Art and craft design

Elizabeth Metcalfe considers how a movement that began in the late nineteenth century is still relevant today and highlights how its distinctive designs for fabrics, wallpapers and furniture continue to inspire interiors.

Transform your living room into a botanical wonderland!

15 best painted rock ideas: creative arts & crafts for kids & family. DIY home garden decorations & gifts by painting beautiful designs on stones & pebbles!

Wallpaper designs of the Teens and Twenties often lagged behind the high-style Arts & Crafts designs we find fashionable today. Here’s an introduction that includes florals and oatmeal papers, and even the Colonial Revival influence.

Use color palettes, stencils, frieze papers, textiles, and tile to can add color to your Arts & Crafts home, informed by period conventions and your personal taste.

The art of pottery has been known over the ages not only for the beauty and utility it produces, however fragile, but also the therapeutic value that it provides to people who take this art up. There is a certain satisfaction to be had from the earthy and worthy art of pottery because it involves creativity, the soil and the use of the hands to shape the art. The thing about pottery is that it takes a certain amount of skills and expertise to wield the potter’s wheel and then baking the…

I really like the colors here. Also, I think I could do something like this. Probably not as pretty, with the shapes fading in the middle, but at least something similar.

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This paper chain wall hanging is so easy to make with colorful Astrobrights cardstock. Create an ombre paper chain with five coordinating colors.

the birdhouses are my favorite!