DIY wall decor

In order to create comfort in the house, it is not necessary to make expensive repairs. You can make an unusual wall decoration with your own hands and get great pleasure from this process. If you consider the wall as a large artistic canvas, then having shown imagination and using improvised materials, you can create real masterpieces that will delight you for a long time. Armed with ideas and creativity, you can make your individual space comfortable, beautiful and functional.

Consider a possible wall decor with your own hands, which will not require too much financial investment and will not be time-consuming.

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Wall art

This method is the oldest and most common. If you have the talent of an artist, then art painting is definitely your way to create a unique interior for your bedroom, nursery. You just need to choose the right pattern and colors:

• You can use the old fashioned acrylic, emulsion or oil paints.
• You can draw using new materials - light-accumulating, pearlescent or fluorescent paints or using an airbrush.

Important! You can simply paint the walls in the room in contrasting bright colors. If you don’t like plain walls, using molar tape you can easily turn them into striped or even checkered.

Volumetric paintings

The latest fashion trend is 3D images and the creation of three-dimensional paintings. If not everyone can cope with the 3D pattern, then drawing a three-dimensional picture is not so difficult. First create a relief surface with plaster or alabaster, and then paint it.

Notepad on the wall

Now on sale appeared multi-colored slate paints. By painting part of the wall, they can turn the surface into a large notebook for recordings.

Important! This is especially true for the children's room - students can solve problems right on the wall, and then wash them.

Stencils

If you do not have artistic abilities, do not worry, stencils will come to your aid. A stencil is a cardboard with a pattern cut out on it, you can buy it ready-made or make it yourself. Just draw or print a pattern on the cardboard, and then carefully cut it out. Now it remains only to fix the stencil on the working surface with masking tape and apply paint.

Important! It is easiest to work with paint in the spray can, the main thing is to watch so that there are no smudges.

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Wall stickers

Vinyl stickers have become very popular. They can be selected for every taste, color and size, applying such a wall decor with your own hands is easy and simple, since they already have an adhesive layer.

You can make stickers yourself, for this you need a stencil and a sheet of self-adhesive vinyl. Using a stencil, create a pattern or pattern and stick it in the right place.

Important! There is a large selection of 3D stickers, they will look good in the children's room and its inhabitants will surely like it.

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Textured finishing materials

There are many ideas on how to make your own wall designs using decorative bricks, wild stone, pebbles, mosaics. A very interesting way of decoration is decorative plaster:

• In this case, minor surface defects are easily hidden.
• It is easy to apply.
• She holds on for a long time.
• With its help, you can give a diverse relief to the wall, as well as create convex geometric shapes or patterns.

Important! Interesting compositions can be made using multi-colored or pearl plaster. On top of the plaster, stamped painting can be applied using paints and a stencil to further emphasize the decorative component of the design of the walls with your own hands.

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Wall decor wallpaper

Now it’s very fashionable to combine wallpapers. On sale there are companion wallpapers that blend perfectly with each other. This simple way gives amazing results, especially if the color scheme of the wallpaper is combined with the upholstery.

The most popular combination methods:

• Vertical - achieved by alternating stripes.
• With horizontal combination, the emphasis is on the upper band, while the lower performs a neutral role.
• Selecting one wall or part of it - as a rule, allocate a section of the wall at the head of the bed.

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Photowall-paper

Wall murals will fit into any interior, helping to implement thematic ideas.

Usually they are glued to one wall. You can choose photo printing on any topic or even order an individual copy with your favorite photo or picture, creating a nontrivial wall decor with your own hands.

Important! Please note that a specialist in the appropriate profile and qualification should stick the murals. If you decide to cope on your own, it is fundamentally important to strictly adhere to technological rules and carefully prepare the surface.

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Pictures and photos

Photos of your loved ones in a beautiful and original framework will make the house cozy and warm. But you need to hang them up not randomly, but carefully so that everything goes well together - both the shape of the frames, and the color palette, and the size of the objects.

Popular wall design ideas:

• Black-and-white compositions look very impressive if you plan to do your own wall decor in one of the modern design directions.
• On the wall you can draw a large tree, which is easy to turn into a family tree by sticking photos of relatives.
• You can make photo collages on canvas or whatman paper.

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Unusual living wall

New technologies allow you to create a lively decor on the wall with your own hands. Floral green compositions will be a bright and unusual accent in your living room.

To care for them you will need:

• autonomous irrigation systems;
• fixtures that give the right lighting.

All this is sold in specialized stores.

Important! A living wall can be replaced with ordinary flower pots on open shelves or shelves.

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Mirrors

With the help of mirrors you can not only decorate the room, but add light to it and visually increase the space. To make the mirror fit well into your interior, choose a frame that suits your style: metal or wood.

Important! You can create a solid mirror wall, decorate them with furniture, watches or the ceiling.

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Fabric panels

For the design of the wall with your own hands, fabric panels are perfect. These are pieces of fabric that are attached directly to the surface or put on Velcro so that they can be removed and washed in the future. There is an easier way - to hang fabric or carpet paintings.

Important! In the first case, simply select a fabric of beautiful colors and put it in a frame. And in the second of the pieces of carpets, a drawing is made.

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Chasomania

Watches can become a highlight of the interior, especially if you make them yourself. You will need a clockwork and irrepressible imagination:

• You can draw a clock on the wall.
• You can make the basis of old phonograph records.
• For a young schoolboy, you can make watches using old globes, which are sure to attract his attention and replenish geographical knowledge.
• Homemade watches with beams have become very popular, the role of which can be played by knitting needles, cutlery and even wrenches.

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Wall decor with improvised materials

With the design of walls with your own hands, you can realize any of your ideas, because everyone can create their own unique accessories;

• original frames from the remains of ceramic tiles or laminate;
• mosaic layout of pebbles, broken glass, sea pebbles or shells.

But you never know what a creative person can come up with.

Box covers

You can paint the covers from shoe boxes, or cover them with colored paper or a bright cloth, you get beautiful pictures.

Important! Using this principle, you can make an original box from an unnecessary box that will store your jewelry or small items.

Paper garlands

Paper garlands look good. They are easy to do, you can attract children to this, and a good mood is guaranteed. Cut out hearts, airplanes, suns from colored paper and use them to fasten them together.

Important! Of course, the paper will quickly become dusty, but to make a garland again will not be difficult.

Butterflies look very beautiful on the wall. You just need to print a stencil on the printer, attach it to a sheet of paper and cut it out.

Important! When choosing a stencil, look so that it does not have many curved lines, otherwise it will be difficult for you to cut out on it.

When all the butterflies are ready we form a pattern from them. You can arrange them randomly or in a spiral.

Important! Butterflies of different sizes and colors will look beautiful. Instead of butterflies, you can cut birds. This DIY wall decor looks very cute.

Stamping

This option is extremely simple, but very exciting. We take a small and not very voluminous object as a stamp, for example, potato, dipped in paint and stamped the entire surface.

Volume thread letters

For this we need canvas, safety pins and colored threads. Select a word, create a contour of the letters on the canvas with the help of pins, and thread the pins with threads to create a volume.

Decorative plates, low wicker baskets

In this case, everything will come in handy - in addition to plates and baskets, you can use painted ceiling sockets. All this is placed on the wall in the living room, in the bedroom or in the kitchen.

Children's crafts

They will look great in a children's room. The first drawings of your young artists, crafts made of paper, plaster, shells and pebbles brought from the sea, all this will delight you and your children and will be remembered.

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Do not be afraid to experiment, remember, the main thing is that you do all this with love. So - your home will be filled with comfort and warmth.