DIY wall decoration

Often, upon completion of the renovation, we find that we have one or more empty walls that simply require some kind of decor. The question immediately arises - how to decorate the wall. There are many different ways. Moreover, the beauty of wall decorations is that most of them can be easily removed and replaced, while changing the mood, and sometimes even the style of the room. First, let's look at how to decorate the wall correctly, from a design point of view.

Design approach

Almost all popular styles of interior decoration today - modern, hi-tech, minimalism, etc. - suggest light one-colored walls. The design turns out to be light and unobtrusive, but after a while you want something brighter, some accents. And the best way to add these accents is to decorate the walls. Smooth and smooth, they serve as the perfect backdrop.

Panels and collages

The easiest way is to make a wall panel from the same small fragments, paint them in colors close to the main one, or play with one of the additional colors already present in the interior.

Simple panels look good in any interior

Collages are suitable for wall decoration. They can be made from photographs - from a personal album, celebrities, natural or city landscapes, animals, birds ... whatever. Reproductions of paintings are also suitable, even just multi-colored fragments, pasted over, for example, with companion wallpaper.

Collage of wallpaper on the wall

If the style of the room is closer to pop art or any other avant-garde direction, choose the right theme, and the color design of the collage is more difficult. This is closer to art than just design. As an example, you can play with images or reproductions of avant-garde artists in different colors.

This is closer to art

Moreover, it is far from necessary to perforate the walls under each frame. The solution can be borrowed from the galleries: hang a cornice under the ceiling - ordinary or string, and attach wall decor elements to it on a thick fishing line. In this case, changing the exposure is a matter of several tens of minutes.

Triptychs

Since ancient times, the walls have been decorated with triptychs, only painting was used earlier. You can paint walls today, but it takes a lot of talent. For those who did not work out with painting, there is another option - to divide the image (photograph) you like into several fragments and place it on the wall in this form.

A very simple wall decoration, but looks great

The method is simple, but it has an interesting effect. And to make everything look more voluminous, make a base for each fragment. You can use thin wooden slats, you can knock out fiberboard, even with a dense, even cardboard, cut out pieces of insulation - thin foam.

In the form of a traditional triptych

Choose the style of the image, the predominant color, based on the general style of the room and the shades available in the interior. It is not necessary for the image to consist only of such tones, but the primary colors must be present. This is the only way to connect the wall decoration with the rest of the decoration into a single whole.If you can't find a suitable image, you can use black and white photography. It also looks very impressive. Only with photographs, the frames should be practically flat - pieces of hard thick cardboard and that's it.

Photo on the wall in the form of a collage

Decorating walls with photos

In general, the idea of ​​decorating the wall with photographs gives the home a personality. Even austere cold minimalism becomes more comfortable. If you are tired of the coldness of your home decoration - add a few photos with or without frames - and immediately feel the atmosphere as "warmer".

A few photos will make the interior more homely

Moreover, you can hang photos on the walls according to the same principle - on lines attached to a baguette under the ceiling.

Decorating with wood and stone

If wall decoration is something more global, stylish and permanent, you can turn to materials such as wood and stone. This will already be a stationary decor that you are unlikely to be able to quickly change. But the degree of decorativeness is much higher.

Volumetric wooden wall - stylish decor

You can brighten up the gloom and coldness of the stone by highlighting warm tones. The fragments do not have to be even. The "torn" edge is even more interesting from the point of view of decorativeness, but very inconvenient from the point of view of housewives - it is difficult to clean.

The same idea, but in stone and enhanced by lighting

Living decorations from plants

Living decorations on the walls are very unusual. These are the so-called "green walls". Live plants are planted to some extent. They are selected in different colors, types, with different leaf shapes. You can make such a composition in the form of a picture in a frame, with mandatory backlighting. You just have to remember to regularly water the decor ...

Green painting of plants - an unusual way to decorate walls

It is a little easier to create compositions from climbing plants. They are planted in a long container, a fishing line is tied, and whips are distributed over it. The right plants look great. The only negative is that the “decor” grows for a long time.

Live border under the ceiling

Another version of a living picture of plants

We make DIY wall decoration

There are many ideas for decorating walls in a room that are easy to implement on your own. The most popular are, perhaps, stickers or stickers. There are many ready-made ones that just need something to glue, but it is not always possible to find exactly what you want. But you can always do what you dreamed of with your own hands.

Paper wall decor: butterflies, flowers, hearts

It is very easy to make three-dimensional wall decor from colored paper. Only it should be double-sided - the sheets should be painted on both sides. You will also need double-sided tape, and also a pencil, scissors, maybe cardboard.

In romantic interiors - children's rooms for girls - you can decorate the walls with butterflies or flowers. The easiest way is to cut out patterns from cardboard of different sizes. It is convenient to outline them with a finely sharpened pencil, then cut out along the lines drawn.

Decorating the wall with butterflies is cute and unexpected

If we are talking about butterflies, then they need to bend their "wings", leaving the body straight. Glue a small piece of double-sided tape to the little body (for now, remove the protective covering only on one side). This Velcro can be used to glue the decoration to any surface.

How to make butterflies on the wall with your own hands

You can make pictures from such multi-colored butterflies. The main thing is the idea and the desire to implement it.

Butterfly paintings

Flowers are made from the same double-sided colored paper according to the same principle. Moreover, simple daisies look like decoration more graphically than more complex ones (poppies, roses, etc.). Having cut them out, the petals are slightly bent, the Velcro is glued to the middle. It turns out a volumetric decoration.

Paper wall decor - voluminous flowers

Another romantic option is hearts.They are also cut out of paper, only the cut is made deeper. Then, by connecting and gluing the cut part, they add volume to the decor. They are fastened in the same way - on pieces of double-sided tape.

Wall decoration - hearts

Wall decorations made of threads and carnations

Don't know how to decorate the wall in an original way? You can make very interesting things out of threads. They take some kind of basis - a wooden board, for example, a silhouette is stuffed on it with carnations.

Unusual DIY wall decor

Threads are pulled between the studs, creating a three-dimensional pattern. You can use any thread, for example, floss.

Decorative wall decorations

In this technique, you can make almost any image.

Examples of finished works

One more example

Make a panel

It is easy to make a wonderful panel for a bedroom or room. It is necessary to take a dense insulation - foam plastic or something similar with a thickness of 2-3 cm.

Panel for the wall

Cut the foam into strips of equal or different sizes, wrap with a suitable cloth or wallpaper. It is easiest to fix them with staples from a construction stapler.

Panel preparation

To make the panel easy to attach, staples are attached to them (for example, with glue). On one of the fragments - smoothly colored - you can apply a drawing. It can be made using a stencil, you can find a drawing, cut it out and glue it.

Panel decoration

Everything is easy and simple, in a few tens of minutes the panel is ready. Several options in the photo below.

Kitchen wall decoration

The first opportunity is to make a panel, but with a "kitchen" drawing. For example, a photo of coffee beans, a cup of coffee or some other similar images. You can make a decorative panel using even ordinary things - for example, cutlery and dishes.

Kitchen wall decor can be made from cutlery or crockery

It is more traditional to use plates brought from different countries. They are both a decoration and a reminder of a pleasant time.

Plates on the wall - and nice to remember travel and beautiful

The second way of arranging plates is on the shelves

Another way to decorate an empty kitchen wall is to use stickers. They can be ready-made - you can find them on sale, or you can cut them out of any images and stick them on double-sided tape.

Wall stickers

Video tutorials on creating DIY wall decor

How to make a panel from seashells

Picture of coffee beans

Decorative panel

Examples of wall decorations in video format.