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DIY Home interior design

Author: Jordan Toh
by Jordan Toh
Posted: Jan 11, 2019

Designing a home is everyone’s dream. Everyone wish to design their home the way they want but for some people it might can get bit harder to afford the service price for creating some particular extraordinary designs for their home through any well known interior design company. There are many people who wish to design their with eccentricity in the design but in order to achieve that they face many limitations like they may lack the skills of creating designs, or some might know how to design but they don’t have ideas. For them we are here with some of the most amazing ideas which will help you design your home on your own easily at very low cost of budget. To design your home you will have to give some time and work with patience in order to get the best result. It may look flinty but at the end the result that you will get will ultimately lead you to happiness.

Paint your walls on your own

Painting walls of your home can seem bit hard but it is the easiest way to turn your place into totally new place. But if it is not done carefully then the work you’ve done can become a mess in a second. So be careful while you follow these steps.

Step 1: Prepare the Surface -The first step you have to do is prepare your walls to get them colored. If there is any hole or crack in the wall then fill them with sand, scrape, and patch so that when you paint your walls doesn’t look like a wall full of holes or cracks.

Step 2: Apply primer to your walls – Applying primer before coloring walls is mandatory because first, it blocks stain to flow through, then it improves paint adhesion, which reduces peeling and blistering of color.

Step 3: Apply tapes to the side of the wall or cover the side walls with newspaper –Applying tapes or newspaper on side can help you reduce mistake of applying color on other sides of wall and helps you cover every inch of wall properly

Step 4: Start Applying color to wall - Get your paint roller and start applying color in a proper way with a care.

Color texture your walls

You might know that when you wish to give texture to your walls it costs you a way lot more than coloring a simple wall. But it can cost you way more less when you do it by yourself. It may seem bit trickier but to be honest it is not.

By following some simple tactics you can design a wall that can look totally unique and will ultimately cost you less.

Step 1: Find a proper match of your colored wall – Finding a proper color that matches to the color of your wall is very important because if the color of the texture does not contradict with the color of your wall then there are chances that the wall can look utterly bad.

Step 2: Find a proper thing from your house – Well in this step you will have to use your creativity.

Find something from you home such as napkin, plastic wrapper, spunch, or anything you like. Then wrap to tie that on a paint roller in such a way that when you color your wall it cannot get damaged and helps you cover your wall properly.

Step 3: Apply the base color- Before applying texture it is necessary to apply the base color on the wall, if you think that the base color is applied properly on wall then and only then start applying texture on it after the base color gets dry. If your wall is already colored then you can directly start applying texture to it.

Step 4: Color your wall properly with the texture you like and do it with patience because one small mistake can make whole work mess!

Design your furniture the way you like

You might be thinking that how can you design the furniture the way you want. No doubt this will be done leisurely and you need to enlighten your creativity while you design furniture of your own but it is not at all a hard task to complete. Hereby we will provide you one example about how you can redesign your normal furniture into totally unique masterpiece.

Normal wooden drawer

Step 1: Take any of the wooden drawer that you find plane and normal - Find any wooden drawer that you think needs to be redesign or else you can get a new plane drawer if you are finding new furniture and you can design it on your own so that you can save your much amount of money.

Step 2: Choose a color for your drawer that can match the color of your house and find designed plastic sheets that can stick on wood - Apply the plastic sheets on the front side of the drawer properly in a way that no space is left to cover and color all of its sides and edges.

Step 3: After applying color let it dry and attach all it parts together and your master piece will be ready!

In this last point for making your home interior design on your own you can also work with other furniture as if you can change the design of the sides of mirror, you can design a resting bags easily by finding some good ideas on Google, you can design some hanging art models for your drawing room, design some drawers for your kitchen, you can redesign your table and many more thing that you can do on your own easily without any help by just applying your creativity which can be lot beneficial to you in way of saving cents and fulfilling your choices of design you want for your furniture in your home.

About the Author

My self Jordan Toh, I am the managing director of Zenith Arc, Singapore. I provides home, office and commercial interior design and renovation work across the Singapore. I also love to write and share article related to latest interior design trends.

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