Thinking about repairing and planning to make your own wall decor ? Then this article is especially for you. Here are collected various ideas of all degrees of difficulty. If you have been engaged in design for a long time, you can create a masterpiece from your apartment. But even if you are a beginner, you will still be able to transform the room beyond recognition.
Stencils
Making your own wall decor with your purchased blanks is an easy task. Thanks to stencils, you can literally transform any room in just one day. Construction stores sell blanks of various sizes and shapes. The themes of a night street with drawings of pillars and benches, as well as funny cats that jump for butterflies, are popular today. This idea of wall decor with your own hands will be able to fulfill even a beginner. But you should not conduct experiments in the hall. Start with the nursery. By the way, if your child is of school age, then he can be involved in work.
How to make a wall design? You should buy stencils or prepare them yourself. You can print a contour picture, and then transfer it to thick paper or cardboard. Apply the stencil to the wall, and then use the brush to paint. In this way, you can decorate both the painted surface and the wall glued with wallpaper. Show your imagination. You can combine this decor with any other. For example, complement the stencil drawing with hand-painted.
Paintings
One of the easiest ways to decorate your walls with your own hands is hanging your canvases. You can decorate the room with picturesque canvases, as well as with any other paintings. If you collect works of art, but don’t want to make a gallery out of the hall, you can harmoniously hang the paintings throughout the room. And over time, you will change the exposure. Thus, you will get a periodic change of interior without additional investments. If your financial income does not give you the opportunity to buy paintings, then you can hang posters on the walls. They can be independently printed in any printing house or bought in a store.
You can decorate the walls with the help of paintings created using various techniques. For example, hang up batik, stained-glass windows framed, embroidery or panels. To focus on one wall, you should focus all the frames on it. If you want the viewer's attention to be scattered, hang the paintings in a chaotic manner on all four walls of the room.
Mirrors
Today, various textures and textures are in fashion. Therefore, interior designers advise decorating the walls with their own hands using mirrors. You can do this in various ways. For example, saw one piece of the mirror into different geometric shapes, and then place them in a pre-drawn outline. You can create a mirror deer, panda or shapeless blot. Here everything will depend on your taste and style in which you want to decorate the interior. Mirrors can not be sawed. Just buy small round objects of arts and crafts and hang them on the wall in a chaotic manner. Moreover, in this case, the mirror frames must somehow overlap with each other.
Hanging one large mirror in the middle of the room is unfashionable today. If you want, you can use it to decorate the corner of the wall. Place a mirror, put a small table under it and in addition to it a soft chair. You will get a kind of boudoir. Such a corner can be fenced off with a screen.
Painting
If you are not deprived of artistic talent, you can decorate the walls with the help of paints. You can draw absolutely any subject. Since designers advise avoiding photo wallpaper, you can depict a motive that was previously printed on them. It can be nature, cityscape or something from the plant world. Large leaves of plants are especially popular today. Pay attention to the palm branches, as well as the monstera. Wall painting should be done with special paints for interior work. Of course, acrylic is also suitable for this purpose, but over time, art paint will become dusty and it will be impossible to wipe it. You can see the photo of the wall decor with your own hands using the mural above.
If your way of thinking is non-trivial, and you like creative artwork, then you can decorate your room in this style. For example, paint the walls with intricate drawings that need to be carefully considered. Or, conversely, depict a geometric pattern that will not strain your eyes much.
Stucco molding
Do you like baroque style? Then the photo of the wall decor with your own hands, which is given above, you will definitely appreciate. To create such an interior will not be difficult for a person who was engaged in sculpture. But do not immediately create on the wall. You must first create a sketch. It just seems that making monograms from gypsum or alabaster is easy. In fact, to guess the successful location of small decorative elements at once is a difficult task. So draw a plan of the wall to scale and think. It should be borne in mind that the wall is not a complete work of art. It will not be contemplated separately from furniture and decorative elements. Therefore, it is imperative to draw approximately a plan of the entire room. And you need to understand that one wall with modeling will stand out strongly. Therefore, you will either have to decorate a part of the adjacent surface in the same style, or support the drawing in some other decorative elements.
How to make stucco molding? Dilute gypsum or alabaster according to the instructions on the package. Now you can go in two ways. Or make castings of all decorative elements, or fashion them directly on the wall. The first method is more laborious, but more practical.
Vinyl stickers
If you want to quickly decorate your room, you should create decorative flowers on the wall with your own hands. They do not even have to be cut on their own. Vinyl stickers can be purchased at a building materials store. You just have to peel off the film from the substrate and stick it to the wall. If you want to move away from the standard option, you can order unique stickers from the designer. Or make them yourself by cutting out the elements with vinyl scissors. You can also make stencils for wall decor from it. Do it yourself will simply make a drawing if you first create a contour using a vinyl sticker and paint. In general, show imagination, combine technology and create. Then you will get an interesting decor, which will become the main highlight of the interior.
Paper decor
Do you want to change the design of the living room, but don’t know how to do it? Do-it-yourself paper wall decor is a great option. Huge flowers are in fashion today. You can make them from corrugated or plain paper. If you show imagination, you can even use newspapers for this purpose. Large colors should decorate open spaces. For example, decorate an empty wall with a TV. In this case, you should create a multi-level composition. One to three flowers will look bad. But the glade of roses will look stylish. Be sure to pay attention to the color scheme. If your room is designed in soothing colors, then the flowers should match the interior. These decorative elements should support the color scheme of furniture or small decor.
Fabric upholstery
Surely you have been in at least one palace built in the 18th-19th centuries. Paper wallpapers at that time had not yet been invented, so the walls were covered with fabrics. Due to this, the interior looked rich and very expressive. This technique of wall decor can be used today. It is not necessary to tighten all the walls of the room. You can decorate one vertical surface. To attach the fabric to the wall, make a suitable subframe and pull the material over it. If this decorative technique seems too extravagant to you, then you can hang a large tapestry on the wall. This woven picture can be depicted as some kind of picture, and ornament. But it should be remembered that it is better to choose a tapestry with some kind of modern print, otherwise you will get the impression of a Soviet apartment with a carpet on the wall.
Wallpaper
The easiest and most trivial way to decorate the walls is to cover them with wallpaper. But it should be understood that even the most standard things can be designed very unusual. For example, you can decorate one wall, combining several types of wallpaper. Yes, it will be much more difficult than sticking the entire surface with an even cloth. But believe me, the game will be worth the candle. If you want to make an interior look interesting, you can play with wallpapers of various textures and textures. To facilitate the task for their customers, many manufacturers produce decorative coatings in series. And all the wallpapers in one series will blend well with each other. Thanks to this, you can glue the walls, creating a simple but catchy design.
Combine different techniques. If you have a desire, you can supplement the walls pasted with wall-paper, a mirror decor, some suitable pictures or a panel.
Applications
If the design of the living room is simple, then creating wall decor in the kitchen with your own hands is not an easy task. People simply cannot understand how beautifully and most importantly functionally it is possible to design a small room. And this is quite simple to do with the help of applications. What can they be made of? Create a wall decor with your own hands from improvised materials. Do you have paper figures in your household? Maybe you have small ceramic tiles? Perhaps your child is fond of making plastic figures? All this can serve as inspiration. The main thing in design is a good idea. So start by creating a sketch. And then use the wall as a base, and decorative elements as parts of the applique.
Tile
Look for the original idea of wall decor with your own hands below. You can create a vertical surface with tiles. Do you think that this method of decor is appropriate only for the kitchen and bathroom? Nothing like this. Today, the variety of tiles is simply surprising. She imitates not only natural materials, but also artificially created. You can design your room in the style of a knight’s castle or the royal chambers. You will not need to use fabric for this. After all, it will be problematic to remove and wash it. But washing the tiles is not difficult. She can not draw up the entire wall, but only part of the vertical space. For example, a niche or the bottom of the wall. You can use tiles to simulate brickwork and even decorate the walls under a tree.
Putty
Interesting drawings on the wall can also be created using building materials. For this purpose putty is suitable. It seems to you that this material is simply not applicable in the decor of the walls? With your own hands, putty can create a masterpiece. For example, lay out volumetric roses or even draw a landscape. Yes, it’s better not to do small details, since the texture of the putty is not suitable for this, but it’s possible to draw large planes for it. You can create floral arrangements, ornaments or any other motifs that fit the style of your interior. The result can be left in gray, but not everyone will like this option. Therefore, a putty drawing is worth at least whitening. It’s best to paint it, of course. No special artistic skills are required here. A thick brush should go through the most convex places, for example, gilding. Follow the golden rule - a complex shape does not require multicolor, but simple geometric shapes can be painted with bright colors, it will only add color to them.
Textured paint
If you do not want to create volume with putty, but a small bas-relief attracts you, you can imitate it with paint. The original DIY wall decor made in this way attracts increased attention. How is textured paint different from ordinary? The fact that using it you can create three-dimensional drawings. Yes, the image will not be very convex, but the bas-relief effect will be visually created. To work with this paint is a little more difficult than with ordinary. It is applied unevenly. But if you use a roller, you can achieve a smooth surface. It is convenient to make a pattern using construction spatulas. It can be stripes, waves or any other shapes and ornaments. If you do not want to overwork yourself, then you can purchase a roller for making patterns. On such an instrument a drawing will be applied, which will be easily printed on the walls. But you need to understand that when painting walls in this way, you always need to apply two layers of paint. In this case, the first should be in contrast to the second, so that the picture is clearly read. But everything, of course, will depend on the design idea.
Plants
If you want to make an original wall decor with your own hands from improvised materials, then pay attention to the flora surrounding you. In this case, you can use artificial plants. How do they decorate the walls? You can hang flowers. It will look original and very beautiful. If you are afraid that the flowers that will be located in the corner of the room will be dark, then you can make a stretch out of something weaving. For this purpose, you can combine live and artificial branches. In this case, there will be no problem of lack of light or the danger of a draft for the plant.
You can use decorative artificial flowers. You can place them on the branches of living plants or put in transparent vases. And if you are not limited in finances, then in vases that are attached to the wall, you can place natural plants. Instead of glass containers, you can use small bulbs, from which you must first remove the base. And you can decorate the wall with decorative moss, which also must be decorated. For this purpose, flowers are suitable. Do-it-yourself decor can be easily attached to the wall using both wire and fishing line.