Take advantage of additional free time during summer time staycation or long weekend to whip up one of those colorful, catchy jobs for the home. By DIY background and spray paint artwork to giant washi tape for your walls, these nine projects spied around are sure to get your wheels spinning.
CM Glover
1. Stamped and splattered cushions and chairs. Spice up a plain white pillow, slipcover or thrift shop chair with a dab of bright paint. Either splatter the paint à la Jackson Pollack or use a very simple stencil or stamp with fabric paint to make a repeating pattern, such as the hearts shown here. Practice your design on paper and scraps of fabric first, until you’ve mastered the tools you are using.
Sara Bates
2. Chalkboard”wallpaper” A chalkboard wall may go past the playroom when you handle it like your very own customizable (and easily changed) wallpaper. Just use white chalk to make your own routine — attempt miniature plus signs, dots, stars, triangles or waves.
See how to make your own chalkboard paint
Abaca Interiors
3. Giant washi tape wall decor. Like the favorite Japanese newspaper crafting tape but on steroids, this supersize washi tape may be used directly on your walls to include colour and layout, without the dedication of background. It comes in beautiful colors, and when you eliminate it, it will peel right off. It is possible to find giant washi tape to purchase here.
The Cousins
4. Surfboard bar. When you have an older surfboard lying about or spy at a late-summer lawn sale in a bargain price, look at transforming it into a one-of-a-kind outdoor bar. Attach it to some simple table (even sawhorses and a board could do), and top it with summer bar essentials prior to your next shindig.
Make one for the tots: Whip up a mini version for the kids’ playroom using a boogie board attached to some low table.
5. Spray paint artwork. Get a sterile cloth canvas and a can of gold spray paint in the local art supply shop, and spritz your design.
Set up your workspace outside, cover the ground with a tarp and protect yourself with a mask and gloves. Test your design on paper first until you feel comfortable with the spray paint; then move on to the canvas.
6. Pin letter magnets. Switch papier-mâché letters in the craft shop into a significant statement for your refrigerator by attaching magnets to the back. Select a favourite term to describe, cover the letters with colorful cloth or paint, and glue magnets to the back of each one (you may need several magnets each letter).
Amy Renea
7. Scrap-wood wall artwork. Put your own spin on typography wall artwork, such as the pieces shown here, using scrap timber and letter stencils. Fasten the timber pieces together, then paint a brief quote or phrase using letter stencils and white paint.
Corynne Pless
8. Photo booth wall display. Can you have a drawer filled with photo booth strips somewhere? If this is so, it’s time to dig them out! Hung together in rows on mini clotheslines, these little mementos create a large effects. No photo strips? Consider using Polaroids, black and white photos or any pictures with a theme (oceans, portraits etc.. ) instead.
Stern McCafferty
9. Photo grid . Whip up a dramatic-looking but deceptively simple display for all of those summer vacation photos using a grid of identical cheap frames (those shown here are from Ikea). The tricky part is measuring precisely so the frames hang with one another, but as soon as you get that down, it is a piece of cake — and the results are completely jaw dropping.
Tip: Do not have enough pictures to fill every frame? Fill a few randomly put frames with plain white paper instead — look closely and you’ll realize that has been done in the area here.
Tell usAre you anything this summer? Itching to try out something new? Share your ideas in the Comments!
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