Starter Home Design Tips: Cheap Canvas Prints

Whether it’s a one-room bachelor flat with a kitchenette from a prior ice age or a charming bungalow not far from the water, our first “adult” home – rental or purchase – is often not where we’re going to spend our retirement years. The concept of the “starter” home encompasses that first place you make a real, adult life in – the first place where you have to make your own meals, clean your own bathroom, and pay your own bills, with no one standing in the wings to catch you if you fall.

Decorating starter homes of any kind can be difficult because most people don’t have a lot of money to work with at that stage of their lives. We often have to make do with hand-me-down or second-hand furniture and whatever design elements we can scrounge from family and friends. The secret weapon? Cheap canvas prints. Affordable, easy to order – and extremely flexible and powerful design tools if used wisely. Here are three basic strategies for stretching your design dollar with these amazing tools.

Cheap Canvas Prints for the Bachelor Pad

For some reason, young single men decorating their first home on their own are reluctant to leave behind their schoolday style and admit they might actually think about how their home is designed. The power of cheap canvas prints is that you can take photos of objects that won’t damage your “cool” points and turn them into eye-catching pieces of wall art that not only make the place feel sophisticated, but celebrate the masculine sense of the place. Think: Whiskey, cigars, pool tables, guitars – all the things guys want in their man cave, in stunning colour on the walls.

Art and the Single Girl

A single woman in her first place, on the other hand, usually has a more sophisticated and mature sense of personal style (sorry, guys, she does). She’ll put more energy into identifying the charity-store pickups that actually cohere into a style and match her own preferences. And she might even do things like paint the walls. For her, cheap canvas prints should be aspirational: Think about what you would do with the room if you had the money, and choose wall art that fits with that dream.

The Young Couple

A starter home is often where a newlywed couple begins their life together and even starts their family – but is usually too small to live in forever. Still, these will be special, romantic years, and the art on the walls should reflect that. Holiday photos – or places you wish would become holiday photos someday – are the perfect way to put some neutral ground on the walls that still has some colour and image “punch”.

In the end, design is personal, and your home is the most personal place of all. Money should never be a reason you don’t decorate the way you want to – and inexpensive wall art is the key to making your home the way you want it to be without breaking the bank. Think about where you are in life and where you’re living, then click here and we’ll deliver the goods – on time, and on budget.