Looking for new ideas for home improvement or summer cottage? Do you like to make interior details yourself? You can make various designer gadgets with your own hands. They are made of simple materials. Technologies are also available for understanding. Take ideas! Embody them in a garden or apartment.
Designer things: photo
With your own hands you can decorate both the house and the area around it. This allows you to create a unique style and harmony for life and, in particular, relaxation. Professionals in the field of creative activity are constantly generating new ideas that they later embody in the material. Often objects turn out to be so original and unusual that they attract everyone's attention. In order not to spend money on specialists, you can independently decorate the interior of the house and garden.
With your own hands you can do the most diverse and original things for both the apartment and the summer cottage. Without special investments, it is easy to transform the space around you, making it not only harmonious and appropriate to your ideas about comfort, but also individual, not like what friends or neighbors have.
Work with stencils
Actual manual work in interior decoration. Walls, ceiling, furniture, textiles complement all kinds of drawings, patterns, ornaments. Original designer gadgets with their own hands are easy to make using stencils. They are bought or also carried out independently, cut from a film, cardboard or whatman paper.
The monochromatic images on the walls are made using a stencil using bright tinting, or, conversely, they paint the wall in some shade, and the pattern is left white. In the second case, the effect of the glow of the ornament is created. They also work with plaster (regular or decorative), filling it with stencil holes. So you get not just a picture, but also an interesting textured surface of the pattern.
Using stencils, create drawings on mirrors, glasses, furniture, doors and any other interior elements. Even an inexperienced graphic designer will cope with such a task. This shows the significant advantage of stencils. DIY designer gadgets made with their help look very impressive and professional.
Decorative lettering
The volume letters used in the interior as decoration and additional romantic lighting are gaining popularity. It’s easy to make these designer gadgets with your own hands. You need to do the following:
- Take paper, cardboard, plastic and draw the outline of the text on them. If the volume of letters you will not create due to the thickness of the material, the objects will be hollow, made in the form of "boxes", then you will also need a side surface.
- Cut all the elements.
- Glue parts of letters and decorate them. Perform these two actions in the order that is convenient for you. You tighten decorative objects with a cloth, decorate with beads.
- If a translucent material was used as the basis, you can mount a backlight in the decoration (it is easiest to do this using a regular Christmas garland of lanterns).
Stained glass panels
To complement any interior and even the exterior will be able to products made in the technique of painting on glass, mosaics. So, they make colored inserts for furniture, doors, windows, decorate lamps, walls, and ceilings. In the technique of painting on fabric , panels are made for any room. All this is available for non-professional use.
Kitchen decor
Women spend most of their time in this room, so they always try to equip the interior not only as convenient as possible for themselves, but also comfortably, stylishly and beautifully. You can make designer gadgets for your kitchen from available materials. For instance:
- Knit or crochet decorative covers for stools, containers, cups. You may have several such collections (New Year’s winter theme, spring flower, summer fruit and vegetable, etc.).
- Sew beautiful curtains and decorate them.
- Mosaic on the wall near the sink.
- Make a stylish lampshade for the lamp.
- Sew textile dolls in the form of a cook, matryoshka. They can act as decorations or be a hot water bottle for a teapot.
Garden Decorations
Nowadays, a fashionable and modern hobby is gaining popularity - landscape design. Many seek on their site to create a paradise for relaxation. See how you can make designer little things for the garden.
It is very simple to make decorative products from gypsum or polyurethane foam (sculptures, balls, lamps). It is necessary to work with construction foam very carefully, as it can have an adverse effect on the skin of the hands, and also poorly laundered from any surfaces. In this regard, it is easier to make designer gadgets for the garden from plaster. On your own in the garden you can lay out paths, organize a recreation area near the pond, build a gazebo, original swing, garden furniture, lighting, a dry stream.
Do-it-yourself designer tricks: master class
To make original sculptures, balls, tiles or other similar garden decor, you will need the following:
- gypsum, alabaster, cement mixture;
- water;
- container and stick for stirring;
- mold for filling;
- decorative elements (pieces of colored glass, mirrors, ceramic tiles);
- waterproof finish coating (acrylic paint for outdoor use or clear varnish).
The manufacturing process is as follows:
- Mix gypsum with water until the consistency of sour cream.
- Pour into the prepared form. For tiles or sculptures, wire reinforcement or a frame may be required, which is installed before filling with the slurry.
- After full hardening (for gypsum - from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the size of the object), remove the product from the mold and decorate it by gluing colored mosaics or other decorations. You can install them directly in liquid gypsum, if possible, and this will not complicate the technology.
- Coat the surface with clear varnish.
Your stylish decoration is ready to take its place in the garden.
So, you have learned how to make beautiful original things for your home and garden with your own hands. All this is easily done from affordable and inexpensive materials. You just have to take the idea and implement it for yourself.