4 Home Updates You Can Complete in a Weekend

It’s exhilarating to know you can freshen and brighten up your home with a simple fix in just a few days. Whether you’re looking to give a room a lift in time for company or you’re in the market to express your creativity, we at Pottery Barn have plenty of helpful tricks and tips to try when it comes to easy home updates.

 

Weekend Fix #1: Make It Seasonal

There’s no quicker way to give a bedroom a new look than by changing the bedding. It’s easy to do when you go with the seasons. Give your bed seasonal updates with a simple switch of a quilt. Keep the sheeting crisp white year round as a neutral base for more colorful items, such as a summer quilt with lighter, brighter colors. Simply fold down your comforter or duvet to the end of the bed to show more of your quilt’s fresh and airy design.

 

Make seasonal changes throughout your home, not just the bedroom. The fastest way to make changes in your living room and family room is to use decorative pillows and throws that speak to the seasons. Working with accent pillows means you keep your upholstered furniture in place while switching up the colors of your rooms. Summer calls for beachy, nautical blues and whites. Sofas, sectionals and chairs all look cozy in cooler months with textured cable knit and faux fur pillow covers.

 

Weekend Fix #2: Make It Cozy

Pillows and throws make a room cozy, but there’s another fun, fast and easy fix that casts that special glow over your home. Decorating with candles is definitely creative, but the visual effect you get from these accessories is priceless. Group candles in various shapes, colors and coordinating fragrances. This builds an atmosphere in a room even when they aren’t lit. Use flameless candles if you have a house with kids. It gives you the look of real flames flickering with or without fragrance – and without the smoke or risk of fire.

 

Arranging candles in an unused fireplace freshens up an otherwise dark spot in a room. Group various sizes in tall and short pillars. Use enough to fill up the space. Candles grouped together often mimic the look of a romantic fire in a fireplace. In other spots around your house, align your candle arrangements in front of a mirror to magnify and reflect the flames. This is especially easy to do in a dining room. Here, you can line up a series of cream pillar candles on a buffet with a wall mirror.

 

Don’t just place candles on horizontal surfaces. Hang them, too. Use candle sconces flanking doorways or mirrors. They look at home in any room of the house, from the entryway to the bedroom. They’re a touch that gives a space instant coziness.

 

Weekend Fix #3: Make It Organized

Take it one room at a time or organize the whole house. Whatever space you tackle will look more spacious than when you started. You’ve heard countless times how eliminating clutter gives you a fresh start. How about the good old-fashioned task of organizing your home? When you organize your drawers, cabinets and closets with the right containers, you’ll feel less crowded by your own things. And, they’ll have a place of their own.

 

Though you may love your loosely organized piles, your brain still registers them as clutter. Put piles in baskets. Slide them under bureaus, beds or tables. Not only will your space look calmer and more streamlined, but your eyes will be able to rest on more open space that was once filled with stuff. It’s calming and helps you focus.

 

Other than piles, you might have books and magazines around that won’t fit onto bookshelves. You might also have extra bedding and towels that won’t fit in your linen closet or rolls of gift paper that don’t have a home. Using taller bins and baskets, with or without lids, gather and organize your like items. This way, you’re not tripping over life’s little extras. You’ll have more than enough time on a weekend day to gather and organize items into bins and baskets.

 

Weekend Fix #4: Make It Textured

Changing your walls can be one of the easiest DIY interior design projects. Why? They really couldn’t be easier. Creating wall texture designs is as simple as painting one wall in a room, then customizing it by layering joint compound paste in patterns like strips and swirls. This material dries to a stucco-like finish, and you can brush it on in any abstract shape you love.

 

If paint isn’t your thing, try creating an entire succulent wall with real or care-free faux plantings. Wall-mountable frames look lush grouped vertically or horizontally. You can also use one frame to create texture on a niche wall. Or grab frames, prints and artwork you have hidden away in closets. Have fun grouping them on a bare wall to make it come alive with color virtually overnight.

 

Revamping your space is as easy as 1, 2, 3 – or just Saturday and Sunday. Try one idea on one weekend, and you might be tempted to go for another!