Great Interior Design

Nowadays, there is no harm if we be more economical in spending money, including for home decor needs. A new breed of homeowners redefining the way to cost-cutting interior remodeling, where the creative individuals who thrive on the challenge of finding inexpensive materials and using them in innovative ways. There are some of smart ideas to updates your kitchen without spending much of your money, hopefully useful for you.

Create Real Copper Look Kitchen

If you wanted copper accents in your kitchen without paying top dollar for the real thing, you can try to installing a metallic laminate that mimics the look of real copper. You also can added what looks like copper tiles to the backsplash with hand-wrapped copper-colored foil over cheap white porcelain tiles. Approximately, you can saved your moneys more than $5,000.

Create functional kitchen island

You can put your creativity to use designing a sleek modern kitchen, you can combining multiple pieces into one functional kitchen island. From the picture above, you can see the custom kitchen island which created from two premade Ikea cabinet units that sandwiched together into one . For the bar area you can used a glue-laminated beam and cut it to size and stained to match the cabinets. Instead of expensive barstools,you can used an old soda-fountain stools and had the builder anchor them into the floor joists.

Create playfulness Kitchen

A simple way to add a bit of playfulness to your kitchen, you can place next to the island is a pantry with doors made of inexpensive plywood and chalkboard paint, where It’s a great place to jot down the grocery list.

Create Custom kitchen shelves

Architect Fiona O’Neill came up with a great cost-saving idea for the kitchen of her northern California home. She saved $1,500 by not shelling out money for cabinets. Instead, she used the stud space inside the walls to add shelving. It’s an idea borrowed from Victorian architecture.

Create shopping smart Kitchen

When you have just $5,000 to build a kitchen, you have to be creative. That was the challenge for Lisa Inglese in Olathe, Kan. She scored big by going to a restaurant supply and salvage store, where she purchased her commercial oven, refrigerator, rolling carts and shelves, and even the kitchen sink for a fraction of retail price. She also stacked and hung old electrical-outlet boxes to create an inexpensive, one-of-a-kind spice rack.

Create Stylish and inexpensive Kitchen countertop

Looking for a do-it-yourself, inexpensive alternative to granite countertops? How about concrete? In Houston, homeowners Ann Eamon and Mark Schatz got high style at an extremely low price. They went to a hardware store, bought five bags of concrete and poured it into forms they built themselves. The end result: a countertop that’s simple, has a clean aesthetic and costs $25. Best of all, it’s a day’s worth of work.

Create Innovative Kitchen Cabinet

In Lady Lake, Fla., homeowners Holly and Judd Dickerson came up with some innovative ways to make their kitchen look custom without breaking the bank. They spent about $24,000 on standard cabinets created by a national manufacturer, but they turned a few of them sideways and added shelving to make them look custom. Instead of expensive tile or granite, they bought wire safety glass at a local hardware store, had a glass shop cut it to size and then Judd installed it as a backsplash.

Create Flooring materials Kitchen countertop

Would you ever consider putting floor material on your countertops? A couple in Boulder, Colo., did and created a fabulous look. The countertops are a natural linoleum made out of cork, linseed oil and wood pulp at a cost of about $30 per square foot. It’s very durable but also smooth to the touch. They finished off the look by lining the linoleum with an inexpensive aluminum trim that ties in with their modern Ikea cabinets. And while most people would use a plywood base underneath the linoleum, this earth-friendly couple used something called wheat sheet, which is made from a byproduct of the wheat industry and has no formaldehyde in it.

Create Unique Kitchen cabinets

This Longmont, Colo., kitchen is beautiful, modern and inexpensive. Homeowners Kim and Robby Finley got an initial bid of $60,000 to have custom cabinets built in their kitchen. Finding that estimate way too expensive, they decided to just build the cabinets themselves. The cabinets are made from purple heart wood flooring that creates quite a luxurious look. The center panels are stainless steel sheets that Robby found at a local auction. The handles are simply plumbing pipes from a hardware store. As for the countertops, Kim found a beat-up stainless steel counter at an old pizza parlor for $50. She took a sander to it and created funky swirls to camouflage the old scratches. Total cost of the cabinets and countertops: $3,000.

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