The house is beautiful, clean, freshly renovated, there is all the necessary appliances and furniture, but still something is missing. Comfort! So, it's time to get some designer gadgets for interior decoration that are interesting to look at. You can buy them in an online store, a kiosk, in the market, but it’s easier to do each thing yourself - it's fashionable and not expensive. What and how to do for creative design of your home, what materials, tools are better to use for this, about useful crafts in more detail in the text below.
Plant motifs have always been very popular - it is impossible to do without them in an eco-interior, some types of oriental, Provence, vintage. Pictures on wooden surfaces are performed using:
acrylic or oil paints, brushes by painting;
dye from a spray can through a stencil;
burning out with a magnifier, a special apparatus;
pulling colored threads between nails driven into a piece of wood;
by gluing wooden branches in the form of a tree on a plank surface, followed by applying paints, varnishes.
There is another original way: transferring photos to a wooden surface. How to do it: you need a picture printed on a laser printer, the smoothest board, acrylic gel. A gel is applied to the wood, the photo is placed face down, smoothed. They wait until it dries enough, soak the paper with water, wash it until the picture. Next, the plane should be varnished, glue for decoupage - the picture is ready.
Daisies on the board are drawn with brushes of different thicknesses and three colors - white, yellow, brown. Fluffy dandelions are depicted on a tree by a burner using thick and thin nozzles. To make a picture of threads and nails, the necessary contour is drawn on the board or plywood, along which small cloves are driven in with a hammer, knitting or embroidery threads are stretched between them. The base can be pre-painted in a contrasting color.
DIY interior design toys
Homemade toys will be a wonderful gift for a child or woman, decorating the interior of the bedroom. For their manufacture, textiles, leather, wood, etc. are used.
Difference of interior toys from ordinary:
they are made to decorate the room, and not to play;
they are unique, copyright, one of a kind;
emphasize the style of the interior;
reflect the mood of the room and the author of the items.
On the Internet you can find many photos and videos with instructions for making toys for the interior.
Interior dolls are:
articulated
from knitwear
realistic
fancy
miniature
made of plastic
in mixed media.
For work, you will need threads, a needle, fabric, fabric paints, large beads, synthetic winterizer, doll clothes, shoes. First, the pattern is drawn on paper, after all the details are circled on the fabric - the head and body in two pieces, arms and legs in four. All parts are sewn together, turned out, stuffed with a synthetic winterizer, connected to each other, ears and fingers stand out. The doll’s joints will be large beads, and the face is drawn using acrylics. Hair is bought special, doll or sewn, they can be laid in a fancy hairstyle. Clothing and shoes are sewn independently or put on purchased.
Some designers offer dolls made using the technique of dry felting from wool. You can put empty plastic bags into a decorative "empty" doll from an old children's overalls.
But here's how to make a magpie rag with decoupage elements and acrylic painting. What you need: fabric, colored napkins for decoupage, brush, buttons, glue, iron stand, needle and thread. First, a pattern is drawn on paper. A magpie will consist of two identical parts - a paper pattern is encircled on a double folded fabric. Then the details (body and wings) are stitched on a typewriter, twisted, stuffed. Wings are sewn or glued to the body. Next, the bird is primed with PVA glue, dried with a hairdryer, painted with acrylic or decorated with napkins. The eyes are made of beads or buttons, the stand is glued with napkins.
Such a toy can serve as a stand for jewelry - beads, bracelets, ringlets, and having a rigid frame, even for some gadgets.
Decorative pillows
Decorative pillows, pillows are sewn of variegated rags, and stuffing for them can be anything - synthetic winterizer, cotton wool, various soft rags. You can also manually crochet or knit a colored, plain cover on any existing pillow. For pads made of homogeneous fabric, hand embroidery is suitable - a cross, a stitch, an applique. Tapestry decoration also looks good. You can also simply wrap any pillow with fabric, tying the ends of the fabric with a decorative knot.
In the shape of the pillow there are: square, rectangular, round, rollers, in the form of various animals, hearts, cookies, bagels, etc. They will become soft accessories for the bedroom of a teenage girl. Decorative pillows letters are often made for the festive decoration of the premises - for the new year, wedding, birthday.
Pompom decor
From pompons you can do:
bed mats;
decor of curtains, lamps, frames;
design for flower pots, bottles, vases;
covers for stools, door handles;
floral "heads" on long legs-branches;
garlands for decorating ceilings, walls;
screens of stretched threads with pompons;
numbers, letters to decorate the festive ceremony;
decorative curtains.
To make a pompom you will need threads and two cardboard “bagels” that are tightly wrapped with thread. After the outer edge is cut between the "bagels", the middle is wrapped with a thread with a bundle, and the rings are removed. Also pompons are made of colored paper.
The interior with pompons looks very “homely”.
Handmade shelf variations
Wonderful homemade shelves are made from improvised materials. A light composition of octagonal candy boxes in the form of a honeycomb, suspended from unnecessary notebooks, will be completely free. A bookcase in the shape of an arrow is made of pieces of a water pipe with valves, and a shelf for a bathroom is made of plastic trays.From the old door, nailed diagonally in the corner of the room, you will get an excellent wardrobe-rack with shelves made of plywood. Wide skis, wrapped in foil and mounted on the walls horizontally, also have the right to become shelves. Shelves made from MDF residues and various metal parts will decorate the loft or industrial room. A round shelf of old sieve, pieces of plywood will complement the ethnic interior. Shelves of rough boards, round, oblique cuts, varnished, will become wall stands for flowers, and a large piece of thick bark or round timber - a suspended ceiling design for the design of the cottage, garden.
Stylish decor from hardware
From nails, screws, bolts, nuts, gears with the help of welding, various volumetric fantasy compositions, panels, interior toys and whole sculptures are made. The head of an iron horse is made from the remains of a metal pipe, chains, from a pair of nuts and large bent nails - a cat figure, from large self-tapping screws and metal pieces - a decorative forest in miniature. Dozens of decorative nails driven into a wall in a circle hold a round mirror, a panel of gears perfectly decorates the interior of the steampunk style. Also, faucets, pipes, heating radiators are decorated with welded metal bolts and nuts.
Storage Ideas
Shelves made of cardboard boxes will be an excellent interior decoration in the style of art-belief. It is convenient to store tights, socks, underwear twisted into rolls in boxes with cells. Jewelry is placed in cups or bowls, perfumes and jars of creams are placed on a cake stand, rag organizers for every little thing hang on the door. It is convenient to put wicker baskets under a bed or on a closet, many bags will be placed on the crossbar in the closet using wire hooks. Ties and belts are stored on a wall board with hooks, shoes on hangers with clothespins, pencils in glass jars, and in old cupcake cases, stationery stuff, small sewing accessories. Toys are stored in nets under the ceiling or in catwalks on the floor.
The decoration of the room should match its style.
Unusual rug made of stones
For an entrance hall, a bathroom, an original rug made of flat or round pebbles and sea pebbles will come in handy. Using a glue gun, colored stones are glued onto a piece of carpet or linoleum. They are preferable to the same size, and pebbles of various sizes are selected for the "healing" rug. If there is a pebble of various colors, then patterns, animal figures, inscriptions, and geometric figures are laid out from it. Such a rug can even be made by a child-schoolboy. Similar carpets can be made from wine corks, multi-colored plastic caps for drinks.
Lace Lampshades
Lace lampshades are made in various ways:
ready-made shades are fitted with them;
they stick to balloons, which are then removed;
stretched to wire or forged frames;
lace ribbons are glued to a plastic shade.
White lace with spots is easy to make vintage by holding a little in strong tea or infusion of onion husks. Knitted and guipure patterns on "Japanese" lantern chandeliers cast beautiful shadows on walls and ceilings.
Kitchen organizer
Wall organizer for storing spoons, knives, forks can be made of various fabrics, thick cellophane. Towel hooks are easy to make from old forks, clothespins nailed to the board. Shelves for spices, souvenirs in the kitchen are made using the paper weaving technique, and original coasters are made from old clothes hangers. Cans of cereals are screwed into the lids, which are nailed to a wooden wall shelf, and plastic containers for bulk products are attached with magnets to the side of the refrigerator, above the countertop. Kitchen knives are attached to a magnetic board.
City plot on the wall of black cable
After the repair, a few meters of the black power cable remained? It can be used in wall decoration.If you draw a panorama of the city on the wall, and then nail or glue the cable along the contour, you get an original decoration for the light color of the wall. At the same time, spotlights are located on the wall - the windows of urban buildings. Such a composition is suitable for a boring office design.
A long cable may well be working - at one end is a plug that is plugged into an outlet, and at the other is a ceiling lamp, sconce. The wires in this case are fixed with special brackets. From a black lace from a table lamp, a curly frame for photographs is laid out above the table. A car is depicted on a wall of contrasting color from a white cable - then two or four headlight bulbs will be located at the end of the cable. If the lace is green, then against the background of the white wall lay out the New Year's landscape - a Christmas tree with colored lights at the ends of the branches. Also, with the help of wires, you can mask cool spy gizmos.
Conclusion
Almost any idea of decorating your apartment can be implemented with your own hands. For most simple solutions do not require any special knowledge, skills, tools. For the manufacture of more complex interior items in magazines and the Internet, there are many detailed master classes in various directions for any level of training. Homemade little things look stylish, elegant, fashionable, funny, cute.
The house is beautiful, clean, freshly renovated, there is all the necessary appliances and furniture, but still something is missing. Comfort! So, it's time to get some designer gadgets for interior decoration that are interesting to look at. You can buy them in an online store, a kiosk, in the market, but it’s easier to do each thing yourself - it's fashionable and not expensive. What and how to do for creative design of your home, what materials, tools are better to use for this, about useful crafts in more detail in the text below.
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Tree paintings and more
Plant motifs have always been very popular - it is impossible to do without them in an eco-interior, some types of oriental, Provence, vintage. Pictures on wooden surfaces are performed using:
There is another original way: transferring photos to a wooden surface. How to do it: you need a picture printed on a laser printer, the smoothest board, acrylic gel. A gel is applied to the wood, the photo is placed face down, smoothed. They wait until it dries enough, soak the paper with water, wash it until the picture. Next, the plane should be varnished, glue for decoupage - the picture is ready.
Daisies on the board are drawn with brushes of different thicknesses and three colors - white, yellow, brown. Fluffy dandelions are depicted on a tree by a burner using thick and thin nozzles. To make a picture of threads and nails, the necessary contour is drawn on the board or plywood, along which small cloves are driven in with a hammer, knitting or embroidery threads are stretched between them. The base can be pre-painted in a contrasting color.
DIY interior design toys
Homemade toys will be a wonderful gift for a child or woman, decorating the interior of the bedroom. For their manufacture, textiles, leather, wood, etc. are used.
Difference of interior toys from ordinary:
On the Internet you can find many photos and videos with instructions for making toys for the interior.
Interior dolls are:
For work, you will need threads, a needle, fabric, fabric paints, large beads, synthetic winterizer, doll clothes, shoes. First, the pattern is drawn on paper, after all the details are circled on the fabric - the head and body in two pieces, arms and legs in four. All parts are sewn together, turned out, stuffed with a synthetic winterizer, connected to each other, ears and fingers stand out. The doll’s joints will be large beads, and the face is drawn using acrylics. Hair is bought special, doll or sewn, they can be laid in a fancy hairstyle. Clothing and shoes are sewn independently or put on purchased.
Some designers offer dolls made using the technique of dry felting from wool. You can put empty plastic bags into a decorative "empty" doll from an old children's overalls.
But here's how to make a magpie rag with decoupage elements and acrylic painting. What you need: fabric, colored napkins for decoupage, brush, buttons, glue, iron stand, needle and thread. First, a pattern is drawn on paper. A magpie will consist of two identical parts - a paper pattern is encircled on a double folded fabric. Then the details (body and wings) are stitched on a typewriter, twisted, stuffed. Wings are sewn or glued to the body. Next, the bird is primed with PVA glue, dried with a hairdryer, painted with acrylic or decorated with napkins. The eyes are made of beads or buttons, the stand is glued with napkins.
Decorative pillows
Decorative pillows, pillows are sewn of variegated rags, and stuffing for them can be anything - synthetic winterizer, cotton wool, various soft rags. You can also manually crochet or knit a colored, plain cover on any existing pillow. For pads made of homogeneous fabric, hand embroidery is suitable - a cross, a stitch, an applique. Tapestry decoration also looks good. You can also simply wrap any pillow with fabric, tying the ends of the fabric with a decorative knot.
In the shape of the pillow there are: square, rectangular, round, rollers, in the form of various animals, hearts, cookies, bagels, etc. They will become soft accessories for the bedroom of a teenage girl. Decorative pillows letters are often made for the festive decoration of the premises - for the new year, wedding, birthday.
Pompom decor
From pompons you can do:
To make a pompom you will need threads and two cardboard “bagels” that are tightly wrapped with thread. After the outer edge is cut between the "bagels", the middle is wrapped with a thread with a bundle, and the rings are removed. Also pompons are made of colored paper.
Handmade shelf variations
Wonderful homemade shelves are made from improvised materials. A light composition of octagonal candy boxes in the form of a honeycomb, suspended from unnecessary notebooks, will be completely free. A bookcase in the shape of an arrow is made of pieces of a water pipe with valves, and a shelf for a bathroom is made of plastic trays.From the old door, nailed diagonally in the corner of the room, you will get an excellent wardrobe-rack with shelves made of plywood. Wide skis, wrapped in foil and mounted on the walls horizontally, also have the right to become shelves. Shelves made from MDF residues and various metal parts will decorate the loft or industrial room. A round shelf of old sieve, pieces of plywood will complement the ethnic interior. Shelves of rough boards, round, oblique cuts, varnished, will become wall stands for flowers, and a large piece of thick bark or round timber - a suspended ceiling design for the design of the cottage, garden.
Stylish decor from hardware
From nails, screws, bolts, nuts, gears with the help of welding, various volumetric fantasy compositions, panels, interior toys and whole sculptures are made. The head of an iron horse is made from the remains of a metal pipe, chains, from a pair of nuts and large bent nails - a cat figure, from large self-tapping screws and metal pieces - a decorative forest in miniature. Dozens of decorative nails driven into a wall in a circle hold a round mirror, a panel of gears perfectly decorates the interior of the steampunk style. Also, faucets, pipes, heating radiators are decorated with welded metal bolts and nuts.
Storage Ideas
Shelves made of cardboard boxes will be an excellent interior decoration in the style of art-belief. It is convenient to store tights, socks, underwear twisted into rolls in boxes with cells. Jewelry is placed in cups or bowls, perfumes and jars of creams are placed on a cake stand, rag organizers for every little thing hang on the door. It is convenient to put wicker baskets under a bed or on a closet, many bags will be placed on the crossbar in the closet using wire hooks. Ties and belts are stored on a wall board with hooks, shoes on hangers with clothespins, pencils in glass jars, and in old cupcake cases, stationery stuff, small sewing accessories. Toys are stored in nets under the ceiling or in catwalks on the floor.
Unusual rug made of stones
For an entrance hall, a bathroom, an original rug made of flat or round pebbles and sea pebbles will come in handy. Using a glue gun, colored stones are glued onto a piece of carpet or linoleum. They are preferable to the same size, and pebbles of various sizes are selected for the "healing" rug. If there is a pebble of various colors, then patterns, animal figures, inscriptions, and geometric figures are laid out from it. Such a rug can even be made by a child-schoolboy. Similar carpets can be made from wine corks, multi-colored plastic caps for drinks.
Lace Lampshades
Lace lampshades are made in various ways:
White lace with spots is easy to make vintage by holding a little in strong tea or infusion of onion husks. Knitted and guipure patterns on "Japanese" lantern chandeliers cast beautiful shadows on walls and ceilings.
Kitchen organizer
Wall organizer for storing spoons, knives, forks can be made of various fabrics, thick cellophane. Towel hooks are easy to make from old forks, clothespins nailed to the board. Shelves for spices, souvenirs in the kitchen are made using the paper weaving technique, and original coasters are made from old clothes hangers. Cans of cereals are screwed into the lids, which are nailed to a wooden wall shelf, and plastic containers for bulk products are attached with magnets to the side of the refrigerator, above the countertop. Kitchen knives are attached to a magnetic board.
City plot on the wall of black cable
After the repair, a few meters of the black power cable remained? It can be used in wall decoration.If you draw a panorama of the city on the wall, and then nail or glue the cable along the contour, you get an original decoration for the light color of the wall. At the same time, spotlights are located on the wall - the windows of urban buildings. Such a composition is suitable for a boring office design.
A long cable may well be working - at one end is a plug that is plugged into an outlet, and at the other is a ceiling lamp, sconce. The wires in this case are fixed with special brackets. From a black lace from a table lamp, a curly frame for photographs is laid out above the table. A car is depicted on a wall of contrasting color from a white cable - then two or four headlight bulbs will be located at the end of the cable. If the lace is green, then against the background of the white wall lay out the New Year's landscape - a Christmas tree with colored lights at the ends of the branches. Also, with the help of wires, you can mask cool spy gizmos.
Conclusion
Almost any idea of decorating your apartment can be implemented with your own hands. For most simple solutions do not require any special knowledge, skills, tools. For the manufacture of more complex interior items in magazines and the Internet, there are many detailed master classes in various directions for any level of training. Homemade little things look stylish, elegant, fashionable, funny, cute.