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The hardest part of Newton real estate shopping is over — picking out the home that is right for you and your family. But wait! Before you spend hours flipping through home design magazines, here are 5 tips to help you get started on home decorating without the headache.

1. Take cues from the masters. Do you have a favorite painting? Bring a print to a paint store and have them match shades of paint to the painting’s colors. Just think about how great it will feel to introduce guests to “The Waterlily Room”!

A Pedro Cano painting in the Vatican Museums

2. Wallpaper one wall. It’s a modern alternative to papering the entire room – and it also saves you time and money.

3. Mix and match textures. Black leather couch? Add gray satin pillows. Tiled white bathroom floor? Toss down a soft, nubby white bathroom rug.

4. Cluster objects by color. Merchandisers group by color in window displays and with clothing inside the store  – it works great at home, too. The best part is, you won’t have to store away all of your knick-knacks.

5. Skip the home design magazines and look at hotel rooms instead. Hotel rooms are the simplified version of home decor. Surface Magazine and National Geographic Traveller are two magazines that show contemporary indoor and outdoor spaces from top hotels.

A room at the Ace Hotel in New York City

If you’re buying all of the biggest names when you’re decorating your Newton Real Estate, you might want to stop. Not decorating while spending all your money on top brands. There are ways to get the look and feel that you’re after without breaking the bank.

First off, it’s not always necessary to add to the room to bring it up to that style that you’ve seen in the magazines. Try subtracting by not buying anything new. Instead, you might want to try throwing things out. By streamlining the look of any room, you’ll move closer to the desired effect that you’ve seen in the magazines.

There are some other old tricks that you can use to make Newton or any Boston real estate look chic. By painting blank canvasses in a variety of colors and then hanging them up, you wind up with a modern effect on any wall. It’s an old trick that’s used in many hotels. You can use these same frugal ideas to get your place into a scented mood before guests arrive as well.

Instead of going out and buying expensive scented candles, you can try sticking some cloves into an orange and simmering that on a stove for a few minutes. It has the same effect for a fraction of the cost.