My home's renovation...

This is the season that every year I am in the mood of making some changes on my home's decoration... Especially this year, the desire for changes was more intense for me. 

So, I was planning some changes in the color of the walls, some addings in the furniture or rearranging the decoration of some spaces.

Firstly, I wanted so much to renovate my bedroom giving it a romantic accent and making it more cozy and hospitable... and then I felt that it was the right time to put some fresh air in my living room. The space where we spend many hours each day... 
I was really happy when I discovered Photowall Sweden, where I found out the perfect wallpapers for my home. 

I chose a romantic vintage floral wallpaper for the bedroom, which fits perfectly with the decoration of the room and a watercolor like wallpaper in green hues for the living room, which totally matched with the ethnic pendant lights and the rustic coffe table. 

I am so excited with the result!!! I had never put up a wallpaper before, but the video tutorial and the clear instructions helped me get the perfect result.
If you like it too and you are in the mood for some changes in your home's decoration, you can now take your own Photowall wallpapers with an  exclusive discount of 25% on their complete selection, using the code ideabygs2021, for a whole month, as much as you want!! 

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did!!!

Handmade by I.De.A

    

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Αυτή, της κατασκευής χειροποίητων αντικειμένων...

Sunday Morning Tales

My mood  for this Sunday is just cocooning while day dreaming of a serene lake view and starting again doodling monograms...

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Handmade ice lanterns & wreaths

This is one of my favoutite diy projects! I learned about it in my journey in Rovaniemi, back in 2004. Ohh...It was such a wonderful experience! Like a Christmas fairy tale... 

What I loved there from the first minute, were the ice sculptures that were placed everywhere in the city and they were really magnificent especially during the night (which is so long there this season) that they were illuminated with coloured lights.

After that, I was excited when we lighted up the tea light of our first ice lantern & we created an ice Christmas wreath... It was just wonderful to create those tiny ice objects in some minutes, leaving the mold with the water outside (the temperature was lower of the freezer) in order to freeze. 

Handmade charms by I.De.A

Every year, we use to gift charms in order to wish each other a lucky new year... 
This year, I decided to give a more personal touch to the charms I would gift to my beloved ones, creating my own designs. So, I used balsa wood, air dry clay, acrilyc colours, markers, gold dust, ribbons, small tassels, tiny bells and of course "2016" golden numbers to create my lucky charms for the 2016. These days I've started to gift them to my loved ones with my warmest wishes for a happy new year full of love and health!

Jewelry's Christmas decorations by I.De.A

Previous week was pretty busy and creative as my schedule was full of Christmas shopping and diy decorative constructions for the seasonal decorations of a jewelry shop. The colours we choose this year for the decorations, were white and gold with touches of deep red. 

My new addiction is the bottle brush miniature christmas trees... I can't explain how much I love them!!! So, I managed to integrate them in this year's decorations, creating mini snowy landscapes between the jewelry. Then, in a recess of a wall I created a miniature snowy hillside with those lovely mini trees of different sizes, some miniature Faberge houses, mini benches and some extra cute street lighting decorated with christmas wreaths.  

Add some geometry on your Christmas tree

Last years, geometrical shapes such as rectangle, triangle, circle or diamond shape have invade into fashion, especially into the jewelry design. This year those shapes constitue a must in the Christmas decorations. 

Inspired by the Finnish traditional Himmeli, which is an ornament made of straw and is hunging from the ceiling during Christmas season, geometrical ornaments are a wonderful alternative for a totally hipster decoration...

DIY: Creating Art for Nursery

I 'm so happy this season, because one of my best friends is going to be mom for her third time in a few days... So, as this period I am on holidays, far away from professional obligations and I have a lot of free time,  I decided to make a special handmade gift for her baby boy! After some hours of thinking, I decided to create two little paintings which will decorate perfectly the wall above his crib. 

As he will be born in the end of the August, I chose to use two colours which reminds the Greek Summer! I painted the background with my favourite colour, which is nothing else but turquoise, the colour of the pure sea water. For the details I chose some shades of orange... Those who takes the sky the sunset hour! 

The paintings' theme is the forest and the Indians... One of little boys' favourite theme! I designed the head of a little deer, an Indian tepee, some feathers and some arrows on balsa wood. Then I cut them and glued them on the canvas in order to create a kind of 3D result. The final step was to write on them some messages for their little owner, with my black markers. 

The materials I used for this project was: two canvas frames of 20x20cm, a piece of balsa wood, acrylic colours and my  favourite markers.

DIY: Designing Monograms

For a long time, I wanted to design our monograms in order to decorate with them our headboard wall in our bedroom, but there was lack of time! So, those days that I am relaxing at home, I found the time and the inspiration to complete this diy project. I firstly sketched each monogram in Schoeller paper and then I highlighted it with a black marker. After that, they were ready to be placed on the white frames I had bought for months, for this reason... 
Now, they are waiting to find their place on the wall. What do you think? Do you like them? 

DIY Rope Mirrors

I love so much round rope mirrors... So, today I found for you 4 different DIY ideas on how you can make one by yourself in a really low budget! For the mirror of the first photo I found the tutorial in the Crazy Wonderful. For the three following find their tutorial above their photos.

DIY: Handmade clay pots

Two of my greatest loves are DIY inspired constructions and succulents... Today's post combines them in the easiest way!!! Following the step by step tutorial of say yes, you can create those amazing clay pots which are the perfect vessel to house a mini plant! It would be also a lovely and thoughtful gift for a friend who loves plants... 

Special gift wraps for special people

     

It's only six days until Christmas & the majority of us we are thinking about the Christmas gifts we'll buy for our beloved ones... For me, the way you will wrap a gift is so important as its content itself!!! I like so much to give a special character to the gifts I offer every year to my family members & my friends either it is for a very expensive gift or for just a symbolic one... Here you can find some inspiration on how you can wrap your Christmas gifts!!!                

Christmas is coming...

The cold has finally arrived over the weekend here and as we are going through the last days of November, 

I consider that is the ideal period to start our homes' Christmas decorations!!!

My first Christmas DIY for this year, will be this amazing cutting...

DIY: Torch Bottles

For years I used to collect old liquor bottles, as many of them have such a unique design and color that it was too hard for me to part with them... I love to use them as candle holders or to store on them my handmade liquors, juices & flavored olive oil with mediterranean herbs. I use to make every year my own limoncello, lemonade & flavor virgin olive oil from our family olive groves with fresh cut herbs from my mini balcony garden. 

Today, I discovered a new inspired way to repurpose my empty liquor bottles... I am so enthusiastic with the idea of turning them to torch bottles! I find it such a lovely decorative item for our balconies which will accompanies our Spring and Summer warm nights... You can find a how to do it tutorial on Sugar & Charm. Try it, it's so easy!!!

5 Alternative Christmas Trees

If you are the kind of person who is seeking every year for different ways to decorate his/her home, here you can find 5 brilliant ideas for an alternative Christmas tree!!! With no amount of money but with tones of imagination you can create the most beautiful seasons decoration for your home and transform it to the coziest space of the whole world...!

DIY: Origami Diamonds

I was always found so interesting to create little decorative ornaments with the origami technique... A simple piece of paper can be transformed into a piece of art!!! You can use pages from old newspapers, magazines, books or to print or paint the pattern you like. As it is so easy to do them (you will find a tutorial here), I thought to create some paper diamonds for my home with christmas patterns so as to use them for the christmas decoration! 

What do you think? Will you make an effort to make some for your home? 

Gold Leaf Papier Mâché Bowls

Today, I found this amazing DIY project and I decided to share it with you, as it is so simple for someone to do it yet so chic and practical. I hope to try it in the weekend! I loved so much the combination of gold leaf and white polka dots but you always can make them with newspaper or comics for a different optical result... You can find a detailed tutorial here.

DIY: Coasters

What about doing some craft this week? Today I found this clever & easy to make DIY project and I liked it so much that I am ready to give my cork IKEA coasters a little make-over. Some stripes, crosses or every other shape you like and in a few seconds you 'll get completely different looking coasters. Here you can find instructions on how you 'll paint your coasters.

Images via mydubio.com

My Handmade Wedding Story

Around before two months it was my best day of my life... My wedding! My husband and I, we had decided to celebrate our wedding day, having at our side our beloved ones, those who really care about us, and making a wedding simple and alternative, just as we had imagined it to be, far away from the fashion of a glamorous and luxurious wedding. 

As we both adore sea, we choose a tiny church situated on the edge of a coastal settlement in the Athens suburbs with a breathtaking sea view and a lovely garden! Everything there look like to be on an island... So, the colors of the wedding couldn't be other than the color of sand, white which reminds purity and of course Cyclades and finally touches of yellow as the sun in the Greek summer!

Repurposing Old Furniture

I 'm really in love with all those old classic consoles which are painted in a more modern or abstract way (as the console of the photo), in order to be a part of a contemporary or country home... They can be transformed in unique decorative pieces, according to the personality and the imagination of their owners! I have a similar repurposed furniture in my home and I am so proud of it, because I had the pleasure to give it  its new style by myself with the help of my father in some technical matters. I will show you my creation in a future post. It' s a promiss... 

Image via planete-deco.fr