Decorating walls with your own hands and improvised means

After the room has been renovatedIt looks clean and tidy, but at the same time a bit empty. To create a lively and cozy atmosphere, you can decorate the walls with various decorative elements. But it is not necessary after spending large repairs to spend money again, buying expensive jewelry. An ideal option would be decorating the walls with your own hands using inexpensive materials and improvised tools.

Traditional wall decor elements: shelves and paintings

A win-win version of the wall decoration in the apartment, appropriate in any interior and suitable for any style - this is decoration with paintings or placement of various shelves on the walls. Of course, shelves can be bought at the store, and paintings and panels can be ordered from an artist or designer. But it is best to learn how to decorate the wall with your own hands, using improvised materials and your own skills. And this is not only a matter of saving the budget: the things that you create yourself will more harmoniously fit into the interior and reveal your character.

Decorative shelves from improvised materials

Shelves not only serve as an element of decor in the apartment, but also perform applied tasks. If you place your favorite things, books, souvenirs, vases or flower pots on them, it will immediately make your living room cozy and comfortable. We offer you some interesting ideas for wall products that can easily be made independently.

Shelves from boxes and boxes

The ideal material for creating decorative shelves is wooden crates. Thick cardboard boxes that remain after the acquisition of electrical equipment are also suitable. Paste the box with colored paper, self-adhesive film or decorate the wallpaper remaining after the repair - and it is ready for placement on the wall in the living room, in the kitchen or in the nursery. If you use a wooden box, it can be painted or pasted with decorative material to its bottom and inner walls.

It is best to use several boxes or boxes of different sizes, making up a composition on the wall. If boxes of different sizes are placed on top of each other and fastened, you can get an interesting wall cabinet in which you can place light objects. When using wooden boxes, a strong cabinet or a multi-level shelf is obtained, on which you can place more weighty objects: flowers in pots, folders, books, souvenirs.

By the way, a great idea is to use drawers from old furniture as decoration elements. They can be painted or left unchanged by simply fixing them to the wall with brackets.

Shelves from the remains of building materials

To create decorative shelves, you can put into the business materials that remain after finishing the apartment. Perfect for this:

• drywall;
• parquet board;
• laminate;
• Fiberboard;
• plywood;
• skirting board.

Remember that it is not necessary to be limited to standard forms, realize your wildest ideas. Do-it-yourself wall decoration opens up unlimited scope for imagination.

If you are using drywall, calculate the load on the shelf. If the product is intended for light souvenirs, then you can limit yourself to trimming plasterboard sheets. In the event that the shelf will serve as a stand for books or a TV in the living room, you will have to strengthen it with a metal profile and corners.

On narrow shelves made of plinth or parquet you can place souvenirs in the living room or toys in the nursery. If the materials are left from repairs in the same room, the shelves will perfectly overlap with flooring.

Shelf on the ropes

A shelf made of boards suspended from a wall using ropes is an incredibly stylish design solution for a living room, kitchen or bedroom, and it is made extremely simple.

All you need is to drill holes along the edges of the boards, pull a rope or thick rope through them and insert wooden sticks so that the shelves are held at the right height.

DIY paintings and panels

We will not talk about picturesque paintings, but consider the simplest ways to make spectacular designer jewelry for your interior.

Fabric Pictures

Wall decorations in the form of textile mural or paintings are very spectacular and are very popular. They perfectly enliven the room with plain walls. To make them you will need:

• fabric cuts of different colors;
• frames of plywood or polystyrene of different sizes;
• stapler or small nails.

The fabric must be cut to the size of the frame with a margin, and fix its edges on the back of the frame with brackets or nails. The flap should be well stretched, forming an elastic canvas.

If possible, use fabric whose pattern or color echoes other interior items: with carpet, curtains, upholstery, pillows or tablecloths. Such paintings look best in groups, forming a composition that will occupy a key place in the design living room interior or any other room.

Exclusive Hand Made

A field for creativity is a framework from molding or a decorative baguette, ideas can be gleaned from the Internet. The easiest option is to paste part of the wall inside them with bright interesting wallpapers. In fact, there are countless ways to design, you can put anything you want into the framework:

• Photo;
• mirrors;
• letters from different materials;
• Children's drawings;
• embroidered paintings;
• panels from natural materials;
• drawings made under the stencil;
• smaller frames.

By the way, such handicrafts today are very much appreciated and sold for a lot of money.

When it comes to kitchen decor, metal baking dishes or cardboard frames covered in cloth or braid can be used as frames. They can accommodate:

• paintings from cereals;
• spices and dried flowers;
• culinary recipes of your favorite dishes;
• beautiful plates of different sizes;
• Pictures of fruits and vegetables of the same color.

Butterflies, birds and flowers

Wall decoration with a large number of small repeating elements is a new fashion trend in the world of apartment design. Experts say that with this technique you can achieve a visual expansion of space. You can make figures of butterflies, birds, flowers, airplanes, hearts - the theme is selected depending on whether you plan to place them in the living room or in the nursery, as well as on your preferences. The contours of the selected figure are applied to thick paper or cardboard, a stencil is cut. With it, butterflies or other figures are made of paper, colored dense polyethylene or foil, which can then be decorated with beads or rhinestones.

Products can contrast with the color of the walls, be black or white, or have a shade similar to wall decoration. Perhaps this method of design is not very durable, but due to the simplicity of manufacturing the figures after a while it will be possible to replace them with new ones.

Wire decoration

Another interesting idea for decorating a living room or bedroom is decorating wires from electrical appliances that cannot be hidden in the wall. We will not violate the rules of fire safety, disguise the wires and make them an independent element of the decor. The wire can be laid so that it forms a pattern or composition on the wall, wrap it with decorative tape or braid, decorate it under a climbing plant.

Using duct tape or paper, you can cut out figures of birds, leaves and flowers that can be placed along the wire fixed to the wall.

In order to decorate the walls with your own hands, it is not necessary to have special skills and use expensive materials. Any ideas on how to beautifully decorate surfaces in an apartment can be embodied by everyone. Any person can cope with the design of the walls in the proposed ways without the help of professional designers. The main thing in this business is imagination and creativity.