Own housing is of great importance to humans. It is like a fortress, where you can hide from trouble and adversity. The house gives joy, warmth and comfort. To create comfort in it, you need to know how to decorate a room with your own hands. Properly selected accessories, lighting and color scheme will add attractiveness to every room in the house.
How to decorate a room with your own hands using textiles
Of great importance in the design of any room are curtains. With their help, you can visually expand or reduce the space. To give a feeling of freedom or vice versa of solitude and secrecy from prying eyes. If your room is small, then choose single-layer curtains made of transparent and lightweight materials. Dense and heavy fabrics can only be used in large rooms. If it is necessary to protect the room from bright sunlight or prying eyes, then complement the transparent curtains with a Roman curtain or blinds.
For a harmonious combination of objects in the room, use the same textile colors for curtains, bedspreads, decorative pillows and rugs. Beautiful pillows with fun decorative finishes will not only help to decorate the room with your own hands, but also will cheer you up. If your house already has small pillows, but they do not fit the new design of the room, then just change the decorative pillowcases on them .
How to decorate a room with your own hands using mirrors
The correct arrangement of this accessory will help not only visually enlarge your room, but also add light to it. Refracting in a mirror surface, the sun's rays can get into the most remote and dark corners of the room. If you have a lot of small mirrors at your disposal, then attach them to the wall in the form of a mosaic, combining them with colored glass, tiles or wooden elements. Then in your room "sunbeams" will always be reflected.
Choosing one large mirror to decorate the wall, you should take care of its beautiful frame. Elegant carved frame is suitable for a room in oriental style. Using floral motifs to decorate the room, decorate the mirror in the same way. It can be painted with acrylics along the contour, decorated using decoupage technique or cut flowers from synthetic fabric, glued instead of the frame around the perimeter to PVA glue.
How to decorate a room with your own hands using paintings and photographs
Beautiful landscapes, scenes of sea battles, pictures of animals and happy moments from the life of the inhabitants of the house always fit perfectly into the interior of any room. When placing them, you should follow a few simple rules:
- All paintings and photographs should be located at eye level.
- You should not place a large image in a small room, it is better to take a few, but small.
- If you want to place a lot of photos on the wall, then instead of frames use one magnetic board. Then your exposure will change periodically.
- Try to hang pictures on the wall symmetrically. Then they will look more harmonious.
How to make a room with your own hands using lamps
Properly placed light accents can completely change the perception of any room. In addition to the central lamp, you should have several stationary lamps, sconces or floor lamps. Candles will help create a romantic mood, and a central chandelier, turned on at full power, will create a sense of celebration.
Rearrange the furniture, choosing a more comfortable location. Arrange some graceful figurines, vases on the shelves, and put an ikebana or a bouquet of fresh flowers on the table, and your room will immediately be transformed. Do not forget to use flavorings. After all, no matter how beautiful the room may look, if it smells unpleasant, then a person immediately becomes uncomfortable.