home: made [ lampshades ]

Home projects are always satisfying and there’s lots of simple lampshade tutorials to produce your own shades for your home. Choose the fabric, colours and style to suit your interior.

A great method is to use the DIY kits available to buy that allow you to make a drum shade. These kits are available on line from various stores including Ebay and Amazon.

We also found brilliant tutorials from Cath Kidson and Design Sponge.

The tutorials are straight forward and can allow you to create various sizes of shade. They can also inspire you on fabrics to use. Always ensure you’ve tested your fabric by holding it up to the light to ensure the light can filter through.

home: made [ dipped baskets ]

We have come to see quite a lot of paint dipped items for the home over the last year or two. But this trend seems to be staying and where it has been really popular on furniture; chair and stool legs aswell as ceramics and vases, the big look carrying on through Summer into Autumn is dipped baskets.

This simple diy project uses very little extras on top of the basket itself. Pick the size and shape, decide on a paint colour – this could be a bright vibrant shade or classic white, also consider metalic shades – and grab a tray or large bowl to drop the basket into. [ another option is to use dye instead of paint ]

We have some tutorials below for you to follow.

Marthastewart.com
Dreamalittlebigger.com

Papernstitchblog.com

home: made [bed headboards ]

home: made [ bed headboards ]

The vamping a bedroom with new furniture can be costly so a good alternative is to make a bed look like new with a new DIY headboard. Or by a cheap basic base and make it look better with your own designed head board.

We found some great projects that use anything from reclaimed wood to old doors as a base for your project. Think outside the box – you could try an area of tiling, patterned or plain, to create a modern look or work on creating a giant weaving that could hang at the top of the bed. You could even suspend a rug in the place of the board to create a textured bohemian feel. Search online now for sale rugs from West Elm or Urban Outfitters that would look great.

Head to CuteDIYProjects or DIYnCrafts for a big selection of tutorials for head boards – a great selection of projects for many skill levels.

home: made [ terrarium ]

One of the most popular accessories for the home over the last six months has to be the terrarium. Bringing some plantlife in to the home in the form of a mini greenhouse. Terrariums come in all shapes and sizes with the basic idea that the plants / cacti sit in a glass bowl or vessel, with the most popular recently being geometric shaped [ look at Oliver Bonas ].

Instead of buying one already done, why not give it a go yourself and plant up your very handmade terrarium. Simply get hold of the glass vessel, this can be anything from a small round bowl to a larger hanging version, a selection of plants, stones, and soil. You can buy kits that give you everything you need if you want to make things easier [ Geo-Fleur have a great starter kit ].

Have fun when creating your terranium, use coloured stones or sand or perhaps add in some fun animal ornaments.

Below are some tutorials to get you started.

apartmenttherapy.com

Ikea.com

diyready.com

home: made [ rugs ]

We love a fun DIY project with great results. Produce and making your own homeware is satisfying, rewarding, often cheaper than buying the item and also a good way to update something old or plain.

We found some great tutorials at DIY Network for making and designing rugs for your home. There’s a great selection of different projects to achieve varying looks depending on your style or needs.

There’s also a great selection of tutorials at ArchitectureArtDesigns too

Many of the projects use old T-shirts, scraps of wool or fabric, or plain rugs which can be picked up cheaply and many highstreet homeware stores.

home: made [ ladder ]

In recent weeks we have noticed the popular trend of indoor ladders used as decorative and practical objects in the home. Ideal for hanging plant pots and tea towels in a kitchen, hooks and accesories in a hallway or maybe just somewhere to hang clothing in a bedroom.

To get the look why not try making one yourself. A wood finish is great as you can look at different thicknesses to suit or use dowling rods [ plus you can paint it any colour you like ]. Alternatively opt for copper, a popular choice still. Using piping and attachments it couldn’t be easier.

We have found some online blog posts and tutorials for you to follow.

Wood:

Copper:

home: made [ mason jars ]

We love a crafting or DIY project and this super book brings together 35 brilliant projects using mason jars and other glass containers.

‘Crafting with Mason Jars and other Glass Containers: Over 35 simple and beautiful upcycling projects’

This book explores methods and makes for great lighting, storage, gifts, kitchenalia, table settings, wedding ideas and so much more. With easy and building to slightly more complex tutorials, it’s a lovely way to improve your crafting skills and give you a great repertoire of ideas to use for many occasions and interiors

RRP £12.99

Currently on Amazon at £9.54

home: made [ concrete ]

A material that has mixed views within the home is concrete. Some see it as ugly and lifeless, others see it as an interesting, even beautiful material with many uses.
We are much more the later so today we look at gorgeous accesories you can create in the home using concrete. There are loads of great tutorials and guides online showing how easy it is to make a concrete moulds for all types of projects.
A simple place to start is making tealight votives or a hanging plant stand. You pick the size and shape using plastic pots or old bottles and with a bag of cement mix away you go.
Check out sayyes.com and themerrythought.com.
If you’re feeling a little more adventurous try creating a concrete pendant lamp. Again using the same process with bottles, this time you will need the cable and light bulb attachments, and a little more patience, but you will have a stunning contemporary light after. Alternatively on a smaller scale try a table top lamp base. Head to brit.co and pastill.nu to be inspired.

home: made [ garden fencing / hanging garden ]

Further to our highlight of enjoying outdoor living now that summer is here we look at a simple idea to enhance an outdoor space.

If your fences are looking a little dated and worn but it’s either impossible or too much money to replace them all, using cheap battening can give a great modern clean look to old panels.

Using the existing fence posts as your base of support, you can evenly mount new batons horizontally with spacing, to create a new design and look.

Batons or narrow wood (approx 2”x 1”) can be purchased from your local wood merchant or building suppliers. Most will offer a cutting service for a small cost if you don’t wish to cut all the lengths yourself. Then for the easiest fixing use long outdoor weather resistant screws and a drill.

This simple battening idea can also then create a great system for hanging pots, planting, lighting and other paraphenalia from. It can be handy for small spaces to allow the use of the walls for growing fruit, veg and flowers if there isn’t much floor space. It also keeps things out the way from pets, foxes and little fingers!

We love these handy hanging pots from Tiger and they’re only £2!

For furthermore and more complex fencing guides head to silvatimber or little house on the corner

home: made [ leather strap shelves ]

A popular trend for the home at the moment is leather strap shelving. We all have ornaments, pictures and vases that we like to display, so why not make your shelf as eye catching as what’s on them.
This very simple idea is basically made up of three elements – a wooden board, leather straps and metal tacks. Use a board from an old shelf or maybe you have an off cut from some old diy project. The leather straps you can get hold of from eBay or just use a couple of belts.
We have found a selection of tutorials to follow, showing slightly different takes on the same idea.

Heywandererblog.com
Camillestyles.com
Burkatron.com

Hannahs House

If you don’t fancy the DIY thing then we have found a great online shop selling handcrafted versions.
Hannahs House specialises in leather wares, selling quality made gorgeous shelves. Head to Hannahs Etsy shop to find out more, or follow her on Instagram for up to date product launches of this brand new talent to the makers market.

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