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DIY Home Décor

Category: <span>DIY Home Décor</span>

It’s where the heart is! Make DIY Home Décor items that sing. Tackle just one room’s DIY décor projects, or give your whole house or apartment a makeover. From pillows to linens to quilts, our DIY decoration projects will make your house a home!

Browse through our home dec ideas and projects find inspiration to spiff up your home!

DIY Throw Pillows

DIY Home Decor Projects

Finished Big Ruffle Pillow

Big Ruffle Pillows

I saw some awesome pillows at a high end home dec store that had big ruffles, and a big price tag and thought ‘I could make those’. I probably should...

Finished jelly roll rug

How to Make a Jelly Roll Rug

I had seen and admired the beautiful and colorful pictures of jelly roll rugs and wanted to try to make one for myself! Spoiler alert - it is a lot...

Finished decorator pillow on my couch

How to Make Throw Pillows: DIY Pillow Ideas

I love decorator pillows. They can change a room’s mood, but are so expensive! Make your own decorator pillow and get exactly what you want! You don't need a lot...

Table Top DIY Ideas

Finished wine coasters that double as mug rugs

How to Make a Mug Rug and Wine Coaster from Charm Packs

It's charming, quick, and easy! Make mug rugs from a charm pack for your cup of coffee or tea, that doubles as a wine coaster. Now, everyone can keep track...

Fabric Coil Baskets and Bowls

How to Make a Fabric Rope Bowl

These fabric rope bowls are so much fun to make and they have so many uses! Make a fabric rope bowl for an Easter basket, fruit bowl, notions catch-all, gift...

Easy Weekend Sashiko Projects

In a fast-paced, plugged-in world, it’s so easy to lose track of how the things we use everyday came to be. Even though today’s versions are largely machine made, human...

More DIY Home Décor

Close up of two color quilt with amazing stitching

Spotlight: Cindy Needham, Quilting Instructor

Cindy Needham caught the quilting bug at a young age, inspired by traditional quilts she saw while growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. By incorporating vintage linens into her…
Deconstructed #1 Detail

Spotlight: Carson Converse, Artist and Designer

Beginning with arranging shapes on a felt board in preschool, Carson Converse developed a love of quilts that became her artistic passion. Add an element of risk-taking and the result…
Unique chairs at a table

Spotlight: Wendy Conklin, Artist and Chair Designer

When Wendy Conklin wanted custom chairs on a limited budget for her home, she learned upholstery skills and made exactly what she wanted. Now she designs and manufactures custom chairs…
bird needlepoint pillow

Decorating with Throw Pillows

Pillows might be the easiest accessory to add interest, texture, color and seasonal colors to your rooms. They are a favorite of professional home decorators and do it yourselfers alike.…
Flóra Carlile-Kovács Blue Fissure 2

Spotlight: Flóra Carlile-Kovács, Felt Artist

Flóra Carlile-Kovács has found her creative calling and loves every part of the felt making process. Beginning with a plan, then working instinctively as she responds to her materials, Flóra…
Jacobean Crewelwork

Spotlight: Sara Rickards, Embroidery Artist

You can catch a glimpse of Sara Rickards' work anywhere from video tutorials to kits to design to red carpets and the runways of fashion designers. And she does it…
Blue and gold weaving

Spotlight: Lindsey Campbell, Artist and Weaver

Lindsey Campbell has a passion for craft and its transformative power to change lives for the better. She balances teaching weaving to others via online classes, writing instructional and inspiring…
Ira crocheting on her patio with crocheted lobster rug and pillow

Spotlight: Ira Rott, Fiber Artist

Ira Rott is a fiber artist, pattern designer, and author from Southern Ontario, Canada. Raised in a home with textile enthusiasts, and learning to crochet from her grandmother, Ira has…
Finished wine coasters that double as mug rugs

How to Make a Mug Rug and Wine Coaster from Charm Packs

It's charming, quick, and easy! Make mug rugs from a charm pack for your cup of coffee or tea, that doubles as a wine coaster. Now, everyone can keep track…

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