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Versatile Home Décor - February 2018

​My easiest and cheapest home decorating tip is to make use of your acrylic paints that you get from the bargain shop. I have used these to give me an endless variety of colour scheme. I brought two identical largish vases and whenever the whim takes me I just paint the outside of these vases to whatever colour scheme I want. When I grow tired of that colour I just wash them off and change the colour, I don't have to then try to find a storage space for an endless variety of vases. 

I also use these acrylic paints, to colour and refresh proteas that I have grown and I restore their colour so they too look fresh in the vases. I also have used it to colour all manner of plant matter and ornate grasses with these paints, by mixing up and putting in a small spray bottle. I also made rubber back curtain material into cushion covers and I also add splashes of colour to these cushions then put them out on the line to dry and when they have dried I spray them with vinegar so that the colours will not come off on clothing. Once again to change the colour scheme, I just put the cushion covers in nappy soaker and away I go with the acrylic paints.

The tubes cost me $1 each tube, and with the basic colours I can make them up to any combination of colours I choose.
Contributed by Penny Hughes
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