How to decorate a wall in a room with your own hands?

The wall is a real artistic canvas on which many creative ideas can be realized. Knowing how to decorate a wall with your own hands, you can not only change the appearance of the room, but also decorate some defects, as well as delay the need for cosmetic repairs with minimal time and financial costs. To beautifully design a wall, it is not at all necessary to be an artist or a talented designer.

Hand painted wall decoration

Independently from scratch to create a beautiful painting in the form of a picturesque landscape or a collage from your own drawings under the power of a person with artistic abilities. If you are one, then you are in luck: you can turn a wall into a real work of art. If you do not have such skills, do not get upset. You can decorate the wall of both your and the children's room with a stencil. It can be flowers, butterflies, animals, tree and any other patterns.

For wall decor in the room you will need:

• one or more stencils;
• knife or scissors;
• paint of the right color;
• a brush, roller or sponge for applying paint (if you purchased paint in the form of a spray, you can do without these tools);
• glue or masking tape for stencil.

In construction supermarkets you can find many ready-made stencils on vinyl film. They are attached to the wall as stickers, and after use are just as easily removed. You can also make a stencil yourself. Ready-made sketches are easy to find on the Internet. Selecting a drawing you like, for example, flowers, enlarge it to the desired size and print. Transfer the flowers onto a thick material: vinyl film, cardboard, or a piece of thick paper. Cut all items with scissors or a clerical knife.

Fix the stencil on the wall surface with glue or masking tape. Put a small amount of paint on a brush or sponge and carefully paint over all the elements. Be sure to keep the paint out of the image. When finished, carefully remove the stencil.

Using a stencil, you can create volumetric flowers. To do this, you need plaster. Fill it with a stencil image and leave it for a while so that the plaster dries. Then the stencil can be removed. When the plaster is completely dry, paint the bulk flowers with acrylic paints.

Tip

Before you start applying paint to the wall, you can try to do this on a piece of paper. So you will see whether the result obtained will meet your expectations, and if necessary you can correct the flaws on the stencil.

Tree in the decor

Finishing with a saw cut is an unusual and original decoration of the wall. As a decorative element, a cross section of a tree trunk of small thickness is used. First you need to decide what area you are ready to decorate in this way. It’s better not to overdo it, otherwise you risk ruining the interior. The best option is to decorate part of the wall at the head of the bed.

The tree will look best on a plain wall painted in a calm shade. Wooden decorative elements are applied to a cleaned and degreased surface using high-quality glue. The decor will depend solely on your imagination: you can fasten the cuts close to each other, come up with an unusual pattern or an interesting collage using wooden elements.

Another way to decorate a wall in an apartment with wood is through decorative shelves. They are easy to find in the store, and if you have certain skills, you can make them yourself. Shelves of wood of an unusual shape, for example, in the form of a circle or a triangle with transverse crossbars inside, will look especially interesting. Put useful little things, flowers in pots, vases or handmade applications on such shelves.

Paper wall decoration with butterflies

This decor is suitable for those who dream of fluttering butterflies decorating the room. Butterflies and flowers made of paper will look great in a nursery for a girl.

For this you will need:

• sheets of colored paper;
• paper scissors;
• pencil;
• double-sided tape or glue.

First you need to prepare one or more templates. You can draw them yourself or find them on the Internet. Attach a template to a sheet of colored paper, circle it and cut a butterfly along this contour. As for the quantity, size and color of butterflies, it all depends on the characteristics of the interior of the nursery and your preferences. If you do not want to cut out the figures, you can buy ready-made stickers.

Tip

If you do not want to use stickers or colored paper in the interior of the nursery, pay attention to other materials. For example, an ornament from felt or vinyl records will look original.

Having prepared the required number of butterflies from paper, lay them on the floor to roughly understand how this decor will look on the nursery wall. It is recommended to think over in advance the optimal arrangement of butterflies on the surface. Applications can be issued in a variety of ways: in the form of a vortex, in the shape of a heart, a circle, or simply in a chaotic manner. To easily repeat the contour you need, on the wall you can make subtle marking with a pencil.

To create a fluttering effect, slightly bend each butterfly in half. Glue a small strip of double-sided tape on the fold of each butterfly from the wrong side. Then glue paper butterflies or ready-made stickers to the wall of the children's room according to the pattern that you thought out in advance.

DIY wall decor: easy ways

• Photowall-paper

This is a bright and eye-catching accent that has been at the peak of popularity for many years. Flowers, animals, landscapes - the choice of images is unlimited. If you do not like the images offered in stores, you can order printing of your favorite drawings or a collage of photos.

• Vinyl stickers, appliques and stickers

This decor is simple and affordable, this is its main advantages. It can be large stickers with cartoon characters for the nursery, laconic black stickers, unpretentious patterns, beautiful flowers. Correctly selected stickers will look great in any room, from the kitchen to the children's room. And with the help of several different images, you can create a large collage.

• Collage of photos

Collage is a win-win wall decoration option. Print your favorite photos of different sizes, order identical frames for them and hang them on the wall. Thematic collage will look interesting: wedding, children’s, spa or family tree. In addition to photographs, the collage can be decorated with other memorabilia, such as movie tickets or children's drawings. You can also order wall stickers with your photos and make a collage of them.

• Mirrors

The decor of the walls with mirrors allows you to make the room visually lighter and more spacious. You can decorate the wall with mirror tiles or hang several mirrors of different sizes and shapes, placed in metal or wooden frames.

• Flexible stone

This is a modern building material, which is widely used for wall decor with your own hands. It is a thin section of natural stone on a flexible basis and glues like ordinary wallpaper or decorative tile.You can cover with such a stone both the entire wall and its individual sections.

• Decorative plates

This decor is perfect not only for the kitchen, but also for the living room. Plates of different colors, shapes and sizes can be placed on shelves, as well as hang on the wall randomly or at the same distance. A rather interesting option is photo printing on plates. Black and white portraits of family members, placed not within the framework, but on saucers, will look very original. If the interior is made in ethnic style, you can pick up not plates, but large Turkish trays or trays with Zhostovo painting.

Some are sure that decorating the walls in a room with their own hands is impossible without the help of professionals and serious financial investments. Fortunately, this is not so. By connecting imagination, you can independently make any room in the apartment unusual and unique.