Interesting DIY Christmas Room Decorating Ideas

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

When the New Year's fireworks have died down and the main, most anticipated holiday has ended, it is time to change the scenery in the house. Change lovers are thinking about how to decorate a room for Christmas with their own hands, adding new decorations to a place where it is so pleasant to rest and fall asleep. To make interesting crafts, you can use step-by-step master classes with photos and videos, updating the room beyond recognition.

Star-shaped candlestick

If you do not have a talent for drawing, you can download a template for crafts and cut a blank from it. Or enlarge the picture to the desired size and sketch from the computer screen, tracing the contours with a pencil.

Would need:

• cardboard box;
• glue (hot and PVA);
• scissors and a pencil;
• corrugated paper - 40 cm;
• wine corks - 19 pcs.;
• stationery knife;
• a candle in a glass beaker;
• sisal - a small package;
• acrylic paint (white) and brush;
• sequins;
• artificial branches;
• cones, nuts and other natural materials;
• tape with or without any pattern.

Progress:

We cut out a star measuring 20 * 20 cm and strips along the length of the beams 4 cm high. Assemble the base with a glue gun and let it dry completely

We fix the rest of the cardboard with each other and put it into the craft, filling the voids. If there is foam in the house, cut out a blank from it and insert it inside. This will make the star more dense and will not deform

We glue the second blank, closing the craft

We glue the lower part of the star with corrugated paper. You can replace it with burlap or any suitable fabric

• Cut off the excess, leaving 2 cm of paper around the edges.
• Lift the corrugation up, stretch it and fix it with glue.
• We measure a strip of paper 1-1.5 cm wider than the side of the star. We glue it.

• We fold the remaining edges onto the cardboard and carefully fix it with glue so that the place where the corrugated paper is glued is not visible.
• Cut the wine corks in half with a clerical knife. We glue on the side parts of the star with hot silicone.

• We fix the glass with a candle in the middle of the craft.
• We take out the sisal with long threads and decorate the edges of the star with it, hiding the irregularities when gluing the corks.

• We disassemble the artificial branches into separate parts and glue them over and under the sisal.
• We supplement the candlestick with cones and other natural materials.

• We glue the tape over the corks and hide the edges in the joints between them.
• We paint over natural elements with white paint and leave to dry completely.
• Apply PVA glue to the painted parts and cover with sparkles.

As natural materials, you can use wood cuts, acorns, nuts and everything that you got to collect in the fall or buy in a store for creativity. It is also easy to replace them with artificial options that are sold in the public domain.

Spruce branches and cars

One of the most fashionable ideas on how to decorate a room for Christmas in European countries has become decorations with a car. They are used to decorate pillows, walls and as winter-themed toys.

However, it is very problematic to purchase them in Russia, so stylish jewelry can be made with your own hands.

Would need:

• plastic machine;
• red, black, silver acrylic paint;
• brushes (thin and wide);
• artificial branches with snow;
• PVA glue;
• twine thread;
• scissors.

Progress:

1. We prime the car, overlapping the main color with black. We also try to paint over the glass and other parts of the car. Leave it to dry completely.
2. We paint the body with red acrylic. We make the strokes uneven, allowing the black to show through in small stripes.
3. We type a silver color on a thin brush and paint over the headlights, glass, rims and draw handles on the doors.
4. Lubricate the body with auto glue and sprinkle it with snow, which can be collected from the branches of an artificial branch.
5. Cut off a small twig and make a mini-tree out of it. To do this, cut off the excess needles, reducing them in volume, if necessary.
6. We tie the tree with twine to make the craft look realistic. We fix it on the roof.
7. You can use retro cars in a tabletop composition to decorate a room for Christmas or hang it on the wall, curtains or fir branches.

Decorations under glass

In order to make interesting European jewelry, you will need glass or plastic candlesticks and a jar called a cloche. You can find them in creative stores or those that sell things in the range of 50 to 200 rubles. You can also connect the parts with a glue gun, but such a craft will be less durable.

Would need:

• cloche;
• candlesticks;
• epoxy adhesive.

Progress:

1. We glue the cloche saucer with a candlestick with epoxy glue.
2. If you want to make a leg with a flask higher, we connect two candlesticks together with narrow parts. We wait until the glue is completely dry and only then proceed to further decoration.
3. We place any decor under the glass caps that we like. These can be artificial snow, natural materials, or Christmas tree decorations. You can also use LED candles, satin ribbon bows, berries, and more. Having started the creative process, you can independently come up with new options for how to decorate a room for Christmas with your own hands using scrap materials.

Small houses with a metallic sheen

These interesting decorations are made of steel and are sold in online stores at incredible prices. Long-lasting and fabulously beautiful houses are at the forefront of Christmas decorations. But since not everyone can work with metal, you can make an imitation using ordinary stationery materials.

Would need:

• cardboard;
• stationery knife;
• ruler and pencil;
• glue gun;
• dark gray and silver paint;
• brush;
• corrugated board and red acrylic.

Work progress:

1. Download and transfer to cardboard the templates of the houses you like.
2. We apply a ruler and cut out large parts with a clerical knife so that all the edges are smooth.
3. Carefully cut out small windows. We make them exactly so that the candle is not visible, which will then take place inside the craft.
4. We bend the roof and the pipe along the ruler.
5. To make the houses realistic, we glue corrugated cardboard painted in red on the roofs. Thus, we get a very beautiful tile.
6. We glue all the walls with hot silicone.
7. We fix the roof and pipe in the same way.
8. We assemble a house with an extension, and then we fix the roof on top, which we make from corrugated cardboard.
9. We prime the crafts in dark gray or black. Let it dry completely.
10. Cover with acrylic with silver metallic acrylic. We apply it with chaotic strokes, alternating less and more shaded areas. Thus, we get a natural metallic sheen.
11. We leave it to dry and then place it in the room as a decor.
12. It is dangerous to put a real candle in such houses, so you can use the LED one. Or, you can arrange them on windowsill and furniture surfaces, making a real village.

Figuring out how to decorate a room for Christmas with your own hands is not difficult. The main thing is to start creating something on your own, drawing ideas from modern catalogs, where innovative design ideas and solutions are presented. If you wish, you can decorate the living space in a very budgetary and beautiful way.