Making a room corner with a tree branch

Often, when making repairs in an apartment, I really want to feel like a real designer. It’s bold, not like everyone else, to arrange an apartment or at least a small corner. Unfortunately, not everyone can decide on such a desperate act. However, who dares - gets an absolutely unexpected result. Everything is simple, a flight of fancy, even with step-by-step instructions, makes any real, and at first glance, primitive material a real masterpiece of decor. So I decided to misbehave in the room of my ten-year-old daughter. A corner was empty for a long time over her bed and did not give me rest. After scouring the Internet and not finding anything, I realized that you need to include your imagination and creative fuse.
The idea came to me quite by accident, probably like a real artist. The shadow of a tree outside the window just fell into the empty corner of my daughter’s room, and I realized what exactly I want to do.
And so, for the decor of the corner, we need the following materials and tools:
- a tree branch 3 meters long, more crooked (I have a cherry tree branch);
- white enamel;
- newspaper;
- printed photos;
- corrugated cardboard;
- PVA glue;
- brushes;
- kitchen sponge;
-scissors;
- stationery knife;
- knitting needle;
- screws;
- linen twine;
- paints (I used gouache).
Having cut a branch from a tree, you need to cut it into two parts, so that later you could dock it on the corner, then you get the effect of switching from one wall to another at a right angle. Short branches should be cut.
With a kitchen sponge, apply white paint with chaotic strokes (I have PF-115 enamel), it is not advisable to completely stain it, try to make it look like a birch. Now let’s dry thoroughly (enamel dries 24 hours)
In order that our branch would not look empty and ridiculous in the corner, we will take up the creation of photographs within the framework. First, we’ll make tubes from the newspaper. To do this, we cut strips from a newspaper 10-12 cm wide. We apply a needle to one strip, at an angle, under a degree of 450. We wrap around the corner of the newspaper and start twisting it with a tube, holding it at the base.
When twisting a sufficient number of tubes (I needed 42 tubes) you need to paint them in different colors.
Now we make a frame for our photos in the following way. First, using PVA glue and a brush, glue two colorful tubes.
Let it dry a little and glue the third tube from above into the hollow.
While our frames will dry, we will prepare photographs, namely, paste the prints on corrugated cardboard.
Here we use the decoupage technique. The first step is to smear the photo on the reverse side with glue and let it stand a little and stretch the paper.
Then attach to the cardboard, gently smooth, expel all air bubbles and grease again from above with glue.
After the photos have dried, stick the frame.
Drive two nails into the wall and impose linen twine on them. This is our basis on which we need to bind a branch. This must be done firmly and reliably.
On the other wall, do the same manipulations and butt-join the second branch, so that it would turn out like this:
Next, we decorate the finished branch with photos in multi-colored frames.
Here is the result. My daughter was very pleased, because none of her friends had such an unusual, designer curiosity in the house. Of course, you can add your own touches, this is the beauty of needlework. I wish you good luck in your wildest, most daring endeavors.