Beautiful crafts for interior decoration

Typing in the search engines "DIY crafts", do you come across such a huge selection of design ideas that your eyes run wide? What can be created without special skills to make it not very expensive, beautiful, functional?
And here is spring outside the window! The days are coming when the hands themselves are drawn to renew the surrounding space, to change the usual, following the rhythms of nature. It often happens that our means and capabilities turn out to be limited, and we are eager to bring something bright, unusual to everyday life, to please our friends, beloved person, relatives with unique, beautiful and useful new things, and, moreover, to put a particle of our warmth into the item. What then can be done?

Crafts for the interior are a great solution. They are functional, emphasize the individuality of the author and owner of the thing, meet the tastes of the owner of the thing, cause admiration for others.Below you will find inspirational ideas for creating crafts for the interior.

Types of crafts

You need to determine the purpose of the decor that you are going to make: who, where, why it will be used.

Based on this knowledge, then the appropriate style and materials for the manufacture of crafts are selected.

Interior crafts can be divided into types, for convenience:

1. By appointment: for yourself, as a gift (to whom?), For children, for pets.
2. At the place of use: apartment or cottage, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or hallway, or maybe it is a gift to a colleague in the office. A clear presentation of this item before starting work will help determine the style and materials.
3. By function: storage (containers, coasters, hooks), just decor elements (panels, paintings, frames, sculptures), textiles (create softness, comfort, warmth, sound insulation: mats, pillows, furniture covers, tablecloths, curtains), lighting (lamps, candlesticks, lampshades), etc.
4. According to the materials used: from fabrics, threads, jute, stones, shells, paper, wood, etc.
5. By the method of decoration or manufacturing: painting using various paints and techniques, weaving, assembling, mosaic, decoupage, papier-mâché, embroidery, knitting, sewing, applique, mixed media.

Having answered for yourself with the help of these 5 points what exactly you would like to do, for a start you can choose your favorite version of home crafts for the interior from the following. Make sure you have all the materials you need and get started!

Crafts-alterations

Household items, as a rule, are updated and decorated using paints, brushes, glue, rhinestones, eggshells, buttons and other accessible items.
For example, from an old vase, bottle, can, box, you can create original home decorations by painting them with paints, pouring colored sand into transparent containers, decorating with a jute rope or a decorative cord.

Before this, the thing should be primed. If the jar or bottle is transparent - consider using stained glass paints, you may get a very original vase or leg for a Tiffany-style lampshade.

Crafts for the interior of fabric, thread

Do not know how to embroider, knit and sew on a typewriter on patterns? It does not matter, not only in these ways you can make a decor item that radiates comfort, softness and warmth.

For example, everyone, even the smallest home designers (with the help of adults), can make creative rugs, rugs, pillows, seat covers, decorative flowers or a toy from pompons.

Materials:

• threads or yarn for knitting, best soft, synthetic: acrylic, polyamide, lycra. Choose medium, thick, fluffy or voluminous threads (from 100 to 370 m / g). Pay attention to yarn with an interesting structure and color: terry, ribbon, gradient, melange. Think of a combination of colors of your decor, pattern, shape;
• needle with a thick eye;
• basis, it’s very convenient to use a plastic mesh, but any mesh fabric is suitable, you can also knit a mesh yourself, crochet without crochet. Fabric for the bottom of the warp;
• scissors;
• cardboard.

From a cardboard cut a circle (or 2) with a hole in the center. Wrap the cardboard circle tightly with the thread, pulling the thread from the center to the edge, and winding back under the cardboard circle into the center in 2-4 layers. Then cut the wound yarn with scissors along the outer circumference of the cardboard circle (it is more convenient to cut when there are two circles - cutting between them). Remove the cardboard and bandage the resulting bunch of threads in the middle, straighten the pompom. Continue making pompons in the same way in the required quantity.

Instead of cardboard circles, you can wind the thread around the end teeth along the fork, then fasten the thread around the winding between the middle teeth and cut from the side of the fork.
After all these manipulations, you need to sew the balls to the base, quite tightly and evenly. Here you need to show your imagination - to create a geometric pattern, a smooth transition of colors or leave the product plain.

To connect the fabric for the lower part with the base, carefully sew along the edges with a connecting seam.
From pompons beautiful panels, paintings and frames are created.

Crafts for the interior of stones, glass, mirrors, shells

Excellent stylish crafts for the interior with your own hands for the hallway, bathroom, kitchen can be done using solid materials.

Broken mirror, glass, beautiful dishes like mosaics, decorated with vases, various boxes, caskets, wall mirrors, frames, panels, and countertops. Perfectly suitable for this is a special small mosaic, sold on Chinese sites and in construction stores. Consider a method of manufacturing a mosaic frame for a mirror.

Materials:

• plywood or chipboard;
• PVA glue, or liquid nails, special glue for tiles;
• forceps or pliers / pliers - if you need to move the parts of the mosaic placed on the glue;
• gypsum grout for tiles or plaster / tile adhesive;
• spatula (applying grout, but you can use your finger in the signet);
• cloth / sponge to remove excess glue, grout
• mosaic or a battle of glass, ceramics, chipped mirror (or small round mirrors), shells;
• if the decorative elements are heavy (such as large shells, starfish, etc.), a reinforcing layer of special adhesive tape or mesh will be needed;
• sealant or putty to fill the voids (protect from dust).

First, you better draw a sketch of how the mosaic pieces will be arranged in order to clearly know which pattern you need to lay out with which colors.Geometric it will be a pattern, floral, animal, abstract, or you want to lay out flowers mosaic. Cut the circle or rectangle of the required parameters from the base with a jigsaw (or leave the piece as is, if it is suitable for you in size and shape).

Glue the mirror to liquid nails or special glue to the base. Around on the appropriate glue, plant parts of the selected decorative elements: a broken mirror, mosaic pieces, shells in a planned order. After drying, wipe the gaps between the elements, remove excess with a cloth. After the voids have dried, fill gently with sealant or putty.

Wicker crafts

This includes macrame, beadwork, rattan, weaving from leaves, cattail, paper - twisted newspapers. The latter method is one of the most affordable, it turns out really beautiful and stylish things for the home, and even useful ones.

So, from newspaper tubes you can weave boxes, baskets, a flower vase, flower pots, bottle stand, house for cats, laundry baskets, panels, armchairs, furniture legs and much more. Better to start with something simple, such as a box:

Materials:

• newspapers, cardboard;
• PVA glue;
• scissors, knife, ruler;
• pencil or knitting needle;
• a container in the form of which the box will be woven (box, can, vase, bottle);
• paints: stain or food coloring (for eggs);
• clothespins for fixing tubes;
• varnish.

A newspaper sheet (or thin rough paper) is folded in half, cut into 4 identical parts. Then a pencil or needle is applied to the corner of the sheet, and a newspaper is twisted around it (at an angle), the rod can be removed from the middle of the tube, the edges should be fixed with glue. You need to use it to a minimum, since it will not be stained. Along the length of the tube are also expanded with glue. You will need a lot of such blanks, then dry them for at least 4 hours, after which they are painted in the right colors and dried for another 8 hours.You should get beautiful smooth tubes of the same thickness.

From cardboard or thick paper, cut 2 stems of the desired shape and size. Mark one base with a ruler at equal intervals (you will need to calculate the exact value) and glue tubes to this base along the edge (if the bottom is square - 1 tube is required at 45 degrees angles). The second part of the base is glued on top. This is the bottom. Then a tube (or several) is glued to one “ray” near the bottom and weaving begins in one of the ways (there are many videos on the network with various weaving techniques). A mold is inserted inside and braided to the desired height. At the end, the product is varnished and dried.

Composition and accents

Decided on the future use of interior crafts? Excellent! If you are a beginner, then you will need some knowledge about the style areas - in order for your design masterpiece to fit perfectly. This is completely uncomplicated.

You should consider the general features of the decoration of the room where the product is supposed to be used. Perhaps the room already has an accent (and according to the rules of composition it should be one) - a certain detail that stands out from the rest of the decoration and decor in color, size, shape. For example, in a classic interior, it can be a luxurious crystal chandelier, a carved fireplace or a patterned carpet. In modern interiors, it can be 3D photowall-paper, an unusual design made of drywall, an interestingly located backlight, beautiful porters and the like.

Always pay attention to objects of art, other home decor: paintings, carpets, pillows, curtains, figurines: will your handicraft argue with them, get out of the picture. If your fashionable interior decoration itself is conceived as an accent, in its manufacture it is worth considering the style of the room and the combination of colors.

A brief guide to style and color

Today, the Internet is replete with pictures of various beautiful combinations of colors and their shades, inspired by nature itself. From them you can choose a suitable ready-made combination table, similar to your interior story.

The basis of such tables is the color wheel. In it, colors and their shades are arranged in a circle, in a rainbow order, in advanced versions, taking into account darkness and lightness of tone (multi-row color circles). The main thing you need to know: those colors that are located next to each other in the color wheel are well combined. These are neighboring companion colors; with them, a nuance, halftone or transition, for example, blue and green, is well obtained. Also located clearly opposite each other combine well (then we get a bright contrast, the colors complement each other and give juiciness, such as yellow and purple, blue and orange).

If the decor element does not imply a Christmas theme, the proximity of red and green should be avoided - this combination creates ripples in the eyes.
If you are not sure about the combination of beautiful complex shades (such as mustard, aquamarine, terracotta, swamp, etc.) - look at similar color tables.
In order for your decor element to fit most successfully into the interior of the house, try to determine the overall style of the room and follow it, so that ideas embodied by your own hands will live a happy life together in space.

Here are 8 common styles in the rooms of a modern house and their general characteristics that will help you decide on an idea:

1. Classic (English, French) - calm, austere forms. Carved elements, stucco molding, columns with classical Roman floral ornaments are allowed. Representative, prim furniture. Colors are calm, warm: brown, buffy, white. Deep blue, burgundy, and green are also used. Textures - wood, plaster, leather (or their imitation).In variants of the Rococo, Baroque style, the number of details, decorations, curls increases at times, pink and gold colors are added.
2. Post-modern (derivatives: fusion, eclecticism, pop art, conteporari) - welcomes unusual, multidimensional frame structures on walls, the ceiling, the floor (niches, tiers, drywall partitions, wood), asymmetry. Uses bright accents on a plain background, loves geometric patterns (remember clothes and furniture of the 60-70s). He likes plastic, metal, glass, unusual textured fabrics, contrasting color combinations. Derivatives of this style are characterized by a combination of seemingly incompatible things, a vivid mix, sometimes a little crazy.
3. Ethnic (Japanese, African, Egyptian, Indian, Arabic, Moorish, etc.) - is sustained in accordance with the traditional furnishing of a house of one or another nationality. For example, the Japanese style involves the use of mats, rice paper, partitions, fans, white, black colors. African - replete with shades of yellow, brown, red with the inclusion of characteristic color patterns, includes reed products, native figurines from precious wood (imitation) and so on.
4. Provence (similar to country, art believe, shabby chic) ​​is a rustic style in its various manifestations. A lot of wood, often deliberately aged, unevenly painted. The textures are as follows: rough plaster, checkered fabrics, flower, brick, stone. The number of pieces of furniture and decor varies between styles, for example, art believe is close to minimalism, and shabby chic is ready to place cute beautiful things with craquelure, decoupage and other decorations on all available surfaces. Paints are actively used to give old things a new look.
5. Minimalism (constructivism) - everything is simple, clear, no frills. Straight lines, multifunctionality, folding and sliding (secret) designs are best friends.The color palette is concise, 3-4 chromatic shades (gray, white, black, metallic) with one bright accent. Textures: simple fabrics, glass, metal.
6. High-tech - a high-tech interior, full of modern gadgets and developments, akin to minimalism. He loves gloss, achromatic colors, clear lines.
7. Loft / Scandinavian / Chalet / Eco-style - the home of a hunter, a traveler in the mountains or in the urban jungle, often a bachelor’s dwelling. These styles are united by the abundance of wood in various rough processing, and other natural materials, in the loft - brick (graffiti is appropriate). Nordic patterns, cage, natural fabrics give comfort.
8. The Mediterranean (Greek) style is usually great for the bathroom, but not only for it. It is replete with white and shades of blue, blue, welcomes mosaics, beautiful murals, marine motifs.

Styles, of course, can be combined, flow one into another and skillfully use each other's elements, introduce national features.

Following the recommendations listed above, you will fill the space with creative individual crafts created with love, thus attracting love, luck and prosperity, as well as admiring glances to the house!