Making faux pumpkins

Sep4

Autumn is here again and it’s time for autumn decoration of which pumpkin is the most frequent element. It can be purchased in various shapes, sizes and colors but its disadvantage is getting rotten after a while, so it can’t be stored for the next year. However, pumpkin shaped decoration can be made DIY by using creatively the materials around, this way creating durable and eco-friendly decoration.
Let’s collect the corks of vine bottles. Choose the pieces in the same size and paint them in orange (maybe in other color if it fits better for the interior). Glue them to each other by their long sides as giving round shape front wise. Let’s start with a row of three, then put four on top of it, five on that row, and so on and so on, at last decrease the number of the corks in one row again for getting the round shape. Glue a stem made of branch and string on the top.
Old knitted pullovers in proper colors can be saved from throwing out. Turn it over, cut off the sleeves, sew the holes and the bottom of it. Turn it over again and fill it through the neck hole with wad or spared fabrics for getting a round shape. Sew it tight at the end and stick a fabric covered branch in it as a stem. If leaves are made also, the seam on the top can be covered more easily.
Have a bigger log cut into 2-3 cm thick slices. Paint the cut surfaces in orange. Fix a branch and cirri made of wire on the top of each pieces. Leaning to the wall, it will be a showy pile of pumpkins.
Lids of jars should be holed on their brims in two places, 2 cm from each other. Paint them in the desired color. String them on a thin wire for being them around and twine the ends of the wire. Glue a branch (cinnamon twig is good also), raffia and dried leaves on the top.
The simplest way of making faux pumpkins is buying orange yarn balls in a haberdashery shop in several hues and types. Only a stem and faux-leaves have to be tucked in it and the faux-pumpkin is ready.
Ask for help of an interior designer for further creative decoration ideas.

Minerals, semi-precious stones

Jul31

Crystals, semi-precious stones and gems always enchanted people. Their shine, bright colors and rarity make them desirable. They come into view nowadays thanks to esotericism, horoscopes and naturopathy. By Feng Shui and horoscopic space organization, they broke into interior design also.
Beautiful colors of various crystals culminate by their light transmittance and light-reflecting features. Many people fell in love with such a color and want to choose it for their walls, furniture or accessories at home. But these objects – thanks to their materials – reflect light quite differently and definitely don’t transmit it. That is why it’s very hard to give a semi-precious stone color to other surfaces. Close to the perfect result can be reached by putting the crystal on a matte surface, first on a light, than a dark one, far away from direct light. Let’s match the color chart with it and choose the more compatible color with the real sight.
Various minerals can be bought in several shops in wide assortment according to their size and elaboration. It’s easy to decorate with semi-precious stones this way, but their price is relatively high.
We can be creative using them in addition to put them on the shelf, coffee table or mantelpiece. For example, make the handles of chest of drawers unique by gluing small semi-precious stones on them. We can also decorate a mirror, napkin ring, storage box, pot, curtain fringe etc. Buy pendants with small metal rings and sew them on cushions making beautiful accessories.
Ask for help of an interior designer creating a home (even esoteric) befitted for you.

Summer details

Jul14

Summer is in the details

Blue-white chinas

Jul12

Antique blue-white chinas are perfect inspirations for classic interiors

Black flowers

Jun26

Black color is more and more popular in interior design. Many people bravely paint the walls black or use black wallpaper and buy bigger furniture. If we don’t like to accent this color so much, we can use it on accessories (cushions, vases, candles, picture frames etc.) or on easy changeable smaller pieces of furniture or carpets. Cut or potted flowers always bring nature to the interiors. Where black is the dominant color and the color palette is monochrome, it’s harder to choose plants because bright colors are very different from the concept.
In this case, „black” flowers are perfect, which are less familiar and harder to purchase. Although black is in their name, actually none of them is black, but a very deep hue of claret and purple which seems to be black compared to other plants.
Queen of Night tulip – became famous by the novel of Alexander Dumas – is a plain petal species which looks good in a bigger bunch. There are black ones among so-called parrot tulips, their petals are scalloped.
Black calla lily is much more common and can be bought in several flower shops. It is durable, looks good in a big bunch or just one flower itself.
Black Mamba petunia is not a cut flower but it can be perfectly used instead of green plants in black interiors. It blooms richly and long, in addition to, it’s easy to care. Petals are plushy to touch.
More species of pansies have black flowers (e.g. Atlas, Sorbet Black Delight, Black Beauty). It feels good in balcony pots and hung baskets also. Its blooming time is long. It will be marvelous in pots fitting to the interior.
Black Mondo Grass is a perfect choice for those who want more neutral sight. It has pale pink flowers in summer which turn to bluish black berries later. It can be bred in containers.
There are a lot more species which can be called black (iris, bleeding glory-blower, cornflower etc.). Ask for help of an interior designer for choosing species fitting for your home.