Home is where the heart is. There is nothing like creating a space of solace where you can spend some quality “me time” as well as create your most precious family memories together.
In an era of social distancing and self-isolation where everyone is forced to spend their time at home, refreshing the ambiance around you could be good for the mind as well as the soul. Here are a few simple DIY home decor ideas as additions that would transform your home.
You don’t have to undertake a grand interior design project to give your home a makeover. All you have to do is to pick (according to your time, level of motivation, the material available, and budget) from these simple, quick, and easy DIY art and craft home decor ideas.
Make your living room, bedroom, your baby’s nursery, and pretty much every wall you can find!
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How to decorate your living room with Wall hanging craft?
Let’s start with the living room where we spend most of our time together as a family. If you’re wondering how to decorate this room with simple things, look no further!
Let’s Begin with Some DIY Home Decor
Do you have a growing pile of old toilet rolls, tins, cartons, mason jars, plastic bags, and clothes lying around in your house? Start by rounding up all these scraps cluttering your home.
One of the ideal eco-friendly and budget-friendly things you could do is to upcycle these scraps and give them new life by turning them into DIY home decor – the possibilities are only as limited as your creativity and the availability of scraps taking up space in your house.
So, how can you turn old scraps into living room decor?
Metal tins, toilet rolls, bulbs, and cardboard boxes can all be easily refurbished into organizers of various sizes. With a little glue and twine, you can turn old boxes into beautiful baskets, and with just a nail and a hammer, you can turn your old metal tins into enchanting little lanterns.
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You can also turn your old plastic bags and clothes to make twine that in turn can be used to make handmade rugs! There’s a lot of tutorials online to show you how.
And if you’re looking for a fun craft project to do with the kids, why not have a simple rock-painting session and turn those pretty pebbles into a table decor piece?
Photo Frames
One great way to personalize and add character to the empty walls and table-tops in your living room is to use frames. And you can frame pretty much anything you love!
From vintage posters and motivating quotes to your most cherished memories as a family, you can either create a photo or art gallery for your living room walls, place a few table photo frames, or simply add a splash of color to the ambiance with a colorful canvas art piece.
Get all the best photo frame ideas from us!
Photo calendars
Another handy way to make use of photo prints to create DIY home decor is to turn that otherwise-boring home calendar into something more personal.
Here is one amazing way to get creative and make a DIY desktop photo calendar. All you need are a few mini photo prints and patterned paper prints.
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If you aren’t feeling confident enough to make a handmade calendar from scratch, you could always get a personalized photo calendar printed and delivered to you.
Check out our personalized calendar design templates and get started by creating your very own photo calendar!
Bedroom decorating ideas
At the end of the day, don’t you just love to retreat into our own space for some much-needed alone time? You can make your bedroom truly magical with a few simple bedroom design ideas.
Decorate your headboard
The star of your bedroom, your headboard space is the one thing that can make or break the personality of your room. You can simply nail a beautiful piece of fabric or a hand-painted canvas to the wall.
If you aren’t feeling particularly artistic, an alternative could also be sourcing a free art piece online and having it printed on canvas.
Handmade decorative items for bedroom
If what you’re looking for is small bedroom decorating ideas on a budget, we’ve got you covered! Here are a few simple handmade DIY room decor items for the bedroom.
Do you have an old mason jar or a glass bottle lying around? Why not add some color and a few lights to make a great lantern for your bedside table? And if you are more a flower kind of person, you could also use them as handmade vases!
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Photo collage
When it comes to home decor, a photo collage may seem cliché, but this simple bedroom wall design idea made of twine, photo prints, and lights is popular for a reason – it is unbelievably charming.
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Need some more inspiration? Check our blog for a few more photo collage ideas.
What about baby room decoration?
So your little one is on the way, there’s nothing like a charming little nursery to greet your baby (and all the visitors)!
Whether it’s the crib, the wall decor, or an organizer for all the stuffed animals and an ever-increasing number of toys, here are a couple of newborn baby room decorating ideas.
Baby room decoration starts with the walls!
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One of the go-to nursery ideas is posters. Whether you choose to create a simple gallery or have one massive wall poster over your baby’s crib, a few wall posters will do the trick of adding that nursery charm to the room you are redecorating.
Another good idea is to organize a baby photo shoot keeping in mind you’ll use these photos as a decor. Get creative with your photos!
Wooden crate DIY craft ideas
Refurbish old wooden crates and turn them into adorable organizers for your baby’s nursery.
Not only is it going to be almost as cute as your baby, but you would also no longer have to fret about books and toys making a mess!
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Add a handmade rag-rug to the nursery floor
Here’s a great tutorial on how to make a rag-rug. It’s a little time-consuming, but it’s so worth the effort!
Amazing wall-hanging craft ideas for any room
Whether it’s your kitchen, the bathroom walls, the corridors, or the stairs, there’s no dearth of walls and space in the house that can be used as a canvas with these DIY craft and wall decor ideas DIY.
Simple DIY wall decor ideas for even the least artistic!
Not too keen on undertaking advanced DIY projects such as cut canvas designs and bohemian macrame tapestries? No worries! Here are two simple DIY craft ideas for you.
Do you have any extra yarn or popsicle sticks lying around? If you haven’t been much of an upcycle-r, you probably don’t. But these can be found at local stores for pretty cheap, and this is what you can do with them! This will make your art and craft ideas for home decor brighter.
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Bring out the collections
We all have an abundance of collections ranging from wedding china and beautiful fabric bits to curios and travel postcards. What if we brought them out of the attics and untouched shelves and hung them up on the wall?
Bring in nature
Another thing most of us have an abundance of is nature all around!
And there’s nothing more versatile and enchanting when it comes to making a DIY wall hanging craft than a rugged imperfect branch you can bring back home from the woods near you to add an unparalleled charm to your walls!
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DIY photo gallery art for the walls
Do you ever feel like the staircase, the landing, and corridors are such a waste of perfectly good space? Well, there’s so much you can do with just photos on the walls.
Not only does it give you and your visitors a reason to spend time in spaces you normally wouldn’t, but it also gives your favorite memories a dedicated place for them to shine.
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All you have to do is decide on a theme for your gallery. There are a lot of gallery templates you could find on Pinterest to help you with the setup, and all you have to do is get your photos printed, framed, and delivered.
Here is another example of just how creative you can get with creating wall hanging craft with a couple of photo prints.
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Want to know just how far you can go with some twine, photo prints, and tacks? Check out our blog for other easy retro print ideas!
Are you ready to try your hand at a few of these simple and easy DIY home decor and craft ideas? If you enjoyed the article and would like to share one of your home decor ideas with us, we would love to hear from you in the comments below!
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