Ideas for the kitchen: decor and kitchen tricks with your own hands?

Any housewife dreams of a comfortable, beautiful and unusual kitchen. Most want to know some of the secrets and subtleties of independent room design: decorating kitchen furniture, dishes, wall decoration, making textiles and DIY crafts.

There are many ways to decorate kitchen furniture with your own hands. You can sew covers or bedding on the chairs yourself. It is not difficult to give standard furniture a unique facade.

Original ideas will help to realize:

• all kinds of overlays made of plastic, polyurethane, foam;

• painting;

• decoupage;

• film application;

• use of original fittings.

After drying, you need to varnish them, glue suitable pictures. A layer of varnish should be applied on top again. On sale there are ready-made curly borders and onlays that imitate wood carving. During the restoration, you can use them.

Then it is advisable to attach new handles. If a decision is made to leave the old handles, then before painting the furniture, they should be carefully pasted over with masking tape to protect them from paint ingress. You can make original handles yourself from cutlery or from miniature metal cups.

Often, a ready-made print is applied to the furniture. The shops have a large selection of blending napkins. It is customary to place various patterns and contrasting stripes on the doors of the kitchen set. To give the furniture an "aged" look, use craquelure varnishes with a cracking effect. You can choose the appropriate ornament to reproduce ethnic themes.

The countertop is usually updated by sticking a film on it. When distributing the film over the table surface, you need to glue the ends well. This is where delamination can begin.

Correctly selected textiles bring coziness to the room. Using a needle, thread and fabric, you can create a unique style.

You can do the following products with your own hands:

• tablecloth decorated with lace, ribbons, embroidery;

• practical napkins;

• chair covers and soft foam cushions covered with the same material;

• potholders;

• aprons;

• handbags and pockets for storing all sorts of little things;

• curtains for windows, sewn on a sewing machine;

• patchwork panel.

It is advisable to sew all products from the same fabric. You can come up with the design of textiles yourself, as well as use various ideas for the kitchen found on the Internet. If you decorate an ordinary piece of cloth with coffee beans, you get a wonderful napkin.

A bright and unusual interior is obtained if the patchwork technique is used to create kitchen products. All textiles can be made from scraps of beautiful fabric. And in the same style, choose ceramic tiles for the "apron" over work surfaces and floor tiles. This technique should be considered carefully. She does not tolerate overabundance, in which strong variegation can irritate the eyes.Best of all, patchwork textiles look against the background of monochrome interiors.

Compact curtains are best suited for kitchens. The most varied decor is allowed. Curtains with photo printing are in fashion. Any curtain model is suitable for its application. The romantic and rustic style looks modern. A curtain-skirt that can also replace cabinet doors is in trend.

Napkins and mats for chairs can be crocheted, cutwork and macrame can be used, you can use fabric and cross-stitch on it.

Any housewife can come up with unique crafts. With the help of a template, draw the halves of the pig's body on multi-colored shreds, sew together, fill with filler. Then build two ears by placing triangular cardboard boxes in the fabric. Instead of a patch, you can sew on a button with two through holes. A spring or a wire sheathed with fabric will serve as a tail.

It's easy to customize saucers and cups to your liking. You can decorate any dish yourself. In shops for artists, you need to buy pens and felt-tip pens for ceramics. Acrylic paint is suitable, which, after drying, is covered with a glossy or matte sealant. There are special sets for painting dishes at home. This set always comes with instructions for use.

Very convenient stencils for painting dishes are on sale. The stencil can be made independently from very dense cellophane or cardboard. Before starting painting, you must degrease the dishes. It is enough to wipe it with alcohol.

It is easy to make a simple drawing with a brush: apply peas, stripes, stars, various strokes on the surface of the dish. You can make inscriptions on plates and cups. Errors are easily corrected with a napkin dipped in water. Some people sponge the dishes. It turns out original.

You can paint old plates by creating a collection of dishes of different sizes. Subsequently, it is recommended to decorate the walls with them. First you need to apply acrylic white or colored paint to the saucer. Then it must be primed with PVA glue and varnished. A drawing should be placed on the dried surface.

Empty walls can be filled with painting, stylized stickers, plaster figures. Sometimes beautiful vases, original dishes, and a collection of porcelain are displayed on open shelves.

Collages, photographs, portraits, framed with clay or salt dough, serve as a wonderful wall decoration.

A wall clock gives a great look to the kitchen. Some housewives decorate kitchen walls with pots with indoor plants or arrange pots with plants on open shelves and racks. Saintpaulia, chlorophytum, nolina, aspidistra and other plants with their foliage and flowers are able to purify the air, therefore they are recommended to be grown at home.

Plaster moldings, bas-reliefs, decorative panels - the most unexpected solutions can arise if you want to use some kitchen tricks to hide uneven walls. Some hosts hang fancy masks that can be imported from Africa, Mongolia, China or any other country.

Pictures look great on the walls of the kitchen. Images of fruits, berries, vegetables, drinks and other food are perfectly combined with the kitchen theme. Photo wallpaper and three-dimensional wallpaper bring uniqueness and originality to the interior solution. Some people make panels with their own hands from acorns, cones, autumn leaves, feathers. Dense twigs are fitted under the towel racks, which are coated with copper and varnish.

It is good to hang mirrors in the kitchen. They visually increase the space of the room. Mirrors with convex edges will allow you to feel the reflections of sunbeams and will bring an unprecedented novelty.

A set of knives, cutting boards, cutlery, potholders, kitchen towels can become the subject of wall decoration. Beautiful cutting boards are hung along the wall, especially since every housewife must have at least four of them. Potholders in the form of fruits, butterflies, animals often take their rightful place on the kitchen wall.

Edible decor of dried vegetables, mushrooms, spices, dried fruits combined into a wreath or garland gives a special flavor to the kitchen. Often, the owners purchase artificial decorations that imitate garlic, onions, peppers, berries, fruits and flowers.

Transparent jars with spices, cereals, canned fruits and vegetables are placed on neatly placed wall shelves. You can buy ready-made containers with spices, but it is better to assemble a suitable collection of jars yourself and fill them with a free-flowing mixture.

Sometimes peas, corn, beans, lentils, hot peppers, medium-sized apples, cherries and other fruits and berries are placed in transparent containers for beauty. An appetizing decoration is created using a glass jar, thoroughly washed and roasted in the oven (about 7-10 minutes). For decoration, whole beautiful fruits are selected, which are carefully folded into containers, filled with formalin or ethyl alcohol. You can pour in a strong saline solution. It is advisable to fill the lid with wax.

In recent years, vinyl decals have been very popular. They can be selected for every taste. Stickers are durable, easy to clean and affordable. A great way to decorate the wall with your own hands is to apply a drawing using a stencil, which is purchased in the store or made yourself.

To create a stencil, you need to take thick cardboard or thin plastic. It can be used to apply any ornament or pattern. Stenciled or cut from styrofoam butterflies look great on the kitchen wall.

The apron area is often decorated with decorative ceramic tiles, which should be glued to a perfectly flat surface. The trend is the glass "apron" of the working area.

Very often, the refrigerator and the hood are decorated with their own hands, sometimes they are covered with a special ready-made film. The topic is chosen according to your taste. A floristic, marine, fabulous motif can be an excellent solution for decorating household appliances. You can attach various magnets to the refrigerator.

Often, an ordinary refrigerator is turned into an original object. You can independently apply any image to it. It is not difficult to draw a giraffe, a zebra, a cat. People with no artistic talent often use vinyl decals to transform an old refrigerator.

Various jars, vases and bottles wrapped with thick threads and strings are often an integral part of kitchen decoration. Old CDs frame windows, furniture, paintings and walls. They create a mosaic of broken crockery and decorate tables, an “apron” over a stove, or a window with it.

The cutting board can be easily converted into a tablet stand. You need to glue a small piece of wood or bamboo with wood glue to the bottom of the board. A triangular support must be attached to the back of the stand. Then it is desirable to paint the device.

You can adapt a regular grater under the towel holder by hanging it with the handle down. It is recommended to make a wooden bottom in the inner part. You can store spatulas or a bunch of flowers in it, and hang a towel on the handle.

Unusual vases, jugs, artificial fruits and vegetables often decorate kitchen cabinets and tables. Dummies are purchased in stores and make up all kinds of compositions on their own. Fruits and vegetables can be made from wax, plastic, or foam fabric.

Self-made origami fits perfectly into any interior. The whole family can be involved in the manufacture of paper fish, birds, animals, flowers. You can weave a small basket from paper strips to store keys, matches or other trifles in it.

Interesting ideas for lighting the kitchen with original chandeliers and lamps reflect practicality and functionality.

Sometimes a decorative film is glued to the windows, which can serve as protection from the sun. It can be with a drawing, stained glass or photo printing. The film protects the glass from damage, helps maintain a microclimate in the room, does not fade from sunlight and does not take up any space.

DIY kitchen decor ideas in the video below.