Tell Asda about accessorising and personalising the rooms in your home - £200 Asda Direct voucher up for grabs! NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

The folks at Asda would like to know how you accessorise and personalise the different rooms in your home.

Here's what Asda have to say, "We've recently launched our Autumn / Winter Home catalogue in store and online at Asda Direct, full of inspiration for your home at affordable prices. With more than 1000 stylish solutions for your home, we're interested to find out how you accessorise and personalise your home"

So how do you refresh the rooms in your home? Do you add cushions and candles or replace furniture and repaint? Does each room have a particular colour scheme or do you prefer the white, minimalist look? Do you re-arrange or re-accessorise the rooms in your home often, or have they looked the same for the past few years? Is there a particular room youre especially proud of?

Please also take a look at Asda's Autumn / Winter Home Collection and let us know if theres anything that inspires you to get creative in your home

Whatever you do to personalise and accessorise your rooms, we'd love to hear about it.

Everyone who adds their thoughts and ideas will be added into a prize draw to win a £200 Asda Direct voucher.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

Our house is only just finished - a barn conversion so we have lots of white walls and oak floors.
I've tried to source one off pieces like a massive clock in the hallway, a piece of art from a local artist and a cool poster in the loo!
However lots of the space is still a bit bare and white so I could do with some more nice accessories and I want to paint our bedroom a relaxing blue colour and get white curtains.
I tend I stick to neutral colours and decor and then change things around with accessories and soft furnishings. That way it's cheaper to make a change

This direct.asda.com/ASDA-Silver-Cross-Stitch-Throw/002242917,default,pd.html and this direct.asda.com/ASDA-Blueberry-to-Natural-Dip-Dye-Knitted-Throw/002241566,default,pd.html

Just what I need to cover up our very very tired sofa. Only a shame that the nice cable knit throw from the front page is not available to buy.

We have spent years refurbishing our house! It started as 2 bedroom cottage and we added an extension to add another bedroom with shower room and anew bathroom upstairs with kitchen/diner/family room downstairs. However it was a massive undertaking and we have gradually decorated and added new furniture over the years as well as having to work around to the older parts of the house.

We recently redid the sitting room with new hearth and stove and replastered, new doors etc, completely gutted the room and used fairly muted colours in new carpet and sofas so we could add colour with cushions and curtains and pictures - still to get some fab pictures but have a huge mirror. We are now working on hallway as final part of refurb but of course now rooms we already painted need done again ..aaarrrgghh

Overall we try to have a unified colour scheme throughout the house with lots of wood and natural colours with odd splash of colour from soft furnishings which can be changed seasonally or just updated in general.

I like to use a mix of colour co-ordinated accessories that also include a complimentary colour that isnt necessarily in the main mix. So furniture and curtains will be reasonably plain, walls painted with one accent wall. Then rugs, cushions, vases and personal nick nacks that I have collected over the years that compliment the colour scheme. Tend not to go for white/cream but I dont mix more than four colours.
Quickest refresh for me is change the scatter cushions and the type of candles/vases. I have some that are particularly summery - butterflies, shells, etc. Have just swapped them all for the autumn/Halloween ones and in a few months it will all swap again for christmas. I often pick things up out of season because I know they will work in the changeover.

We tend to use lining paper on three walls in each one and wallpaper with a pattern on the other. then go with the colour theme of the patterned wallpaper for the rest of the room. Duvet covers are often reduced in supermarkets, particulary Tesco and Asda, so always best to look for bargains. Simple is best so do not clutter rooms with too much in the way of ornaments and nik naks.

I'm afraid I don't take much of an active part - I tend to do the DIY but leave the interior design aspects to DW. Our downstairs is quite open plan so there's a variation on a colour theme throughout (greens/blues/yellows). There is also some level of continuity in the hall/landing (all the many picture frames/mirrors/ceiling lights are on a black/gold theme). The bedrooms however reflect the occupants so all very diverse!

I know some of the ladies-who-lunch brigade, who shop in John Lewis' do regularly seem to change cushions/curtains/rugs etc.... DW does too, but more on an as required (i.e. annihilated by children and cats) basis than on a rolling cycle/whim. There is however enough change from one year to the next for us to feel as if time has not stood still.

I would add that if we had more disposable income I think we would ring change in the decor more often. The other thing is that a smallish house can not absorb endless design features without first discarding stuff - that starts to get costly and goes against our fairly 'green'/Good Life credentials!

DW actually finds that the simplest and cheapest ways to freshen up the look of a room is to add seasonal flowers and ring the changes with scented candles (which don't necessarily have to be expensive to give off a lovely fragrance!).

Well we've recently redecorated DS's room and that looks fab but it's difficult fitting in all the interior decor challenges with family/work life balance...(and a bit of extra money would go some way to helping too!).

On brief viewing, I would say that I'm particularly struck by the Christmas stuff in the new Asda Homes Catalogue - that is indeed a time when it's quite easy and magical to ring the changes on interiors....

We have only properly finished one room- our bed room. We have matching furniture, and everything's one of 3 colours. We try and keep it as simple as possible and the only accessories are some candles on the windowsill.
We are slowly doing things around the house, we have been stripping wallpaper and repainting most things cream/ white. we haven't accessorised the house barely at all.
I like the kids storage items, there are loads of really lovely things in there. There were one or two clocks I liked for our kitchen

I don't really do accessorizing! I have to redecorate.

Although that would involve actually getting round to decorating my flat in the first place...

I just bought the Asda bedsheets that are patterened, I have the spotty, star print and floral ones, they jazzed up the bedrooms easily and cheaply, great quality for the price.
I bought some of the baby bedding for my new baby's cot, it looks fantastic, I will probably buy a few accessories to match as we dont have the time or money to paint rooms.

Living in rented accommodation it can sometimes be hard to put your stamp on a property. We can't reprint, retile, knock down walls or do anything that's fun! We've managed to get around it by adding colour using soft furnishings, such as beddings, curtains, throws and cushions in different colours schemes for each room. Finished off with a nice picture or two on the walls (some lovingly painted by my Mum!). We'd like to finish off the living room with a large mirror, something like the Asda Art Deco full length, best get saving our pennies.

Before kids we used to repaint quite frequently. Lots of bright, sort-of coordinating colours. Never beige or cream.

Since the kids we plan to repaint and meanwhile it all gets shabbier. Our house is hard to paint as it as very high ceilings which is nice and airy but not simple to paint. So half our house is nicely painted, and the other half is filthy with kids' and cats' marks all over the walls. When we get desperate I put up posters over the worst of it.

I used match everything, but I hate that look now. I love buying unusual things that look unique. Little trinket boxes, cushions with different textures/patterns/colours, coloured throws, candles etc and I move them around for variety. All my friends have commented on the change and some have even said my home is now welcoming, rather than like a show home. I don't do clutter, but a few different things put in the right place can make all the difference.

When DH and I bught this house, we decided notto spend money on it as we have tiny ones and we don't want to get wound up about things getting dirty or broken. Having said that, I think our house looks nice. It's very small so I tend to keep colours light and things simple. I tend not to put too much on the walls, but use photos we r friends have taken. In the children's room we have a picture of each of us in sill frames. In main bedroom we have a set of 6 pictures of the sea which is just outside our house, with cheap frames from IKEA. They show the same spot in different weather sand lights. I loves them. I have a light striped curtain with seaish colours int he and a white bedspread. Just simple things, but they go together. Front room and kitchen unfortunately a bit cluttered as we have toys there and things tend to get dumped.

We have a relatively uncluttered home and have started to buy nice forever bits of furniture rather than cheaper, veneer stuff that doesn't last (we still have plenty of that though).

With a young child mess and storage are always issues. We have a large wooden chest for toys where everything gets piled into in the evening.

I do like candles, throws and cushions for creating a more homely look.

I dont really do accessories really. I tend to keep rooms neutral ad much as possible so that If I fancy a change I buy cheap curtains/cushion covers etc.

But I'm in rented accommodation so wouldnt want to spend out too much on things that I cant take with me if I move.

To provide some variation to the identikit ikea furniture, we got some chairs and a mirror from a flea market. We somehow managed to go for seventies-looking chairs in orange and yellow, so that has become or colour scheme. I bought some vintage fabric and made cushion covers, and I knitted some too.

We are currently renting whilst looking to buy, so not done anything to the current place. We have a gorgeous children's rug in the lounge which makes a fun statement, and my son's art is on the walls, as well as posters for children (alphabet, Gruffalo etc). £200 would come in super handy for when we do move. Most places we've viewed have decor that is not to our taste at all, so we will definitely have to decorate when we move.

Tbh I build it up slowly, won't really like to have to go out and fill a whole room all in one day. I like to have pieces that I love and that takes time

The quickest way to refresh a bedroom I find are new duvet covers and blankets

I most love (and am v v proud of!) my lounge- strong Moroccan orange and pink walls, dark wooden furniture and stained glass lamps dotted all around. Lots of silks draped across the ceiling. I just need a genie in a lamp now!

We are DIY amateurs!! But do enjoy decorating. I love colour and can't stand the profusion of beige that is fashionable at the moment, but sometimes struggle to pick colours. Sometimes once its up I realise it was a mistake, but too late then!! We try to keep it simple and cheap for the kids rooms, as know they will want to change it all too soon, and accessorise with wall stickers, light shades, rugs etc that can easily be removed and changed. We try to keep ornamentation to a minimum - just clutter and we don't have enough space as it is!!! We often argue over colour, I like much stronger colours than DH.

Everything in our house is second hand or recycled. I love to see things that have been made by friends and family, these are things that tell a story or evoke memories. From sea shells found by the dcs on holiday beaches to paintings done by great aunts or a bowler hat once worn by my great grandpa. I couldn't possibly commit to a colour scheme if it meant putting away my treasures. My house is definitely going for the cosy junk shop look. I like stained glass and gold.

While I really like a clean uncluttered look our house is very personalised by having furniture and art assembled over the years from various countries we have lived in; think English antiques with Thai teak and carved Chinese ! To try to calm the rooms it is the walls that are neutral (painted) and the fabrics in the curtains, cushions etc have texture rather than pattern. Colours are picked from the Persian carpets.

To stop myself getting bored I buy plants and flowers to refresh the rooms.