How to decorate a nursery with your own hands?

Parents quite often think about how to make their child’s nursery more beautiful, stylish and original. Moreover, even people with good financial means, who, in principle, can buy all the highest quality, reliable and beautiful for their child, are considering options. There is nothing surprising in this desire, for things made with love can radiate care and warmth. From this article you will learn how to decorate a nursery with your own hands, without any special skills. The main thing is to have the desire to give your child great joy.

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How to decorate old children's furniture yourself?

Do not be afraid, in this case you will not have to make anything from wood yourself, because it’s enough just to slightly modify the existing bedside table, chest of drawers, bed and other interior items in the children's room. Are you interested in how to decorate a room with your own hands for a teenage girl? The ideas below are suitable for decorating rooms in which children of any age live. Here, by the way, the most popular of them.

Decoration with appliqués and decoupage

You do not need to perform any complicated manipulations - it is enough to cover the clean facades and walls of the furniture with light paint, and after it dries, stick to them the pictures that you previously cut from old magazines and children's books. By the way, such drawings can be made independently if you have at least some artistic skills. On top of the image are varnished in several layers.

Important! Decoupage can be done using the remains of wallpaper, which will look no less original.

Upholstery with fabric

When an overly active child grows in the house, it is possible to make the interior items in his room not only more beautiful, but also safe. It is necessary to remove the sides of the bed or facades from the hinges and glue thin foam to them, and pull the fabric from above and attach it on the back with a furniture stapler.

Partial replacement of facades

You can turn an ordinary cabinet into a dollhouse or a space rocket, and the old bedside table into a beautiful castle. But here you need the help of the pope so that with the help of a jigsaw he cut out the necessary elements from the color chipboard and attach them back.

Such original alterations will cost you a penny, but how much pleasure the child will receive from such fabulous transformations of his furniture.

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Interesting transformations of unnecessary things

DIY decorations for a kids room can be made this way:

1. Get old suitcases lying around in the attic. It is necessary to remove the locks from them, cover and cover the bottom or paste over with a beautiful and variegated fabric, then screw the wheels or legs to them. As a result, you will get a convenient little table with drawers where tools for children's creativity, crafts or a mobile container for storing toys will be stored.
2. Similarly, you can remake old fruit boxes or chests.
3. To store a large number of soft toys, you can sew a huge bag fastened with a zipper. In its full form, it will also serve as a chair - this way you will get rid of constant mess, and toys will not be covered with dust.
4. From old kitchen stools you can make a kitchen for a child.Sew plywood on three sides, place a shelf inside and hang curtains instead of doors.
5. Strong cardboard boxes can be converted into shelving containers for storing treasures and jewelry for the hair.

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Making DIY elements for a kids room

If you really appreciate your strengths and understand that you are not ready for the global alterations listed above, then deciding how to decorate a room with your own hands for a girl or boy is even easier. You need to use homemade decorative elements. So, the ideas below can be implemented even with the participation of kids:

• The easiest option is to sew or knit original curtains, bedding, bedspreads and other details for the nursery from textile fabrics with bright and interesting patterns.
• You can buy special decorative stickers and decorate furniture and walls with your child.

Important! Their main advantage is that they do not leave marks on the surfaces, so you can constantly change their location.

• Together with the baby, you can cut out birds, butterflies, asterisks, flowers from thick colored paper, and stick them to the wall using double-sided tape.
• It has become quite popular today to put an inscription on the crib of a child with his name. The letters for this can be done independently, for example, cut them out of cardboard and then paint. The finished inscription can be decorated with beads, rhinestones and even applications.
• If your child loves to draw and he does it well, then you can decorate the walls with his drawings, but you just need to insert them into frames for this. You can also pull an ordinary rope along the wall, with the help of bright clothespins, hang pictures or photographs of your child on it.
• There is no child who does not like balloons. You can inflate them with helium, tie long shoelaces and run to the ceiling. At any time, the child will be able to come up, get the ball and play with it. But, really, remember that they slowly but deflate over time.
• Decor with garlands. This is another interesting option for decorating a nursery. You can string various figures cut from paper on a strong thread and hang them around the room. If the child can already cope with scissors, then he will certainly help you in this matter.
• With older children, colorful panels can be made. For example, use multi-colored buttons. First, on a dense fabric, you need to draw a contour, then sew on buttons as tight as possible to each other inside the pattern.

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So we learned how to decorate the walls in the children's room with our own hands and independently carry out original transformations of old interior items. The main thing is not to be afraid to fantasize, and then you can come up with a lot of interesting options for decoration.