Decorating your home doesn’t have to cost a lot. Tasteful pieces and elegant décor can be had at reasonable prices. And then there is always the DIY option. DIYing your home pieces will inject your style and personality into the look. You also get to explore and express your creativity through DIY home projects. The key to successful home DIYs is knowing what you want. Determine what you need and the look that you want for your home. Here are beautiful and creative home DIY projects that could inspire your imagination.
35 Creative Concrete DIY Projects, Ideas, and Designs
Home DIY projects add character to the house. It represents you and reflects your personality. They are also great creative outlets where you’re rewarded with amazing creations you can use or showcase in your home. Here are some nifty and creative concrete DIY projects, ideas, and designs to keep you busy and inspire your creativity.
40 DIY Home Storage and Organiser Ideas and Designs
You can never get enough storage space in the house. However, creating storage space doesn’t only entail to having bigger rooms and more cabinets. Get creative with your storage and create a clutter-free home in the process. These create storage and organiser ideas and designs will make use of idle spaces in your house, recycle, and encourage creativity in managing space and clutter.
45 Home DIY Project Ideas and Designs for Kids
Bonding with your kids gets a little more memorable if you’re engaged in a project that will remind you of the fun you’ve had. Encouraging your kids to be creative and productive can be a challenge, make it easier by presenting them with fun activities and creative projects. Here are some creative, fun, and easy DIY home project ideas and designs you can enjoy with your kids.
50 Wood DIY Project Ideas and Designs
Scrap woods abound and they often just left to rot away and go to waste. Do not let good wood go to waste, instead, turn them into something usable, beautiful and creative. With a little creativity and free time, you can create amazing home pieces. These wood DIY project ideas and designs for the home will help you clear out your garage of shed of recycled or scrap wood and turn them into lovely and functional pieces for the home;
35 DIY Room Divider Ideas and Designs
Room dividers are commonly used to provide additional privacy and to divide a room into two or several dedicated space. They often come in the form of movable panels you can easily set up anywhere in the house where it is needed. Room dividers are very much part of the home design and should complement your personality, needs and home interiors. Here are some great DIY room divider ideas and designs to steal for your next weekend DIY project;
25 Incredible DIY Makeover Ideas and Designs
Home décors and designs fade and go out of fashion. While it is best to renovate and remodel to upgrade the interiors, resources like money and time are limited. A little DIY work to fix a dated style, to refresh a faded look or to improve a flawed design will go a long way. Here are examples of successful DIY makeover ideas and designs that can inspire your creativity and fill your weekends;
40 Gorgeous DIY Home Décor Ideas and Designs
Personalised items, custom home décors and collections are what makes a house a home. Personal touches and effects separate the detached aura of a hotel room to the warm interiors of a lived-in bedroom. One way of putting your personal touch around the house is by creating pieces for it. Check out these gorgeous and creative DIY home décor ideas and designs;
50 Easy Home DIY Project Ideas and Designs
Home DIY projects make your home more yours. They exude your personality and style. They reflect your needs and lifestyle. A home full of DIYed items has more character and charm. DIYing is also a practical way of saving up money, repurposing old and used items and expressing one’s creativity. Here are some easy home DIY project ideas and designs that can inspire your next project;
45 Creative Wall Paint Ideas and Designs
Splashing on a fresh coat of paint is the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to refresh your home interiors. Aside from just painting the walls, you can also use them as the room’s accent or décor. With a little artistry and a lot of imagination, your walls can be highlights of the room or the house! Here are some easy DIY wall paint ideas and designs that will instantly transform the wall from humdrum to fabulous. Check these out and get ready for some painting!
35 Inventive Tyre Recycle Projects
You can easily toss out old tyres and forget about them. But it takes about 50 years for rubber to decompose. So, your old tyres will be sitting in the compost for a long time. You can do your share of minimising trash and protecting mother earth. Converting reusable trash like tyres into functional items also helps encourage creativity, some will give you a good workout and save you a lot of cash you would be spending on buying household items. Here are some tyre recycle projects you can do over the weekend. Pick one you can do on your next weekend!
60 Creative DIY Wall Feature Projects
The walls are your home’s best stage to display décor and accessories. Your walls are a great platform to showcase you – your passion, your family, your personality. Whether you have expensive art pieces, creative wall features or a collection of family snapshots, the wall will give it great vantage. Create your own wall features to make your walls more personalised and save money. Instantly upgrade a blank wall with these easy and creative DIY wall feature projects;
Tips and Tricks for Storing Specific Household Items
Your precious belongings have special requirements when it comes to packing for storage. If you don’t take this into account, chances are your treasures will be damaged at the other end.
The storage experts at Kent Storage have passed on some tips to help give you an idea of the types of items that need a little extra attention:
The Ultimate Packing for Storage Checklist
Renovating a house is a rewarding experience! You get to build your own dream home and sit back at the end of it all and feel pride in what you’ve created. However, it’s still a big undertaking and you need organization and dedication to ensure everything goes as planned.
How to Make the Most of Storage During Renovations
Storage and renovation go hand in hand. Storage allows you to declutter your home so you can get the renovation done without shuffling belongings between rooms or worse, relative’s homes. On top of all of that, your builders will love having an empty house to work in, rather than having to tip-toe around all your treasured possessions.
55 DIY Pallet Recycling Ideas and Designs
Pallets are pre-cut, good-sized and still in good condition wood boards. It is also one of the most popular recycling and repurposing materials. Cleaned, sanded and polished, pallets can be turned into countless functional and beautiful home implements. A few hours of DIY work with a good dose of creativity, pallets can help you save money, without limiting good taste and style. Here are some fabulous and creative DIY pallet recycling ideas and designs;
DIY: Coffered Ceiling Project
Here is another project to dress up your home, this time the ceiling. Coffered ceiling reminds of the Old-English affluent elegance. It adds character and depth to any room. Coffering is also brilliant to hiding unsightly exposed beams and other ceiling imperfections and to modernise a dated ceiling. Coupled with strategic lighting, coffered ceilings can be breathtaking highlights to any modern home. This project might require advanced carpentry skills and the right equipment. But with enough dedication and focus, anyone can accomplish this basic coffered ceiling project.
DIY: Shabby Chic Furniture
Home design and styling trends are slowing going back to the rich, creative, and beautiful. Odd pieces of fine-looking shabby chic furniture are showing up to add character to the drab minimalism of today’s home interiors. While the clean lines and basic colour palettes are still trendy, you can inject an interesting and rich personality to a modern room with a fascinating furniture.
Shabby chic decorating exudes the charm and quiet opulence of the past, and is embodied by old, scruffy, and still graceful pieces of furniture. High quality furniture are usually handed down from generation to generation. If you don’t have one, you can search for good pieces in thrift shops, antique furniture shops, vintage stores, or chance upon collectors’ garage sales. Or you can create your own shabby chic furniture with this easy DIY project.
Weekend DIY Project 2: Recycled Wood Wall Feature
The rustic charm of recycled wood has remained a popular home design trend, seen throughout modern spaces. Perfect for a feature wall, the warm, woody tones and natural texture of recycled wood can give dull spaces, personality and depth.
Creating a recycled wood feature wall is an achievable DIY project, and one that proves affordable for savvy interior design enthusiasts. To begin this project you will need the following tools and materials:
Weekend DIY Project 1: Frosting Glass with Spray Frosting Paint
Glass walls and windows provide us the openness to the outside views and let us enjoy optimum natural lighting. However, the transparency also compromises our sense of privacy. Frosting is a great solution to adding privacy without blocking the views and natural light. And with the right patterns and design, it can also transform a rather ordinary window or wall to something stylish and extraordinary.