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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Karen Darlow

How can you update a living room without buying anything new? 7 interior designers share their most simple ideas

Living room with steel framed windows and fireplace with square coffee table with wooden beams.

If you're reading this then you're already looking for ways to update a living room without buying anything new. You're maybe asking yourself is that even possible? How can you change your living room without spending money? Well, the interior designers we spoke to aren't short of inspiring living room ideas and are happy to share their tried and tested advice, below, on the ways to update a living room without buying anything new.

As with most aspects of interior design, it starts with a bit of creative thinking. Take a look at the existing space. What is it about your current living room that isn't working for you right now? What's missing? What needs to go? Is there anything glaringly obvious that you can improve with little effort and no cost? 

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