Creative At Home
If you are looking for some creative DIY ideas for your home to inject a little personality then I have a few ideas to share! I recently picked up a copy of Creative At Home in Germany and found some sweet projects. If you live in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and of course Germany then you can find it where most magazines are sold. You'll need to buy the magazine to get templates and instructions but here is a glimpse of a few that I liked...
I normally do not by Creative At Home since I but so many mags as it is -- I like the projects and overall layout/style of Dutch DIY mag 101 Woonideeen (I wish they'd publish that mag in English) but this copy of Creative At Home had a nice cover and so I picked it up and instantly found a few projects that I could connect to. I sometimes find the crafting ideas and styles in magazines looking a bit too crafty if you know what I mean, whereas the ones in mags like 101 Woonideeen usually look more artistic and creative and less "glue guns and bead projects gone wild" if you catch my drift.
I like the idea of handpainting a coat rack like this one above, which show deer. If you cannot paint you can always cut out images from wallpaper or even fabric and use Mod Podge to adhere and also to seal it. Another fun DIY is to take two branches and use them to form a deer head and paint eyes on it - sweet art for a kid's room! I think my favorite idea from the magazine is to paint a wooden table silver. It works here because they've used a table with lots of texture -- it could look slightly tacky on a smooth table with no visible grain. I like how they've applied it very lightly, you can still see the wood in some parts making it a bit more weathered. It's great that they skipped painting the legs silver, that would have looked very kitschy.
It's all about knowing when to say ENOUGH when you are making things at home, isn't it? Editing is so important but as important is self control and pulling the plug because often you can overdo a project and it comes out looking like an art project from a 5th grader. It's a fine line, isn't it? LOL.
Great job, Creative At Home!
(images: creative at home scanned)