Stenciling Your Home Decor
Decorating can become frustrating. You know what you want to create in your mind it’s hard to make it happen. It might have been a picture that you liked or a certain wallpaper that caught your eye and inspired your look. Your not sure where it came from but you are excited to get started. What you ended up with is not what you originally planned out and now you feel as though you will have to settle with what it there.
Since the object is now in your memory you can put it on a stencil by creating your own stencil. Small or large, you can have the object that inspired your decor in your room. You may be able to purchase the design in stencil but most of the time it’s hard to find. Any image you want to add to your decor can be created in a stencil. You can do all of this yourself.
Stencils can be very small, like leaves or stylized marks such as spirals that you can use to decorate your walls or ceilings in groups or just here and there, as you see fit. They can also be huge – if you are making the stencil then you are in control. I would only suggest that, while for small designs paper is fine as the material out of which to cut the stencil, if you are going to go for a large design you would be better off using a stiff plastic or wood. You can create a stencil several feet across if you feel the need to. Just find the picture and the stencil material and get started. You can even find a small design and enlarge it without losing the proportions by drawing a grid over the original and then drawing a proportionate but obviously much larger grid over the stencil material. Then copy each square of the original design onto the corresponding square on the stencil material and you will have the design marked out perfectly.
Area rugs can also be used to continue the stenciled theme, although if you made the stencil yourself you might have a tough time finding an appropriate rug. In order to overcome this problem try looking for rugs whose shape echoes that of the stencil – for example, a curving rug to echo a curving stencil shape or a geometric rug to echo the angles on your walls. Alternatively, you could go a different route and use the rug to echo the colors used in the stencil while providing a contrasting shape.
Don’t let others influence your decisions in home decorating. Remember that it’s your home and you should get the final say. This is the one way that you can express yourself and show others what you like.
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