33 Affordable DIY Wall Decor Ideas

Gallery walls are a beautiful way to display lots of photos, signs, art, and trinkets on your walls. They can look cluttered if you don't do it right, so this post will show you how to do that.

This looks amazing, but it's really not that hard to do. The big trick is to make sure you know where you want different colors to appear in the design. And you can make it much more simple or complicated than this if you want.

The strings of fairy lights can be attached to the wall, and then you can use the clips that come with them to hang photographs between the lights. This is a fun and easy way to displaysome photos or clippings.

Take your old magazines and junk mail and turn them into art! Pick a color for your design, or pick a theme - like pictures of food for a kitchen, or pictures of famous places.

This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to get a true foil look when you add metallic foil to your art prints. You'll need an affordable laminator and a laser printer, but if you don't have the printer, you can always use Staples for printing.

Perfect for a kid's room! These resin astronaut figures stick to any surface. They look like they're rock climbing up your wall.

It's not difficult to make your own shiplap wall. This post includes before and after pictures to help you picture what it might look like in your own home.

This is a simple painting style anyone can do. You don't need talent or an eye for art. You just need a to follow this tutorial, and you'll have a piece of wall art that catches the eye and brings life to a blank wall without being too distracting.

This little beach gnome with a blue beard is perfect for a house with beach or nautical decor. It's adorable and easy to make.

Got some old t-shirts that are past their wearing prime? Repurpose them into wall art. This is a super quick, simple project done with embroidery hoops.

This is an easy way to put seashells on a corkboard decorated with burlap or some other material, add some decorations, frame it and there you go. This creates a really soothing looking beach-themed piece of wall art.

This is not the quickest or easiest project, but if woodworking appeals to you, it's very much worth it. You get these fantastic looking wall panels to hang.

Sew buttons onto fabric and frame it. Sounds simple and it is, but it's all about the design and choosing the right buttons.

Bleeding tissue paper is a technique used to create art. In this case, you use it to make a lovely picture of birds sitting on branches. You wet the tissue paper so that its color bleeds, and this makes it look like a watercolor, even though there's actually no paint at all.

Learn how to take a photo you love and turn it into a split canvas print and then hang it so it looks gorgeous.

Use Mod Podge to transfer flora photos onto roller blinds or shades, and you get a nice hanging scroll of art. Even if you've never worked with Mod Podge, this one will be easy.

With a Cricut and the cut file provided, and some other tools, you can make this gorgeous Eiffel Tower shadow box lit from behind with an LED strip.

This is a fun and easy mirror frame decor craft with simple supplies. Recycled cardboard becomes the base for a frame. And hot glue from a glue gun gives the frame an embossed look.

Transform pieces of scrap wood into panels of wall art with a really cool steampunk look.

This crochet mandala wall hanging pattern uses beautiful pineapple lace and shell stitches to create a stunning piece you will definitely want hanging on your wall.

Make beautiful wall hangings with this process of heat transferring ink onto fleece. This tutorial is for making embroidery hoop decor to hang, but you could also make it work with cloth on canvas or even cloth surrounded by a pre-cut art mat.

This tutorial shows you how to fake a Impressionist piece by painting from a photograph. It's not for someone who's never painted anything before, but it's absolutely not something that requires a strong background in painting. Think Bob Ross for an idea of the level of difficulty.

This is a brilliantly simple piece of wall art. It's driftwood, arranged and sometimes painted, onto a piece of plywood. It's more complicated than you might think at first, but the result is well worth it.

This Reverse Canvas Heart Wall Art is a super simple craft to make at home. It uses supplies you probably already have at home, with the exception of the reverse canvas.

Here's a watercolor wall art project that doesn't require art skills or talent. You use a shadow box frame this 3D scallop pattern, and easily get a bold and professional looking piece of wall art.

These free nautical printables can be used in lots of ways. Here you see them framed and displayed. You could hang them on a wall just that way.

If you can paint something lovely on a canvas, or if you have a canvas painting you've been thinking of getting framed, know the frame is not necessary. You can hang an unframed canvas so that it looks beautiful in your home.

With this method of charring wood and then staining it in beautiful colors, you get an amazing look. Assemble the pieces of wood onto a base, and hang it.

This crochet wall decor will remind you of the beach. It's an easy pattern to crochet, and you work the shells into it.

You can make "flowers" out of pine cones and paint them to look like cherry blossoms. Then you arrange them on a framed canvas with twigs, and you've got wall art.

Take expired balloons and make them into this wreath-style wall hanging. This craft mostly uses upcycled items that would have either been trash or recycling.

Looking for an easy way to make pressed leaves framed art? Learn how to make beautiful pressed leaves art with this simple DIY tutorial.

Got some old belts? If not, your local thrift store does. And you can make them into a beautiful wall hanging.