8 AFFORDABLE WAYS TO UPDATE A DATED HOME WITHOUT REMODELING

hey everyone welcome back to my channel my name is Kristen and today I'm going to be sharing with you eight affordable ways for you to update your dated home without doing any major renovation if you want to refresh your space but you're not ready for a remodel this video is just for you if you enjoy watching and find this video helpful make sure you give it a big thumbs up and hit that like button let's go ahead and jump right into it okay first things first always consider the power of paint and I don't just mean painting your walls because that's a given we all know that we can paint our walls to refresh our space that way if you walk into a home that you are interested in and they have mustard colored walls and it throws you off think about the power of paint in all areas of your home you can do a ton with it you can paint brick paint tile paint wood paint your walls paint your ceiling paint your floors you can probably change almost everything about your space just with paint if you're in the market for a new home in your touring spaces don't get too thrown off by the color and the finish of things because that can always change very very easily with paint maybe you have wood trim that's really dating the space some wood trim is actually really beautiful and you'd want to keep it but sometimes the trim is too much of that orange tone and you want to tone it down you can consider paint for that you can paint the tile floor in your bathroom your cabinets in your kitchen you can even paint your countertops all of these different surfaces need a different type of paint so you're not going to be using wall paint on your brick and your tile and your countertops but you can find the right paint that's going to work for your surface and totally transform it painting tile is something that a lot of people don't consider but I think it's such an incredible thing that you can do it's a lot more temporary of course it's not going to be your long-term forever solution but if you're looking for that update just to kind of meet you halfway I think paint would definitely be the right option I've seen incredible Transformations when it comes to painting tile like tile floor in the bathroom maybe tile around a fireplace place the paint change is drastic and it looks incredible so consider doing that DIY method before ripping out your tile all together our staircase was painted taupe and that really helped modernize it as well it's a very old staircase very old railing but that little upgrade with paint totally makes this space feel a little more updated if you have brick in your home that's kind of throwing off your design or looking a little bit tired and dated paint it either black or white usually black or white is the way to go colors sometimes throw it off even more but black fireplaces are stunning white brick homes are so beautiful so I think you'll definitely get huge change with very minimal money spent just by using paint let me know Down Below in the comments if there's anything in your home that you'd consider painting now your interior doors might be the reason your home is looking outdated I know it's such a small detail in the grand scheme of it all but if you have those flat panel doors they tend to date your space a bit so instead of think talking about buying brand new doors hanging a brand new door you can keep your door as is and just add some detail to it with molding all you have to do is get some wood molding and install some detailing onto that door and it's going to instantly update that door flat panel doors actually give you so much flexibility because you can choose whichever style you want to build off of that you can use trim to build out a traditional style door you can make them look a little bit Farmhouse there are so many different things you can do just with your flat panel door now this is something you can do on your own you pretty much just need construction adhesive to attach those wood pieces and then paint right over top this can be done on closet doors bathroom doors bedroom doors any door around your home that's lacking a little bit of detail you can take it to the next level with just some trim now there was a time where Builders were installing Ivory switch plates Ivory switch plates are just a sign of a dated home they don't look fresh they tend to look actually dirty and instead of ivory you can update those within seconds just by going to the hardware store and buying a fresh white wall plate you can switch your light switch plates your wall outlets some or even screwless which are even better you can just pop it right on and it looks seamless and clean now white switch plates are definitely going to upgrade the look of your home but you can also take it a step further and paint your wall plates to match your wall color you can actually make that wall plate look like it's not there just by painting it the same color as your wall color if you have wallpaper in your home you can also put wallpaper on your switch plate so you don't see it at all either so you can do what works for your home but if you have the ivory wall plates that are looking a little bit tired and dirty I would consider updating those it's super quick very affordable and I think will make a huge difference now sometimes flat plain walls can look a little bit forgotten about a little bit tired and a little bit outdated sometimes you can add trim and molding to your walls to make it look up to date Timeless elegant and actually just more expensive so it's a little detail that you can add to your existing home that's going to make it look 10 times better if you have maybe a plain boring hallway and you want to add some interest to it without adding a ton of Decor or a crazy wall color consider just adding some picture frame molding to frame out your hallway and add some detail that way and again this is something that you can do on your own it's budget friendly and it makes an extraordinary difference I've installed picture frame molding on my own before where you cut all your trim you measure everything out and you install it on your own you can do this with construction adhesive a brad nailer it's the same way that you would add trim to your doors you can extend that to your walls but you can also make it even easier for yourself by installing pre-made picture frame molding there's Etsy shops Home Depot Amazon that sell pre-made picture frame molding so that you don't have to build any of it you just have to install it I installed pre-made picture frame molding to my little closet bar I just made if you guys missed that makeover definitely go check it out it turned out incredible and I think the picture frame molding made such a huge difference so there's many different styles of trim that you can do it doesn't always have to look so traditional there's modern ways of doing this there's modern trim details that you can install picture frame molding is absolutely on Trend right now but it's also just extremely Timeless we've been doing picture frame molding wainscotting on the walls for years so it's always going to be in style and I think it's always going to make your home look incredible now something you don't realize that's dating your space as much as it is until you take it down are your dated window treatments sometimes that's just something that people forget about the swoopy curtains the heavy drapes the vertical blinds sometimes you think you can look past them and do all the other things to make your space look updated but if you leave up your dated window treatments it's dating your entire home and they just become an ice source so I highly recommend spending a day removing the old window treatments and either keeping your window open and fresh and letting in a lot of sunlight or of course for privacy and style add in some new window treatments you can do roller Shades Roman Shades you can even just hang some affordable curtains do a nice Rod across the top hang them high and wide and you're good to go I think it will just drastically change the look of your home window treatments are not something that you want to be changing every so often they're hopefully going to stay long term so try and pick something neutral something that you're gonna want to keep long term that's going to work with your space and not date it over time now wood tones usually date your space if you walk into your home and you see the saturated orange Oak staircase and you see a cherry wood kitchen and you're seeing all of those really warm saturated wood tones it's probably making your space look dated so again you do not need to rip out all these pieces and start again that is something that you could definitely do in the future but think about what you can do with staining or whitewashing those two methods of changing the color of your wood will drastically update your home and it can absolutely be done in a budget stain is very affordable and it's just another project that you can take on that's not going to require any remodeling I would try and keep with a stain color that's more in the middle ground it's not pulling too gray and it's not pulling too Orange it's going to neutralize your space and having that neutral wood color is going to make your space look updated but it's also going to make it a lot easier to choose paint colors and choose decor and decorate I did this with my parents staircase I completely transformed their orange Oak staircase and made it a little bit more modern with some gel stain and paint I transformed their entire staircase for less than a hundred dollars now if you want to completely get rid of the warm tones of wood around your home and you want to go for a very modern kind of Scandinavian minimalist look consider whitewashing whitewashing is kind of like staining you use a very watered down either paint or a white stain you can also do this with kind of a bleach mix that will help bleach your wood and take out those warm saturated tones I think this looks incredible when it's done to wood paneling wood ceilings whitewashing will allow you to keep the wood grain keep that texture but without doing a solid coat of paint all right now something that seems like a big job but is actually very doable is carpet removal and if you have wall-to-wall old dated flat worn out carpet in your home or maybe it's even colorful carpet it needs to go and you can do it yourself with an exacto knife it's actually a very easy doable thing that will make a huge impact in your home now this is something I would consider doing if you know you have some original wood floors under there and you want to refresh it you can rip up that carpet and refinish the floors underneath that's gonna be an instant affordable change you can make this is also very impactful if you have carpet going up your stairs you can rip that carpet up and actually just paint your stairs to make a huge difference painted stairs look incredible and you can even add a runner down the middle if you're looking to add some carpet in that's not wall-to-wall carpet and it's going to add such an elegant detail to your home that's going to make it look Timeless and classic but also up to date so don't let carpet scare you it's such an easy change that you can make that's gonna go a very very long way and lastly when it comes to bathrooms I think the wall to wall frameless Builder grade mirror is something that really dates our spaces and I think a lot of us have those or had one at some point in time the more modern thing to do now is have floating mirrors that are framed and styled and really work with the other metal finishes around your space they just tie into the design and make your bathroom look really complete but if you don't want to consider taking down that large mirror potentially having damage in the wall repainting and then hanging new mirrors you can actually just frame out your existing mirror and again this is just with trim it's something that you can do super quickly that's going to make your bathroom look complete and well decorated and definitely updated this is something that I've done in a bathroom as well and you can actually buy mirror adhesive that's going to allow your wood trim to stick to that mirror so you can cut your pieces to size to fit all around that mirror glue it on tape it on just to let it dry and you're good to go and then you can just finish it off with a coat of paint adding that trim border around that Builder grade mirror is going to instantly Elevate the look of your space and make it look up to date alright so that's it for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed watching and I hope this gave you some ideas on ways that you can update and upgrade your home let me know Down Below in the comments if you would consider doing any of these DIY projects in your home instead of remodeling also I did want to let you know that I do 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Length: 12min 34sec (754 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 09 2022