Typically, the interior walls of a house are decorated with painting, landscape photography, embroidery etc. However, a very personal choice is the arrangement of family photos, either old or recent, around the walls of the house. First you need to collect the material, searching for old photos of you family. You might even discover rare photos depicting a historic event, old buildings, folk costumes and other interesting documents. Apart from searching your own archive a good idea is to ask your relatives to search their own.
DO IT YOURSELF
Make a decorative bowl or fruit bowl recycling old vinyl records. Vinyl is a plastic material that melts at high temperatures. So, if a vinyl record is placed in a hot oven or left under the sun, it will melt and become flexible. When it is still hot, you can shape the record with your hands. Please, keep in mind that the disk will be ruined and will become unplayable. Before, recycling the disc we suggest to check the internet, to make sure that the old disc is not collectible and thus valuable.
The idea for this DIY project, came from the art monevement of "objet trouve" or "ready made", where common objects of daily use (and definitely with non-art function) can be converted into art objects... or into unique design objects. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this term, in the early 20th century. His bottle Rack is a bottle drying rack signed by Duchamp, and is considered to be the first "pure" readymade.
So, could you also consider the following object a subversive object of contemporary design?
Recycle tin cans by converting them into pencl holders.
Can Christmas decoration be simple? Of course it can. Try to make this simple and elegant christmas wire trees.
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