Get Your Home Ready for the Holidays
Affordable & Easy Home Upgrades That Pay Off
Entertaining at home this Christmas? What better time to take advantage of your Home Reno Tax Credit (HRTC) by focusing on a few quick touch ups around your home to get it in top shape for the entertaining that comes along with the Holiday Season.
Within a few short weeks, eggnog will be flowing and kisses will be shared under your mistle toe, which leaves just enough time to complete a couple of small home projects to get your house ready. Just by updating paint, mouldings, lighting, flooring, and/or window coverings, you can transform the most frequently used areas of your home, into places you can truly enjoy with family and friends over the holidays.
The experts at The Home Depot have suggested the following projects that guarantee to deliver a big impact on a low budget, for your foyer, living room and powder room:
Foyer
Your foyer is the first place your guests see, and is one of the easiest places to touch up. You can create a grand entrance in just about any size space just by making a fresh statement with new moulding and updated light fixtures. These are small upgrades that can be tailored to suit any budget.
Creating the Look:
Paint: a new coat of paint is the easiest way to get bang for your buck in a quick décor refresh. Paint not only makes a dramatic impact, but it is also simple and fast, and can cost as little as $99 per room. The Home Depot supplies a series of interactive online tools to help you select a colour palette that is right for you such as Thinkincolour.
The experts at The Home Depot recommend BEHR PREMIUM PLUS ULTRATM to help you save time and money because it is a paint and primer in one. It is also moisture, dirt, and stain resistant. Click here to calculate how much paint your project requires and get started today!
Crown Moulding: adds an instant architectural upgrade to any room in the house. The Home Depot carries an innovative crown moulding: the Flip Face - One Cut CrownTM, which is completely reversible! This unique feature makes cutting and installing quick, easy, and an efficient and affordable weekend project.
Architrave: is placed over the top of a doorway and completed with coordinating casings down either side of the door. It provides another quick and easy means to a rich architectural upgrade.
Tile - A classic golden marble layed in a simple, stacked grid will add a touch of warm luxury to your foyer.
Consult the Home Depot's Transition to Tiles online tool to help you choose the right tile and learn how to lay it.
Lighting: is an affordable and quick project to tackle in terms of updating the over-all look of a room. Often times, foyers proudly display beautiful ornate chandeliers or semi-flush lighting fixtures. Your choice in fixture is going to depend on the size of your foyer, and your budget. Larger foyers lend themselves to big, ornate fixtures, while smaller spaces tend to do better with a smaller option, maybe with an exotic theme. For more information on how to choose appropriate lighting, check out this handy guide.
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Powder Room
Holiday entertaining means increased use of your powder room, which is a horrifying thought for homeowners who may have neglected the décor in there!
You can create a sleek, contemporary look in your powder room in no time with a combination of new flooring, wall covering, paint, and lighting. Modern elements and stainless steel are key to achieving the sterile, clean, strong features synonymous with this style.
Creating the Look:
Flooring and Wall Coverings: tile has made a huge comeback in design trends recently, and is very popular in kitchens, bathrooms and powder rooms for the great price ranges it offers, and the instant make-over it achieves. When tile is applied to the walls and floor of a powder room, it can help make the room much larger. The Home Depot's Trafficmaster Groutable Vinyl Floor Tile is a favourite among home reno do-it-yourselfers. Vinyl is easy to apply, affordable, and gives your powder room a brand new look quickly and easily. Trafficmaster's natural concrete vinyl tiles are sold by the box which covers about 30 square feet.
Lighting: in keeping with the theme, a contemporary styled light fixture will keep your décor modest and clean. Contemporary lighting is easily distinguished by its minimalist and very often, linear shapes; cool brushed or shiny grey-ish metals; and frosted glass. The simplicity of a well-chosen contemporary wall sconce can make it suitable for the hall, kitchen, stairways, living room, as well as the powder room and bathrooms. Need step-by-step instructions on how to install light fixtures? Refer to this handy guide from The Home Depot.
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Living Room
Enjoying a traditional sense of style in your home doesn't mean that your décor can't be refreshed to keep up with the times. Update traditional architecture and your favourite period pieces of your main living space with a fresh palette of colours. Play up timeless features with new world opulence to refresh your living room with the perfect combination of warmth and charm. Glistening light fixtures take centre stage, and crystals, beading and glass accents bring about a reflective shine. Rubbed bronze, copper, and antique brass also provide strong finishes throughout.
Window coverings and wall treatments in shades of gold, taupe and sand, are highlighted with warm greens and reds, while area rugs bring bold patterns into the palette, and help breath new life into traditional spaces.
Creating the Look:
Flooring: Have you ever cringed at the prospect of installing hardwood flooring? Well the good news is, Traffic Master laminate flooring gives you the rich, exotic look of real wood but it's faster and easier to install, and much more durable. Redefining Floors is a useful guide that will help you learn more about buying and installing laminate, vs hardwood and other flooring options.
The addition of an area rug adds the finishing touch that brings all the decor elements together and adds an instant upgrade and warmth to your living room. This buying guide will help you select the size and fiber so you can choose something suited to your needs.
Paint: the paint-and-primer-in-one BEHR PREMIUM PLUS ULTRA™ is a godsend for getting the job done quickly and effectively. And not only is this brand lower in VOC products making it safer for your family and the environment, but it also comes in over 386 colours – click here to learn more about it.
Lighting: chandeliers are no longer confined to grand entranceways or over expansive dinner tables. Au contraire! Look at them as a new way to introduce a warm and elegant mood to your living room, with a designer's touch. Add a dimmer for additional ambiance and save on energy while you are at it!
Wall sconces help to distribute the lighting sources around a room, and are often available to match the chandelier. The Home Depot carries a huge selection from Hampton Bay.
Finally, a couple of lamps may be all you need to spruce up the existing lighting in your living room. Choose a design that will help prevent glare, but still throw enough downlight to support reading in the room.
Window Coverings: another quick décor update that dramatically transforms a room is to replace your drapery. Treat Your Windows is a great guide to consult help you choose the right treatment and to learn how to measure to replace your window coverings.
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