This week we have been focusing on the special baby room decoration, in how to decorate the children's bedroom in times of crisis, that is, without spending much, adjusting to a low budget and doing everything possible for ourselves. So today we want to focus on the Crafts, some simpler and others more complicated, that we can do at home and that can be used to decorate.
One of the good things that the crisis has had, there are always good things, you just have to look at the positive side, it has awakened the creativity of many and that together with the advances in communication, which allow us to share our ideas, has done that we recover many home customs that we had somehow lost. He Do It Yourself, do it yourself, it's fashionable and it seems fantastic to me that it is so, so let's see some examples of crafts that we can take to our children's room.
With a little paint ...
We started with the painting, we have already commented on other occasions that a little paint can help us to give a renewed air to the furniture and walls. You only need a boat of desired color, an sandpaper in the case that we are going to paint wood, brush and roller and the attack. But we can do more original things than paint in a plain color such as freehand painting with multicolored stripes as we see in the photo.
If we usually paint at home, we probably already have traces of paint of various colors, and create a drawing either horizontal or vertical stripes or with the pattern that we like, can be used to take advantage of those paint leftovers, not have to spend more and also get a fun and appropriate result for the children's room .
I must add, however, that when we choose very intense colors or striking drawings, such as those we are talking about, I recommend that we take them only to a wall and not to the entire room, in the whole room it can be too ornate, but on the impact wall the result will be excellent, We paint the rest of the walls in a plain color or leave them as they were if their tone combines well with the change we make on the other wall.
Paper and cardboard crafts
The paper is cheap and easy to handle, the ideal is to use for colored cardboard crafts, but there are things that also they can be done even with newspaper or magazine paper, without spending absolutely nothing. Among the easiest things to do are the mobiles to place on the baby's crib or the decorative garlands, we can change them every little time, they are cheap and make them at home is simple, the whole family can have fun on a Sunday afternoon with the craft .
The walls can also be decorated with paper or cardboard, not only with paint, and I do not mean to buy wallpaper but to add details such as in the case of 3D wall decoration that you can see in the first photo of this article. It really is something very easy to do, much cheaper than a vinyl and that also has the value that we have done it ourselves.
We must also consider the option of recycling, we talked before taking advantage of the role of newspapers and magazines for some things, you can also take advantage of the cardboard boxes where some of the things we buy come from, or even egg cartons, which can be painted and used to make toys or ornaments, or as a storage solution for small objects.
Fabric crafts
Although the paper and cardboard crafts are simpler, the ones we do with cloth or felt they have other advantages, because they are more durable, they may require a little more effort on our part, but what we manage to do will last longer and may have utility beyond the merely decorative.
With a technique like patchwork for example, we take advantage of remnants of fabrics that we already have at home and we can do almost everything, quilt cushions or these fabric houses that you see in the photo and that can be used for storage, decorate and help the bedroom is tidy.
On the other hand the same garlands and mobiles that in the previous section we proposed to do with cardboard, for my taste they are better with felt, the patterns to cut are the same, the problem is that you have to have the fabric and obviously we get more expensive than the paper, of course also the ornament it will be more durable, so there we have to value in each case what compensates us the most.
Crafts with socks or crochet
And what more fashionable is certainly crochet, also the sock, but maybe a little more crochet, of course that is already for note, that you can not crochet well without spending some time. But if we get to work, we can do beautiful things like these crochet cacti, which decorate like plants, but you don't have to take care or water.
Of course also bedspreads, blankets, carpets, dolls ... and endless useful things in the room and to decorate. The truth is that we could spend days and days talking about crafts that are made with all kinds of materials, taking advantage of old t-shirts, plastic containers after emptying them ... even Nespresso capsules.
But our special ends here and it is impossible to list in a single article everything we can do with our hands, I hope these ideas will help you to be encouraged and how inspiration for some of your future manual works, I remind you that there are a lot of tutorials on the web that can help you do everything if you are a little lost and do not forget that the crafts have the added value that we have done them.
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