Quick Guide to Furnish Your Dream Home on a Budget

Moving into a new house, especially when its your own new house, is a dream come true. So, this quick guide to Furnish your home on a budget will help you in furnishing your dream house. As it happens in most of the cases, your new house will cost you more than mortgage payments.

In my experience, most people make the mistake of considering land and construction cost of their new house as the only significant expense. But, it is not true; your house decoration, furnishing, and essentials also consume a healthy amount of money. So, it becomes more important to furnish your home on a budget.

Studies show that over 75% of households have approximately 20 unwanted or unused items in a house. Many of the people donate or distribute their unused objects to clean up space in their home. Without taking more of your time on facts and studies, let’s quickly move to our main topic. How can you furnish your dream home on a budget? We’ll ease down everything for you, keep reading till the end.

What do you Need for Your House?

Firstly we are talking about the process of identifying what you need and what your house needs. This process will help you in preparing a list of items you need for the house. Having a list is essential; otherwise, you may under-purchase or over-purchase things for your home. Before starting with the process, prepare a budget that you are willing to spend on furnishing. Process of listing out what you need is quite simple, have a look at it here:

Study the Interior of Your House

Researching about the interior and design of your house is important. By doing so, you’ll be able to identify what things you need for each wall, each corner, and each door of your house. Another important thing that you should care about is how you want your home to look like. Do you want your home to look like scandinavia, minimal, simple, art-decorative, elegant, and more depending on your vision. Once you find out what type of look you want, you can identify what things you need for your house.

Make a List of Items You Need

So, once you have planned out the look of your house, it is time to take a notepad or a digital note. Start writing down what you think will look good in your house or the things you need for the house. For example, you can list your furniture, lighting, curtains, kitchen requirements, appliances, decoration items, and more things. Ensure that the things you are listing match the look you want for your house because this will be a one-time purchase for many coming years. So, be creative and selective.

Step-out and Start Searching

There are many places where you can look for the things you need. You can visit the local market, browse classified listings, visit online marketplaces like Amazon, visit websites like wish.com, and more. If you search carefully, you’ll find some website running sales on the products you need. For furniture, our suggestion will be to use furniture because new furniture is going to cost a lot. We’ve mentioned all the sales and methods you can save on buying things for furnishing your home.

Furnish Your Dream Home on a Budget

A big portion of your home furnishing budget will be spent on furniture. Even if you go out to the local market, you’ll find furniture costlier. You can save money on furniture by looking for used like new furniture in the market. Along with this, we’ve put 10s of ideas that’ll save a healthy amount of money for you in furnishing your dream house on a budget. Also, I would like to clarify that we are not compromising on the quality and look of your house. So, you can confidently consider our suggestions and tips about furnishing your home on a budget.

Checkout Garage Sales / Yard Sales

Every year a lot of people throw away many useful and creative things. So, if you could find out a yard sale near you, you can grab a lot for your house at less money. You can use Yardsales.net to find yard sales near you. Most of the yard sales are arranged before the start of winter or the start of the summer season.

While purchasing something from yard sales, ensure to check the item correctly. Also, please don’t buy any electronics items until you are very sure about the quality of it. If any of the things you bought gets broken very soon, you won’t be able to claim any refund or blame anyone.

Yard sales are considered suitable for buying household items like furniture, curtains, kitchenware, sofas, beds, and other household items. So, go out this weekend and look for garage sales or yard sales posters in your area.

Grab Freebies from People around You

People usually give away their furniture and other goods for free to get rid of them. You can grab some household items and furniture for free by finding giveaways near you. Websites like Gumtree, Facebook Marketplace, Freecycle, and more posts many open items every day. Here are some places where you can grab some freebies for your house:

Gumtree

It is the best place to start looking for freebies near you. Gumtree is a classified website that also has a freebies section. People post their gods, which they are looking to give away for free. From dining tables to sofas, you can grab plenty of things for free from Gumtree. The only thing you need to take care of is about picking up the good from the owner. Similar to Gumtree, there are more platforms that lists freebies from people around you. Check them out:

• Freecycle
• Preloved Freebies
• Freeads
• Swapz
• Facebook Marketplace

Use Plants for Decoration

Don’t have a garden which you always thought of having? No worries, we can somehow help you in being surrounded by greenery. Plants are one of the best ways to decorate a room. They not only give a soothing look to the room but also purifies the environment. As you can see in this image above, if you have white walls and a window like shown above, that’ll be perfect. Please go out and purchase plants of your choice from the market and place them according to what suits your eyes in the house. Some of the best plants for home decor are:

Visit Your Nearest Thrift Store

Thrift stores are quite famous for purchasing second-hand goods and clothes at cheap prices. Our purpose of suggesting you visit a thrift store is to grab some extremely cheap home decor items. A lot of people visit thrift stores for buying vintage clothes and vintage items for themselves and their house.

For grabbing quality products, you can visit stores like Salvation Army, Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, and many more near to you. They sell good quality products at cheap prices. If you could find furniture that suits you, you’ll be saving more than 80% on the original price of that furniture.

Decorate with Your Memories

Pictures are always special, and they remind you about the special moments and people of your life. Also, Pictures work as a simple yet powerful element for decoration. You can grab some classic photo-frames from the local market, thrift stores, or from online shopping websites at cheap prices. If you don’t like to put your pictures, you can choose to display art and quotes on walls. There cannot be a better way of decorating empty walls of your house other than with pictures, arts, and quotes.

Some Sofa Ideas for Your Home

Take Advantage of Seasonal Sales

Now when it comes to shopping electronics for your new house, nothing can beat seasonal sales. Waiting for the holiday season is going to be worth it, and you’ll be saving a lot. Just after the beginning of Thanksgiving, Black Friday arrives, and this is the biggest sale event of the year for almost everything you may ever think of buying.

The best time to purchase electronics starts from October and continues till cyber monday, which falls at the end of November or at the beginning of December. Almost every small and big company offer tempting discounts to their customers. Not only discounts, but a lot of new products are also launched on Black Friday by many small and big brands. We recommend you wait for Black Friday and Cyber Monday to fulfilling your electronics and gadgets hunger.

Along with electronics, you can grab household products from brands like DHGate, FragranceX, Peter Millar, Boll and Branch, and many more.

New year sales and mid-january sales are also a good chance for those who missed deals on Black Friday. Other than these sale events, labor day and 4th of July sales are also two major events where you can save a lot of money on shopping.

Use Wallpapers

Getting each wall of the house painted according to your requirements will be costing you a lot. So, in this case, you can choose to go with 3d wallpapers. 3d wallpapers are cheap, and they offer a massive range of design options so you’ll get one which suits your needs. Also, 3D wallpapers can easily be removed if you wish to remove it at any time. I would suggest you to go with basic wallpapers not too fancy ones.

Bookshelf can Enhance the Look

Everyone love books and having a bookshelf in their house. Not only for reading and arranging books, but bookshelf also enhances the look of your room. In the current time, there are plenty of elegant and modern bookshelves available in the market that you can bring home. A little combination of a bookshelf, study table, and two chairs will make a reading area in your house. Even you can decorate your living room with a cute little bookshelf and plants.

So, these were some ideas that I came up with. Hope these will help you in furnishing your house on a budget. If you have any query or suggestion, you want me to add here then do let me know in the comments section.

Cara Maynard

Cara Maynard is a 23-year-old finance researcher who enjoys working on cars, tennis and helping old ladies across the road. She is smart and kind, but can also be very standoffish and a bit lazy.