March 17, 2025, 2:17 pm | Read time: 4 minutes
If your home seems too dull in its design after a while, sometimes all it takes is a few simple steps to give it a new lease of life. myHOMEBOOK reveals five ideas to make your home look more unusual.
If you’ve lived in your home for a long time, you may start to feel that your own four walls have become a little boring. It lacks the familiar breath of fresh air! Or another scenario: you want to surprise your guests with a new look. myHOMEBOOK author and interior designer Odett Schumann reveals five ideas to make your apartment look more unusual.
Large Format Instead of Small Pieces on the Wall
In the age of smartphones and the like, taking photos all the time has become the norm. It is not uncommon for these to end up on the wall via the Petersburg hanging effect. This is all well and good, but this small-scale look has also become somewhat outdated, partly because it very quickly brings unrest into a room. Minimalism is the order of the day, which is why a single large-format wall decoration is more suitable. This can be a photograph, a painting, a tapestry, or even your own work of art on canvas — the main thing is that it’s impressive! This creates a lot of attention and makes your home look much more unusual.
Mirrored Cubes for an Unusual Apartment Look
Mirrors have long since ceased to serve a purely functional purpose in bathrooms, hallways, and bedrooms. Today, these surfaces are also in great demand as decorative ideas in the living room. Small cube-shaped side tables, also known as cubes, which are completely covered with mirrored surfaces on all sides, are particularly popular at the moment. The whole thing looks extremely original and can either be bought in furniture stores or made yourself using a few DIY materials and tools.
Ceiling with a Colorful WOW Effect
Anyone living in an old building —whose typical characteristics include a high ceiling — can also take advantage of this in their interior design. For some time now, this level of the room has increasingly become the focus of attention. True to the motto: anyone can paint walls. DIY fans devote themselves to colorful ceilings and instead leave all vertical axes in a simple tone, such as white, sand, or light gray. The ceiling should be the sole focal point, so it is simply painted in bright or bold tones. This makes an apartment look much more unusual!
Swap Lampshades
Why not simply swap all the lampshades within your own four walls? You can either buy completely new lampshades because the old ones don’t quite fit in with the current sense of fashion or, if it’s possible at all, you can simply rotate the lampshades from the different rooms. The latter is a much more sustainable solution and will also ensure a completely new perception of the room. After all, the lighting mood will also change at the same time. However, a variation of both ideas is also possible.
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DIY Vases to Give Your Apartment an Unusual Look
Vases have always been a popular accessory in the home. But there are hardly any new, original models on the market that have never been seen before. So it’s no wonder that you can find more and more DIY ideas, especially for vases, on creative platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest. The seemingly most trivial household objects and materials can also be used to create storage containers for flowers with a little craftsmanship. Popular ideas include creatively redesigned tins, gluing two vases of the same type together at the bottom, or even repurposing lampshades.