If you have a blank wall and about 2 hours 'free' you can give yourself a whole new look using a wall stencil
The stencils are very affordable sheets of heavy duty plastic that you attach to your wall with small push pins or a light adhesive paint tape and you simply paint or stencil where the openings are, pull the product away from your wall and ta-da! Instant design.
I bought my stencil about 6 years ago at a local hardware store but Amazon and other sites on the internet have a far larger selection to choose from. Still, I was quite happy with my purchase at the time and I used it not for a wall, but for painting a design on a cheap panel curtain to give it a look that costs hundreds of dollars more from retail providers. When I was finished with the stencil I put it into my basement craft storage area and forgot all about it until last week.
I previously had a patterned wrapping paper up on my wall so when I replaced it with 'white' last Monday my co-workers kept making comments about how 'boring' my walls were. After scouring the city for a patterned wrapping paper that matched my walls and carpet I came up empty handed and instead, went to my basement and dragged my stencil and some old acrylic paints out of my craft box.
In this manner I finished up an entire wall, cleaned the sponge applicator and plate, put away my 2 bottles of paint and washed my stencil.
Finished!
A "new" wall - for free - using a stencil and two bottles of paint I already owned and painting on plain white wrapping paper I bought for $2 at Walmart.
**You can find many wall stencil designs online at Amazon.com