DIY: creative ideas to decorate the living room

Increasingly popular, the decoration style DIY (Do It Yourself – Do It Yourself) has offered more personality to the composition of environments, mainly because it is the result of products created by hand.

And when we talk about decorate the room, this type of composition has everything to combine charm, comfort and style with the more social environment of your home. Therefore, we have prepared some creative tips for decorating the living room using some DIY projects. Check out!

1. Invest in wallpaper

This is a simple and practical solution, with the potential to give a new look to any environment! In the living room, then, wallpaper can convey the warmth you are looking for in the room.

Best of all when using wallpaper in DIY composition, is that they are applied and removed easily, which does not require much manual skill for installation.

2. Use pallets to decorate the room

Another tip that is trending and doesn’t require much effort – but requires a lot of your creativity! After all, the possibilities with pallets are as varied as they are useful!

You can create a sofa with them, for example, and then fill them with large, comfortable cushions. But pallets have also been widely used to create graceful coffee tables.

It is even worth using this product that is so cheap and easy to find in supermarkets as shelves or shelves – in the same way that you can opt for market crates, in this sense.

The tip is to personalize these products. Whether applying patina or the tone of your choice, remember, just sand and varnish the piece before using it to give the pallets more resistance, protection and durability.

3. Make walls out of newspapers, books or comics

For the living room, it's worth opting for this charming decoration that should remain a trend for a long time: to do this, simply take newspaper clippings and book pages and apply them to one part, or even cover the entire wall.

The result brings, above all, personality to the environment, as it brings together what you like when decorating the room. And, best of all: everything is done with your hands!

4. Paint your old furniture

Do you want to get a little more serious about the DIY concept to decorate the living room? How about starting by looking at family and friends' homes, or even in antique stores, for used furniture that deserves a second chance?

Then, a good renovation could be the difference needed to make the old furniture match your decorative style! It could be sanding followed by a patina effect – so common in Provençal decor – or even opting for strong tones and simulating one or another aspect of retro decor.

Get inspired by your favorite decorating styles and delve deeper into this way of decorating a living room, which depends exclusively on your creativity to take shape.

5. Repurpose and personalize glass bottles

Finally, another simple tip that can be enriched with your good ideas: reused glass bottles!

They can become decorative items themselves, when you paint them completely, or gain new uses – such as serving as a vase for flowers, decorated with some type of fabric, such as jute.

Another tip is to personalize them the way you prefer and use them as candle holders – which have everything to do with any style of decoration in your room.

And to you? Which of the DIY tips for decorating the living room, which we have included here, suits your home perfectly?

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