Interior Decorating: Redesign Your Home with Upcycling

Phase 4: The Focal Point

A course by user71295 surname71295 , Interior Designer and Home Stylist

Interior Designer and Home Stylist. Pontevedra, Spain.
Joined May 2012

Learn how to give your home a complete makeover by transforming and recycling your own furniture with upcycling techniques

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About the video: Phase 4: The Focal Point

Overview

“I'll create a customized headboard that will become the room's main focal point in this lesson. ”

In this video lesson user71295 surname71295 addresses the topic: Phase 4: The Focal Point, which is part of the Domestika online course: Interior Decorating: Redesign Your Home with Upcycling. Learn how to give your home a complete makeover by transforming and recycling your own furniture with upcycling techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Phase 4: The Focal Point I've put my apron on and it's time to get to work. In this lesson, I'll show you how to transform a plain headboard into the main focal point of the bedroom. When executing your design, it's useful to start with the big and then go small. This means start painting the walls and things like that. In this case, we'll not paint the walls. They'll stay as they are. The next biggest piece is the headboard, and that's what we'll start doing. To transform this headboard, I'll use two types of paint, beige and black, brushes and a paint roller. It is always useful to have s...”

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Course summary for: Interior Decorating: Redesign Your Home with Upcycling

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (82)
  • 3196 students
  • 4 units
  • 16 lessons (2h 56m)
  • 10 downloads
  • Category

    Architecture & Spaces, Craft
  • Areas

    Arts & Crafts, Decoration, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Decoration, Interior Design, Spatial Design, Woodworking

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Interior Designer and Home Stylist

María Vázquez is a Spanish decorator and creator of the online decoration school Dr. Livinghome. As a child she loved home decor and DIY, and furnished her own tree house-style cabin from repurposed items and materials. María started her career as a creative and art director, and in creating spaces for events, she reconnected with her childhood passion. After decorating her first home she began documenting the process through her blog, and Dr. Livinghome was born.

The blog later became an online home decoration service and María’s full-time business. She has collaborated with several furniture manufacturers and home improvement companies including Leroy Merlin, and Bruguer.


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Interior Decorating: Redesign Your Home with Upcycling

A course by user71295 surname71295
Interior Designer and Home Stylist. Pontevedra, Spain.
Joined May 2012
  • 98% positive reviews (82)
  • 3,196 students