Not a single fashionable furniture brand will provide you with the feeling of warmth and comfort that furniture and decor of your own production create. True, only a successful handmade makes you happy, and for it to turn out successful, you need good instructions and advice.
We have selected 10 blogs in which you will find a huge number of interesting decorative items and homemade furniture, tips on organizing the space at home and using color in the interior. Simply put, these sites have everything you need to make your apartment or house the coziest place in the world and constantly add some cool things to the design. So, let's begin.
U Create
U Create Home Page
This blog was created by Kari and Becky in 2008 as a personal Pinterest board for DIY project ideas. The blog now has thousands of DIY decor and gift instructions, guest posts, and tips.
Various U Create projects
A clock made from a pallet, magnetic jars with spices for the refrigerator, a homemade mirror for the bathroom and many other truly unusual decorative items.
Martynova Maria Igorevna
Interior decor is the selection and placement of various decorative items and accessories in the interior. This is one of the final stages of interior design development. Thanks to competent decoration, the interior acquires completeness, becomes harmonious and cozy.
In this article I will help you with your design projects and you will see interior decor ideas! Every room should be decorated with passion and style. After all, rooms have their own characteristics that must be taken into account when decorating a house. Sometimes choosing the right color, good textures or the perfect piece of furniture is not easy, but I want to show you interior decorating ideas so that you can make your home unique and exclusive.
Decorate your home with style, find the most inspiring decor items! I have selected some decor options for the bedroom, children's room, living room, office, dining room, bathroom decor and modern furniture.
Natural materials, natural beauty and environmental friendliness in the interior!
Try to use a variety of textures, because without textures, a monochrome interior looks boring. Combine at least three different textures in one interior, for example, glossy, matte and voluminous.
In boho style, the fundamental style is natural materials! You can learn about the boho style in the interior in this article.
The panels on the walls look very impressive! In addition, they serve as excellent sound insulation!
You can find out more about soundproofing in your home in this article “Guide to soundproofing your apartment.”
Brightness is in fashion! Echoes of the 80s when it comes to the color scheme. Welcome burgundy, yellow, green, purple and gold to your decor! Bright accents can be in furniture, lamps, vases, textiles, try to highlight, for example, a door or make a bright wall!)
You can learn about interior design trends for 2022 in this article and see amazing room options!
Look what mirrors, lamps and furniture Ruslan Kakhnovich makes! How amazing everything looks in the interior!
Details, accessories, and funny little things that can tell about the child and his hobbies give a special mood and comfort to the nursery. They will help you make the room a personalized nursery so that your child has his own personal space and atmosphere! This could be: lamps, wallpaper, bed linen, paintings, garlands, pillows and figurines of what the child is interested in. It is important that all materials are natural and environmentally friendly for your baby!
And you can learn about the interior in the Montessori style in this article! Excerpt from the article: “The main task of a Montessori environment is to create an environment for the child where he could independently, without outside help, perform as many daily activities as possible: dress himself, eat on his own and put away his dishes, wash his hands, clean teeth and so on."
Vases are beautiful in their variety; they can help place color accents and support your interior style!
If you want to purchase several vases, it is better to choose one shape in different colors, or vice versa, choose one color (or different ones, but in the same range) and different shapes!
Don’t be afraid to purchase unusual shapes of lamps, chandeliers and lamps! They stand out perfectly in the interior. And the varied light that comes from various lamps adds atmosphere and zest to your interior! And you can learn about the secrets in interior design that will not go out of style in this article!
Today there are no strict rules for placing paintings in the interior! You can choose a painting in the same style as your interior, or play on the contrast of traditional interiors and modern art or works of old masters in modern interior design. It is recommended to hang pictures at eye level, so that the middle of the picture is 150 cm from the floor! Despite the height of the ceiling)
If you need help with interior decor, I will be happy to help you!
Thanks for watching and see you soon!
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Centsational Girl
Centsatoinal Girl
This is the blog of Kate Riley from Northern California, a fashion design enthusiast. This blog contains not only instructions from Kate herself, but also links to other sites and blogs with design tips and instructions.
Here you will learn the latest fashion trends in design and learn to experiment with interior colors.
Some of Kate's most popular projects include a mosaic around a bathroom mirror, repainting a scratched table, a pet bed, and cute tea towels.
Various projects with Centsational Girl
In general, many, many useful projects on decoration, use of space, color and different materials.
Curbly
DIY section on the Curby website
This blog has a lot of ideas for decorating the interior, in any room. Lots of tips, such as how to store food in original ways, how to make decorative items and how to better organize space in any room.
There are also tips for cool designs with IKEA furniture and instructions for creating DIY furniture like tables, creative bed headboards and more.
Design Sponge
Design Sponge Home Page
This site has been in existence for over 10 years and has an audience of over 75 thousand users around the world.
An endless source of inspiration for interior design. You can set filters by style, country, popularity and use different features in the design of your apartment.
Ability to filter results
A large section is dedicated to homemade decor, furniture and decoration - from a smartphone case to the complete decoration of any part of the house or a homemade carpet.
Hunted Interior
Home Hunter Interior
This site was founded in 2011 by designer and blogger Christine Jackson. Here you will learn how to create a cool interior even on the most modest budget.
For example, how to turn a boring rug into a bright interior feature, care for carpets so that they look great despite their age, and how to carefully and securely fasten them in place.
Projects with Hunter Interior
Like any designer, Christine has an eye for detail, so on her blog you will find many different little things like homemade tassels that can be used to decorate a chest of drawers, decorations for bed linen and other details that create coziness in the home.
The role of decorative items
Decor in an interior painting allows you to add color, place accents and give the room a complete look. Cute little things that do not carry any functional load create coziness in the room and give it a touch of “warmth”. If you leave only the decoration and furniture in the room, it will become comfortable, but it is not a fact that it will be pleasant to be in it. Pay attention to offices, hospital wards and other government premises. They look sterile, and it immediately becomes clear that people don’t live here. Because the functional minimum only contributes to the work process, and a person is used to surrounding himself with beauty, little things that become part of his life. At the same time, any designer knows that decor can be given both a leading and a secondary role. In the first case, objects are combined into a complex composition that looks impressive against the neutral background of the decoration and other decorations. If the decor is secondary, then it only highlights the overall stylistic concept and becomes an inconspicuous addition.
The concept of “decoration” reflects the main purpose of decorations in a room. The design is used in theatrical productions to transfer the action to the desired conditions and visualize the background environment.
Ana White
Ana White Plans Catalog
In this blog you will find so many instructions for creating furniture from catalogs that you can completely furnish your apartment if you wish.
In the Plans section there is simply a huge selection: from simple bright pallet bedside tables to complex folding beds, wardrobes and shelving. Moreover, you can filter the instructions by degree of complexity, rooms for which the furniture is intended, and style.
The creator of the blog herself is gradually fulfilling her plans: she makes furniture found in the catalog and posts photos of the process and the result.
The Design Confidential
Home page of The Design Confidental
Thanks to this site you will learn how to make beautiful shelves, decorate the space in front of the fireplace, make a bright modern lamp, original pillowcases and much more.
Projects from The Design Confidental website
Also on this site you can find instructions for creating creative furniture and decorative items.
Cot
The description of homemade furniture is very detailed, with tools, materials and drawings.
DIY decor items
To decorate a room with items of their own making, they resort to the technique of decoupage, painting, beading, embroidery, knitting, patchwork, and scrapbooking. The number of ways to create original art objects is huge, and everyone can find a hobby to their liking. If you have never tried yourself in such a matter, then on the World Wide Web you can easily find the necessary master classes with a detailed description of each stage of the work. For hobbies, they use threads, ribbons, pieces of fabric, colored paper, accessories, wire and other improvised means, with the help of which familiar objects are changed beyond recognition or fundamentally new things are created. By making a decorative element with your own hands, it’s easy to feel like a creator of home decoration.
Brit+Co
Brit + Co
On this platform, designers and other creative people share their experiences in everything from homemade jewelry and new ways to apply makeup to creating furniture and decor.
How to use colors in your interior, complement it with cute details or create DIY decor like a hanging garden or a patchwork picture from magazines - you will find this and much more on the Brit + Co website.
How to choose interior decor items
When decorating the interior, we focus on two important aspects:
- Stylistic decision;
- Possibilities of the premises.
Styles leaning toward minimalism only need a couple of items for decoration, while classic styles usually don’t skimp on decor. In the minds of modern people, the concept of luxury has changed greatly and has become associated with simple details. They emphasize the elegance of the decoration with the help of unusual shapes, expensive materials, “fashionable” colors, and not due to their quantity. It is also worth considering the size of the room. In small rooms, it is not recommended to use an abundance of small things that will “load” the cramped space. Large decorative objects are suitable for the same rooms, only in such cases they will not look “lonely” and inappropriate.
Shanty 2 Chic
Shanty 2 Chic
This is a blog of two sisters from Texas, Whitney and Ashley, who do not need a man's help or purchased furniture to make their home cozy.
Projects with Shanty 2 Chic
On their blog, which has been around since 2009, you will find many cool ideas for homemade furniture and decor: tables, shelves, chests of drawers, decorations for various holidays and much more.
In My Own Style
Home page In My Own Style
Diana, the author of this blog, tells how to paint various interior items yourself, what paints to use and on what surfaces.
For example, how to use paint and additional decor to freshen up an old chest of drawers in the bedroom, make a frame holder for recipes, hide hanging TV wires, make a mirrored wall in the fitness room and much more.
If you have your favorite sites to get ideas for cool DIY decor and home decor, please share in the comments.
Original interior ideas
The original interior design, its details, non-standard, sometimes whimsical little things create a unique atmosphere in your home and can tell about the tastes, passions, hobbies of the owners, their achievements, their values.
How can you make your home unique, unique, different from the beautiful, but “surgically clean”, meticulously detailed pictures from fashion catalogs and design magazines?
The answer is simple: the most original interiors are eclectic interiors. Yes, yes, it is roughness, oddities, a combination of different eras, styles, trends within one space that make your home a Home with a capital “H” and fill it with individuality.
Mixing everything with everything - this trend can be seen in all areas of design and stylistics: from the production of furniture and interior items to the fashion industry.
Prints and texture differences
The variety of textures while maintaining a laconic, perhaps even achromatic, color scheme is an excellent field for experimentation:
- mirror and glass surfaces and terry rugs,
- porcelain and animal skins,
- wood and knitted textiles.
The more the objects differ in texture, the more original the interior solutions look!
Color spectrum
Original and unusual interiors are often made in noble shades:
- wine,
- indigo,
- emerald,
- terracotta,
- ecru color,
- golden beige.
Timeless classics are always relevant, do not tire the eye, and are easily combined with each other. In addition, these deep, slightly muted shades look great in any form of execution, be it wall paint and tiles or textile pillows, curtains, blankets.
Non-standard materials
Familiar things in an unusual design can be just the highlight that will make the interior design original. There are many options for implementing bold ideas; they are limited only by your imagination and courage. These could be:
- a transparent glass sink instead of the usual sanitaryware,
- a floor made from tree trunk cuts instead of parquet boards or laminate,
- Roman blinds or lampshades made of parchment or rice paper.
Hand-made
Oddly enough, in our age of commercial abundance, people are increasingly attracted to things made with their own hands or created in small-scale production. Gaining popularity:
- hand painted ceramics,
- patchwork style blankets,
- knitted cushion covers,
- self-decorated frames for photographs, paintings or even mirrors.
You can also bring homemade trinkets from each of your travels, turning them into a collection, or on cozy family evenings, paint chairs and cutting boards with your children.
An original interior decoration will undoubtedly be a hand-assembled stained glass window or a forged fireplace grate created according to your design.
Lighting
Another original design solution in the interior is the so-called designer light. Lighting is given great importance, because with its help you can “stretch out” the most laconic and simple interior. Several point light sources, combined into groups, will allow you to divide the room into several zones or adjust it according to your goals (enlarge, reduce, create a visual corridor).
The light itself can also change: there are a huge number of dimmers and lamps on the market that vary the lighting to different degrees of power and color. Such original lighting in the interior will fit especially well into the space of a bedroom, nursery, or guest room, where a certain intimacy and intimacy are implied.
Flora
Environmental friendliness and ethicality of modern housing is another trend of the last five years. Being away from nature, the city dweller boldly imitates it by filling his home with plants. For example, the most original interiors of European studio apartments are decorated... with an entire wall of living greenery.
Panels of lawn or aromatic herbs, planted in special trays in a special way, of course, require special care, but they look stunning. Truly an urban jungle!
Fauna
For those who are ready to care for pets, massive aquariums or even terrariums are suitable. Original design solutions in the interior imply their use as a shelving unit, dividing the space into zones, or as an interior partition. A huge aquarium from floor to ceiling or a cage with snakes is undoubtedly a choice for the most daring natures.
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The ideas presented above are just a given vector, food for your imagination, which you yourself limit. There are a great many ways to bring them to life.
A sense of proportion and a bit of imagination are the key to harmony. After all, the recipe for the original interior is similar to the recipe for James Bond’s favorite cocktail “Dry martini”: it is prepared according to the “mix, but do not shake” principle.
