Showing posts with label living room interior design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living room interior design. Show all posts

Friday, October 28, 2011

Crazy Art-Decked Out College Dorm Room: Paper art for artists who want (to be cheap) murals


Color Meets Me

   I have never lived in a place that I couldn't put my own touch in. My room is a homage to National Geographic's expensive cameras and adventurous photographers splashed all across my walls. My living room, hallways, basement, bathroom, kitchen, TV room, you get the picture, are all covered in art work. It is a must for me to not have white walls surrounding my lounging time. Doing your own home interior design makes your place just that much more you, your style, your likes, represented and there for everyone to see.

This room you see above I lived in for a year and decked it out to the nines with pirate ships, cutouts of dudes, my painting class mess-ups, painted turtles and my favorite was the Tazo Tea bag tags that I use everywhere (paper art or recycled art is like a mantra for me). Clearly, based on the picture above some minimalism could of been exercised but, who cares, it was my college dorm room. That coffee table is made out of the box that the futon couch came in. My roommate and I decided because we bought the couch from an unmentionable store.......We could do penance by making craft projects and really just everything out of cardboard. And so I made a full-on coffee table that housed all our booze in the day and became the world's best can-last-only-two-years coffee table.

If you are in a college dorm right now, have nothing on the walls, or in an apartment, a temporary space, go crazy, because you only live once, why not make your time in one space memorable through the way you transform the space you live in. If you need ideas for how to projects in recycling just google search it and you can find so many ideas. Cut out newspaper images, embellish them, do not buy posters, or if you do, cut them up, make your room a colorful and interesting place to let your eye wander around.

Crack Meets Ashley's Room
Want to turn your room into something like this? A cool modern interior design that screams crazy??!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

How to Interior Design: Feng Shui your face......./room



Interior design done Lee style
Circles give off the best kind of relaxation. For me I find the circular shape a meditative one, even though you will never find me
I used the old hold-a-pencil-piece-of-string trick where you have a pencil on one end of a string and the other end is your center of your circle. Just decide the size of your circles and trace away.
 meditating physically, or is it mentally? Well, I meditate while watching TV or people. So that must count for something. But, back to the point. Designing always involves a personal touch of whoever is making the intended atmosphere around the artwork. For me this was a must when I moved into my new apartment. I wanted a circle design along the wall because the layout had this section that stuck out already and so emphasizing this jutting wall with a softer touch was my first objective.

Bedroom Decor


World's oldest perfect circle maker

I used the old hold-a-pencil-piece-of-string trick where you have a pencil on one end of a string and the other end is your center of your circle. Just decide the size of your circles and trace away.


Monday, October 24, 2011

How to Design a Stencil: College poor-student style

Flying Fish Mural: Cost = $0
How to Design STENCILS: Make Sweet Rad and Handy stencils out of magazines to create DIY art murals. This is an easy step-by-step way to interior design a living room. 

Inspiration
1. Pick out your tracing design. Choose anything from just simple shapes, like bikes, food, buildings, trees, words, wine glasses, men in suits, girls in bikinis, whatever you want. I chose Koi fish because I just went to a park that had huge ponds with Koi fish everywhere and decided to make an art mural. 



Trace or draw the main stencil
2. To make it easy for yourself, take a design from a magazine, or print a shape out and use that as your main stencil. I free-handed three different fish from pictures I took from the pond.


Cut out stencil
3. Pick out whatever color paper you want to use. If you use magazine paper you can take it off the wall easier than newspaper if you use stick glue to apply.
Make different styles


                               
                                 4. Make as many as you want. Stack the paper on top for an easy multiple-at-one-time cuttings of each stencil. I just use a variety of paper that looks cool when turned into a stencil. For the fish