Home decorating, ever wanted to try it, but hesitated because of time constraints or budget concerns. The following ideas will not only give instant results, but more importantly fit into any budget.

1. Changing Look of Your Walls

Adding a new color or changing texture, can give room a completely new appearance and that may be only decorating change that is necessary. The easiest option is to paint, and with color choices available, possibilities are endless. Another consideration would be wallpaper; only problem you may have is choosing a design. If on other hand, only a little something extra is needed a simple stencil design might just do trick. Any of these ideas can be used either individually or in combination with each other.

2. Look to Your Windows For a Whole New View

Changing your window treatments is probably easiest of any home decorating projects. The choices range from styles that include drapes, tab-top, cafe and shears, backgrounds of solid colors, floral and stripes, fabrics that include silk, cotton, lace or velvet. The most economical is ready-made; they are very affordable therefore giving you opportunity to make changes more often.

3. Accessories Make Your Decorating Complete

All wood workers need to be aware of wood movement when building furniture projects. Failure to consider this important factor can cause wood panels to crack or split.

My high school biology teacher compared structure of a piece of wood with a bundle of straws. The straws represent cells and capillaries of wood. When a tree is growing water and food are transferred up through cells and are carried throughout tree.

Once a tree is fell free water in wood is lost rather quickly but bound water trapped in straw like cell is slower to dissipate. As level of bound water is reduced these straw like cells get narrower in diameter but maintain their length. This is fundamental reason that wood expands and contracts across its width but has almost no expansion length wise.

When working with wood it is very important to allow wood to expand and contract with changes in humidity. As humidity rises straw like cells expand in diameter with opposite effect occurring as relative humidity falls.

Ways to accommodate expansion