Thinking about repairs and planning to make wall decor with your own hands? Then this article is especially for you. Here are collected various ideas of all degrees of complexity. If you have been designing 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 wall decor with your own hands using purchased blanks is an easy task. Thanks to stencils, you can literally transform any room in one day. Hardware stores sell blanks of various sizes and shapes. Popular today are the themes of the night street with drawings of poles and benches, as well as funny cats that jump after butterflies. Even a beginner can do this DIY wall decor idea. But you should not conduct experiments in the hall. You should start with a child. By the way, if your child is of school age, then he can be attracted to work.
How to design walls? You should buy stencils or prepare themon one's own. You can print a contour picture, and then transfer it to thick paper or cardboard. Attach the stencil to the wall, and then apply paint with a brush. In this way, you can decorate both a painted surface and a wall covered with wallpaper. Get creative. You can combine this decor method with any other. For example, to complement the stencil drawing with hand-painted.
Paintings
One of the easiest ways to decorate your walls with your own hands is to hang canvases. You can decorate the room with both paintings and any other paintings. If you collect works of art, but do not want to make a gallery out of the hall, you can harmoniously hang paintings throughout the room. And over time, you will change the exposure. Thus, you will get a periodic change of interior without additional investment. If your financial income does not give you the opportunity to buy paintings, you can hang posters on the walls. You can print them yourself at any printing house or buy them in a store.
You can decorate the walls with the help of paintings created using various techniques. For example, hang batik, stained-glass windows, decorated in frames, 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 pictures in a chaotic manner on all four walls of the room.
Mirrors
Today atfashion different textures and textures. Therefore, interior designers are advised to decorate the walls with their own hands using mirrors. This can be done in various ways. For example, sawing one piece of a mirror into different geometric shapes, and then placing them in a pre-drawn outline. You can create a mirror deer, a panda, or a shapeless blob. Everything here will depend on your taste and style in which you want to decorate the interior. Mirrors may or may not be sawn. Just buy small round pieces of arts and crafts and hang them on the wall in a chaotic manner. Moreover, in this case, the frames of the mirrors must somehow overlap with each other.
One big mirror to hang in the middle of the room today is unfashionable. 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, an easy 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 paints. You can draw absolutely any subject. Since designers advise avoiding photo wallpapers, you can depict the motif that was previously printed on them. It can be nature, a city landscape or something from the plant world. Large leaves of plants are especially popular today. Pay attention to the palm branches, as well as to the monstera. Wall painting should be done with special paints for interior work. Of course, andAcrylic is fine for this purpose, but over time the art paint will become dusty and impossible to wipe off. You can see a photo of wall decor with your own hands using painting 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 will need to be carefully considered. Or, conversely, depict a geometric pattern that will not strain your eyes too much.
Stucco moldings
Do you like baroque style? Then the photo of the wall decor with your own hands, which is given above, you will definitely appreciate. It will not be difficult for a person who was engaged in sculpture to create such an interior. But do not immediately create on the wall. First you need to create a sketch. It just seems that it is easy to make monograms from gypsum or alabaster. In fact, guessing the successful arrangement of small decorative elements right away is a difficult task. So draw a wall plan to scale and think. Here it must 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 that you approximately draw yourself a plan of the entire room. And you need to understand that one wall with molding will stand out strongly. Therefore, you will either have to decorate part of the adjacent surface in the same style, or support the pattern in some other decorative elements.
How to make stucco? Dilute plaster oralabaster according to package directions. Now you can go two ways. Or make castings of all decorative elements, or sculpt them immediately on the wall. The first method is more time consuming, but also more practical.
Vinyl stickers
If you want to quickly decorate your room, then you should create decorative flowers on the wall with your own hands. You don't even have to cut them yourself. You can buy vinyl decals at a hardware store. All you have to do is peel off the film from the backing and stick it to the wall. If you want to deviate from the standard version, you can order unique stickers from the designer. Or make them yourself by cutting out the elements with scissors from vinyl film. You can also make stencils for wall decor from it. It will be easy to make a drawing with your own hands if you first create an outline using a vinyl sticker and paint. In general, show imagination, combine techniques and create. Then you will get an interesting decor that will become the main highlight of the interior.
Paper decor
Do you want to redesign your living room but don't know how? DIY paper wall decor is a great option. Huge flowers are in fashion these days. You can make them from both corrugated and plain paper. If you show imagination, you can even use newspapers for this purpose. Large flowers should decorate open spaces. For example, decorate an empty wall with a TV. At the same time, here it followscreate a multi-level composition. One or three flowers will look bad. But a 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 the furniture or small decor.
Drapery fabric
Surely you have been to at least one palace built in the 18th-19th centuries. Paper wallpapers had not yet been invented at that time, 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, you should make a suitable stretcher 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. On this woven picture, both some kind of picture and an ornament can be depicted. 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 walls is to wallpaper them. But it should be understood that even the most standard things can be arranged in a very unusual way. For example, you can decorate one wall by combining several types of wallpaper. Yes, it will be much more difficult than sealing the entire surface with an even canvas. But believe me, the game will be worth the candle. If there is a desire somehowit is interesting to decorate the interior, you can play with wallpaper of various textures and textures. To make it easier for their customers, many manufacturers produce decorative coatings in series. And all wallpapers in one series will match well with each other. This allows you to wrap your walls for a simple yet eye-catching design.
Combine different techniques. If you have a desire, you can complement the walls pasted over with wallpaper, mirror decor, some suitable paintings or panels.
Appliques
If the design of the living room is easy to make, 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, to decorate a small room. And this is quite easy to do with the help of applications. What can they be made from? Create 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 figurines? All of these can serve as inspiration. The main thing in design is a good idea. Therefore, start by creating a sketch. And then use the wall as a base, and decorative elements as parts of the appliqué.
Tile
Look for an original DIY wall decor idea below. You can decorate a vertical surface with tiles. It seems to you that this method of decor is appropriate only for the kitchen and bathroom? Nothingsimilar. Today, the variety of tiles is simply amazing. It imitates not only natural materials, but also artificially created ones. You can decorate your hall in the style of a knight's castle or royal chambers. You won't need to use fabric for this. After all, it will be problematic to remove and wash. But washing the tiles is not difficult. She can decorate not the entire wall, but only part of the vertical space. For example, a niche or the bottom of a wall. You can use tiles to imitate brickwork and even decorate the walls in wood.
Putty
Interesting drawings on the wall can also be created using building materials. Putty is suitable for this purpose. Do you think that this material is simply inapplicable in wall decor? With putty, you can create a masterpiece with your own hands. For example, lay out voluminous roses or even draw a landscape. Yes, it is better not to do small details, since the texture of the putty is not suitable for this, but it is possible to draw large planes for it. You can create floral arrangements, ornaments or any other motif that suits the style of your interior. The result can be left in gray, but not everyone will like this option. Therefore, the putty drawing should at least be whitewashed. It's best to write it down, of course. Special artistic skills are not required here. A thick brush should go over 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 to themcoloring.
Textured paint
If you do not want to create volume with putty, but a small bas-relief tempts you, you can imitate it with paint. The original do-it-yourself wall decor, made in this way, attracts increased attention. How is textured paint different from regular paint? The fact that with it you can create three-dimensional drawings. Yes, the image will not be very prominent, but the bas-relief effect will be visually created. Working with this paint is a little more difficult than with regular paint. It is applied unevenly. But if you use a roller, you can achieve a smooth surface. It is convenient to make a pattern on it with the help of construction spatulas. It can be stripes, waves or any other shapes and ornaments. If you do not want to overwork yourself, you can purchase a roller for making patterns. On such a tool, a pattern will be applied that 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 contrasting with the second, so that the picture is clearly readable. 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 around you. You can also use artificial plants. How to decorate walls with them? 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 somethingweaving. For this purpose, you can combine live and artificial branches. In this case, there will be no problem of lack of light or 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 them in transparent vases. And if you are not limited in finances, then natural plants can be placed in vases that are attached to the wall. Instead of glass containers, small light bulbs can be used, from which the base must first be removed. And you can also decorate the wall with decorative moss, which should also be decorated. Flowers are suitable for this purpose. DIY decor can be easily attached to the wall using both wire and fishing line.
