuff you already have is NOT making over anything.
It can be. I’ve seen people switch out certain decorations and things and put them in new places to highlight the area and make a room look fresh.