Everyone loves to decorate their home, make it cozy and comfortable. Coziness in the house is created by all sorts of pleasant little things that home designers prefer to create with their own hands.
Figurines, tableware, souvenirs and collections are perfect for interior design.
The second life of the old suitcase
Make various little things for the interior yourselfIt is always pleasant and interesting to work with your hands. You can use everything that is at hand for this. If you like to welcome guests at home, then you can easily surprise them with an original bar made from an old suitcase. To make such a design, you will need:
To make such a design, you will need: a suitcase, a tape measure, scissors, upholstery fabric, a saw.
In order for such a bar to appear in the interior,The suitcase should be chosen with a frame made of wooden planks. To equip the bar with shelves, it is necessary to measure the inside with a tape measure and cut out pieces of the corresponding sizes from the furniture board. In those places where they will be in contact with the frame planks, it is necessary to make cuts. This will allow the shelves to “sit” tightly inside. Since all the elements will be covered with fabric, when sawing, it is necessary to make a reserve that corresponds to the thickness of the fabric. Insert the finished shelves inside to make sure that they are well joined to the frame. In order for the lid of the suitcase to be held open, it is necessary to cut pieces of the required size from thick tape and staple them to the wooden planks. The length of the pieces should correspond to the distance between the lid and the base of the suitcase when open. The deep part of the suitcase, in which bottles and glasses will be installed later, should be decorated with fabric. Any thick fabric or faux fur will do for this. The fabric should be selected so that the future bar does not stand out from the color scheme of the interior. Its edge needs to be folded by about 10 mm and secured with a stapler. It is better to start the upholstery from the middle, gradually moving towards the corners. Cut off excess fabric in the corners and, having folded the edge, secure it.
Wood never goes out of style in interior designout of fashion. Then cover the future shelves with material. It is necessary to fix it with a stapler from the side that will be directed to the walls and the bottom of the suitcase. Fold the prepared parts at a right angle and connect them together with screws. To mark the places where the shelves are attached to the frame of the suitcase, they should be inserted inside again. On the outside, make marks in the places where the top of the horizontal shelf and the bottom of the vertical one will be attached. In these places, drill the walls of the suitcase and fix the shelves with screws. On the lid of the suitcase, it is necessary to decorate the side walls with fabric. To do this, cut strips of the required width from the fabric and, having folded the upper edge, fix them with a stapler. The lid of the suitcase will become an improvised “table” on which you can mix cocktails. You need to cut a rectangle out of cardboard, the size of which corresponds to the size of the inside of the lid, and put it inside. You can decorate the lid with a collage of cocktail recipes cut out from old magazines or other stickers. Such a bar will become a real decoration of the interior not only of the kitchen, but also of the living room. Return to contents</a>
Ideas for using wood in the interior
The most affordable, elegant and beautiful materialfor DIY interior decoration - tree and shrub branches. Their shapes, natural bending and branching, beautiful color and excellent flexibility are ideal for creating beautiful little things to decorate your home, making it cozier and warmer. Any little things in the interior can become the touch that will emphasize its individuality. Even if these little things are made of the simplest materials, for example, from dry twigs. To create a composition, you will need willow twigs or other similar trees. It is better to harvest the material from the end of August to the beginning of October, until the sap begins to flow. First, the branches are cleaned of leaves and bark. Then they are carefully bent and folded into a saucepan. The twigs should boil for at least 2 hours. After that, they are cooled in cold water and twisted around any round surface. For this, you can use a chair leg, a vacuum cleaner pipe or another similar object. To prevent the structure from falling apart, it can be fixed with tape or a simple rope. The size of the "curls" on the rods depends on how tightly they are wound. The blanks should be in this position for at least 48 hours. When the blanks are dry, they can be removed and used to create different compositions that will become a wonderful decoration for the interior. Not only thin twigs can be used for interior decoration, but also other parts of trees: branches, parts of the trunk, bark. An interesting decorative ladder can be made from ordinary branches, which will decorate the wall in the hallway or children's room. It can be left in its original form or decorated with different paints or pieces of fabric glued in a chaotic manner. Before decorating, all branches should be cleared of bark and sanded with sandpaper. An interesting headboard can be made from an ordinary branch. A branch placed between the fasteners of an ordinary shelf will not only become an additional place for various small things, but also an interesting touch in the interior, especially designed in an eco-style. A stand-alone hanger can be made from a thicker branch. It can be fixed anywhere in the house. A long straight branch or trunk of a young tree can be used to make a handrail for a staircase in a country house. To do this, you need to choose a branch without knots and other defects, clean it thoroughly and sand it. Cover the finished handrail with varnish. You can do more than just a handrail and make the entire fence from pieces of the trunk and small branches. Such a staircase will look especially organic in a wooden house.
