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Uplevel Your Space with These DIY Apartment Decor Ideas

Palo Duro Place Apartments in Amarillo TX

Uplevel Your Space with These DIY Apartment Decor Ideas

Your home should be a beautiful and uplifting space. The decor can reflect both your personal style and your handiness skills. Most DIYers assume that apartments are tough to decorate with your handmade projects, but you might be surprised. Even if you're not putting nails in the walls or altering the features, you can get delightfully creative with DIY apartment decor.
If you love DIY handicrafts, we can help you transform your apartment into a stylish and personalized space with a few fun DIY apartment decor projects.
 

Build a DIY Blanket Ladder

A blanket ladder is an attractive wood ladder that leans against the wall to hold throw blankets or towels. They take up very little space and are a very easy project for beginner DIY decorators. You can make a blanket ladder out of almost any collection of wood posts or beams. In fact, they are often made from foraged tree branches or upcycled furniture pieces.
Start by making your ladder - connecting two long posts of equal length with rungs of equal length spaced at even intervals. Use nails to secure the rungs to the posts. The final trick is to cut the bottoms of the posts at an angle so they lean neatly at a specific angle against the wall. You can even add furniture feet or rubber feet for added stability and floor protection.
A chair with a blanket draped over it is leaning against a wall.

Delightful Light with DIY Faux Stained Glass

There are few things more beautiful than the sun-dappled brilliance of stained glass. You might be surprised to learn how many ways you can safely create DIY stained glass in an apartment that will wash or carry away when it comes time to restore the space to its original state.

One option is to create stained glass with paint or translucent plastic panels inside a separate frame. Start with a thin pane of clear plastic in a frame and decorate it with translucent paint, plastic, small beads, and anything else that delights you and catches the light. Then, you can prop these frames in your windows for beautiful light and color effects.

Another option is to use scraps of colorful tissue paper pasted to the windows using a gentle solution of water and a decoupage solution to paste the translucent paper pieces into a window. When it comes time to move, the whole thing washes away with water.

Lastly, there are paints that are designed to cleanly peel away from glass when they dry. If you're an artist with a paintbrush, you can create your own wonderful stained glass artwork and peel it away cleanly later on.

 

Introduce Elegance with a DIY Frame TV

TV frames are a growing trend in elegant apartment decor. You can build a DIY frame for your TV out of nothing more than spare crown molding or baseboard trim. Simply cut pieces of trim to match the outer frame of your television and slice the ends at a 45-degree angle so they fit together with a few small nails, or fasten them with glue and a staple gun. Once the frame is fitted together, you can stain and seal it or paint the frame to accentuate your existing interior design. 

Because your television probably isn't mounted to the wall, you can enhance the frame by building bracing boards to help it fit onto your television and stay in place. Don't forget to also paint the outside of your bracing boards for a completely elevated look. You may also want to make sure your frame does not block any essential signal receptors or transmitters in the television's front-facing border.

A black TV is mounted on a white wall above a white shelf with books and decorations.

Build a DIY Decorative Headboard

If you've always wanted a gorgeous headboard for your bed, you can make it yourself. DIY headboards can be apartment-friendly as long as your bed frame is sturdy and can hold the headboard in place without the need for wall-mounting hardware.

Start with a board or even a large and very stiff piece of cardboard. Wrap the board in wallpaper, fabric, or vinyl surfacing paper and decorate in whatever way inspires you most. Keep in mind the part of the headboard that will show above and around your bed. Then press the headboard you've made between your bed and the wall for a stunning new bedroom look.

 

Beautiful Without a Trace

The great thing about apartment-friendly DIY projects is that you can make your apartment beautiful and then remove them without leaving a trace.  Whether you pack them up and use them to decorate your next apartment or wash them away without a sign that they were ever present, you can enjoy a creatively decorated apartment and protect your security deposit at the same time.

A grey couch with a white throw blanket on it.

Decorating Your Amarillo Apartment

If you are looking for an apartment in Amarillo, TX, where you can hone your DIY decor projects, check out Palo Duro Place Apartments. We are always delighted when residents make an apartment their own with personal and DIY decorations, as long as your projects come down cleanly when you are ready to change apartments. Contact us to explore availability and more.