Ideas Decorating Home

I am a big fan of up cycling and find transforming old items into something new  incredibly fun!

I visited my local library recently, and was pleased to find an eighties sewing handbook for interiors, for sale just for 20 pence. The large book describes tons of ways how you can create a new look for your home by doing things with your own hands and using any material available.

From a decorative seating for your favourite chair, simply by using canvas stitching following the given model, to very special tea towels and rugs and so on. What a fascinating resource the it was for me, just by browsing through the pages makes my creative juices flow.

It is a great way of finding new ideas when feeling stuck and lacking inspiration, and keeping your own small reference library at home is a place to turn with a pot of tea and cupcakes especially on those rainy days.

You can find a new life for your old pyjamas as a sweet rag doll with character and could complete it only within a couple of hours. You could make use of your old bath robe to create a new set of hand towels to your bathroom and stitch on your signature.

Using old furniture as a space divider can be a fun idea to create, as you could find stackable boxes to create a tower in your room or remove all cupboard doors for an open display shelf.

Painting or lacquering, or even sandpapering may be good ways for enhancing and renewing the looks. I did simply collect wine bottles in my kitchen, washed them, removed labels and after drying used white and black paints to redecorate them, and voila, I have a nice focal point of bottles at my window sill.