Many people like to refresh the interior of their home with bright, unexpected, cozy accessories made by themselves. Decor and interior items, whether it is an unusual lamp, non-standard pillows or stained-glass elements on furniture glasses, will always attract a guest's attention.
Does "decoration" always decorate?
Quite often, the stimulus that “pushes” the production of this or that thing for the home is a beautiful picture in a magazine or an admiring story of a friend, they say, she saw such a thing, ah! What can serve as an engine for action after such praise to someone? For example, the desire to prove to oneself and one's surroundings that "it's not the gods who burn the pots - and I can do it."
Unfortunately, sometimes such an impulse does not turn into an improvement in the appearance of the room, when interior items for the home become a work of art, harmoniously fitting into the common space, but a kind of "thorn" on the table or on the wall.
How to avoid "designer" incidents?
There are some simplerules, adhering to which, interior items, created with their own hands, will become a true "highlight" of the room, giving others pleasant emotions. What is this advice?
- You shouldn't flaunt all your work, no matter how good it is. The exception applies only to children's crafts. An interesting solution would be a kind of display shelf in a certain place in the living room, where you can easily replace an annoying sample of creativity with a more perfect one.
- Too many unnecessary details, scattered in meaning, can spoil any cute room. Is it nice to be in a room that looks like a warehouse?
- Designers are not advised to use a large number of compositions with artificial flowers. This is considered an indicator not of comfort, but, on the contrary, of the vulgarity of the situation. In addition, such things serve as a household "dust collector".
- They say that "there are never too many pillows." However, it is worth considering the color matching of the soft sofa inhabitants with the overall color and style of the room. In addition, it is customary to sit on the sofa, and not store blankets and pillows.
Succumbing to the impulse to make a basket or a vase, a lamp or a stained-glass window, you should first decide on the place in the home space that these interior items will occupy. Making a masterpiece with your own hands is not easy. But simple, cute little things will always cheer you up even in the process of making.
Where to get a good idea, or "Eureka!"
How to refresh the atmosphere of the apartment, what detail to add to live with pleasure? Below are a few simple modificationsspace. If you apply these ideas, even the usual decor and interior items will look like something new.
- Looking around you, you will notice that some of the bottles on the table with cosmetic accessories can be placed in a homemade or glass fruit bowl. This technique allows you to create a three-dimensional perception of space.
- Do you like decorating flower pots? If you place the plants growing in them on uneven asymmetrical stands or stools, you can get an excellent garden right in the room.
- It is very popular to use outdated interior items for creative purposes. With your own hands, you can change the look of a table lamp by redesigning the lampshade. Trim with colored ribbons, crochet, cover the frame from the old lamp with silk fabric - and, behold, the eyes rejoice, the soul sings, friends are surprised.
Homemade stained glass
Introducing one of the original ways to transform your space: drawings on glass, stained glass. It may seem that glass work is only available to people with artistic abilities. However, experience shows that this statement is far from the truth. There are several available ways to change transparent glass to painted glass.
The first of them is the well-known self-adhesive film. Fragments cut out according to a template can easily be pasted over chandeliers, cabinet doors, and window elements. Colored self-adhesive should be chosen with taste and match the overall style.rooms.
The second way to decorate home furnishings with stained glass with your own hands is to use special paints on glass, which can be found among stationery for children. On a stencil on the polyethylene film attached to a set drawing is applied. After a short solidification, the liquid colored surface forms a continuous transparent layer on the base film. The drawing is removed and the resulting fragment is applied to the place intended for it on the glass or on the lampshade.
How to make a knitted pattern?
Those who are fond of knitting napkins may like the following option: a knitted wall panel. The method is quite simple. You need to take a beautiful crocheted or knitted napkin and place it between two glasses of the same size. The resulting package is inserted into a baguette frame. The resulting picture will perfectly illustrate the passion of the hostess from an unexpected side. And guests, friends and relatives will exclaim in surprise: “How beautiful! Interior items with your own hands! Can you show pictures of your work? Do this for me too, please!”
