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Making over your room always sounds like a great idea. Until you're out $500 and on your fourth weekend stuck inside on your "project."

Fortunately, you don't have to go through a whole ceiling-to-floor renovation to breathe new life into your space.

We got AOL Home to share the best low-fuss tweaks that take a room from "meh" to "magnificent."

Easy Home Makeovers

    New year, new you, same old décor. Give your furnishings a boost with these quick, easy, and inexpensive steps and products drawn from our favorite home design blogs. Sometimes, a technique as small (and free!) as rearranging your books by spine color can be a breath of fresh air.

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    Drawer pulls are the makeup of furniture -- quick, easy, cheap, and they make a world of difference. Apartment Therapy shows you how this little measure can mean big results.

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    To update a tired dresser, we recommend these extravagant Anthropolgie knobs, as low as $6 apiece!

    Courtesy of Anthropologie

    All you need to give your bedroom a facelift (or at least a shot of Botox) is a wood frame, some batting, a staple gun, and gorgeous fabric -- the materials called for in This Young House's DIY directions on making your own headboard.

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    We think this lively Freespirit Fabrics pattern is itching to adorn your headboard. Find other beauties at Purl.

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    Got any furniture that still serves its purpose but has, how shall we say, not aged well? Slipcovers do wonders. Better yet, they're washable and can be changed frequently if you get tired of a pattern or update a room. Apartment Therapy's step-by-step tutorial will have you in stitches (get it?).

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    Go on -- cheat. It's easy with these Sure Fit machine washable slipcovers, available for every imaginable piece of furniture in a variety of colors. With 6% spandex, they're flexible enough to cover up even that lumpy old recliner. You know the one.

    Courtesy of Sure Fit Furniture Covers

    Design*Sponge tells you how to take a bookcase from drab to fab in mere minutes by applying contact paper, leftover wallpaper, or even gift wrap to the back wall of the shelves.

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    We're partial to this marigold contact paper from Aubuchon Hardware (which stocks lots of other designs). At just over $5 a roll, this quick and easy step can make a big impact.

    Aubuchon Hardware, hardwarestore.com

    Carpet tiles -- excuse us, "modular flooring" -- provides the same transformative effect on a room as carpeting, for a fraction of the price, effort, and commitment. These tiles, seen on Apartment Therapy, can be rearranged to form a striped rug.

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Tell us! How have you made over your space? Send us a photo and we may feature it on Lemondrop; or click here to design your dream room. And check out AOL Home for more cool decorating ideas.