Creating your own wall decor spruces up bare and boring walls and improves the appearance of your home environment. Whether you're an artistic type or someone who can only color inside the lines, making your own wall decor can be a creative challenge that allows you to take charge of the look of your home surroundings. From abstract water paintings to creatively painted tiles, DIY wall decor brings a homespun look to your home.
Printable Kid's Room Decor
Printable room decor can be found in coloring books or made from photos turned into line drawings, book plate engravings, or tracings of favorite comic and picture books. Using a projector, an easel pad and a pencil, nearly any image can be turned into a printable.
Printables can be applied to chalkboard or whiteboard walls. Using a jig saw, band saw or scroll saw, they can be traced onto wood, plastic, ceramic or metal and cut, burned, painted or stained. The resulting two- or three-dimensional piece can be made into head and foot boards for beds and cribs; applied to children's arts-and-crafts tables; or made into whimsical tables, chairs, shelves or riding toys. Printables make it very easy to create a themed child's bedroom, family room or play area. Does this Spark an idea?
Decorate a Wall for a Christmas Dinner
Turn your home into a tasteful Christmas village through strategically-placed decorations. Friends and family coming to dinner will want to see your Christmas tree, wrapped present displays, photos from Christmases past, cards and other embellishments you have used to create a festive holiday atmosphere. Try dedicating at least one wall entirely to Christmas decor, preferably in high-traffic party areas such as the living room or dining room. Dust wall areas where photos and pictures have been removed before putting up decorations. Does this Spark an idea?
Add Glitter to Wall Paint
Paint colors allow you to personalize your home, but you can take it one step further by adding glitter to your wall paint. Glitter gives your room a sparkly effect that is eye-catching when the sunlight hits the walls. Although you can add glitter directly to the paint, painting experts recommend other methods, such as applying a clear coat with glitter, to achieve a better effect. The alternative methods ensure that the glitter can be seen, instead of drowning in the paint color. Does this Spark an idea?
Hang Decorative Oars on a Wall
You can hang oars on a wall in two basic ways: visible and invisible. Visible brackets hold an oar like a curtain rod. Cut-down oarlocks make terrific brackets for decorative oars and keep the nautical theme consistent. A single oar hung in a hallway and studded with coat hooks looks best in brackets that are tarnished, verdigris or repurposed from oarlocks. When the coat hooks on the oar are sail cleats, the local pirates will happily hang their foul weather gear up rather than dropping it on the floor. However, when you want something more subtle and elegant, hide the hooks so the oars seem to be floating without support. Does this Spark an idea?