Don’t you wish you could simply walk into a store and find the perfect “statement” piece to finish your room? Sometimes, we get lucky and find just such a thing. That one little detail that sets our home apart from others – it could be a unique salvage find from a local antique store, an unusual sculpture, or an original piece of artwork.
What if you could simply make your own design detail? You know, that one little addition to an overall design that you treasure or your friends notice and want to replicate. Well, here are some ideas to help inspire you!
A Finial to be Fond of
In general, I love the different window hardware finials we can find for homes, but what if you can’t find exactly what you want for a particular theme? Sometimes moments of brillance strike me at the oddest of times. I had this nautically inspired bathroom to complete and planned on making the window treaments myself using canvas and fishing net. That’s easy. But when I came across these glass finials, I couldn’t help but think I could really make them great by making them look like nautical glass floats.
It was too easy to use some fishing net and jute to cover the glass finials, but it was the first thing the homeowner fell in love with when she saw the final design for her son’s bathoom.
Romantic Lamp?
Using string lights, silk ivy, and a birdcage – it couldn’t get any easier. Simply make the arrangement inside the birdcage, plug in and you’ve got yourself a very simple decorative piece.
Unique Ceiling Medallion!
We had a beautiful mirror in a unique frame. Seven years of bad luck?!?! psssh. We used the frame and backer board to make a unique ceiling medallion. After carefully removing the broken mirror pieces, we painted the frame to match the trim in the rest of the room and painted the backerboard the same color as the focal wall in the bedroom.
Once we removed the ceiling fan, we were ready to install the chandelier. First was to put the backerboard in place by cutting a hole in the center so that the fixture wires could be wired into the chandelier. Then we pre-drilled the frame and screwed it onto the ceiling. Doing these first makes it much easier to mount the chandelier – just as with any ceiling medallion, it has to go on before the light fixture is installed. Once we got all the pieces in place – lights on! We have a beautiful and very unique ceiling focal point and a great companion to the chandelier we created. 
Framing artwork
Issue – one big wall, several great pieces.
What do you do when you have a giant wall and feel it needs some TLC? Filling it to the hilt with random wall art could be the answer, but in some cases, it’s just too much.
There are several alternatives to breaking the wall up and making it look beautiful, we chose to use paint to create frames around great art pieces.
I have a confession to make first – I cheated. I could have spent hours measuring, drawing and taping off the areas to be painted, but used the removable window mullions to help me make the painted frames. By taping the mullions to the wall, I was able to space them out, trace around them, and then use painters tape to protect the areas I did not want to paint.
Here is what was accomplished!
We can always find great pieces to add to our home, but what makes a house truly “your home?” It’s the details, especially the details that set your home apart from others’.
Happy decorating!
Kate
