Spruce Up Those Empty Walls With Easy DIY Art Ideas For Your Home

by Ashish Rai | January 18, 2024 | 5 mins read

Easy diy wall art ideas for your home

The art you display or the photos of your fondest memories can make any space in your home look upbeat and fun

Are you looking to zing up your life and home? Are you bored of looking at the dull walls in your home? If you are looking for some fresh ideas, then you have tuned into the right place. Everyone wants their homes to reflect their individuality and as much fun as it sounds, hunting for wall art from galleries is expensive and time-consuming. So why not DIY (Do it yourself)? 

Homemade wall art is the perfect and most inexpensive way to bring your personality to your space. 

Spending a fortune on wall art isn’t an option for some of us. So the next best alternative is to repurpose items you already own into decorative objects and make yourself a stunning art gallery. So block your time, gather your family and friends or your kids to join you in this fun activity because it is time to make some DIY art.

Pretty Painted Patterns On A Wall

The walls of your home have the power to speak volumes about your life. Decorated walls produce a look packed with personality. Now you will have no need for expensive artwork or wallpaper to fill those bland walls in your home. If you love art and have a flair for painting and drawing, install a chalkboard wall and let your creativity run wild. You can draw pretty floral patterns or any motifs/ patterns that inspire you. The best part of this is that you can spruce up your walls with different designs and patterns to your space every day.

Diy wall art ideas with printed patterns on the wall and install a chalkboard wall and let your creativity run wild
Change your wall decor as quickly as you change your mind with a chalkboard wall

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Hang In There

You can make cute and DIY wall hangings with so much ease and less effort. Wall hangings are anything that you put up on the wall that hang down creatively and artistically. DIY wall hangings are ideal to redesign your home’s atmosphere. If you have a vintage rug or embroidered items that you don’t use, repurpose it by hanging it on the wall. Just make sure it’s high enough because if you own a pet they may love the project just as much as you do.

Diy outdoor wall art ideas with diy wall hangings you can do creatively and artistically
Vintage rugs or quilts can be repurposed as wall hangings and they will look great on the wall

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Bored of your bare walls? Its time to reinvest your space!

A Bulletin Board To Get You Organised

There isn’t much work that goes into making DIY bulletin boards. In some cases, all you need to do is refurbish it to an existing corkboard. If you are someone who always works from home then a bulletin board is the perfect DIY project for you. It is one of the most practical items in your home office desk and a great source of motivation. Frame a bulletin board in your workstation, nestle it with some fun accessories like a steel ladder as shown in the picture and you’ve got a fantastic area to sit back and work.

Creative wall art ideas diy to get you organised with bulletin board with accessories like a steel ladder
The crafty bulletin board above speaks of a creative-delicate environment a beautiful setting

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Picture and Frames – An Eclectic Wall

Displaying artwork and pictures is probably the easiest DIY you can do with an empty wall. We all love gallery walls as they are a fantastic way to infuse colours and patterns into space. A gallery wall will allow art lovers to display their collections and show it off to guests or just admire them when you have free time. A gallery wall can comprise pictures, artwork or photos but can be more than that too. Start with your favourite images, drawings, illustrations and then add cherished memories like a postcard from a vacation or photographs of your grandmother’s dishes. The possibilities as you see are endless. 

Diy wall art painting ideas with a gallery wall which comprises of pictures, artwork and photos
The thing to love about gallery walls like this is that choices are limitless

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DIY Hexagon Wall Art

For a while now, hexagon wall art has been gaining popularity. There are so many ways to use a hexagon shape to decorate any part of your home. All you need is a bit of math, some paint colours and a blank wall. You can either buy readymade hexagonal pieces online or make yourself one. If you want to DIY, then don’t discard popsicle sticks. You can stick them into a hexagonal shape and paint them in various shades to give those blank walls some character. 

Large wall art ideas diy with a hexagonal wall art you can paint in various shades
Cardboard cut out hexagons look fabulous on this blue wall teamed with white furniture and lights

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Here you go, people! There are numerous DIY projects that you can do in your free time to spruce up your dull walls. We hope you loved these ideas and will incorporate them into your walls.

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Ashish Rai is a content writer at Design Cafe home interiors blog.

Ashish Rai

Ashish Rai is a content writer at DesignCafe and believes that words have the power to change the world! He comes with five years of experience and has experimented with various roles including sales, a tourist guide, and ran a tattoo parlour too!

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