8 budget-friendly ways to improve your home

It doesn't take maximum money to make maximum impact in your home.

Hollywood interior designer Nicole Sassaman, who recently completed her hundredth home renovation, says that all it takes are a few savvy design ideas to add value to your home — no matter your budget.

The home-flipper extraordinaire, author of the new book 100 Sassy Tips: Renovations, believes in reusing and repurposing whenever possible. "I don't want to cry over what I don't have," she says. "I'd rather ask, 'What do we have?' because that's how you create things no one else has."

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Here, Sassaman shares some of the most budget-friendly (and high-style) design sense from her book so you can save some cents — and save yourself the headache of a total renovation.

1. Update your fixtures