Filling Empty Wall Space
I’ve been on a home-dec kick lately. Or rather, I’ve been on a home-dec kick on PINTEREST lately. Because actually decorating the apartment requires money – at least a little – and money is exactly what I should not – no, CAN’T – spend right now.
But anyway, I’ve been specifically concerned lately about our surplus of empty wall space. There’s just a lot of white, blank walls in our apartment, and it’s starting to get to me a little bit. So I’ve been looking for ideas about how to decorate using as little money as humanly possible, and Pinterest (of course) came through in spades. I figured I’d share some of my favorites with you too! Links and images will take you to the original site – if that wasn’t available the links will take you to my pin.
A lovely photo display using twine and clothespins via Voyages of the Creative Variety
A great use for crocheted potholders – vintage or newly made – as seen on Maker Mama’s 7 Thrifty Collections Post
Turning embroidery hoops into picture frames with this tutorial by Jessica Marquez on Country Living.com
More embroidery hoop cleverness by turning them into pinboards – the literal kind!
Framing foreign coins would be great way to display all those extra yuan I have from my trip to China in college, and all the various pocket change my dad always saved me from his work trips abroad when I was little.
Framing some favorite scrapbook paper as art might work well – maybe adding some stenciled silhouettes to some of them might work too?
Framing designer shopping bags as art might also be kind of cool – although it’s not like I have a surplus of these… I do still have my little Tiffany bag from a high school graduation present though, so maybe as part of a larger framed gallery collage?
Using wooden skirt/pants hangers as art hangers as seen on Mad in Crafts might work well above my bed – bonus, you can swap out the art whenever you want!
And last but not least: using up that big bag of yarn scraps I have by making a wall hanging like this one on Easy Makes Me Happy might be just the ticket, and would certainly free up some space in my yarn box.
Do you have any cheap, easy, but cool wall decoration ideas? If so, please do share!
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4 Comments
crochetthread
Have you seen the symmetrical wall art made using paper towel and toilet paper rolls? I’ve been saving my rolls for a week now. Not sure how many I’ll need, but plan to turn them into something for a blank wall. Also, in the embroidery hoops, fabric looks good. Cheers.
Magpiemakingdo
I’ve been eyeing these as well lately… some of what people have done with tp rolls is just impressive.
jenndice
I loveeeee the idea of framing foreign coins! I’m going to steal that one I think haha
Magpiemakingdo
I’d love to see yours once you do it! Honestly this is the one thing out of all of these I’m almost definitely going to do – I love the way it looks, plus it’ll provide safekeeping for all the little souvenir coins from over the years. Love it.