Make your bedroom more personal with homemade decorations.
Create the bedroom you've always wanted by making your own bedroom decorations. Designing your own decorative pieces often means you are reusing items, making your project an eco-friendly one and also guaranteeing the pieces will be unique. Try making collages to de-clutter a home filled with boxes of "memories" or take a beat-up old table and make it new again as a nightstand or side table.
Instructions
Framed Collage Art
1. Collect a variety of interesting fabrics, photos and other materials that create a collage about family and friends, though any theme will do. Use vacation, wedding and other significant event photos, ticket stubs, song lyrics, postcards, graduation tassels, notes, buttons and any other items you would like to include.
Provide enough materials to cover a rectangular picture frame that is either 16-by-16 inches or 20-by-20 inches in size. Collages are a great way to display "memories" rather than allowing them to collect dust in boxes. These can be mounted above your headboard.
2. Cover the paper back of the frame, which is the base of your collage, with assorted fabric scraps. Wallpaper scraps are another option, use staples or hot glue to attach the fabric to the perimeter of the cardboard backing.
3. Arrange your items on the covered cardboard backing. Refrain from gluing anything until you have the arrangement the way you want. Use hot glue or tape to attach items to the covered cardboard. Allow the hot glue to dry for about 10 minutes.
4. Fit the frame on your collage for display in your bedroom.
Decorated Side Table
5. Place a small plain wooden table over a few sheets of newspaper in your garage, basement or other area that is well ventilated. Use a table of little monetary value that you can paint, glue and otherwise decorate.
6. Sand the table using 220-grit sandpaper. Wipe the table down to remove all wood dust. Use a coat of primer on the table and allow it to dry for an hour.
7. Paint the table as desired. Create designs in the middle of the tabletop and patterns around its perimeter. Paint the legs in contrasting colors. There is no wrong way to paint your table, but for best results use semi-gloss paint designed for painting wood.
8. Cover sections of the of the table legs with pieces of scrap fabric. Wind the fabric around the legs, tie other bits in big bows, or any other design ideas. Use contrasting fabrics as well, such as shiny satin fabrics and matte plaids.
9. Add embellishments to the table using wood glue. Pick buttons, glitter glue, beads, sequins and faux jewels. Consider encrusting one or more table leg sections in faux jewels and decorating the perimeter of the table edge with sequins. Allow the glue to dry for about an hour before display.
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