Adorning yourself with gorgeous designer clothes can be a life-consuming, budget-devouring passion for some of us. Spending all that time and money on clothes, shoes and, of course, the accessories, doesn’t always leave much left over for the décor. Still, we do want our houses to reflect our refined sense of style. The good news is you don’t have to break the bank to make your apartment or house just as trendy and fashion-fixated as you.

You just need to exercise a little ingenuity and find an online outlet that specializes in discount printing. Now, the copyright to almost all fashion art belongs to the photographer or the publication that bought it. Still, you can find great free-to-the-world fashion shots, courtesy of the boutiques and designers that want you to help them advertise. Usually, their logo is just a watermark in the picture. Find a few you love and then scan them into your PC. If you are good with photo-editing software, you can alter them to make them look more artsy, either by going black-and-white, or applying a glamorous foggy shroud about the subject.

When you’ve got the look you want, email it as in the specified format to a good online printer and in almost no time, you’re going to have a full-sized poster of your fashion photo that can be framed or hung sans frame on the wall. Discount printing outlets found on-line can also help you with smaller reprints to frame and hang around the house. How about a cluster of great shots featuring the same model? Or, try different models and the same designer. Hair shots and hand shots that show plenty of sparkle will put life and imagination into your décor, doing for your house what your clothes do for you. Make it look divine.

For some unknown reason, perhaps an instinct left over from our Neanderthal past, we always feel a need to spruce things up around the house when springtime bursts into bloom. Some call it spring cleaning, but for most of us, it’s more than that. It’s a renewing, revitalizing of our style. Whether you own your own home, or you are living in one of the many great Boston apartments or condominiums, you’re probably getting the itch just like me. Homeowners have a special license to redo, giving them a broader range of possibilities for spring revival in their abodes. That’s only fair, since they own them (or they own a mortgage!). Apartment dwellers, however, need to obey a few rules, since they are merely tenants. This is not necessarily bad, since it prevents the renter from any of the heavy duty, high-cost maintenance projects that often seem to coincide with the change of seasons.

Let the superintendent take down your storm doors and clean your gutters. You can enjoy the fun of new throw rugs that bring color to the floors. Got carpet? Go ahead and try a contrasting colored rug over the carpet. Yes! It will look great! When it’s spring, you need to let in the sunlight. If your drapes or blinds are old and dull, dump them. Stylish Boston apartments and homes are going to be featuring lots of gauzy sheers between colorful drapes, or better yet, pull up roman-style blinds that let in the light. Go bold with your throw pillows and get rid of anything cold, dull and lifeless that makes you think of snow and winter. Start a few seeds in flowerpots in a sunny window and dream. After all, in a couple more months we’ll be heading into the season of summer fun and, by doing a little revamping now, you’ll be ready and so will your home.