Brilliant DIY Projects for Home Decoration

In 2020 our lives have been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus. Many of us have lost our jobs or have been furloughed and for those of us lucky enough to still have a job we find ourselves working from home more often than not. Children are also at home as schools have been shut, so for the first time in living memory our houses are full. As enjoyable as this can be, it is not all plain sailing as having so many people in the house puts a strain on relationships and can cause endless squabbles. It is important, therefore, to engage the whole family, and what better way than to undertake a spot of DIY that all the family can take part in?! Here we are going to take a look at some brilliant DIY projects for home decoration.

Brighten Up the Dining Room

Dining rooms can often be drab affairs, all painted in one color with the same old boring wooden table and chairs, with perhaps floral curtains and an inoffensive beige carpet. Well, why not engage all the family and redecorate the table and chairs? If you have several children they can each choose their favorite color and can then paint their chair in their style. All the arguments about who sits where at dinner time will be over, and as summer turns into autumn and then winter, your dining room will be full of bright colors that will help keep everyone cheerful during the long dark months ahead.

Use Recycling!

With such momentum in the world to recycle and be as green as possible, why not use your time during lockdown to turn some of the items in your home that you would send for recycling into something useful? Tin cans are a perfect example because everyone loves baked beans now and again so they are always lying around. Clean them, give them a lick of paint and then use them as cutlery holders or as pots to store pencils and crayons. Alternatively, you could turn an old kitchen colander into a wonderful hanging basket. The beauty of these projects is that you can let your and your children’s imagination run wild as the possibilities are endless, so on the next rainy day, repurpose your recycling and brighten up your home at the same time!

Use Glow in the Dark Paint!

With Halloween fast approaching us, a period of the year that children just love, why not suggest to them that they paint their playroom in glow in the dark paint to create a spooky atmospheric room that fits in perfectly with the time of the year? Craft experts from Workshopedia.com recommend that you use colors that blend in with your standard wallpaper or ceiling during the day so that it remains relatively normal looking, and then when the sun goes down the magic will unfold and your kids can be entertained all evening by the spooky pictures that they have drawn. What’s more, they can even apply a new lick of glow in the dark paint in time for Christmas, and then the playroom can be suitably festive once again, and also another opportunity for your kids to get messy with their paint brushes. 

Doors for Chalkboards

We all remember being back at school before the invention of whiteboards and pens when our teachers used to write on a blackboard using chalk. Well, there is no reason why the blackboard has to be black, it could be any color that you want, and equally, you can find chalk covering every color of the rainbow. So, why not waste an afternoon with your kids by painting your doors with blackboard paint, and then they can use them to practice sketching or to leave messages for each other? You can even write shopping lists or to-do lists on them, or turn them into makeshift calendars so you know all the afterschool activities that your kids have. The possibilities are endless, and if you get tired of their scribbling you can always paint over it and it will look as good as new in no time at all!

As we have learned the possibilities are simply endless when it comes to finding brilliant DIY projects for your home. Kitchen chairs can be painted by your kids individually, and as it is close to Halloween buy them some glow in the dark paint to turn the playroom into a spooky dungeon. Doors can be repurposed as chalkboards and all the material that you have for recycling such as cans and old kitchen implements can be turned into something useful. Use your imagination and in no time at all you will have brightened your home up and it will only have cost you a few pennies.