Ideas for home: creating coziness with your own hands

For every person, the house is a special place where you can relax your body and soul, relax after a hard day at work, spend time with family and friends. This is a serene island filled with calmness and warmth, coziness and care, which fills the hearts of the owners with boundless peace, instilling in their souls the peace inherent in happy people. Our house does not always look as comfortable as we sometimes would like. This problem is completely solvable: you can turn your home into a corner where comfort and warmth live, peace and serenity dwell. You can independently turn your home into a desired place for your heart: we understand the intricacies of creating coziness with our own hands.

You can find all the necessary materials for crafts at home or do it yourself with your own hands. Such crafts will not give way to even the most stylish designer jewelry. However, do not forget about the specifics of choosing a decor for each room. What is appropriate for one room will be absurd and absurd for another.

Such a panel will create the impression of a special comfort and warmth. Beautiful butterflies made of paper, intended for a chandelier, will not be appropriate in the kitchen, as they will get in the way every now and then.

Paper butterflies are a great addition to a living room or bedroom. It is in these rooms that they will create the feeling of weightlessness, lightness, which is required for such rooms.

You can put a do-it-yourself rug in the bathroom. Choose a color that will blend in harmoniously with the color scheme of your bathroom. Do not forget that not every craft is suitable for a particular room. Before you start tinkering with the decor, coordinate its color with the color of your room, the appropriateness in the given room, the similarity with the style.

Now more and more people are interested in hand-made (handmade crafts). Such crafts are highly valued, since they are alien to the factory stamping and the lack of exclusiveness. Hand-made is always a unique style, one piece. You can make hand-made for your home, you just have to let your imagination run wild and think about what you want to do. You can make anything that your imagination allows. Such a thing will have a unique design, special value and originality. You can make something for the interior and for the facade of your house.

Think what it might be. That will give your home extra comfort. Perhaps an unusual painting, a panel, a plaster figure, a lamp resembling a starry sky, and much more. You can transform your interior with any, even a small element that will harmoniously fit into the style of the room. You can do all this with your own hands.

You can build something with your own hands for any interior (be it a decor for your favorite summer cottage or a cute craft for an apartment). As a rule, something is made for a country house that will match its style. The design of such a house is most often laid-back, rather simple, not pretending to be a discerning luxury. Therefore, make crafts that will complement the house, reflecting its essence. This can be a picture made with flowers, a knitted panel or a wicker basket.

For a private house or apartment, there is a huge variety of interior decoration ideas. It can even be crafts made from leaves (autumn leaves, slightly dried, then covered with varnish and glued to cardboard, which will add charm to your home). For some crafts, you will need men's hands to help you to do the work that is beyond your strength.

It is possible to realize your creative ideas even from the most ordinary means that can be found at home. Brilliant crafts do not require huge costs from you. You just need to connect your imagination and start tinkering with decor for your interior. To do this, you can use various unnecessary fabrics, for example, from old clothes, cardboard, paper, simple toothpicks, CDs and other little things that can be found in any home.

Decorative panels can be made from fabric or yarn. Plain furniture can be decorated with paper-cut butterflies to give your room a scent of beauty and spontaneity. You can paint the walls with sakura, and carefully cut out the pink petals from paper and stick them on the wall.

You will learn how to make panels from fabric, a painting using the quilling technique, crafts using the patchwork technique, you will learn how to use old CDs, paint the wall paneling at home, and get acquainted with other useful information on making your home cozy. Take note of a couple of helpful tips below.

Crafts that bear an interesting name - panels - look incredibly cozy and cute. They can be made from fabric, wood, beads and other materials.

We will consider the simplest option, how to make a panel from fabric:

• You will need flaps of different colors and lengths. They must be glued onto cardboard or any other dense material (you can use a wooden board, if you have one). Immediately decide on the picture you want to embody: this way it will be easier for you to choose the right material.
• After choosing the desired image, start cutting it out of fabric and sticking it onto cardboard. It is advisable to use PVA glue, since it is suitable for gluing patches, it will firmly hold them on the cardboard.
• The cardboard can also be pre-glued with some kind of fabric, preferably one-color. It will serve as the background for the main image.
• If you don't want to use glue for your panel, you can sew on the flaps with thread. These seams look very interesting.

If you think that such a task is beyond your strength, do not worry. Any images, even the most simple and uncomplicated ones, are suitable for the panel. Cut various geometric shapes or simple objects from the fabric (for example, a kettle, mugs, pots, jugs, flowers, etc.). Even a child can do it.

Crafts in the patchwork style look no less interesting in the interior. This patchwork technique resembles a fabric panel.These are neatly cut scraps, assembled into a composition of a specific theme, which can decorate any object in your room. For example, pillowcases or blankets are often decorated with patchwork, collecting them from many patches of different sizes and colors. More often, rectangular and triangular geometric shapes, as well as squares, become fragments for compositions. Patchwork pillows look very interesting, they will definitely add bright colors to your living room.

Undoubtedly, knitted yarn crafts will be a beautiful element and addition to your interior. If you love and know how to knit, original patterns of toys, coasters and napkins will help you make your plans a reality. You can knit an interesting flower pot holder or hot pot holder. We present to your attention the instructions for creating a knitted rug from those things that you no longer use.

Take an old item and start cutting it in a spiral. You should have a long strip no more than 4-5 cm wide. Arm yourself with a crochet hook and start making a chain of chain stitches. Use stripes of different colors if you have a lot of old items. We decorate the corridor or any other room in the house with the resulting rug. Such a decor item looks original, it will not be difficult to make it. Moreover, it does not take long to master, so it will not take much time to create, but you will definitely be guaranteed comfort.

Creative things that look stylish and original can be done not only by a professional designer. You yourself can make unusual and useful gizmos for household trifles.

For example, an empty plastic lemonade bottle is suitable for storing all sorts of little things:

• Use a utility knife to cut the bottle in half. You need a bottom piece without a neck. Arm yourself with beautiful paper napkins and glue. We make a container using decoupage technique.
• You will need to use glue to glue a part of the bottle with a napkin. To do this, as you yourself already understood, is as easy as shelling pears.

If you have old desk drawers, you can transform them into an exclusive designer item by pasting the inside walls of the drawer with colorful paper napkins or shiny gift paper. You can store any small things in such a box. By the way, the outer walls of the box can also be repainted in a different color or specially aged by peeling off the old paint.

If you still have paint cans after the repair, you can also use them as storage for small items. You just have to figure out how you will decorate the jar and give it a proper look. You can work using decoupage technique, wrap with gift wrapping or even decorate with rhinestones, sequins. Such a jar can be hung or put on a shelf, stationery and other little things can be stored in it.

If you are the mistress or owner of a wooden house, you are not alien to the problem of darkening wood and the loss of its former attractiveness. To prevent damage to the wooden surfaces of the house, you can paint the lining inside. The paint will preserve the wood texture well and make the wood more resistant and durable. The lining should be painted in several stages:

At this stage, you will need a pumice stone, a clean rag, a paint brush, and a primer. Clean the lining from dirt using the resulting solution of warm water and soda, old paint can be removed with foil. Wipe the surface with it without applying too much pressure so as not to ruin the wood surface.

Using a pumice stone or sandpaper (preferably fine-grained), carefully sand the lining.

Thoroughly wipe the lining from the collected dust and apply the primer in several layers, drying each of them.

This stage is the final one, in which you will need two brushes: a medium width and a narrow brush. Apply the paint in several thin layers, but not more than three. It is recommended to start painting from above so that the smudges do not run down the already painted places. Wait for the first coat to dry before applying the second coat of paint. The last coat of paint should be the thinnest. Choose only good paints that have proven themselves in the market of this segment on a positive side and receive the highest ratings from buyers. To do this, before buying, you should ask for reviews.

Paper is one of the most affordable craft materials. From it you can make origami, napkins, a hot stand and other crafts that will look original and interesting, you just have to show your imagination. One of the finest crafts that can be made from paper is a quilling painting. For this, thin strips of paper are cut.

Each strip is folded, giving it any shape (usually oval). Using the pressure of your fingers on the rolled ball of paper, form a multi-layered oval shape. Just do not press too hard on the paper, otherwise you risk turning it into a flat ball. In this technique, you can make a picture and hang it on the wall. And you can immediately glue such paper balls on the wall if it is monochromatic and dim.

Take cardboard and prepare paper. You can use colored cardboard. Cut thin strips of paper material and start gluing onto the cardboard with PVA glue. Draw a fantasy flower or butterfly. The image can be absolutely anything. Such a picture can be hung in the bedroom, living room. It will look gorgeous in any room.

You can even make a hot stand out of paper. To do this, cut into thick strips of paper, start rolling the resulting strips, forming a ball. Cut into larger or smaller balls, depending on how large you want to make the stand. Then connect them to each other, gluing on the sides. The hot plate is ready.

We suggest you decorate your chandelier with paper butterflies. To do this, draw a butterfly on paper and cut it out along the outline. Punch a small hole with a needle and thread it through. After making a knot at the end, hang the resulting butterfly on the chandelier.

Draw on a plain wall the trunk of a tree and branches extending from it in different directions with dark paint. Using colored paper, cut out green tree petals or pink sakura petals, sticking them on the branches of the painted trunk. This is an amazing option for brightening up plain walls.

There are probably old discs in your house that you no longer use. Such material can serve as an element for the original decor. You can gently break the disc into small pieces (mosaic elements) and glue them over an old plate. Such decor will serve you as a beautiful addition to your interior. It can also be hung on a wall or simply placed on a coffee table. You can change the color of the disc by painting it with a colored marker.

And here is another way how to use old disks, making a craft out of them: break the disks into large pieces, decorate them in any color, glue them on the wall in the form of some kind of image. If you don't want to stain the wall with glue, first stick the parts of the disc onto the cardboard, and then hang the cardboard with the finished image on the wall.

The disc, iridescent in its unusual color, resembles the scales of a fish. We suggest making you an interesting decor for the bathroom: take a disk and draw a semblance of scales with a black marker. Glue the fins, eyes, tail out of paper. The craft is ready. In specialized stores for creativity, doll eyes of any size are sold. Use them for your fish image.

As you can see, it is not difficult to decorate your interior, making your home cozy. One has only to find unnecessary things that are in every person's house, arm with the necessary tools (scissors, glue, brushes, paints) - and the craft is ready.

Before choosing one or another element to decorate your home, it is important to decide on a set of tools for creating a decor:

• Look for a liquid adhesive that adheres firmly to parts and is suitable for paper, cardboard, textiles, wood and leather. It quickly and permanently glues parts of various textures.
• Use brushes for painting the lining of medium hardness.
• Use markers designed specifically for writing on CDs to color in. If you choose to use a regular marker, it will simply rinse off the disc.

Making beautiful decor for your home is easy. We present to your attention a selection of options for decorating your own home.

• Chandelier decorated with paper-cut butterflies. This decor will impress not only you, but also your guests.
• Paper butterflies on the wall. They dilute the boringness of the wallpaper and inspire thoughts of beauty. They can be made in any color or tone of textiles, furniture, curtains.

• You can add bright colors to the monochromatic walls of the room by painting them with any image.
• Sakura on the wall can be drawn, cut out petals from pink colored cardboard. It looks very impressive.
• A panel made of fabric is a great addition to plain walls.

• An ordinary mirror can be framed with small parts of the discs, resembling a mosaic.
• Original curtain from old discs. To do this, you will need to punch holes in the hook discs that will connect the discs to each other and attach to the curtain rod.
• Chest of drawers made using decoupage technique. More often, this technique is used in the interior of the Provence style.

In the video below, you will find even more interesting ideas for your home.