80 decoration ideas that you can do at home without spending too much

We can say that decoration is the personalization of an environment. It is with decoration that we leave the place with our face or transmit a certain feeling, either with the use of objects, furniture or colors. We can enlarge or shrink a room just by painting the walls, or free up more space by changing some furniture. There is also how to put a personal touch with simple objects, that do notneed necessarily be designed by a renowned artist. What matters is to put your identity into the space.

Many times this is put aside because people believe that to decorate it is necessary to spend a lot, which is not true. All it takes is creativity and good taste to transform anything into art.

Nowadays we have many ways to get inspiration for decorating an environment, such as television shows, magazines, social media, and YouTube channels, and the ideas are very varied and for all kinds of tastes. Below you will find 80 creative decoration ideas, made with the most diverse materials and that are very easy to do. To watch the videos, just click on the photo or on the links in the captions of each image :

1. wire basket

With a square chicken coop canvas, you can make a beautiful wired basket for an industrial style decoration. Just cut its four corners, leaving it in the shape of a cross. Then fold it with the help of an MDF cover (or any other sturdy support material), finish by securing the edges with the loose wire from the canvas itself, and give it a refined finish with copper spray paint.

2. with how many toothpicks can you make a niche?

Answer: 100 popsicle sticks, and it is much cheaper than buying one ready-made in a furniture store, isn't it? To build it, just make a hexagonal base, gluing the sticks to each other from the tip, until you form 16 layers of this same procedure. You can leave it the natural color or paint each stick with the paint of your choice.

3. plush puff

That old and dull pouf in your house can be transformed into a super trendy piece, and all you need is about two meters of plush fabric, scissors, and a stapler. The execution is super easy: measure the surface from one foot to the other, going through the seat, and cut that measurement. Cut the same measurement for the sides that are left out and divide them in half. Cover thesurface with the larger fabric first, stapling it to the bottom of the pouf, and finish by stapling the two smaller sides, without worrying if the staples will show, since the fur will cover them.

4. fake bricks

To give a different face to that empty wall in your room, you only need E.V.A. in the color of your choice and cut into several strips measuring 16cm x 6cm (the quantity will depend on the size of the surface to be covered). To fix them without damaging the paint, the best option is double-sided tape. Glue each strip with a distance of 0.5cm between them, if necessary,cut the strip to fill in the spaces left on the sides. It is a great background to receive several comics of your choice.

5. clock with dominoes

How about giving your wall clock a facelift using only those dominoes that nobody plays anymore, wood, and glue? Build a surface with strips of sanded wood, glue the pieces from 1 to 12, and install only the hands of the old clock.

6. the moose made of Paraná paper

Trophy-style heads are very much in evidence, and if you don't have much money left to invest in a piece of MDF, but you do have the disposition and patience, you can transform a sheet of parana paper with 160 grammage into a beautiful moose head.

7. vase in a cork

For a different decoration for the window or refrigerator, wine corks can serve as mini pots for cacti and succulents, and all you need is soil, the plant of your choice, a knife, and a magnet. With the knife, you dig the cork until there is enough space to include the soil. Glue the magnet with hot glue on one side.

8. a retro-style globe

A globe with a retro touch makes your special travel corner even more personalized. Just apply a phrase of your choice, which can be printed on an adhesive label on the internet, paint it with spray paint in the color of your choice, and remove the adhesive before the paint dries completely. Refine the finish by gluing a lacy ribbon at the base of the object. If you have any decorations related to thetravel at home, you can also apply it to give an even more beautiful effect.

9. board for corks or stoppers

Have you ever thought of using wine corks or bottle caps as part of a craft? This type of decoration is very much in evidence, and very easy to do. Dismantle a neutral background frame and drill a hole in the top frame with a wide drill bit. You can measure the width to be drilled with the cap or cork itself. With a file, sand the hole to even out the wood. To make itthe most fun object, apply a phrase or image of your choice to the glass of the frame.

10. a stylish candy machine

Make your decoration more colorful by making a retro rocker, using a vase as a base, a round aquarium of the size you want, handles and a plant pot dish (that covers the aquarium adequately). It is worth remembering that the pots will not work as the real candy machines, and will only serve as storage and decoration. The vases and the dish are painted with spray paint, and the aquarium, like thisTo create the fake exit for the candies, you can purchase some pieces at a hardware store.

11. niche with frame

An MDF box the same size as a retired picture frame, without any magic, becomes a charming niche. You only need to glue one object to the other and paint it the color you want.

12. mini vegetable garden made with cans

If you live in an apartment, you don't have to worry about having a vegetable garden anymore, because it is very simple to make a green corner with just a few aluminum cans. Decorate them with multi-use spray paint, sisal string and labels made with black contact. They will fit on any shelf!

13. necklace organizer

Do you know those little plastic animal toys? Look how nice they turned into organizers! Because they are hollow, it is super easy to saw them in half, and to color them just use spray paint. Then just use a frame, or a canvas as a base and fix them with Super Bonder. You can also use the animals as handles for storage jars.

14. decorative drum

Have you ever seen how expensive those wonderful drums used in industrial decoration are? If you have time and creativity, you can save a lot of money by turning an ordinary drum into one of these precious things,and transferred with spray paint.

15. flower arrangement with pearls

Pouring pearl beads into an ordinary clear vase turns into a beautiful arrangement for your favorite artificial flowers.

16. colorful pompom carpet

Do you know how to make pom-poms? You can do a multitude of things with them, including this super cute rug. All you need is a canvas rug the size you want and tie the pom-poms in the gaps.

17. little pot with string

With a simple white string, fabric marker, and your artistic skills, it is very easy to create a boho jar that serves many purposes. Use white glue to attach the string tightly to a can or glass, and decorate with the marker in the colors of your choice.

18. the mirror that became a tray

Decorate a simple bathroom mirror with pebbles or chatons to create a multi-purpose tray. All that is needed is hot glue and your creativity to attach them.

19. decorative luminaire

You will need a 20×20 square painted with gold spray to make the base, a small yellow LED flasher attached to a 125mm hollow Styrofoam ball, 43 little acrylic flowers (which can be found in any haberdashery) and hot glue to fix it all.forget about cutting off one end of the sphere to make it tight at the base, and finish it off with a decorative ribbon to your liking.

20. heart made with corks

And even if they are stained with wine, you can use them and create a color gradient by attaching them one by one with hot glue on a firm base (it can be cardboard, wood, or MDF).

21. keyring and note holder

With just a retired meat board, some paint, and some cheap hooks, you can make a key holder, message holder, or kitchen organizer.

22. illuminated sign

A lampshade base can have countless uses. It can even be transformed into a very funny luminous plate, using adhesive paper to make a phrase to your liking (if you are not good at drawing letters, it is easier to do on the computer and print on paper) as a mold to stick on the canvas (the ones we use to make paintings anyway). Then you just paint everything with spray paint and after it dries,just remove the letters and attach the canvas with a wire at the base.

23. pug and kitten vase

Who said that pet bottles can't be a good decorative object? It is very simple to cut and paint little animals to serve as vases for plants and cacti. With the bottle well washed, just paint the bottom with spray paint, let it dry for a day and then draw the little faces with acrylic paint. The measurements and instructions are in the tutorial.

24. rope revistor

Look at this beautiful way to organize your magazines, the kids' toys, or the living room blankets! Instead of paying a lot for a basket at a home decoration store, why not roll up your sleeves and make one? The rope used is recycled fabric, and its 25 meters long (and 10mm thick) were wrapped around a bucket used as a template and fixed with universal glue. To finish,You can make the handles with the rope itself or buy leather straps in haberdashery stores, and if you prefer, you can paint them with spray paint to your liking.

25. make-up organizer

As always, making the base is the beginning of everything, cutting the paper to the size you need (it can be the size of your drawer, for example).Attach both the edges and the dividers with silicone glue and cover the box with cardboard. The finish can be done with a pretty fabric covering on the outside and satin ribbon.

26. a cactus for coffee

This mug was a simple porcelain mug that was coated with green and white plastic ceramic. Looking like this it seems to be a very complicated task, but watching the tutorial, it is easy to convince yourself that it is easy, all you need is patience and a little manual dexterity. The materials used are cheap, such as the plastic porcelain itself, a rolling pin or glass bottle to stretch the dough,manicure sticks, varnish, and brush.

27. craft paper board

A wall full of comics doesn't need a high investment, but rather strips made with old magazines, craft paper and simple frames, the kind we find in stores selling for $1.99. The applications of the strips are made under the craft paper, which will be cut with the outline of the figure you want (print a template from the Internet for this). The effect is beautiful, the cost is low and the resultwonderful.

28. industrial style picture frame

Who doesn't like a picture frame, right? They scatter the best moments of our lives around the house, and deserve a special frame for it. And with the help of two old picture frames of the same size, 16-gauge wire, and straws of two different sizes, your picture gets a prism-style frame.step of the labor.

29. geometric decoration with straws

The industrial decoration can also be adopted in the same style as the portrait holder: diamond shapes made from wire and straws. They serve as an ornament for a flower vase or as the dome of a pendant.

30. bed headboard

A headboard can cost a fortune, but with less than 200 reais and willpower, you can make your own. The plywood with the measurements of your bed will be coated with acrilex, covered with suede fabric of the desired color and finished with the capitone details, created with high tacks.

31. string charts

This is another option for a picture frame that can be made in many different shapes and colors to bring life to that special corner of the room, and you don't even need more than a piece of wood, nails, and wool for this.

32. contemporary nightstand

An industrial-style piece of furniture made with less than a hundred dollars is worth all the effort, dedication, and labor, isn't it? The pieces used in this tutorial were bought in specialized stores already cut to size, and the only work you will have to do is assemble everything.

33. boxed bedside table

A very simple and inexpensive way to give a new face to the environment, with a market crate, paint, and wheels. The decoration, as well as the colors to be used, is up to your personal taste.

34. cactus lamp

Make the most desired light fixture of the moment with paraná paper, some ping pong balls and LED flashes. For painting, use green craft paint and glue all the pieces with hot glue.

35. utensil holder

Organize your kitchen accessories in a very minimalist way: by attaching a spray-painted tin can to a meat board with contact glue. Simple, easy, cheap, and amazing.

36. ball of string

Create a pendant, lampshade dome, or vase by wrapping raw string around a glue-spattered bladder. It's so easy to do that it's hard to believe that something so simple can look so beautiful!

37. candle holder

Floating candles create a whole cozy atmosphere, and for this you need nothing more than an unlabeled glass container, which will be painted with spray paint and round labels stuck to its surface. After the paint has dried, just remove the labels. The decoration can be done in any way you like, with crepe tape creating geometric figures, for example.

38. felt cacti

Cacti made of felt serve not only as a beautiful room decorator, but also as a needle and pin holder. The tutorial teaches how to make even the vase, in case you don't have a small cachepot suitable for this work made with acrylic blanket, felt, and crochet thread.

39. retro-retro bedside table

Some specific tools will be needed to make this stylized bedside table, such as a drill, screwdriver, etc. The pieces can be bought in specialized stores already cut to size and the drawer wrapping can be done either with fabric or with adhesive wallpaper.

40. making a practical centerpiece

It is very easy to create a rotating centerpiece for your dining table with just an MDF tabletop, marbles, and two trays.

41. chalkboard

This idea can also be used for those who have one of the walls of the house painted with blackboard paint. And making calligraphy as beautiful as this may seem difficult, but after watching the tutorial it will only look that way. With a simple 6B pencil the mold chosen on the Internet for this work will be transferred to the blackboard. Then just outline the letters with chalk and make a finish moredetailed by wiping the edges with a cotton swab.

42. vintage lamp

Nowadays it is much cheaper to buy materials to assemble a luminaire than to buy it ready-made, and believe me: it is much easier than it looks. If your manual skills are up to date, buy three wooden strips of equal sizes, a dome, and all the electrics at specialized stores and get to work.

43. decorative bottle

It is so easy to create a galaxy inside a bottle! Two colors of food coloring, cotton, water, and glitter create this effect in a very simple way.

44. pallets that were transformed into vertical vegetable gardens

Many people don't have a green corner at home because of space limitations, but with waterproofed pallets fixed to the wall, or even a platform, this problem can be solved.

45. pallet style bench

A complete tutorial for the assembly of a simple and stylish bench that fits anywhere in the house, making your industrial decoration even more stylized. The pieces were bought in the right size in specialized stores, and the wood was treated with sandpaper, varnish, and paint.

46. table stand

The secret to building easels is in the way the wood is cut. With the right measurements, a few screws, washers, and a good drill, the result is perfect.

47. industrial luminaire

The industrial lighting fixture is a consumer desire for many people, and it is possible to make it with a PVC pipe by molding it into a common kitchen stove and fixing it to a wooden base. The finish is done with copper spray paint.

48. putting a little bit of heaven inside the house

The base was made with three domes of different sizes, attached to each other with hot glue. The lighting was provided by a LED strip, which was installed inside each of them (make a small hole in each luminaire to pass the strip to the other domes), and to create the effect ofcloud, use pillow stuffing fixed with hot glue all over the three surfaces.

49. styrofoam frame

Another very practical and inexpensive way to make comics to fill your wall or lean on a piece of furniture is to create a fake base with parana paper, to stick your poster on, and frames made with Styrofoam strips, parana paper, and covered with white contact.

50. decorating glass bottles

Another way to give life to ordinary glass bottles is to make various applications. In this tutorial the materials used for this work were flowers taken from a plastic towel, lacy ribbons and pearls.

51. bag organizer

Bags are a necessary evil that we must have at home, but it is very difficult to keep them organized.

52. giving the candles a face-lift

Use dried leaves, cinnamon, and raffia to decorate glass cups and turn them into candle holders, or make these applications directly on the paraffin to create a more beautiful and stylized atmosphere.

53. table center

A beautiful application with plastic spoons turns into a super different and modern centerpiece. The finish is done with spray paint.

54. tree lamp

Use artificial flower stems and a flower blinker to make that coveted tree light fixture. The step-by-step is super easy and the materials used were very low cost.

55. customizing the dresser

This model was painted in several different colors in geometric shapes, and received a fun touch with dinosaur handles, which are actually toys spray-painted gold.

56 - Stretching the door with crepe tape

With a simple piece of crepe tape, create fun geometric shapes on your door and paint them the color you want. After the paint dries, just peel off the tape and admire the result.

57. blackboard wall

Don't want to mess with paint, but want to have a blackboard wall? Use matte black contact paper!

58. framed niche

This is another very simple template for making a framed niche, a little shallower than the previous one, but also using a simple frame and MDF.

59: Turning an ordinary mirror into a dressing room

A wide framed mirror can very well perform the function of a dressing room mirror, after applying some light bulb nozzles all along its side and installing all the electrics behind the mirror. Describing it like this sounds complicated, but watching the video you can see that it is a quick and easy job.

60 Star Wars Lamp

Although the lamp is from Star Wars, you can make it from any character or figure you like. To get this result, make a kind of box with foam paper and Styrofoam glue, and the front part will be hollowed out according to the shape of the mold of your figure. The canvas was made with waxed paper and the drawing glued on the paper with glue. The lighting can be done with blinkersor with a lamp socket installed inside the housing.

61 Wooden Cachepô

If you're not skilled at building a cache pot, repaint an existing one around your house by gluing colored plates to its surface, or applying paint directly to the object.

62. light board

In addition to the luminaire created with canvas seen earlier, you can also make a light fixture with the same procedure, but instead of fixing it to a lamp base, install the electrical part on the inside and hang it on the wall.

63. modern bedside table

Another way to fill the room with cheerful colors is to build this simple wooden bedside table. The pieces were also bought already cut to size at specialized stores, and assembled with a drill, screws, and white paint, which was colored with dye.

64. tumblr style decoration

The Tumblr style of decorating is very much in evidence, and to do this task is simpler than it seems, using only triangles made with black contact. After cutting several pieces, you just glue them to the wall, without worrying about the distance between them. The more relaxed you are, the better.

65. decorative donut pillow

You don't have to be a sewing expert or have a lot of brain work to make this donut. Felt is the main material of the pillow, and was used in different colors to create the doughnut, the cover, and the sprinkles, all glued together with fabric glue and filled with pillow stuffing.

66. arm tray for sofa

Super useful especially for those who like to have meals in front of the TV, the sofa tray is very practical and easy to make. The MDF strips were customized with crochet thread, and joined with a piece of felt on the back.

67. wire luminaire

Another way to make a diamond-shaped pendant is to use copper or aluminum tubes. Since the material is more resistant, the labor is a bit more complex, but not impossible.

68. seamless pillow covers

A simple room gets a new look with the addition of colorful pillows, and this can be done with fabric glue, not necessarily needles and thread.

69 Cement Cachepô

One more element of the industrial decoration that is in evidence are the concrete planters. They are very easy to make and require low-cost materials, and their execution will only require a mold in the desired shape to fill it with cement.

70. shell lamp

A very different idea for ambient lighting is this lamp, also made of concrete. The mold used was a shell-shaped plate, which was filled with cement up to the mouth. A gap is left inside for the installation of the LED strip. To hang it on the wall, it was necessary to use a plate support.

71. birdie bookends

The cardboard organizer relies on the weight of pebbles at the base to support the books inside. The tutorial teaches the step by step process that can also be done with the help of the kids at home.

72. rope sousplat

A very sophisticated piece present on our dinner table are the famous sousplats, which are not usually cheap, but are very easy to make.

73. bulletin board

Transforming a picture frame into a mini blackboard for messages is very easy. The background was transformed with blackboard paint (it can also be done with matte black contact), and the frame was repainted with gold spray paint. Quick, easy, and painless.

74. with string and dry twigs you can make a picture frame

A minimalist way to display your favorite photos at almost zero cost, since you probably have most of the materials at home. Your photo frame becomes practically a messenger of the winds.

75. flower picture

A very popular decoration on craft sites such as Etsy, the wire and flower frame was made from a meat board, which served as the base for the design made from nails and braided with string. Then you just have to fit the artificial flowers into the openings and hang them on your wall.

76. message holder

Animal toys, cream cheese lids, barbecue sticks, and mini nails are the materials used in this tutorial.

77. string of lights with coffee capsule

Icon of Tumblr decoration, strings of lights are often used to decorate headboards of youth beds, or can be hung on the balcony. And making it is very easy: fit spray-painted coffee capsules into each bulb of a led flashing light. End of tutorial.

78. magic cube pillow version

You will need assorted colored felts to make your magic cube pillow, black being its main base. Each piece was attached with hot glue, but you can also use fabric glue for this purpose. To fill the cube, use pillow stuffing.

79. neon sign

Neon wires are sold for very cheap on the internet or in specialized stores, and with them you can create a very pretty panel with your favorite word or message. The piece created in this tutorial was attached to a simple board with instant glue. It is important to make a small hole in the board to leave the batteries behind the panel.

80. watermelon patch

Make the entrance to your home more fun with a watermelon doormat made from an ordinary green carpet. The inside of the fruit was made with pink spray paint, and the seeds applied with acrylic paint, with the help of a paper mold.

After checking out so many ideas for all tastes and ages, it becomes easier to leave the house with your identity.