Romance and decor with their own hands. Home decor

Do you like to create a romantic atmosphere in the house? Do you like to place candles, flowers, hearts? Make a unique decor with your own hands. Ideas can be very different: from sweet flowers from satin ribbons to voluminous letters with illumination. Choose options, complement them. Make it happen!

Romance and decor

With their own hands to create decorations for an interior, a romantic dinner or a holiday is quite simple. All of them are made from affordable inexpensive materials that are easy to buy. You can decorate everything: walls, floor, furniture, table, prepared snacks. Taking as a basis any idea, you can improve it.

How to Make an Edible Decoration

Beautifully arrange a table for a romantic dinner and make spectacular snacks will help carving. It is an artistic carving of food items of decorative objects. Most often, vegetables and fruits are used, rarely fish, greens. As for tools, special knives are used. As a first experiment, try to do something simple with improvised tools. The only important point is that the knives must be sharply sharpened. Romance and decor with their own hands is created very simply. The main thing is to show imagination and creativity.

Try to make a floral arrangement of flowers, a heart or cut the name of a loved one on watermelon or melon.

It is easier to work with solid, homogeneous objects. You can use the most usual and affordable things - raw potatoes, carrots, apple, cucumber.

Decor for a mirror

A special atmosphere of romance is created by numerous reflections of lamps and candles in glossy reflecting surfaces. The best for this purpose mirrors. Decorate them with a bedroom or a room for a date can be very original and unusual. Arrange several different sized mirrors so that they reflect the glow of candles and your silhouettes.

In this case, mirrors perform the role of interior objects, and do not serve a direct functional purpose. You will not correct your hair and make up, looking at them, so beautiful decor is quite appropriate.

The reflecting surface itself can be small. Beauty and romance will create a frame. It is performed in the technique of decoupage, decorating with hearts, romantic images of couples in love, flowers, butterflies. Sold ready wide frames with mirrors and drawings that are applied to the surface. It is not difficult to master this technique, but the result will be worth the effort.

On a mirror without a frame, you can apply the drawing yourself with the help of paints and a brush. Suitable stained glass sets or even ordinary gouache pigments.

The most effective method of decorating glass and, in particular, the mirror is sandblasting, when the pattern is applied by a jet of sand coming out under pressure from the nozzle. In fact, it is scratched on the surface. The technique is not very complicated, but it requires certain skills and equipment. If we talk about a simple method of simulating sandblast at home, then it is easiest to do this with the help of paint or applying a matting composition on the stencil. The sequence of actions will be as follows:

1. Clean and degrease the surface.
2. Apply self-adhesive film.
3. Draw on it the desired pattern (monogram, heart, names, initials).
4. Cut the outlines.
5. Paint the inside of the stencil.
6. After the composition dries, remove the film, clean the dirt with alcohol.

The romantic décor designed in this way perfectly complements any room.

Volumetric letters

Now fashionable interior decorations made by own hands. To add romance to a room, a holiday or an intimate dinner, make an original three-dimensional inscription that can be hung on a wall, put on a table, a sofa back or even placed on the floor. Doing this kind of decor for the house is easy. You will need the following:

• Thick paper, cardboard;
• Scissors, knife, pencil, brushes, paints, glue;
• Material for decorating the surface (fabric, designer paper);
• Backlight.

Ideas of the text can be:

• Traditional "LOVE";
• "I LOVE YOU", where the second word replaces the heart;
• "Sasha + Masha", where your names are indicated;
• "May you live happily ever after";
• initials.

It all depends on your imagination, relationships with your loved one and a sense of humor. You can choose a phrase with a light touch of eroticism or any other, you understand the two.

So, we make a romantic decor with our own hands. The ideas of volumetric letters and their execution may differ. The meaning of the action is as follows:

1. From paper, cardboard, plastic or other available suitable material, make a frame. The letters make in the thickness of the base or in the form of "boxes", which have a front, back wall and a lateral connecting surface.
2. You glue decorative elements on each element of the text.
3. In the letters, you can cut holes or make the front wall transparent, so that the lights inside the box are highlighted. It is easiest to take a ready-made Christmas tree garland and place it inside voluminous letters.

You can also make a backlight by placing candles. However, beautifully and effectively, this inscription will look and apart.

Hearts made of paper

The most accessible and easy-to-handle material is paper. From it you can make a beautiful romantic decor. The style of design or the technique of ayris-folding will help you with this. The meaning of it is that the carved out certain form is filled with beautiful pieces of design, textured or simply bright colored paper. The made hearts can be glued to the wall or suspended to the ceiling.

Scrapbooking

It is also a method of working with paper. Usually, so are the romantic photo albums. In addition to different types of paper, volumetric stickers, ribbons, small eyelets (rings) and other decorative elements are used. So you can make a frame for a photo, and a picture on a wall, and a postcard, and any other object. In fact, romance and decor with their own hands are created very simply and from available materials. Show your imagination and put your feelings into the manufactured product.

Kanzashi technique

Initially, this is a way to create jewelry for a hairdo from square pieces of satin ribbons. If you master the technique, you can make any decorative elements, including for decorating the interior:

• Relief hearts, flowers that are well placed on curtains or garlanded;
• Letters;
• Suspension on the ceiling or chandelier;
• Decorations for the table.

Topiary or pendant balls

From the spherical objects create a variety of souvenirs and accessories for the house. Topiary is a bright representative of a series of ornaments for those who are attracted by romance and decor. It's very easy to make it with your own hands. It is necessary to take a round base, for example, of papier-mache, and glue it with small elements: balls, hearts, pine cones, bows, coffee beans. All this is set in a pot on the stem - the stem. If you strengthen in the sphere of suspension, with such balls you can decorate any space.

New Year decor by own hands

Ideas of romantic festive decoration are very diverse. And they use not only traditional tinsel, snowflakes and beads. Perform Christmas trees of cones, balls, bows, laces, ribbons. Do decoupage of bottles and wine glasses, gift boxes, Christmas balls, decorative volumetric inscriptions.

So, you learned how to perform the original decor for a house in a romantic style. Any idea can be a pleasant gift to the Day of all lovers, decoration of the interior for the holiday or for every day!