Decor For the Poor

I once again find myself enthralled by the creativity that people possess. I have found a few more projects that I would like to take on eventually. They are mostly things to spruce up my apartment. My roommates and I have decided that we want to make our place look more homey next year. Right now it's just blah. We're not allowed to hang things using nails so that kind of limits what we can do. Rylee and I were kind of thinking we'd ignore that rule because other people do and there's already some holes in our walls. Maybe now we won't have to be bad tenants that break the rules. All of these, with the exception of one, are pretty cheap. They are all easy, which is why I like them. And that they don't require sewing. My lack of sewing skills as well as the desire to have said skills greatly limits many of the DIY projects I can do. It kind of make me sad, but not enough to drive me to learn. On the bright side, I won't have to spend lots of money on fabric making tons of cute handbags (these are really the only DIY sewing projects that really interest me).

Here's the first one. They are starched fabric frames that you stick to the wall using an iron. They peel right off without damaging that paint. I never knew you could iron something to the wall. I probably won't end up doing this one because fabric is pricey and I don't know anyone here that would have nice scraps. I will probably end up using this in in my future home. I think it would be cute in a kid's room. Whatya think?

You can find the instructions here.

I love the really modern look to this next one. These patterned wall squares are really cheap and easy to make. I'm pretty positive these are going up on our wall. You can also make them in other shapes, but of the shapes I can think of, squares seem like the best choice. You kind find the instructions for this geometric wall art here.

Aren't they cool?

The third one is the cheapest of them all. I think it would look great on one of our side tables. It's branches with paper berries. You just go outside and find some small branches and use a circle scrapbooking punch (or trace a coin and cut if you think you can do it well) to cut out paper circles to glue to the branches. I'm going to have better paper berries though. I'm thinking red, orange and yellow. Or maybe blue, purple and yellow. I don't like how they threw the blue in there. I mean, I understand about wanting colors to pop, but I'm not sure about this one.

Instructions for this berry easy decor can be found here.

{Please excuse the cheesiness.}

The inspiration for this came from the fabric of something at Ikea. I've seen this design multiple places. I really like it.

This is the only non-apartment decor one that I found. They are individual paper cupcake stands. If I ever had a little party or dinner I could use them as place cards or just to decorate a dessert table. You can use cardboard or colored cardstock. They are so simple and cheap to make. Find the instructions here.

Anyway, just thought I'd share some things that I've found and that I'm excited to eventually try. If anyone tries these, please send me a picture and let me know how it turns out :)