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Jennifer Adams joins Better.TV to share some tips on how you can make over your home after the holidays without breaking the bank.

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Audra Lowe: It’s a new year and a perfect time for a new look not just for you but maybe for your home. So, Jennifer Adams one of our nations most saw of the designers is here with some great ways to give your home a makeover without spending a fortune because everybody knows we spent ton money on gifts already so this is the last place we need to spend more money right? Jennifer Adams: Yes and after the holidays everybody’s going to see to get a whole a new look but they don’t have the money to spend. Audra Lowe: Right. So, the first that you have is really simple or done you say the cutter. Jennifer Adams: That’s obvious I just want to do it. But I am talking about from the outside of your house and think of all the dead plants are seeing and almost are everybody’s front ford. Get rid of them or replant them but don’t have them sitting there without bad energy of just the dead plant for the first thing we see. Clean up a white doormat just right there and then also right when you walk in to your house, you pay attention to the entry if you got a bunch of all photos that really don’t mean anything to you or all accessories. Get rid of all just like the extra stuffs that you have around. Audra Lowe: Then no longer serve a purpose right. Jennifer Adams: But no longer serve a purpose. Audra Lowe: Okay that was step number two is just removes all of your accessories and you are talking about inside and outside right? Jennifer Adams: Actually with all your accessories something that you can do to get the fresh look is taking every single accessory out of your house. Like this photo show here there are a lot of accessories in this room and often times people have them there myself included because they bought it, they got on sale or one point they like that is went with the look but they don’t tend to move this accessories around. So take out the accessories from your kitchen, your living room, your bedroom and your bathroom. Get everything them and then put each thing end with the meaning and with the purpose and if you don’t like it don’t it out just to put it out. Sometimes some extra space is okay but then really you can put things from the bedroom into the living room and get the completely new look for your house. Audra Lowe: And sometimes people are obligated to leave things there because they’ve been there for everyday on what else to do with it and they just leave at there. Jennifer Adams: But most everybody does that. Audra Lowe: Okay and alright. Next step here is to just change all of your lapel and this is the good time to do that right. Jennifer Adams: It’s called the five minute makeover. If you look up into your light sources often times you will have a different light bulb in every single recess can light. And most to your bathrooms are going to have at least one burn tap bulb, I challenge anybody to go to there bathrooms and that they think something that’s burns out. Audra Lowe: You just say what it is? Jennifer Adams: You might not—no it is or you might, that’s one of those things to takes two seconds to do and it makes a dramatic impact on the way your fabrics look and everything looks. I have a bulb that I particularly and its by GE and it’s a reveal light bulb and it gives a clean crisps white light and so if your fabric are looking yellowy this might help to got that yellow tone but I really like that bulb. Audra Lowe: This next that you have that you have explained to me is that balance how each room and you are talking about eye level and so forth and so on. What do you exactly do you main by then? Jennifer Adams: You walk into each room with the brand new I if you can I’ll bring a friend and it pay attention if it feels balance, what I mean by balance is have you brought the color to the ground level and then mid level like through your pillows and then in the eye level to your artwork and also to your draperies and then also have your properly move that color around the room and ribbon it around like the photo that we have here they’ve got nice switch one chocolate brown walls wherein the ground to it with the area right to bring the chocolate brown down. You see the white window treatment in the photo and it’s a very big and very heavy and everybody has white on the windows will they brought that in through the chair and to auto man and the auto man touching the ground is grounding the white. And then the orange tone in the pillow they brought in with the throw and then also one of the pieces of art is low more rust tone so it’s got some orange so check to make sure it go with ground level, mid level, eye level and then ribbon at around the room. Audra Lowe: Got it so there is a purpose for all of this stuff and it’s look good to use when we see it too but there is always a reason.