The fashion for heavy carpets has long been forgotten, and for non-woven wallpaper - is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Now everyone who is not alien to the spirit of originality and individuality tends to decorate the walls in their home in a modern style. This means no paintings in massive gilded frames, no calendars and posters with horoscopes. Now the most unpredictable materials are used as decor, the main thing is that they embody the flight of the room owner's imagination and create maximum comfort for him. In addition to transforming the room, wall decoration helps to hide small and large defects on them and thereby delay repairs. If you are on fire with the idea of giving a new look to your home with the help of wall compositions, be sure to keep in mind that any decor elements look decent only on a plain background, and on bright colorful wallpapers they will look at least incorrect. So let's get started.
Old wallpapers
No need to be disappointed by the thought that we are talking about boring wallpapers again. You have no idea how uniqueDIY wall decorations can be created from them. Talented dreamers-decorators also use the old pieces left over from past repairs and buy one, maximum two rolls of new ones, choosing the ones suitable for the intended composition. All sorts of collages can be made from wallpapers with the same type of pattern. The technology is:
- cut out various shapes from the wallpaper strip (squares, rhombuses, rectangles);
- glue them to a solid, for example, cardboard base;
- put in frames of the corresponding color. They are sold in the photo department.
Place such "pictures" in any order they like.
If there is a large pattern on the wallpaper (flowers, birds, butterflies), it is simply carefully cut out and chic applications are made on the wall, painted in the appropriate color.
Cheap paper wallpaper decorations can be covered with a layer of PVA diluted with water and clear varnish on top.
If you have unpopular photo wallpapers lying around, you can also cut out details suitable for the composition you have invented, for example, individual flowers, and create the desired application from them. It will look more voluminous.
Fragmentary wall decoration
This trend in design is now especially popular. You can make fragments from wallpapers with a clear large pattern, for example, with flowers, with animals, with elements of buildings, and so on. Process Technology:
- Draw a rectangular figure on the wallpaper, capturing the picture you like;
- carefully cut it out.
- Cut into pieces (more convenient when you get 4 of them). It is desirable that these parts are the same in size and shape, but you can make them different.
- Place each resulting piece in frames of the same color. You will get several separate paintings.
- Place them on the wall like puzzles, but not close, but at a small distance from each other - so that they generally form a single image.
Paper fluttering butterflies
Paper wall decorations are easy to make, but you need to have patience and basic skills. Paper can be taken corrugated, velvet, pebbled, waterproof, designer and regular color. If you are planning to make a paper application on the wall, it makes sense to buy one-sided paper of any type. If you are going to make voluminous decorations, it is better to use double-sided. Many people like the way a swirl of paper butterflies looks on the wall. It's not hard to do, but it takes a long time. To do this, you will need: double-sided colored paper, scissors, cardboard up to 1 mm thick and adhesive tape or glue.
Technology:
- On cardboard, draw a butterfly with spread wings.
- Cut. It turns out a stencil. They can be made in several different sizes.
- Attach a stencil to a sheet of colored paper and trace along the contour.
- Cut and fold the butterfly in half.
When the sheet is straightened, the appearance of voluminous wings is created. Now it remains to glue the butterfly on the wall.
You can use the samethe principle of making flowers, only you need to fold them not in half, but along the lines separating the petals and the middle.
Paper flying birds look no less beautiful. In this case, you need to bend the cut out figure along the lines separating the wings and the body.
3D paper flowers
Decoration of the wall with flowers is used most often, especially if they are made voluminous. You can make separate compositions from them or use them in conjunction with applications, for example, place them on a “branch”, which is best done flat. Corrugated paper is most suitable for creating three-dimensional flowers. The manufacturing technology depends on the type of flower that you will be making. The easiest way is this:
- cut out several circles of different diameters from colored paper of the same color;
- make a dent in the center to make it look like a funnel;
- gently straighten the corrugation, imitating petals;
- fold the circles one into the other, starting with large and ending with small;
- fasten - you should get a paper rose; craftswomen cut out not just circles, but separate them into separate petals.
Another easy way to make a paper flower is this:
- cut out a strip of paper whose width is only slightly less than the length;
- make teeth around the edges;
- in the center, collect a strip of "accordion".
It should be a cornflower or carnation.
Paints
Decorating the walls with paints can be called the easiest way, but it fitsonly for those who have a talent for drawing. The technology is this: first they create a background, that is, they paint the wall in the desired color with a water-based emulsion. In itself, this work is easy, but the wall must be carefully prepared, because paint cannot hide defects. When the water emulsion dries, they begin to create the intended composition - drawing a picture on the wall. Acrylic paints are bought for her. Beginners in this business can try to create a collage of geometric or cubic shapes on the wall, and for masters, plots of any complexity are suitable. In addition to drawing pictures, you can use stencils that you need to attach to the wall and paint over.
Plaster
Wall decoration with this material is suitable only for those who know how to work with it. Decorating walls with plaster has many advantages:
- the ability to hide even large defects;
- durability;
- easy care (e.g. when cleaning).
Applying plaster as an element of decor is carried out using two technologies.
- While the material is not yet dry, furrows and stripes are applied to it with a comb. They can be made abstract or strictly geometric.
- Make a stencil of the desired figure. Its thickness depends on how convex the decor element you want to have. Fix the stencil on the wall, fill it with plaster and leave to dry.
With both technologies, dry plaster must be covered with paint.
Now you can buy not only the usualplaster, but also terrazitic or stone-like.
Fabrics
In Japan, there is an art form called kinusaiga. It consists in creating paintings from silk. With the help of such paintings, an amazingly beautiful interior decoration is obtained. A wall can be made original using fabric not only for kinusaigi, which is quite a difficult task. Interesting panels are obtained from fabric, which are used according to the same principle as wallpaper panels. They are made using the following technology:
- on a solid base, for example, on thick cardboard or plywood, stretch the fabric;
- wrap from wrong side;
- staple together.
In addition, you can make voluminous flowers from fabric. Fabric paintings in the form of trees of various shapes look good. The lush crown in them is made up of fabric patches cut out in the form of leaves.
Photo
Decorating the wall with photographs was popular with our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Now this kind of retro decor is back in fashion, only used with some modern innovations. For example, you can make collages from photos and objects that harmonize with them - abstract paintings, panels, all kinds of bugs, flowers, crafts created specifically for this purpose. Photos look amazing on the walls, together with applications, for example, against the background of a high-rise building, in the crown of a tree, in the form of lanterns. In the children's room, you can make an application of a train, and place a photo in each trailer.
Handy materials
Decoration ona wall with your own hands can be made from dozens of materials. Here are some simple ideas:
Panel of multicolored buttons of different sizes. They can be glued to the base or directly to the wall, choosing the right color scheme or creating a composition in the style of surrealism. To make the work look finished, you must first attach a frame to the wall that limits the size of the panel. Instead of buttons, you can use shells or flat sea pebbles painted with acrylic paint
- 3D figures from rolls left over from toilet paper rolls. The rollers need to be cut across to make thin circles that can be bent, giving them any shape. Glue the finished figures to the wall.
- Decorative decorations on the wall from the frames, which are placed made of paper butterfly, flower, clock, month with an asterisk and so on. Some people hang empty frames of various sizes and shapes on the wall.
- Volumetric figures from the remnants of drywall. More often they use geometric shapes, painted in contrasting colors with the wall. Some drywall craftsmen make designs that imitate fireplaces.
Nursery Wall Decoration
The decor of a room designed for babies should be beautiful, bright and very positive. If the size of the room allows you to arrange a play area there, you can decorate it with applications with cartoon animals. They are cut out from photo wallpapers, wall calendars or printed onprinter. Another option to create a fun animal kingdom in the nursery is to cut them out of the wallpaper into a small pattern and stick them to the wall. Paper voluminous butterflies and all kinds of flowers are appropriate in the girls' room. In the boys' room, applications of cars look good, for example, everyone's favorite "wheelbarrows". You can also build a house on the wall. Its floors are made from shelves, the roof and walls are drawn or “built” from paper strips, gluing them to the wall. In such a house on the shelves you can place toys and other useful things.
Kitchen Wall Decoration
The peculiarity of this room (if it is not at the same time a dining room) is that there are practically no walls here that are not occupied by a window, kitchen furniture or electrical equipment. Many people use an artificial bunch of garlic, peppers or other vegetables and fruits as an element of wall decoration in the kitchen. Those who wish to move away from such classics a little can be offered to decorate the kitchen with a fragmentary panel of one or two fruits or a glass of wine. The necessary pictures are printed on the printer and fragments are made from them, as indicated above.
A collage of plates (some even decorate living rooms) or painted trays looks good in the kitchen. The originals create a panel for the kitchen from coffee beans, multi-colored beans or corn kernels, gluing them onto a base on which the outlines of the future masterpiece are preliminarily drawn.
