Decorating your home on a budget doesn’t have to be difficult, if you put your mind to it there are so many ways you can brighten your living space for a colorful home with these decorating DIY hacks.

Colorful homes always make for a positive and happy environment, in today’s list we’ll be showcasing thirty decorating DIY hacks for a colorful home.

Enamel Painted Vases – Easy and Beautiful

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These easy and beautiful enamel painted vases have swept the web. Thanks to a quick Martha Stewart tutorial and trip to the Dollar Store, they’re a hit!

How to Make Your Own Adorable Rag Rug

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This craft project comes from Everyday Art and is an adorable way to spruce up a bedroom. You can change the colors and make the rug perfect for any room so whether you are decorating a child’s bedroom, a living room or even your own room, just pick your color and create a stunning rug that is delightfully colorful.

DIY Paper Rosettes using Window Shades

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DIY Basics: Watercolor-Inspired Throw Pillows

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Sometimes we see a technique that looks so cool and easy that we just have to try it ourselves. On today’s docket: re-making Radical Possibility’s “zero-effort” watercolor-inspired pillows using tools you can find lying around your home.

Cover a wall in these super easy tape diamonds.

Cover a wall in these super easy tape diamonds.

SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A (washi tape) DIAMOND.

Use scrapbooking paper to make a bird-shaped decal.

Use scrapbooking paper to make a bird-shaped decal.

Follow this tutorial, but hang with painter’s tape instead of Mod Podge.

Affix fake flowers to the wall.

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Or, go one step further, and hang homemade paper flowers.

Or, go one step further, and hang homemade paper flowers.

Follow this tutorial.

Turn your photos into faux polaroids and hang them on a small clothesline.

Turn your photos into faux polaroids and hang them on a small clothesline.

You’re only a few steps away from your very own selfie shrine.

Transform your Instas into art.

Transform your Instas into art.

Use this method to make your latte pics last forever (or, at least, until you move out).

Tape paper streamers along the length of a wall.

Tape paper streamers along the length of a wall.

Create fake picture frames out of washi tape.

Create fake picture frames out of washi tape.

Make a stand alone sign.

Make a stand alone sign.

After all, home is where the upcycled styrofoam sign is.

Layer different colored doilies on a wall.

Layer different colored doilies on a wall.

Use painters tape and start taping doilies from the bottom of the wall, to achieve a wallpaper-like effect.

Place overized word art against a wall.

Place overized word art against a wall.

Follow these instructions.

Hang an office supply organizer than doubles as art.

Hang an office supply organizer than doubles as art.

Sew by following this tutorial and hang with temporary hooks. When moving out, just roll the organizer up with the supplies inside, for easy transportation.

Create an oversized confetti mural.

Create an oversized confetti mural.

Simply take colored pieces of paper, cut them into circles, and stick them to the wall using painters tape or poster tack.

Make scalloped borders for your shelves.

Make scalloped borders for your shelves.

All you need are Post-Its and tape to feel like you live in Hello Kitty’s house.

Use velcro strips to hang framed photos.

Use velcro strips to hang framed photos.

Use paper to create geometric patchwork art.

Use paper to create geometric patchwork art.

You can even make it closer to your bed, so it doubles as a temporary headboard.

Or make it heart-shaped.

Or make it heart-shaped.

Collage paper circles into a happy piece of art.

Collage paper circles into a happy piece of art.

Paper circles: not just giant confetti .

Hang a colorful garland around your door.

Hang a colorful garland around your door.

Maybe a floral version, like this one.

Transform an old shutter door into an organizer.

Transform an old shutter door into an organizer.

No need to nail anything into the wall and you can customize it to use in all sorts of rooms.

Turn paint chips into a beautiful wall installation.

Turn paint chips into a beautiful wall installation.

The next best thing to actually painting your walls.

Make your own giant photo mural.

Make your own giant photo mural.

Use this tutorial.

Craft your own marquee letter.

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You may live in a terrible apartment, but that doesn’t mean you can’t live like a star!

Sew some big, colorful floor cushions.

Sew some big, colorful floor cushions.

Use this tutorial.

Create temporary wallpaper using fabric and starch.

Create temporary wallpaper using fabric and starch.

You can do this on nearly any flat surface. The fabric should easily peel off when it’s time for you move out.

Or just give off a wallpaper effect, with this geometric wall hanging.

Or just give off a wallpaper effect, with this geometric wall hanging.

You can even repurpose an old sheet.

Use large sheets of scrapbook paper as a temporary headboard.

Use large sheets of scrapbook paper as a temporary headboard.

Cluster a bunch of paper flowers together.

Cluster a bunch of paper flowers together.

One package of tissue paper should yield one gigantic flower.

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