Home decor accessories are the items that turn a house into a home. Bringing your personal style into your home and creating a beautifully arranged vignette to post on Facebook can feel overwhelming. Fears of buying the wrong decorative tray or accent pillows can stop you in your tracks.

I’m here to help you get past these fears and start transforming your home into your favorite place to be. Shopping for home accessories should be fun and exciting. To make your next home shopping mission successful, I’m sharing my tips and tricks for being a smart home decor accessories shopper.

Home Decor Accessories Tips For Success

Now, these tips and tricks are not concrete, but they are the things that help me as I continue to makeover my home. I believe if they work for me, they can work for you too.

  • Know your space

Before running out in excitement about going home decor shopping, make sure you know your limits. Nothing is more disappointing than coming home to find out a perfect vase you bought is too big.

Measuring the space you are buying home decor accessories first is a smart idea. For instance, if you are decorating bookshelves measure the length, width, and height of the shelves. Also, take pictures of the space to bring with you will help remember how things look now.

  • Know what you’re looking for

I’m sure at some point you have gone grocery shopping without a list and couldn’t remember what you needed. You want your shopping trip to be productive. I know for myself, when walking the aisles at my favorite home decor shops it’s very easy to get distracted. Then I come home and realize I didn’t get what I was looking for.

Often I must say to myself, “I’m not looking for that room right now.”

Making a list of home accessories you are looking for in advance will help you stay focused on what you need. It is also smart to take notes about ideas, colors, and shapes. One more tip is to take pictures on your phone of the area you are decorating. It is sometimes help to be able to look back at a photo while shopping.

  • Make a budget

I always go home decor accessories shopping with a budget in mind. There is no need to break the bank when decorating.

With great stores like HomeGoods, AtHome, Hobby Lobby and wonderful online stores like Bits of Vintage and Wayfair, decorating like I do on a shoestring budget is easier than ever. Give yourself a spending limit. If you can find what you’re looking in your budget, don’t splurge, wait and keep on searching.

  • Meaningful items are the best

A beautiful home is a meaningful home. How do you create a meaningful home? Decorate with home decor that is unique to your personal story and memories.

Incorporate special items from family vacations or outings, things that remind you of your favorite memories, etc. These meaningful items, combined with your home decor, create a beautiful home.

One of the best ways to be a smart home accessories shopper is to stay at home. Instead of going to a store, move around your home decor to instantly and inexpensively change the look of a room.

I do this constantly. It can help me from getting bored with my home decor accessories.

  • Stay FOCUSED

Focus on decorating one room at a time. Not only will this save your money, but you are more likely to finish decorating a room. When bouncing around shopping for your living room then your guest bedroom and then back to your living room; often neither room gets finished.

It will feel better, be easier, and less stressful. Next time you are decorating I challenge you to try focusing on just one space.

Buying home decor accessories that vary in shape and heights is common in design style. Mixing and pairing these items together will create more interesting styling.

Avoid purchasing home decor accessories based on the latest trends. For one, trends change almost as fast as technology. Plus, going back to tip #4 design trends may not have much meaning to you. It is easy to grow bored with your home decor when following trends, which can lead to spending more money and time decorating your home.

After you come home from your successful home decor accessories shopping spree, be sure to read my 7 Steps to Help You Style Your Home Like a Pro.

What is your favorite home decor accessory in your home? Please share your answer below.