Decorating the walls with your own hands: interesting ideas and recommendations

Fashion for heavy carpets has long been forgotten, and the non-woven wallpaper - is gradually disappearing into the past. Now everyone who is not stranger to the spirit of originality and individuality, strive to decorate the walls in his house in a modern style. This means no pictures in massive gilded frames, no calendars and posters with horoscopes. Now the most unpredictable materials are used as decor, the main thing is that they embody the flight of the fantasy of the owner of the room and create him maximum comfort. In addition to transforming the room, the decoration of the walls helps to hide small and large defects on them and, thus, postpone repair. If you get fired with the idea to give a new look to your home with wall compositions, be sure to note that any decor elements look decent only on a monophonic background, and on bright colorful wallpaper will look, at least, incorrectly. So, let's begin.

Old wallpaper

Do not be discouraged by the thought that again it came about boring wallpaper. You can not even imagine what unique ornaments on the wall you can make with your own hands. Talented dreamers-decorators use old, remaining pieces from past repairs, and buy one, at most two rolls of new ones, selecting suitable ones for the conceived composition. From wallpaper with the same type of drawing you can make all kinds of collages. The technology is as follows:

• Cut out different shapes from the strip of wallpaper (squares, rhombuses, rectangles);
• Glue them to a solid, for example, cardboard base;
• Place in the frames of the corresponding color. They are sold in the departments of photographic goods.

Place such "pictures" in any order you like.

If there is a large picture on the wallpaper (flowers, birds, butterflies), it is simply neatly cut out and made up of chic appliqués on a wall painted in the appropriate color.

Decoration of cheap paper wallpaper can be covered with a layer of PVA, diluted with water, and on top with a clear varnish.

If you have unpopular now photographed, you can also cut out the details suitable for the composition you invented, for example, individual flowers, and create a desired application from them. It will look more volume.

Fragmentary decoration of the walls

This trend in design is now particularly popular. You can make fragments from wallpaper with a clear large picture, for example, with flowers, with animals, with elements of buildings and so on. Process technology:

• On the wallpaper, draw a rectangular shape that captures the drawing you like;
• Gently cut it.
• Cut into parts (it is more convenient when they are 4). It is desirable that these parts are the same in size and shape, but you can make them different.
• Each received piece is placed in the same frame by color. There will be several separate paintings.
• Place them on the wall as puzzles, but not closely, but at a short distance from each other - so that they generally form a single image.

Paper fluttering butterflies

Decoration on a paper wall is easy, but you need to have patience and basic skills. Paper can be taken corrugated, velvet, shagreen, waterproof, designer and ordinary color. If you are planning to make a paper application on the wall, it makes sense to buy one-sided paper of any type. If you are going to do three-dimensional decorations, it is better to use two-sided. Many people like the look on the wall of a whirlwind of paper butterflies. Doing it is not difficult, but long. For this you need: two-sided colored paper, scissors, cardboard up to 1 mm thick and adhesive tape or glue.

Technology:

• On the cardboard draw a butterfly with spread wings.
• Cut. A stencil is obtained. They can be made in several different sizes.
• Attach the stencil to a sheet of colored paper and circle along the contour.
• Cut and fold the butterfly in half.

When the sheet is straightened, the visibility of the volume wings is created. Now it remains to paste the butterfly on the wall.

You can make flowers on the same principle, but you do not need to add them in half, but along the lines that separate the petals and the middle.

No less beautiful look paper flying birds. In this case, you need to bend the cut out figure along the lines separating the wings and the body.

Bulk paper flowers

Decorating a wall with flowers is most often used, especially if they are made voluminous. Of these, you can make individual compositions or use it together with applications, for example, put on a "branch", which is best done flat. To create three-dimensional colors corrugated paper is most suitable. The manufacturing process depends on the type of flower that you will be making. The simplest way is this:

• Cut from a colored paper of one color several circles of different diameters;
• Do a dent in the center to get a sink like a funnel;
• Gently straighten the corrugation, imitating the petals;
• Fold one into the other, from large to small;
• To cement - a paper rose must be obtained; Masters cut not just circles, but separate them into separate petals.

Another simple way to make a paper flower is this:

• Cut out a strip of paper from the paper, whose width will be only slightly less than the length;
• Make denticles along the edges;
• In the center to collect a strip "accordion".

Cornflower or carnation should turn out.

Paints

Decorating walls with paints can be called the easiest way, but it is suitable only for those who have a talent for drawing. The technology is as follows: first create a background, that is, water emulsion paint the wall in the desired color. In itself, this work is easy, but the wall should be carefully prepared, because the defects can not be hidden by the paint. When the water-emulsion dries, they begin to create a conceived composition - drawing on the wall of the picture. Acrylics are bought for her. Beginners in this case can try to create a collage of geometric or cubic forms on the wall, and for the masters any scenes of complexity are suitable. In addition to drawing pictures, you can use stencils, which you need to attach to the wall and paint over.

Plaster

The decoration of the walls with the help of this material is suitable only for those who know how to work with it. Decorating walls with plaster has many advantages:

• The ability to hide even large defects;
• durability;
• Ease of care (for example, cleaning).

The application of plaster as a decorative element is carried out according to two technologies.

1. While the material is not yet dry, furrows and strips are applied on it with the help of a comb. They can be made abstract or strictly geometric.
2. Make a stencil of the desired shape. Its thickness depends on how much the convex element of the decor you want to have. Fix the stencil on the wall, fill it with plaster and leave it to dry.

With both technologies, dry plaster should be covered with paint.

Now you can buy not only ordinary plaster, but also terrazitic or stone-like.

Fabrics

In Japan there is a kind of art called kinusayga. It consists in creating pictures of silk. With the help of such pictures, it turns out amazingly beautiful decoration of the interior. The wall can be made original, using a cloth not only for the kinusage, which is quite a difficult affair. From the fabric are obtained interesting panels, which are used on the same principle as the wallpaper from the wallpaper. Make them according to the following technology:

• On a solid substrate, for example, on a dense cardboard or on plywood, to stretch the fabric;
• Wrap from the wrong side;
• To fasten with a stapler.

In addition, from the fabric you can make three-dimensional flowers. Looks good pictures of tissue in the form of trees of different shapes. The lush crown is made up of cloth scraps cut in the form of leaves.

A photo

Decoration of the wall with photos was popular with our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Now this kind of retro-décor again comes into fashion, only used with some modern innovations. For example, you can make collages of photos and objects that are in harmony with them - abstract paintings, panels, all sorts of bugs, flowers, crafts, created specifically for this purpose. Look amazingly on the walls of the photo, together with applications, for example, against the background of a high-rise building, in the crown of a tree, in the form of flashlights. In the children's room you can make an application of a locomotive, and put the photo in each trailer.

Auxiliary materials

Decoration on the wall with their own hands can be made from dozens of materials. Here are a few simple ideas:

• A panel of colored, different in size buttons. They can be glued to the base or directly to the wall, choosing the right color scheme or creating a composition in the style of surrealism. In order for the work to look finished, you must first attach a frame to the wall that limits the dimensions of the panel. Instead of buttons you can use shells or flat sea pebbles painted with acrylic paint.

• Volumetric figures from the rollers left from rolls of toilet paper. Rollers need to be cut across, to make thin circles that can be bent, giving them any shape. Ready to stick the figures to the wall.
• Decorative decorations on the wall from the frames, in which are placed made of paper butterfly, flower, watch, month with an asterisk and so on. Some people hang empty frames on the wall in different sizes and shapes.
• Volumetric figures from the remains of drywall. More commonly used figures of geometric shape, painted in contrast with the wall color. Some craftsmen from gypsum board make designs that mimic fireplaces.

Decoration of walls in a nursery

The decor of the room intended for toddlers should be beautiful, light and very positive. If the size of the room allows you to arrange a game zone there, you can decorate it with appliqués from small cartoon animals. They are cut out from photo wallpapers, wall calendars or printed on a printer. Another option is to create in the children's fun animal kingdom - cut them out of the wallpaper in a small drawing and paste to the wall. In the girls' room, paper voluminous butterflies and all sorts of flowers are appropriate. In the boys' room the appliqués of the machines look good, for example, all the favorite "wheelbarrows". You can also build a house on the wall. His floors are made of shelves, a roof and walls to draw or "build" from paper strips, pasting them to the wall. In such a house on the shelves you can place toys and other useful things.

Decorating kitchen walls

The peculiarity of this room (if it is not simultaneously a dining room) is that there are practically no walls that are not occupied by a window, kitchen furniture or electrical equipment. Many people use as an element of wall decoration in the kitchen an artificial bunch of garlic, peppers or other vegetables, fruits. Those who wish to depart a little from this classics, you can offer to decorate the kitchen with a fragmentary panel of one or two fruits or a glass of wine. The necessary pictures are printed on the printer and make fragments of them, as was mentioned above.

Not bad looks in the kitchen a collage of plates (some even decorate even the living rooms) or from painted trays. The originals create a panel for the kitchen from coffee beans, colorful beans or corn kernels, gluing them on the base, on which the contours of the future masterpiece are previously drawn.