DIY home decoration

Everyone wants their home to be cozy, to make it pleasant to return from work, gather with family and friends, or just just sit with the whole family on the couch and watch TV. Recently, do-it-yourself home-made jewelry is gaining more and more popularity. This is especially true in anticipation of family holidays such as the New Year or birthday, when you especially want comfort and good mood. How nice it is to make decorative crafts with your children, and for this it is absolutely not necessary to have any special skills or wisdom. It is not necessary that there are many. On the contrary - if you have all the shelves littered with various souvenirs, they will not look stylish, but as if you are in a mess. But a few correctly placed accents will make your interior truly spectacular and at the same time very cozy. So, how to make your own home decoration?

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Flower pots

In order to complement your interior, you can arrange several flower pots. From old, useless pots that are lying around idle, you can make exclusive home decorations. Want to know how? There are many ways, but the most popular are the following:

• Wrap the old pots with colored thread, and glue the fringe around or make ruffles.

Important! When wrapping, it is better to use PVA glue so that the threads do not slip later.

• Buy paint in a spray can, and your old pot will sparkle with new flowers.
• Glue the product with beads, sequins, appliqués, and at the end cover everything with varnish.
• You can come up with knitted clothes for your pot, for example, an old knitted scarf or sweater is perfect for him.
• You can lay out a mosaic of colored glass. True, it will take a long time. This is best done with the children, because they will surely be interested in this. The drawing needs to be picked up in advance and glued to the pot or drawn with chalk. You can glue the gun on the glue, and at the end it is necessary to varnish.

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Sofa Pillows

Pillows will look great on the sofa in the living room, and in the children's room, and in the bedroom. They will give comfort to any room. You can buy them ready, or you can do it yourself:

• The material for the pillowcase can be any fabric that matches the overall design of the room in color. You can also buy a finished product and simply decorate it with applications.
• You can make the application yourself and sew it. If you don’t have time for this, just buy a finished one and glue it with an iron.
• The shape of the pillows can be completely different - square, round or in the form of animals or letters.
• Pillows made of multi-colored rags look beautiful. From them you can even put some kind of picture.
• As a filler, it is better to use a synthetic winterizer, foam rubber, holofiber or silicone.

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DIY vases

An excellent decoration for your home with your own hands will be a vase made from a bottle. The more original the shape of the bottle, the more interesting the vase will be.

To start, clean the bottle: remove the label from it and remove any glue. And now you can decorate it as your heart desires. There are a lot of options:

• Spray it with spray paint of gold or silver color, put a bunch of flowers in it, you can even artificial ones.
• You can make a decor of paper. To do this, you need PVA glue and paper, you can even take pages from the magazine. Cut the paper into pieces of different sizes and glue it on the bottle in a random order. Finish with glue at the end, and when it dries, with a layer of varnish.
• The bottle can also be glued with thread or rope, shells or pebbles, beads or beads of different sizes.

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A coffee tree

How to make a home decoration with your own hands? An excellent decoration will be a coffee tree, which will fill your room with the aroma of fresh coffee. To do this, you need a ball of the right size, coffee grains and glue gun:

1. Color the ball in brown. When the paint dries, pierce the hole for the barrel in it.
2. Now you need to glue it with coffee beans. This is best done with a glue gun.
3. For the trunk, you can use a stick, branch or thick wire, which you need to wrap with rope, ribbons or threads.
4. We insert the barrel into the hole in the ball, then we also glue it with grains.

Important! You can plant a tree in a pot or in an old cup, which you can decorate in any way you like. In order to fix a tree in a pot, it must first be packaged in polystyrene foam, put in a pot and pour with gypsum.

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Coffee table decoupage

A coffee table can also become a home decoration if it is decorated using decoupage technique. It is only necessary to select a drawing suitable for the interior, and print it on paper, and then - a matter of technology:

1. To get started, prepare the surface for decoupage: treat it with sandpaper and prime it.
2. Cover with a lighter shade of acrylic paint than the drawing itself.
3. If you are sticking a napkin, then simply coat it with PVA glue and stick it in the right place. If you have a drawing on thicker paper, then it needs to be thinned. To do this, you need to wet it in water and roll up the top layer, leaving only a thin layer with a pattern. A thinned pattern can also be glued to the surface with PVA glue.
4. After drying, you need to cover the entire composition with several layers of varnish, drying each layer well.

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DIY candlestick

You can make a candlestick with your own hands as a decoration for your home. To do this, you will need unnecessary small figurines, if any:

1. Figurines should be washed in warm water and thoroughly dried.
2. Napkin rings painted in bronze, gold or silver.
3. Glue all the parts together using a glue gun.

Important! If any details are poorly docked with each other, you can process them with sandpaper.

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How to decorate a house on a birthday?

Birthday happens once a year, so everyone wants to celebrate this day in a special way. Nothing uplifts like a beautifully decorated house:

• The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about a birthday is beautiful balloons. Especially if you make a beautiful composition out of them. And if you pump them with helium, then there will be no limit to joy.

Important! You can even tie satin ribbons to helium balls, and attach memorable photos to them.

• Beautiful garlands, lanterns, pompons and other jewelry that will surely appeal to both adults and children will be made of paper of different colors. You can arrange a contest among the children for the best garland.
• It became popular to publish a kind of wall newspaper with a photo of the birthday man and his wishes from all family members.

Important! A very interesting option for decorating your home with your own hands on such a significant day is a panel with notes:

1. Find a beautiful fabric or paper.
2. Stick on it stickers of some original shape, for example, in the form of hearts or leaves.
3. All guests are invited to write their wishes on these stickers.

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New Year decorations

How and what to make home decorations with your own hands for the New Year?

Christmas wreath

This is the easiest, traditional and effective way to decorate your home. It can be made from forest cones:

1. Cut a wide circle out of cardboard and glue the cones onto it using a glue gun or “liquid nails”.
2. Add any jewelry to your taste. It can be beads, bows, flowers, ribbons, nuts or even sweets in beautiful wrappers.
3. The finished composition can be painted in gold or silver with spray paint or simply sprinkled with sparkles.

Such home-made decorations for the home add a good mood, as well as a festive table setting. Such trifles create a festive atmosphere in the house, help to more fully feel the coming of the New Year.

Candy tree

Christmas trees are different: some have artificial ones, others have real ones, but you can add a Christmas tree made of sweets, which can also be a great New Year present. It can be done in different ways:

• If you have square candies, simply lay them out with a pyramid, decorate with cinnamon sticks and a bow on the crown.
• From round candies you get a beautiful cone-shaped tree - it can be assembled with skewers or toothpicks. You can stick candy on a foam blank.
• If you make a base from biscuit mass, you get a completely edible tree. And sweets can be attached with toothpicks. You can decorate such a tree with anything, any sweets are suitable for this.

Important! Keep such a Christmas tree away from heating appliances.

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In this article, we have offered you many interesting ideas so that you can make home decorations with your own hands for all occasions. Now you have plenty to choose from to create the right atmosphere in your home.