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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

stenciled pillow

How to Stencil on Fabric with Paint: Tips and Ideas

Learn how to stencil on fabric with paint to update your clothes and home decor with just a little bit of paint. You can use acrylic paints or textile paints.…
Embroidered kitchen towels with a vintage pots design

Embroidered Kitchen Towels

I used a few different stitches on these hand embroidered kitchen towels. The iron on designs are from a local creative reuse store. Fun gift to make!
Needlepoint pillow finished 2

Finishing a Needlepoint Pillow

I found this needlepoint piece at a garage sale and wanted to make a throw pillow. I framed it with upholstery fabric and embellished with hand embroidery.
Crewel Embroidery Pillow ReUse

Upcycled Crewel Embroidery Pillow

I found this unfinished crewel embroidery piece at a creative reuse store and brought it home to finish. It was easy to add borders and make it into a pillow.
Quilts of Valor quilt with a veteran

Quilts of Valor – Honor Veterans with Quilts

The Quilts of Valor Foundation is dedicated to wrapping every veteran "touched by war" in a warm comforting quilt. My brother was honored on the 4th of July.
Finished Big Ruffle Pillow

Big Ruffle Pillows

I made decorator pillows with pillow forms, upholstery fabric and a silk taffeta window panel to make the gathered ruffles.
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! I made my own pillow with pretty fabric and trimmed with self-covered big piping.
Thread Easter Eggs hung on a year-round tree

Easy to Make String Easter Eggs: DIY Tutorial

I wanted to make thread Easter Eggs for my 'Easter Tree'! No tools or sewing skills required - just balloons, glue and embroidery floss. Super easy!
Vintage quilt ornaments finished 8

How to Make Quilted Heart Ornaments Tutorial

I cut a heart out of an old quilt, sewed some buttons on it and then did a blanket stitch around the edge of the heart. It is a fun…

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