We are fascinated by the beauty of fresh fruits and berries. Only the duration of their impeccable appearance is quite short; over time they fade. The interior will be decorated with artificial fruits for decoration. They look so natural that sometimes they cannot be distinguished from real fruits. Dummy food in the form of berries and fruits looks very appetizing. They cannot be eaten, but they serve to create unfading beauty for more than one year.
Artificial fruits for interior design are made from high-quality material, which gives them a natural look. Modern kitchens, bars, restaurants, shop windows are simply impossible to imagine without such compositions. These bright, shiny and realistic fruits lift your spirits and whet your appetite. You won’t see any kind of artificial fruit in stores: apples, pears, bananas, strawberries, grapes, peaches, lemons, etc.
Benefits of ornamental fruits
Artificial fruits and vegetables are three-dimensional decorative figures that are very realistic. Such dummies are very popular and have many advantages:
- Unlike natural fruits, they do not spoil.
- Appearance, shape, color, size are as close to natural as possible.
- They are stored for a long time and are not afraid of mechanical stress.
- Easy to care for, washes well with water.
- Suitable for indoor and outdoor use.
- They can be safely placed next to food because they are made of environmentally friendly material.
- Suitable for creating compositions with flowers, wreaths, panels.
Step-by-step descriptions of making original paintings with your own hands from scrap materials
DIY painting on a natural theme
- It is not very difficult to create such a picture. The main thing is to use the right materials, and not look for various replacement options for them.
- We select a beautiful twig with blossoming leaves (you can also use a bouquet of flowers). We place it on a clean sheet of paper and spray paint from a can.
- As a result, we will get a real masterpiece. By positioning the branch differently, you will get another original picture. And three such paintings, placed in identical frames, will take pride of place in the living room. You can proudly tell your guests that you are the author of this triptych.
How to make a nature-themed painting
Application of fruit and vegetable decorations
Often, fruit figures made of foam and plastic are attached with hot glue. Many dummies have a wire with which they can be screwed to a panel or other composition. Artificial fruits and vegetables can be used as follows:
- Use them to make crafts, ikebana paintings, and still lifes to decorate rooms. They can be supplemented with sisal; baskets, vases, and photo frames are used as a basis.
- They are used to transform lemon and tangerine trees when they do not bear fruit for a long time. They can decorate any living tree.
- They are part of beautiful topiary with artificial leaves, flowers, twigs, buds, beads, grass.
- They express the style of certain establishments, for example, Ukrainian-style restaurants with peppers, mushrooms, onions, garlic and viburnum sprigs.
- They act as part of holiday wreaths and costumes.
- They decorate various fairs and promotions.
- Gifts and cards are decorated with corrugated paper.
Images and inscriptions with threads
Designers have been actively using the String Art technique for a long time. It does not require any special skills, but you can create a designer panel with threads in an evening.
Required:
- wooden or fiberboard base;
- nails;
- pliers;
- hammer;
- dense acrylic threads;
- pencil.
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First, a drawing is applied to the base. You can choose any, but the ideal options for the kitchen are inscriptions, mugs, cups, fruits. You need to choose an image with clear outer lines.
After the design is transferred to the base, nails must be driven along the line at a distance of 0.5 - 2 cm from each other. For convenience and so that all the nails are at the same level, it is better to hold them with pliers.
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When the nails are hammered, you need to take a skein of thread and tie the end to one of them. The thread is caught in all places in a certain sequence or in random order. If the pattern is round, it is better to move from one edge to the other. Do not pull the thread too tightly; it may break.
Advice: if you don’t like the color of the base, then apply a layer of paint. You shouldn’t do more than 2-3 layers: when you hammer in nails, cracks will appear.
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Compositions of fruits and flowers
The simplest fruit decoration will be a decorative composition. Often matching artificial fruits, berries and vegetables are combined together, supplemented with original leaves. The basis is beautiful plates, vases, baskets made of wicker or newspaper tubes. For the mini format, miniature dummies are suitable, and for the large format - real size. Fruit arrangements are so popular that they often become wedding decorations. This is especially true in the autumn season. A fruit bouquet will perfectly replace quickly fading flowers.
DIY paintings from scrap materials: painting-dish in oriental style
If the prices for works of art seem sky-high to you, and the desire to decorate the interior with a real masterpiece haunts you, then our selection of instructions for creating a painting with your own hands will definitely come in handy.
- The fact that you did not learn the basics of painting somewhere in Venice or Paris does not mean that you will not be able to make a real painting masterpiece with your own hands.
- After all, the level of skill of most authors who make money by selling paintings and all sorts of trinkets for the interior is no higher than kindergarten scribbles.
- Therefore, we suggest that you do not spend a fabulous amount on buying a beautiful painting to decorate the interior, but rather direct all your efforts to creating it yourself.
Painting dish in oriental style
- If you haven’t thrown away old unnecessary discs in the hope that they will definitely come in handy, now is the time to take them out and use them to decorate a dish in an oriental style.
- Cut the disk into pieces of different sizes and cover a large flat plate. In the same way, you can paste over a sheet of cardboard and insert it into a decorative frame.
How to make a dish in oriental style
Oriental style dish
Wall panels
Wall panels made of decorative fruits are particularly attractive with their brightness and juiciness. Such paintings can often be seen in the interior of a living room, kitchen or dining room. To create such panels, plywood, fiberboard sheets, and hardboard boards are used. They are first covered with a suitable fabric or painted over. To attach the models, use a glue gun or needles. An original frame will effectively highlight such a panel.
To create a three-dimensional collage of artificial fruits, putty is often added to the base, and dummies are pressed into it. For such wall compositions, you can use baskets, but they need to be cut in half and then glued. One basket is enough to decorate two panels. The fruits can also be cut in half.
Pallet decorations
Palettes are a popular material for handicrafts today. They make a lot of things: furniture, shelves, walls, gazebos. They are also suitable for kitchen decor.
Important: before decorating the pallets, the surface is thoroughly sanded using a special machine or sandpaper, all elements are degreased and dried.
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Pallets make original small shelves for plates or photos. They will fit well into the Provence interior and are suitable for apartments and summer country kitchens.
If you insert pots with plants into them, you will get a hanging flower stand. Plants that hang from the structure look ideal.
Pallets are also used as a canvas for drawings - for example, as in this photo.
Soft parts
The kitchen is associated with comfort and warmth, so fabric panels will decorate such a room.
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Moreover, even small pieces of material will do. The scraps are cut into equal pieces and sewn together using the patchwork technique. The finished product is stretched onto the canvas or loops are made on top and the finished panel is hung on a wooden stick or miniature cornice.
This is how textile mugs are also sewn, attached to the wall separately or together on one surface.
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Topiary made from fruits and berries
A popular decoration and a new design trend is the topiary, or tree of happiness. This is an aesthetically designed decorative tree made in various styles. It is believed that such a tree of happiness brings good luck to the house. The theme of such topiaries can be different: coffee, floral, sea, fruit. They are decorated with various artificial materials: flowers, stones, beads, paper, ribbons, banknotes. We are interested in fruit topiary.
Artificial fruits are much easier to attach to the trunk of such a tree than other materials. Fruit dummies are voluminous, so they allow you to form a beautiful topiary crown. It is appropriate to add original leaves and small berries to bright fruits. First, a ball is made from newspapers for the topiary, and masking tape or foil is wrapped over it. Then the ball is attached to the barrel, the joints are lubricated with glue and wrapped with twine. Even better is to make a foam ball. To make the dummies fit more tightly to the base, it is better to cut them in half. Attach the fruits to toothpicks coated with glue. Such unusual fruit trees are very beautiful and in demand.
New life for old kitchen utensils
You can even make a DIY kitchen panel from unnecessary forks, spoons, scoops and frying pans. The idea can be easily realized with cutlery, base, paints and glue. If you are not sure that the composition will stick well to the glue, then use small nails.
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The base for the panel can be anything, but it is important that it can withstand the weight of all the parts that you want to attach to it.
See also: Proper grouting of tiles in the bathroom with your own hands
Video: DIY kitchen paintings
Home decor from old photographs
- You can extend the life of old photographs in the following way: cut out letters of the required size from cardboard, paste them with photographs and create a funny inscription. Such decor will enliven and decorate the interior.
Using old photos to decorate your walls
DIY painting - “Swallows”
- We find bird patterns on the Internet. These could be butterflies, pigeons, bullfinches. Print and cut out. We glue paper figurines of birds onto a thick base cut out of cardboard, or we decorate the wall with flying birds.
Painting "Swallows"
Painting "Colorful spots"
- Is it possible to create a real masterpiece in five minutes? Easily! Here are the instructions: Apply watercolor stains to a sheet of paper one by one and dry with a hair dryer.
- Even a child can handle such a creative activity. Colorful spots can be applied randomly, or you can think through the conceptual arrangement of colors.
Painting “Bright Spots”
Stylish wooden accessory
- You can use a piece of any tree as home decor. By gluing a cut paper figure of a person or another picture you like onto the saw cut, you will turn an ordinary piece of wood into a stylish, designer interior decoration.
Wood decor
Original do-it-yourself painting from newspapers
- Ordinary pieces of newspaper can become a real work of art if they are glued together in a special way.
- A tree or other picture drawn on top of the newspaper layer will complete the design.
Using old newspapers to decorate your interior
Video: DIY Painting-Panel. Papier-Mache and Paper Art
Panel of elements with golden glitter
- If you still have finishing materials, do not rush to get rid of them. Try to make an original wall decoration.
- To do this, you need to cut the remaining wallpaper or adhesive film into hexagon-shaped pieces.
- Next, we prepare a thick cardboard base, determine the size of the future wall decoration and begin gluing the hexagons.
Panel made from leftover finishing material
Original panel made of finishing material
Delicate “lace” painting with your own hands
- If you don’t know the technology for making such an interior decor item, then the “craft” seems like a real work of art, and the work itself looks filigree.
- But you can create something similar yourself, using a lace paper napkin and a regular spray bottle.
- A lace napkin can easily be replaced with a snowflake cut out of paper. You just need to place the napkin on the canvas and spray the background with a spray bottle.
lace pattern
Original panel with herringbone pattern
- To work, you will need scrapbooking paper (sold in handmade stores) or leftover wallpaper.
- Cut rectangles of equal size.
- We prepare a cardboard base for our panel and glue in the rectangles, placing them in a certain sequence.
Panel with herringbone pattern
DIY “milk” painting
- To make stylish and expensive decor, it is not at all necessary to purchase special materials. You can use plain paper.
- We choose a simple picture on the Internet, or better yet, several, made in the same style. We transfer the picture onto a sheet of paper using regular milk as a coloring agent.
- If you are not particularly confident in your creative abilities, then use a stencil to transfer the picture. After the image is applied to the paper, you need to run a hot iron over the drawn figures.
Painting using milk
