Interior Designers Share How to Make Your Home Look Better for Free

Try adding accents and new touches to pieces you already own.

If you want to get crafty, try using some of the leftover fabrics, buttons, and lace you may have found while decluttering.

These adornments can be used to revamp curtains, throw pillows, or blankets, Fernandez said. 

“Taking a simple ribbon and adding it as trim to your existing curtains will immediately change the look of them,” Fernandez told Insider. “Go through the bag of spare buttons, take out the colorful one, and go to town applying them to that old throw pillow.”