49 Posts Decorating Your First Apartment Without Emptying Your Wallet
November 4, 2010 by Gemma Torreggiani · Leave a Comment
Your first apartment is a very exciting venture into adulthood and independence. It is the first time that you are free to control your own space and show your creativity and unique style through how you choose and layout your living space and décor. The only problem is, many of us who have had our first apartment experience at a young age were not exactly able to afford to be too expressive of our individuality and newfound freedom. Here is a list of 49 posts that will help with decorating your first apartment without emptying your wallet.
- Moving to an Apartment – This post gives great posts for decorating ideas at $50 or less.
- Decorate-Redecorate – This post gives 7 easy to follow and inexpensive guidelines for decorating your own space.
- Building Materials 365 – This is a great post about cost0saving tips for decorating an apartment.
- AussieOkie – This is a post that encourages the reader to make their first apartment more than just livable and not to get discouraged by a budget with some tips and tricks.
- Hubpages – This post has some great ideas for being creative and resourceful when decorating your first apartment.
- Houzz – This is a post that lists some great resources for finding great deals on furniture for those decorating a first apartment on a budget.
- Move – This is a post that gives great tips for the novice decorator on a budget.
- Decor to Abhor – This is a great post that gives step by step examples of how very inexpensive items were used to transform a condo into a very expensive looking masterpiece with great tips for first time apartment renters.
- Apartment Therapy – This is a post about the lessons learned from the author’s first apartment with tips for the reader who is now decorating on a budget.
- mademan – This is a post for men about decorating a first apartment on a budget and keeping it manly.
- whowhatwherewhenwhy – This post gives the reader ideas about how to get through your first pricy purchases and how to find good deals when decorating your first apartment.
- wisegeek – This post discusses how working with what you have and expanding through creativity and color are the keys to decorating your first apartment on a budget.
- Associated Content – This post gives readers ideas about how to decorate their first apartments with little to no money at all.
- How to Do Things – This post has a lot of really good tips for saving money in general and especially on decorating your first apartment on a budget.
- Suite101 – This is a post about different ways that your first apartment can be decorated with very little out of pocket expense.
- Essortment – This is a good post about being inventive and working with what you have, making things coordinate and match and spending little to no money on decorating your first apartment.
- ShelterPop – This author has a collection of rooms that are showcased on a budget for lots of inexpensive ideas for first apartments.
- Frugal New England Kitchen – This post has great modern and retro kitchen decorating ideas for a first apartment’s shoestring budget.
- Frugality is Free – This post has ideas about creating extras to give your apartment your own personal touches using things you may already own such as your own art or photography.
- Saving Advice – This is a really unique post about using simple shapes and wire to create patterns and art for walls and other surfaces for your apartment.
- Frugal Village – This is a post with some great tips on saving money when decorating your first apartment.
- Fabulessly Frugal – This post has some really great ideas for unconventional and very inexpensive ways to make your first apartment functional and your own.
- Addicted2Decorating – This is a post about taking junk furniture and other items and turning them into key pieces for your new apartment for very little money.
- Blissfully Domestic – This post suggests that some of the best décor for your apartment is right outside your door.
- Frugal Babe – This is a post about how to bring potted plants into your new apartment with some style and no cost.
- ivillage – This is a post with a top 10 list of frugal decorating ideas perfect for a first time apartment decorator with a flair for fun and very little pocket change.
- Centsational Girl – This post is all about inexpensive decorating with frames and how to match them to your walls in your apartment.
- The Dollar Stretcher – This post has ideas for how to focus on what you need and how to get there with what you have available and do not use.
- ILoveIndia – This post has five tips on how to decorate your first apartment on a budget.
- EzineArticles – This post has 8 tips on cheap decorating ideas and how to hide flaws in your first apartment such as wall cracks and discoloration.
- Apartment Guide – This post aids readers in creating a budget to figure out what they have to work with when trying to decorate their first apartment and how they can save money and where.
- SFGate – This post teaches readers how to decorate in stages and prioritize your décor for your first apartment.
- Apartments.com – This post teaches readers how to create functional living spaces by room with very limited resources.
- Googobits – This post is about decorating a small space with an even smaller budget.
- New York – This post says that color and small touches can give even the smallest spaces the best charm and for very little money.
- My Interior Decorator – This post has 7 great tips for decorating your first apartment on a tight budget.
- In My Own Style – This post has a lot of great do it yourself ideas for home décor for your first apartment and home.
- The Frugal Girl – This is a post about using old calendars and such for cheap and green wall art in your first apartment.
- Suddenly Frugal – This is an interesting post about creating your own color palette with objects you already own to decorate your living space without spending a dime.
- Being Frugal – This post has some great tips for inexpensive and free ways to dress up your apartment without emptying your wallet.
- Out of the Crayon Box – This post is full of decorating “mantras” that can give new life to the items you have and bring new ideas to things that you may consider junk and can turn into treasures with little to no money.
- Mommy Savers – This is a post about how to decorate your first apartment’s kitchen on a dime.
- Families – This post gives great ideas for finds at flea markets that people normally pay a lot of money to have in their first apartments.
- Money Saving Mom – This post has ten frugal home décor tips for the woman who thinks she has no decorator bone in her body.
- Mothering with Grace – This post has some ideas for very inexpensive seasonal decorating for your first apartment around the holidays.
- The Frugal Novice – This post gives great craft ideas for decorating on the cheap for your first apartment.
- Almost Frugal – This post is about money saving crafts to decorate your first apartment and where to find deals on tools and extras.
- Frugal By Design – This is a post with resources for using old furniture, things that no longer work and old “ingredients” to make due rather than waste in your new apartment.
- Frugal Hacks – This post is about decorating for the holidays in your new apartment using creativity and a tight budget.