10 Ideas To Decorate Your Home In Blue And White (On A Small Budget)

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today, I want to share with you some of my decorating ideas for your home in blue and white scheme. These are the small projects I designed and made for my home. With just a little budget you too can also make your place become a lovely nest full of the things you loved. Fascinated and inspired by the blue and white decorating styles of homes in magazines, I started to collect things that I adore most. Be it curtain, plate, ceramic, quilt, bedcover..... I love them all! If I can´t buy them, I make them. I promise that I´d be making some of those things myself and I did... I really did !!!

Our small house which reminds me of the houses in Holland has around 50 step- stairs distributed to 5 levels similar to maisonette. So if you forgot something from the top floor, you would have to go up and again and get it extra. For practicality I bring along a bag or basket with me to put all things needed for downstairs. Somehow, it is a good exercise if you forget something, but since I have some foot issues the past couple of years, there was no fun anymore climbing up just for the sake of physical fitness! Below are the ideas I used and still use to decorate my place. I save a lot of money because I do the project myself, even now!

10 Ideas to Decorate Your Home With Blue And White Things (On A Small Budget)

1. Collect fabric scraps to make sets of pillows like the above, get inspirations from my pinterest site here.

2. Bed canopy and headboard I designed for the master bedroom including the pillowcases made from canopy inner fabric, I measured the quantity of the fabrics needed beforehand and searched for discounted fabrics.

3. Twelve Blocks Sampler Quilt made out of scrap fabrics. If you are interested to see the details of the quilt blocks, you can read and see images on this link.

I know the time invested in doing these projects, but it was worth it, because I enjoyed doing everything during the work in- process. I made the blue and white Sampler Quilt above for my hubby that I gave to him complete with a stitched poem framed for his birthday. And all the quilted pillows shown on the cover photo above evolved from that quilt. I pieced together all the patchwork part by machine and when the batting material was set in place between the quilt top and the back, I hand-quilted the twelve blocks of the Sampler.

4. I scoured the flea markets to find lovely decor items to collect, these hand-painted glasses are bohemian in origin which are not really expensive but they look great when grouped together

5. Use jugs as vases for your floral arrangements specially with flowers of contrasting colors ... it will turn out good for the eyes of the beholder

6. Frame arts made by your kids or yourself and spread those arts on your empty wall. Here, I made the first two oil painting some years ago and added some plates to balance the design. Nowadays, the wall plates are displayed not only in the kitchen or dining rooms....so display them in all rooms you like

The style that I love most is english and french decorating most especially the country/farmhouse style. I could stay in bookshops freakingly flipping pages about all those projects that I would love to do. You will find my bookshelves full of subjects about arts, photography, decorating, crafting, DIY/carpentry, gardening as well as cooking and baking.

I did invest in books because I have always been knowledge-thirsty on how things are done. I think I inherited my dad´s genes because I love carpentry. I made my very first DIY bathtub caddy below and painted it mediterranean blue. It´s been about 15 years ago now and it is still functioning perfectly!

7. Do not be afraid to try small "do it-yourself" projects... small flaws will make you a master, just try it. With the bath tub caddy, I measured the width and length of my bathtub, made a template out of newspaper and bought the materials needed based on the template. You can read more here.

8. Decorative plates are seen in most of the empty walls of the house. We scour the flea markets on Saturdays and whenever I find blue plates, I haggle until I get the price I wanted. I haggle good that sometimes hubby would turn away if I begin to do business with the dealer. I mostly offer half of the dealer´s price and give 3 different prices in stages until the dealer gives up or I give up and walk away. In most cases, I get the what I want.

9. For the curtains, I always prefer the blue and white fabrics because they are so lovely when dressing the window. There are ready made curtain rods that you can buy at reasonable prices. I make the curtains myself because I save lots of money than having it custom made.

10. Gather whatever collectible you like for as long as they are in your color. They need not be expensive. You should have fun in finding your collection pieces...afterall, you have a nice story to tell on how you found them.

10. Except for the set of plates and ceramic eggs that you see below (gifts from my mom - in law) the Delft blue ceramics were discovered at Vienna´s Saturday Flea market and some were souvenirs from Holland. Look for interesting objects and haggle good.

I hope that you like these tips and ideas of decorating in blue and white and that you are inspired to do a bit of decorating your home.

Enjoy your Sunday!

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