The color scheme and ornament of the picture should be combined with the decor.
Modern apartment design requires unusual solutions. And this solution can be a non-standard use of wallpaper. Today I want to talk about the options for decorating walls with the remnants of wallpaper, how to make paintings from photographs and liquid wallpaper and where to place them.
How to use leftover wallpaper
Everyone has pieces of wallpaper left after the repair. This is an ideal material for creating original compositions.
There are many ways to use them:
- panels,
- modular variations,
- paintings,
- landscapes,
- ornaments.
Selections are made from large canvases, several fragments, framed and unframed. It all depends on your taste, the size of the wall, the style of the interior and the material used.
Experiments with wallpaper design are always spectacular. They enliven life, bring originality, create comfort. Compositions must be done in harmony with the interior. Consider color scheme, maintain the style of the room.
Why is it fashionable to make pictures from wallpaper? For many, cost-effective design is in the foreground. Designers also call other reasons-advantages of using wallpaper:
- Dilution of the monotony of the interior.
- Selection of the main wall.
- Eliminate design flaws.
- The final touch in the interpretation of the room.
- Hide wall imperfections.
- Division of space into zones.
- The individuality of each room.
- Relevance in studio apartments.
How to choose material
The idea dictates the choice of a certain color and texture, as well as a combination of factors:
- the complexity of the idea
- composition size,
- interior features.
Usually, one cannot do with the remnants of the repair - the wallpaper is bought in addition, taken from friends.
The material sometimes dominates the idea. Based on what we have, we select the theme of the picture. Combinations of a floral pattern are suitable for an ornament or a geometric print. The size of plant elements is selected small, not contrasting with the general background.
Ideal wallpaper with a geometric theme. Different images are allowed: ovals, rhombuses, squares, polygons, circles. An invariable requirement is a small drawing. A large one will distract attention, distort the silhouette, and make it difficult to focus on the main thing.
The constituent pictures must be of the same texture. Solid, smooth options are not suitable for large elements - voids will appear. Choose contrasting patterns and ornaments.
Paintings in the interior
Regardless of the material (liquid wallpaper, remnants of paper sheets), the picture will be universal. She will decorate any room. Paintings from wallpaper in the interior set a certain mood. Skillfully selected themes expand the room, open up perspective.
If the choice is made in favor of small paintings, then the grouping technique is observed. They are harmoniously distributed on the wall.
The composition requires a competent layout of each piece. On impressive spaces, it is better to make paintings with large elements / pattern. In small rooms, small ornaments are ideal.
Learning to make pictures
Depending on the intention, apply different materials and technology.
Method 1. Wallpaper
The procedure for creating a picture is simple, partly reminiscent of an application. To obtain even joints, the thickness of the wallpaper should be the same, and the quality should be similar. Chipboard, art cardboard, polystyrene are taken as the basis. For modular three-dimensional paintings- thick foam sheets.
Let's make a picture with our own hands:
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Step 1
Prepare the base (cardboard). The size is according to the plan. |
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Step 2
Decorate cardboard with wallpaper (plain, patterned, textured). |
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Step 3
Elements are cut out of the selected pieces: floral pattern, silhouettes, flowers, geometric figures, parts of the ornament. |
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Step 4
Glue each part onto plain paper. Leave to dry. |
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Step 5
After complete drying, the composition is inserted into the frame or used without it.
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Method 2. Liquid wallpaper
Paintings from liquid wallpaper are made on an open wall. Before work, decide what accent your interior needs. Your painting should be in harmony with the walls and furniture. Let several shades of the palette match the color of the floor or walls.
Advantages of liquid wallpaper:
- Versatility. Ideal for kitchen, nursery, hallway, living room.
- They do not have seams and joints.
- Eco-friendly.
- They provide good heat and sound insulation.
- They have high wear resistance.
- Hide flaws, align the vertical of the wall.
How to work with liquid wallpaper:
The material allows you to make panels, paint the wall completely, create decorative bas-reliefs, small paintings. However, a thick layer on the wall hardens for two days.
It's easy to make a picture. A sketch is applied to the prepared wall with a pencil. In divorced wallpaper, the desired color is added. The selected segments of the pattern are covered with a mixture.
Method 3. Wallpaper
According to statistics, photo wallpapers are among the top most popular finishing materials. They are able to expand the space, decorate the room, hide the flaws of the layout. They are a complete picture or serve as a background, a bright accent.
The advantages are ease of maintenance, durability of paints, resistance to UV rays. Flaw - high price for quality material.
Modular pictures
The absence of frames, the simple geometry of the forms make modular paintings a popular decoration. They are made up of modules. The quantity is applied differently: 2, 3 ... 5 and more. When placed on the wall, a distance of at least 2 cm is left between each fragment.
All modules are united by a single idea and represent parts of one picture. How to create modular paintings from wallpaper with your own hands:
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Living room
Here it is possible to experiment with a bright range. Segments are tied to the area of the room. On a large wall, small elements are unacceptable. Paintings are recommended to be placed above the sofa. |
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Children's
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Chipboard cuttings and pictures from the Internet Alexander Dmitriev turns commemorative products popular with tourists
IT tools used by Alexander Dmitriev
- Adobe package
- Microsoft Office suite
- 1c accounting
To launch his business of producing original souvenirs, Alexander Dmitriev from the Kaliningrad region only needed to arrange to pick up chipboard trimmings from the carpentry workshop for free and buy a color printer, photographic paper, sandpaper and glue. The entrepreneur told Biz360 about how to organize the production of unusual souvenirs with low cost and high margin in the tourist region.
Alexander Dmitriev, 33 years old, was born and lives in Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad region). Graduated from the Kaliningrad high school management in the specialty "management". In 2009, after several years of employment, he founded his own company, Studiya Pozitiff. Engaged in the manufacture of souvenirs from waste furniture production. Now they are sold in 16 points in Kaliningrad and Svetlogorsk.
Dismissal as a starting point
Alexander Dmitriev from Svetlogorsk wanted to open his own business even at the time when he worked at a TV production company as a personnel manager. The work was quite interesting, but the young man dreamed of his own business.
The events of 2009 became a powerful impetus for Alexander to start working for himself. Then, due to the financial crisis, the company where he worked was closed, and all the staff were fired. Alexander began to think about what to do.
Svetlogorsk, where he lives, is a resort town. Many tourists come there not only in summer, but almost all year round. It was a logical idea to link your business with the “resorts”. But what could be offered to them that no one else had offered?
While searching for a business idea, Alexander Dmitriev was visiting a friend in the furniture industry. He was then very surprised at how much leftover lumber was thrown away. Among the waste were scraps of chipboard, plywood, MDF panels. Alexander asked his friend to give him some of the leftovers, which would still go to the trash. He had an idea to make souvenirs for tourists from waste.
In the same place, in the workshop of his friend, he cut rectangles of various sizes from furniture production waste. At home, using a printer, Alexander applied an image to photographic paper, and then glued the picture onto blanks. “I wanted the image to be inside the base, and the frame and the picture were perceived as a single whole. In the end, it turned out exactly what I wanted - something special. My souvenir paintings turned out to be very unusual and interesting, they attracted the eye,” says the master.
Alexander experimented with manufacturing techniques, processing materials in different ways. As a result of these searches, souvenirs turned out to be stylized as stone, gold, in vintage style, etc. They favorably differed from the standard souvenir products traditionally sold in the Kaliningrad region. It is almost all of amber and is quite the same type. And souvenirs from Dmitriev resemble paintings in a frame measuring 16x21 or 26x34 centimeters. They are attached to a wall or other surface with a twine loop.
Having sold the first 120 souvenirs in three weeks, Alexander earned more than his monthly salary at the enterprise.
Project economics
Alexander Dmitriev honestly admits that he is not an artist. Therefore, he cannot make drawings for his souvenirs with his own hands. To do this, he uses a printer and illustrations from the Internet. It also significantly reduces the cost of products.
The entrepreneur notes that he needed a small investment to start. For the production of souvenir paintings, he used and continues to use furniture production waste, which is given to him free of charge. To make illustrations, he needs a computer, which he had, and a printer, the purchase of which cost 1.5 thousand rubles. A private garage became a place for processing souvenirs. “In principle, any room with an area of about 3 square meters can serve as a workplace,” says Alexander. He also buys PVA glue, with which he glues photographic paper with an image to a plywood, wood or chipboard base.
In 2009, when Alexander Dmitriev registered as individual entrepreneur, he bought the simplest Epson TX110 printer and refillable cartridges for it. The equipment lasted a full two years. Then Alexander purchased an Epson L800 printer with a continuous ink supply system. It has already cost eight thousand rubles. “Printing on such devices in the translation of ink consumption into money is mere pennies,” says Alexander. Print image for one small picture costs about a ruble.
In the process of creating souvenirs, he discovered that photo paper can be replaced with business paper. It is, in fact, an imitation of the canvas. If you put an image on it, then you get the complete impression that it is real picture. Alexander Dmitriev buys business card paper in whatman paper in a store that serves a printing house. From one drawing paper cuts 10 sheets of A4 format. Each sheet costs 10 rubles with this approach.
The cost of a souvenir painting made of chipboard measuring 16x21 centimeters is almost 25 rubles. It consists of the following components:
Chopped chipboard - 10 rubles (but it’s more profitable to negotiate with furniture makers and pick up production waste from them for free);
Photo paper or business card - 5 rubles;
Photo printing of a picture - about 1 ruble;
Compositions for water-based wood processing - 4.5 rubles;
PVA glue (assuming that one container is enough for 50 paintings) - 1.5 rubles;
Sandpaper - 2 rubles.
If you stylize the picture as gold or stone, then the costs will increase by 2-5 rubles. Alexander sells such a souvenir for 220 rubles. After deducting the cost of shipping products to the point of sale and deducting taxes, the net profit is approximately 180 rubles. That is, the profit is seven times the cost of production! An entrepreneur makes an average of 20-25 souvenirs per day. A month sells about 300 pieces.
Points of attraction for tourists and locals
After launching his own business, Alexander Dmitriev began to look for points of sale. First, he arranged with several entrepreneurs who trade for tourists that he would sell souvenirs through them. Entrepreneurs buy paintings from Alexander for 200 rubles, and make their own cheat of 100 rubles.
"I have principled position for sale through entrepreneurs. They are used to cheating 100% of the cost, but I set the condition that the picture cost no more than 300 rubles. This has shown to be effective. It is better to earn on a large turnover than to wait for a buyer who will buy a painting for a high price. I had such a case when an entrepreneur from a store at the airport set a price of 770 rubles for a product. And then he complained that my pictures were not selling well. While they were selling them there, I managed to turn the turnover three times with other points, ”recalls Dmitriev.
Then Alexander opened his own store in Svetlogorsk - a pavilion with an area of 15 "squares" in mall on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Stable demand for souvenirs prompted Dmitriev to look for additional points of sale. New points of sale were focused not so much on tourists as on the local population. “To my surprise, the turnover from them was at the level of “tourist” points of sale.”
At points of sale designed for locals, local photo and flower shops began to order souvenir paintings. For some reason in flower shops buyers prefer to buy souvenir paintings along with bouquets.
Theme of souvenirs for different points- different. Where there are tourists, images of the sights of the Kaliningrad region diverge quite well. Locals are more likely to buy stylish pictures, postcards, vintage images. Most often, Alexander puts works on his paintings famous artists, views of the sea, photos of the sights of the area, original pictures in Japanese style.
For his souvenirs, the entrepreneur uses pictures that he downloads from the Internet. In order not to violate copyright, takes images that are in the public domain. If he finds pictures contemporary artists, then is written off with them. As a rule, all of them allow free use of their work, but with the obligatory indication of authorship and the name of the work. Alexander puts this information on the reverse side of the souvenirs.
In order to expand the network of selling souvenirs, Alexander personally meets with entrepreneurs who have their own stores and demonstrates their products. “Many are immediately ready to cooperate and take products for sale. My souvenirs cause buyers big interest. Because you will never guess that the picture is not made of stone or clay, but of chipboard or plywood,” he said.
Now products from Dmitriev can be bought in his personal souvenir pavilion in Svetlogorsk and fifteen souvenir shops in Kaliningrad and the region.
By the way, Alexander's business is a family business. The wife helps to deliver the goods to the points when Alexander is busy making souvenirs. Of the hired workers, they have two people - sellers in stores. They receive piecework wages: 200 rubles for each job and 10% of sales.
Sometimes portraits and paintings are ordered from Alexander as a gift. Their cost is already much higher - 1000 rubles. The entrepreneur has experience working with a local Japanese restaurant: his owner ordered 20 paintings for interior decoration. Dmitriev also regularly collaborates with photographers who ask to make different pictures with your pictures.
Alexander was thinking about going outside the Kaliningrad region with his souvenirs. But it is surrounded on all sides by the countries of the European Union. It is impossible to sell your products there without obtaining special permits. Therefore, the entrepreneur focused on expanding the network of points of sale in the region. “Fortunately, our region is becoming more and more more interesting for tourists. For example, we recently hosted the Vocal KiViN festival. At that time, I had a surge in sales of souvenirs,” says Alexander Dmitriev.
I worked in 2009 at a TV factory as a personnel manager, but the crisis destroyed the factory, and it was time to make decisions about further earnings. We have the Kaliningrad region with a tourist bias and I decided to engage in souvenir business. All souvenirs are basically the same from manufacturers and I wanted to make something of my own. I have a friend who makes furniture and I've always wondered how much waste he throws away. I especially felt sorry for the waste of chipboard, plywood, MDF. I decided to experiment. He cut the remains of chipboard to a certain size and tried various options processing. As a result, I developed my own technology of souvenir paintings from chipboard, plywood, MDF. The picture is a monolithic product. The image smoothly blends into the frame. Design options depend on imagination: stone imitation, ivory, vintage, gold, etc. I print the image on a simple Epson inkjet printer, put a continuous ink supply system there, printing images turns out to be a penny. I use my garage as a production base.
I opened my own stall, where I began to sell my products, I began to hand over my pictures to entrepreneurs for sale, I opened several revolving windows in supermarkets. To my surprise, not only tourists began to buy my products, but also ours, spoiled with various souvenirs, locals.
A little about the product
Product " souvenir picture"is a monolithic picture, with an image embedded to the depth of the base, with chopped edges, stylized as vintage, or as gold, ivory, stone. The most popular size of the finished product is 16 × 21 cm and 26 × 34 cm.
Product cost
- Chipboard (chipboard) - 10-15 rubles. a plank (this is if you buy a sheet and cut it), if there is any small furniture production, then they will gladly give waste of chipboard, MDF, plywood for many months of production of pictures, for example, for a bottle of cognac.
- Photo paper - 3 rubles. sheet A4
- "Sandpaper" - 5 rubles. for one picture.
- PVA glue and various tinting compounds 10 rubles. to the picture.
As a result, the cost of one picture 16 × 21 is no more than 30 rubles.
In a day, it is really possible for one person to make 15 pictures without overstraining.
I sell pictures for 150-200 rubles. wholesalers.
In a month, I sell (during the season and holidays) 450-500 pictures.
The profitability of my IP only from the sale of paintings from furniture production waste is about 60,000 rubles. per month.
Now I have this family business. Together we master such production and distribution by points. Plus, we have developed several more unique technologies, and we successfully sell products from them.
In general, the topic and idea of my article is that how much interesting and surprising can be done from what we sometimes think is not needed. You just need to come up with the final form of this waste, and then they will start to bring money.
Anyone who is interested in communication on the topic of souvenir production and exchange of experience, write to my email [email protected](with a note that you are writing from the KHOBIZ.RU website).
Sincerely,
Dmitriev Alexander
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The modular picture is considered contemporary subject interior, although for the first time she saw the light during Ancient Greece. Main Feature such canvases is the fact that they are divided into several parts, but at the same time they are not separate images, but fragments of one composition. Such products can be purchased in regular stores and using web resources, but to create a truly original interior, it is better to make modular paintings with your own hands.
The living room is considered a great place to experiment and combine different light and sunny colors. If there are no specific rules regarding the combination of shades, then the size of the picture should correspond to the size of the room. Dimensional modular canvases will look bulky and ridiculous in the living room of a small area, and small images will simply be lost in a large room.
Modular painting in the living room can be the centerpiece of the room When making a picture for the bedroom, it is important to remember that this is a place of rest and relaxation, so the image should not contain sharp and aggressive lines and colors. For this room, a calm landscape or an abstract image is best suited. It is also very important to choose the shade of the product so that it is in harmony with, since a sharp resonance will draw too much attention to one interior detail.
Paintings in the bedroom should be of soothing tones that promote relaxation and rest. Often used to decorate children's rooms. bright colors, and their number can be very large for one room. Therefore, it is better not to make a modular picture in such colors. Also, the child is unlikely to appreciate the abstraction, it is better to opt for images of animals, heroes of fairy tales or cartoons. If a teenager lives in the room, then it is better to give him a choice, and find out in advance whether he wants to see such a decoration in his room at all. You can offer several photos with friends (only print so that there are parts of two or more photos on one fragment), images with your favorite actor or musician will also work.
A modular picture in the children's room in the style of a child's favorite cartoon will be an excellent decorative solution.
For the interior of the hallway is best suited simple pictures. This is due to the fact that residents and guests rarely stay in this room for a long time, so it is not worth spending significant physical and financial resources. But at the same time, it should be remembered that the entrance hall is the beginning of the dwelling, so the modular picture must match general style decoration of an apartment or house.
Before you make a do-it-yourself modular picture for the kitchen, you need to think about whether there is a place for it where the piece of furniture will not get dirty. If the area of the walls allows the placement of the canvas, then it is better to choose still lifes, since they are best suited for this room.
Video: do-it-yourself modular painting (master class)
Necessary materials and tools
The main body can be made from a variety of materials. These can be images on paper that were printed in fragments on a regular home printer, a paper canvas with pictures from a printing house, wallpaper with a pattern you like, a printed fabric, and so on. The material from which the frame will be made depends on the selected front part. A wooden frame is ideal for fabric, it is better to glue photo wallpapers on foam sheets, and paper is well attached to particle boards.
So, for the manufacture of wallpaper or other material, you will need the following:
- Printed images.
- Thin wooden slats, polyfoam, chipboard and so on.
- PVA glue.
- Roulette or meter.
- Construction stapler.
- Pencil, marker, crayon, remnant.
- Scissors.
Making a modular picture from fabric
The main part for such a product can be designed and printed independently, ordered from a designer or purchased already. ready product. The first option requires talent and inspiration, the second is for those who are willing to spend a significant amount to buy exclusive material, and the third for those who just want to freshen up the interior a bit.
Step-by-step instruction for manufacturing:
- The first step is to make wooden slats of suitable length. To do this, mark the workpiece to cut off the excess length.
- Then you need to saw off the ends of the wooden products at an angle of 45 degrees. In this case, it is first better to fold the frame on the floor in order to understand in which direction to cut.
- After that, the cut fragments are smeared with glue and pressed, held for several seconds and left alone for 1-2 hours. You can also use a construction stapler to fix wooden elements.
When all the frames are ready, you can start preparing the image. To do this, mark the canvas, leaving about 2 cm from each edge to leave some overlap material. After that, simply stretch the fabric on the prepared frame and fix it with reverse side stapler.
Video: manufacturing master class modular picture on canvas
Modular pictures from photo wallpaper
- Several foam boards should be prepared.
- Then you need to apply markings on them that correspond to the sizes of future fragments of the composition and cut the material along it. It is best to use a special thermal cutter, but this tool is quite expensive, so it is impractical to buy it to make one picture. You can take a clerical knife and carefully cut the foam.
- Then you need to cut the photo wallpaper, leaving 1-2 cm for an overlap.
- At the end, the wallpaper is simply glued onto the prepared base and carefully ironed.
Creating your own masterpiece is quite simple. Even a novice master will cope with this task, it is only important to follow the above recommendations and act as carefully as possible.
Today we will talk about the idea that our reader sent us. Sometimes, in order to stake out a place for yourself in the market, you need to create something unique, special, not the same as others, something that can attract the attention of the consumer and arouse his interest.
For a long time I was in the position of head of the personnel development department in one of the large manufacturing enterprises. I can say that I liked the work, and wage was high. But meanwhile, I never left the desire to do my own thing. own business. In 2009, the crisis came and the plant was closed, the entire staff was left without work.
It was then that the question arose: “what to do next?”. I live in the Kaliningrad region and there are a lot of those who deal in souvenirs (from amber, as a rule). So I decided to move in this direction. I opened a point of sale in a small resort town and purchased a batch of souvenirs. But since the products are all the same due to the purchase of goods from one supplier, my business is stuck. And then I realized that it was necessary to create something that others would not have. Something special and unique.
I am by no means an artist by nature, so the production had to be simple for me, and the materials and technologies should be low-cost and affordable. I opted for making souvenir pictures. I wanted the picture and the frame to be as one whole, and the image itself was located inside. I tried a large number of materials and different ways processing and brought out something special, his own. I started using this technique and initially produced three types of products (under gold, under stone and vintage). Now there are five of them.
In my production, I used the so-called product processing room (simply a garage), a computer, a printer (I used the simplest four-color one) and the most ordinary PVA glue.
For my work, I take pictures of famous artists, views of the sights of my area and views of the sea, interesting pictures Japanese style. There was a big order for the last theme from a Japanese restaurant. Portraits are in rather good demand. I have partnered with photographers working for various events and they are the same and offer my services.
On this moment I have several points of sale - two of my own in resort towns, six points in souvenir shops in Kaliningrad itself (we want to sell them now) and two points in hypermarkets in the department with gifts. In February, we planned to open a souvenir shop with a personal brand “Pozitiff”, which will be located at the railway station in Kaliningrad.
There will be sold my work and the work of my two partners involved in the manufacture of individual works.
Let's talk a little about the product itself. It is a monolithic picture, which is embedded deep into the base. I stylize it now under a stone, under gold and under vintage. The most commonly purchased product sizes are 16x21 and 26x34 cm.
Product cost
Chipboard, cut into pieces 16 by 21 cm - 10 rubles apiece
Business card or photo paper - 8 rubles per A4 sheet
Printing a picture - 1 ruble
PVA - (expense for 50 pictures - one bucket) - 1.6 rubles apiece
Sandpaper - 2 rubles per 1 picture
The composition with which wood is processed - 4.6 rubles per piece
As a result, it turns out that the cost of a product for a vintage style in the amount of 16x21 is 23.2 rubles.
If you make it under a stone or under gold, then the cost will increase by 3-6 rubles.
You can find all the materials I have listed above in any of the specialized stores.
Now let's calculate the income:
I sell pictures at a price of 200-220 rubles (in stores, their average cost is 300 rubles). On average, about 300 pictures are sold per month. Taking into account production costs, taxes and transportation costs, the net income is 180 rubles per picture. From here you can already find out how much I have per month. If we take the average for several months, it turns out that my net income starts at 55,000 rubles.
As surprising as it may seem to you and to me, my main clients are not tourists at all, but local residents. At the moment I am in the business of producing paintings from chipboard. And this occupation brings me joy and desire to develop in it.
I advise you to create your own, unique and unlike the others. Then you will definitely be doomed to success!
Good luck!
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