Photographs are bridges from the current moment to your beautiful past. Watching them, you relive the moment. Those soft sheets of photo paper become so important. The passing time will fade away the color, not the love and memories. Hence, we need to restore old photos.  People keep them in their photo albums, get them framed, and hang them on the walls. Every family photograph or the polaroid prints must be your possession. Even the pictures on your mobile phone are a fascination for your precious moments. These photographs are a good source to adorn your house. There are many more ideas for the restoration of such beautiful photographs. Below are listed 13 Ways to Restore Old Photos:

1. The Charcoal Art

Hand-made Charcoal Portrait

Do you have any picture of your childhood, or your baby, that you want more than just in your albums? Then go for getting it portrayed by the professionals.

BookMyPainting ensures a 100% handmade portrait with the dark strokes of charcoal on an ivory sheet. This is a way of giving a new life to the photographs from your childhood. On the other hand, this will catch the eyes of every visitor in your home. You can even get a portrait of your friend’s baby and gift them on the baby’s birthday. They will love it, for sure!

2. Photo Tiles

Photo Tiles

Framed photographs are always a good idea but what about tiles. Obviously, this will be a very new concept for you. So the thing is that instead of getting them framed, get your photo printed on tiles.

If you have ever captured a beautiful picture of an awesome blooming flower but think that there isn’t a place to post it or decorate it, then you can get it printed on tiles. There are a lot of pictures which you don’t know why to keep but do not want to throw. These are the perfect photographs to be printed on the tiles.

You can put these tiles on the kitchen walls or in the dining room. You can use family picture tiles and hang them in a specific pattern in your bedroom.

3. Digital Photograph Restoration

Digital Photograph Restoration

A straight technical way to restore old photos is to use Photoshop. You can input your digital picture inside the computer and follow an online guide. It will help you to use all the Photoshop tools properly.

There are many other software tools too that you may try out.

And for those who are too lazy to do this, consult a professional! Of course, that is the safest way to ask help if you think that your old photograph is damn too old. You definitely need not experiment on it. We hope this will definitely help you!

4. Printed Cushions

Printed Cushions

The classical designing of your living room, while is good, is not funky at all. For those who love a little kinkiness in their home, this next idea is for them.

You can commemorate your favorite pictures by getting printed Cushions. You can get your cushion sheets customized. This picture can be one of your candids or your favorites. It can be your family picture as well. Short of just putting these cushions in your living room or in your bedroom, they also make a good gift for your loved ones.

Personalized cushions are just an idea to a huge world of customized items for your bedrooms like, printed pictures on your curtains, bedsheet and anything that you want.

5. Photo Pendants

Photo Pendants

This one’s for the old souls. Remember those old school movies where the lover had this photo pendant with the image of his/her love? It was basically a closed solid pendant that could be opened and pictures of small size could be fitted inside. These pendants are used as a memory keeper. Well, you can use your husband’s or wife’s picture. You can even gift your lover this beautiful pendant for the valentine’s day celebration.

Another awesome idea would be gifting your wife a pendant with a picture of her and the child. Now wouldn’t that be a good way to restore old photos?

6. Oil Painting Portraits

Wedding Picture Oil Portrait

If you want to make your portrait look more old and classy then go for oil paintings portraits. In oil painting, there are color pigments that are bound by the oil. This oil dries in the contact of air.

The thing about oil paintings is, that they look lively. You might just mistake the painting for an actual photograph. The portrait will look creamy with a pinch of smoothness.

BookMyPainting ensures the best and 100% purely handmade oil portraits of your favorite photographs. Go to our website and provide us with the desired size of the portrait and the photograph to be portrayed and simply wait for the portrait to be home delivered. This indeed is a good way to restore old photos.

7. Envelopes and Postcards

Personalized Postcards

While thinking of sharing pictures online, why not share them in real life? If you think that sharing pictures of your wedding photoshoots, new-born baby, your photographic skills in your family will not be awkward and if it is, that is your intention; then you must look at this.

While sending invitations to the family members on Christmas, Easter, or any family gathering, use these personalized postcards. Get your favorite pictures printed on the postcard and write a message and post it. Moreover, you can even use pictures in the lining of the envelopes that you can send to your friends. You can put greeting cards inside or letters to your love. I suppose mass-printing a picture is a good way to restore old photos!

8. Calendar

Personalized Calendar

Many of us have a habit of using the spiral calendars that we keep on our study table, office desk or just on top of some stool in the living area. These spiral calendars have beautiful pictures related to each month. Whenever you change the month, a new picture welcomes you.

Instead of buying such calendars you can get your own personalized calendars. Each month’s display can have your pictures related to your most memorable moments related to each month. And at the end of each year, you have perfectly preserved moments and pictures that may mitigate the need to restore old photos.

Apart from having these calendars in your home, you can also gift them to your friends and family. It can prove to be a useful and simply creative gift from you.

9. Pencil Color Sketch Portrait

A Colored Pencil Drawing of a Baby

There is a pile of pictures that you want to display in a huge size in your living room. Those wall blocking pictures can be printed in a huge size and put in the room after getting them framed. But a better option is getting them portrayed.

Your Classy room walls deserve a classy look. Nothing is classier than a pencil color sketch portrait. You do not need a full-size portrait for that wall but just a big enough canvas of your favorite picture with your pet.

For that, send us that photograph at BookMyPainting and we will make it on the canvas with pencils, giving it a shady and shiny look. The graphite pencils will pour a grayish life to the portrait. That is another way to restore your photograph.

10. Photo Planner

Photo Planner

For those who love to make planners, this is a bonus. While filling up your diaries with lots and lots of dates you can make it beautiful with your photographs to turn your planner into a Photo Planner. You can paste a relevant picture in accordance with an event related to that date.

This will make your planner more attractive and catchy. You can even keep this planner as an album later. Even if you are a journal-keeping person and are maintaining a journal currently, then here is a tip: take these printed pictures and paste it in some of the pages. This will increase the liveliness and beauty of it.

11. Fridge Magnets

Fridge Magnets

The fridge magnets are made for those who don’t have the strongest memory. Fridge magnets come in different sizes, shapes, and patterns. You can add something to these designs to makes these Personalised Fridge Magnets.

Get some beautiful pictures of yours printed on these magnets. This will make these photographs alive forever. Not only will it help to remind you to buy groceries, but also some of your life’s beautiful moments.

12. Photo Collage

Photo Collage

Hanging your favorite photographs is a good idea. Making a collage out of them on paper is a better idea. And mixing the two is the best idea to restore old photos.

What we are suggesting is you take all your favorite pictures and get them printed, and put them on the wall as if it were a college. If you want them to be framed, then get it done and then hang them in such patterns that it looks filled.

Another idea is washi tapes. You can stick these pictures on the walls in different geometric shapes by outlining them using washi tapes. You can even put all the small pictures together in a certain shape. This will look like a real collage on the wall.

13. Water Color Portrait

Custom Watercolor Photos

Being creative, convenient and all that is good but nothing can replace portraits. When you enter an art gallery and look at a watercolor painting, the first word you say is “Wow!”. Watercolor paintings are that good! This is one of the best ways to restore old photos.

Watercolor portraits are transparent and lustrous. Due to the mixture of only the water and colors with a little filler, the painting gives a luminous texture. The colors are laid in the purest of their form on the portrait.

BookMyPainting gives you an opportunity to get a portrait for yourself. You can give us your favorite photograph and we will get it portrayed by the best professionals. This 100% purely handmade watercolor portrait is one of the best ways to restore your photographs.

Conclusion

Throwing or forgetting your photographs is definitely a heartbreak. In fact, even the realization that you might not be able to show off a specific picture is disappointing. But the ideas that you’ve read above will surely help you to showcase your talent or use your old photographs in a new form. I hope these ideas will help you restore old photos.

If nothing seems like the perfect way then contact us through BookMyPainting, and we will look for an artistic way that will suit you the best. But make sure that you do not give up on those pieces of memory. After all, photographs are a bridge to the beautiful past! Aren’t they?

If you ask anyone, What is the best part about home? I bet 99% will say food. Here are some of the best Dining Room Decoration Ideas to make it lively. Afterall the path to the heart goes through the stomach. So lets just once again agree on the fact that the dining room is a sacred place and we ought to pay special attention to it. It’s a spot where loved ones gather, reminisce over old memories and most importantly bond over food.

So now that we have enough reasons to recreate our sacred place. The next step is- How? Your Dining room decoration should have that one distinct feature that defines you for who you are. That one element could be anything. It could be a portrait, a piece of art, bold art or just some vintage furniture. But what would it be? Confused? Don’t worry just keep reading. Below is a uniquely curated list of a few things that you can take inspiration from and eat your favorite food with perfect vibe.

The Bookworm Theme

The Bookworm Theme

For all the bookworms reading this article, just stop and consider this advice. Humans have already discovered the perfect combination of happiness and that is books and food. If you do not have a special place or keeping and pampering yourself and your books, just recreate your dining room decoration and turn it into an eating cum reading space. The 21st version of Anne Frank will agree with me when I say that books have more patience than people. The beauty of books to wait for its reader to get discovered is why anyone falls in love with them. And what better place to show your love than the dining room?

A Handmade Portrait

A Hand-painted Portrait

Are has been a part of our lives before we even learned to know ourselves. A handmade portrait has the power to turn a dull worn-out wall into a wall of fame. A big handmade portrait in the center of the wall will immediately set an aura of your dining room decoration to a different level. Besides a handmade piece of art never goes out of style, it is an evergreen touch that will soothe the old and the young alike. So if you have no idea what to do with that empty wall of your dining room just get a handmade portrait and thank me in the comments below.

The Exuberant Green

The Exuberant Green

Don’t even get me started on the scientific advantages of having house plants. They reduce the carbon dioxide levels of your house, reduce the risk of airborne diseases, have the superpower to ease tension from your mind and they are so classy! always in trend. Plants are just amazing.

You can do your dining room decoration with the plant reflecting your persona. If you’re a high maintenance person and love to make efforts get a Chinese Evergreen. But if you’re low maintenance, fluid and adaptive in life go and buy an Asparagus Fern. Having a plant will set the right vibe of your dining room and make you love your house even more.

Embellish the Walls with Memories

Embellish the Walls with Memories

Who does not love walking the memory lane and relishing the joys of the past especially when you have lovely people and tasty food for the company? Decorating the walls of your house with memories is always fun. You can even start a tradition of taking family photographs every year on special occasions and hang those moments on the wall. Down the road, with the time you’ll have a wall full of memories. This will give your dining room decoration an emotional look

Doodle

Doodling

If you’re bored of all the ideas that I’ve listed so far and are looking for something out of the box for your dining room decoration, here’s the right deal for you. Just pick up a marker and doodle on the wall. But if you don’t have good compatibility with the pen and the wall and you fear of ruining that pristine wall. Hire a doodle artist. Doodles on the wall are such a creative way to express yourself in your own house. So go ahead and step out of the box and be you.

Light it up

Light it up

Growing up, we’ve all read the saying- “A house is built of stones, bricks, and sand but it is the family that makes it home with love.” True! Isn’t it. But keeping all these sentimental tender emotions aside, let’s agree that a well furnished and decorated house will make a better place to feel at home than a worn-out place. Depending on your taste you could your dining room decoration can happen with chandeliers, a vintage lamp, or bold pendant lights. Enhancing the decor of the room with the perfect lights is like a cherry on the cake.

Throw some Curtains

Curtains for Dining Room

Curtains are must-haves to decorate your dining space the right way. These do not only enhance the setting of your place but also adds a pinch of privacy whenever you want. You can also experiment with your curtains shift from dark heavy ones to shear and light ones encompassing more natural light in the house. This way if you can change the setting even if you are not looking to make some drastic changes in your dining room.

Fandom Touch

A F.R.I.E.N.D.S Themed Dining Room

Okay, which one is it? Harry Potter, FRIENDS, Game of Thrones, Marvels or DC? We are the generation who have taken fandom to a different level. Besides these days it is very convenient to find your fandom inspired furniture and drool over it for an eternity.

A Wall of Passion

A Wall of Passion

There are a lot of things that we feel passionate about and deeply connected to. It could be cricket, dance, music, art, travel, books or simply our family. So why not dedicate a wall to your passion? You can decorate it with things that matter to you the most. This way no matter what happens in life, no matter how busy you be, you’ll always stay connected to things that make you feel alive.

Stick to Being Classy

Stick to Being Classy

Decorating your dining room with minimalistic, classic accessories is so in trend. Hand a clay painting complementing the furniture of the room with ambient light and a few accessories like a flower vase will instantly turn your dull place to calm and serene spot to have dinner.

Invest in Handmade Carpets

Invest in Handmade Carpets

There is no match to Carpets when it comes to making a house homely and cozy. A good rug has the ability to bring texture, color, warmth, and style to your dining space. Depending on your preference you can choose the fiber of the rug. From wool to synthetic fibers to jute and silk. There is a lot of variety to choose from.

Play With Wallpapers

Play With Wallpapers

Trust me, adding the correct wallpaper to your dining room will get half the work done. It is the easiest and effective way to recreate and decorate your dining room. You can go bold and choose patterns or play safe with stripes depending on your choice.

DIY Decorating Ideas

DIY Decorating Ideas

Scientific study suggests that the aesthetics of your house affects your subconscious mind and all decisions that you take on a daily basis. But there is also one very important reason why you should have a good dining room. Guests! Yep! You read right. Our dining room is where our guests spend most of the quality time of their stay. It may not be a place to put up the first impression but an embellish dining space will surely leave a long-lasting one. The internet is filled with these cool, goofy ideas which you can try and flaunt in your dining room.

A Piece of Art

Hand-Painted Portraits: A piece of art

Remember the white horse Joey bought when he moved out to a new place? Maybe not the same horse but some piece of art, clay painting, sculptures or that Christmas tree you don’t want to throw away. There are endless things you can use to accessorize your dining room.

Conclusion

I hope these ideas will help you get the right dining room decoration for your home. It does not matter if you’re a real-life Joey or not, but eating is the most important part of the day, which is why our dining rooms should look exactly like us. It should reflect us, compliment us, soothe us in the way we want it to. Imagine after a long, tiring and hectic day coming to your house, eating a good meal but in a place where you don’t feel like it?

It would ruin the best part of the day. But there are more reasons to recreate your dining room than food. If the ambiance of your dining room is not right it could not only wreck your moments with food but will also affect you on a daily basis.

Just like you cannot underestimate the power of a common man, you shouldn’t underestimate the power of decorating your house. Decorating your dining room will not only lit up your mood and help you bond with the house but will also set the mood of the place for any event. I’m sure that you must’ve found your ‘the one’ idea to decorate your dining room. If not then hit me up in the comment sections below. So good luck and keep decorating.

Your li’l champ & princess are having a new room & you’re confused about that? Here are 15 Kids bedroom decoration ideas,They will fall in love with.

None of us can deny the joys of childhood. If there was one thing we all could relive, our answer would surely be childhood. As we grow up, we realize the struggles of life. As kids, our world is full of happiness and fun. We just don’t seem to care about anything. No wonder why it is said that childhood is the most integral part of one’s life. Every memory of it can last a lifetime. Who as a kid would want to sleep in a dull room after playing and running all day? Our kids deserve the best bedroom for themselves, just like we do. 

1. Artsy World 

Artsy World  Themed

One of the most creative kids bedroom decoration ideas. It is never wrong for you to put artistic installation in your children’s bedroom. Putting many art stuff like music instrument, or artistic paintings. This is going to lead your children’s interest. The theme is simple and quite affordable to be the inspiration for playful children’s bedroom.

Add beautiful decor to hit the strings of your artistic kid. Scientifically speaking, the creative edge inside our brain starts blooming at this young age only. Kids bedroom decoration is the ultimate source of inspiration and creativity for them.  You can have their childhood photograph and can convert it into a Hand-painted Baby Portrait.

2. Bright Monochromatic Walls

Bright Monochromatic Walls Themed

The colors of life are the brightest during our young phase. It is almost as if the rainbow of life shines the most during this time. Want to add even more colors to your kid’s life? why not start with their room first? Having Bright colors with simple kids bedroom decoration is one of the inspirations for room for them to have a nuance of warm and calmness in their bedroom.

Style your room with pastel-colored beds and cupboards. Within its simplicity, your kid’s room will have a minimalist yet wonderful look. Decorate the room with minimal decor like lamps and frames.

3. Gardening Enthusiast

Gardening Enthusiast Themed

This is one of the best kids bedroom decoration ideas. In a garden, we tend to forget all our worries. Flowers blooming like little kids can ease anybody’s life, indeed. Many of us had a hidden desire while growing up. Desire to spend more time covered in soil and flower seeds. We all like the mere smell of flowers and wet soil. To be closer to your kid’s love for gardening, style their room like one, too. With flower and fence props available online and in-home depots. Decorate their bed with little bug toys and decor. Don’t forget keeping a grass floor in the room to add a special touch.

4. Culinary World

Culinary World Themed

One of the major hobbies among kids is cooking. Kids love putting on chef hats and trying out some cooking. Who knows their interest might become an inspiration for their career in the future? Why should one shy away from doing their bit in their kid’s journey?

Style up their room as their own little restaurant. Having simple and safe cooking tools for your children to play in their room is going to make them feel comfortable. The kids bedroom decoration should surround your kid’s love for cooking. Use little handkerchiefs and a table to complete the look. It is not just girls, but little boys also like to play cooking games with their toys.

5. LEGO-themed Kids Bedroom

LEGO themed

The “LEGO”  is one of the oldest kids’ toys and it is still famous until today, even though it already had the movie. Having this toy as a theme is going to be just cool and great! The various colors of LEGO and its typical character can make the room does not look boring.

Choose over a variety of wallpaper art to fill your walls with the love for LEGO. Did you know that there was something called the LEGO table as well? Add one to the room for your kids’ playful study & snack sessions. It has been seen that kids who grew up around LEGO are smarter than others. 

6. Bookworm

Bookworm Themed

Reading isn’t a habit developed overnight. It takes time, patience and most importantly curiosity. Some kids love reading while some are not yet aware of its magic. Add a touch of the literary world to your kids’ life by filling their room with books. With cute bookshelves and cupboards available just for kids, you can create the best bookworm themed room for your little worm. These furniture sets are handy and in reach of your kids.

They would love the gift of books in their room and will surely cherish it. This spot is much recommended especially for the children who have grown up already. This spot is very calm and this makes the children interested in reading in which we know reading is very good for children. Here they can develop their love for some of the kid’s most favorite books of all times, like Harry Potter. They can even add elements to it to make it more authentic.

7. Tent Style 

Tent Style Themed

We as kids have always loved making and living in tents. It is almost as if it is our own little space. This runs in our genes. Even our kids can’t resist loving tents. Why not give this unique interest space in their room?  Children like to have their personal space or spot, like to be alone or to just having their time. Indoor Indian tent-style can also be one of your inspirations in choosing main or big kids bedroom decorations. These tents are easy to assemble and don’t take up much space. 

8. Patterns

Patterns

During our childhood, our mind is still growing and developing. It observes every detail, color, and shapes minutely. It tries to find patterns in things around it. This curiosity helps them become smarter. Add the world of patterns to their room to ignite this curiosity. Be it color patterns or shapes. With infinite ceiling arts, wallpapers and bedsheet designs, you yourself would enjoy decorating their space for them.

The collection of children’s books and the mixing of patterns on this bed complement the cool tones in the rest of the kids’ room, leading to a youthful-yet-sophisticated style. Do not think more and go for it now!

9. Jungle Joy 

Jungle Joy Themed

It is always a fun thing for children to see and to get to know the jungle. Putting many jungle stuff like ropes or pictures with wooden materials for the bed and its frame is also a good recommendation for parents to not make children’s bedroom feels boring. 

Did you know that even grass themed bed sheets exist? You can even hang around a rope to make your kid feel like Tarzan of his family. Nobody can deny the fact that nature is closest to our hearts. We all admire it the most. Unfortunately, we can’t take our kids to a forest. So, why not bring the forest to them?

10. Sea World 

Sea World Themed

The world of blues fascinate not just kids but all of us, as well. Your child loves water and its beings so much that he can spend a lifetime at an aquarium. Even though we can’t afford a trip to the aquarium for that long, we can make their little space an aquarium itself. Use stuffed fish, rocks etc to make their tank full of life. Add the cool shades of blue to their room. Be it bed sheets or wall colors. The soothing tone of the color blue will make your kid calmer and your life smoother. 

11. Triangle Themed

Triangle Themed

The accents of triangles, stripes, and circles in this room add interest and playfulness to this space. Use the shapes efficiently to cheer up your little one’s living space. Having shapes around makes their brains work more and in a better way. Be it square bed, rectangle table, circular stool, and triangular mirror.

They would love all of them. You would also save yourself from making them learn about shapes! As they keep growing, you can keep introducing them to newer and fancier shapes. Stars and diamonds can beautify your kid’s ceilings. Love working for your kids? Well, this kids bedroom decoration would be worth all your efforts.

12. Sports

Sports Themed

Playful has always been an adjective to kids. Be it cricket or badminton, children can’t stop playing. If they could add more hours to the day, they wouldn’t delay anymore. As they could play even more. This joy of playing isn’t just a phase. These can be future athletes and sportspersons. Coming back after a tiring day in the field, nobody would want to come back to their dull and lifeless room. Sport is a perfect theme for kids bedroom decoration Ideas.

Sporty wallpaper and the combination of neutral color in a bedroom. The wall color and the bed cover are also good for the kid to sleep in such an environment. This theme is perfect for parents who want to set their little one’s bedroom.

13. Astronaut

Astronaut Themed

Ask any kids about their plans and almost all of them would have this one of their lists. All kids want to explore the world of heavenly bodies. Looking at the ceiling of the room but feels like looking at the sky in the night is a great concept for children’s bedroom.

Putting stars in the ceilings and other cosmic accessories with glow in the dark effect for some of them is a unique concept for your children to sleep in such an environment. Add hanging planets for unique decor for them. You may even want to gift them a telescope to put in their room’s corner. Do not forget to hang a picture of Neil Armstrong for extra points.

14. L-shaped Bunk Bed

L-shaped Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed can provide two beds in one room with one is in the top and another one is in the bottom. Both beds are connected by stairs. Bunk bed is also recommended since this can save the room space as well as making your children sleeping in one room which is good for their bonding.

Bunk bed can also be decorated in accordance with the children’s interest and it is also able to occupy the floor space. You can try this idea to add more love between siblings. This also gives them bunk bed stories that they can save for their kids, as well. This is one of the easiest yet the most loving kids bedroom decoration ideas.

15. Mickey Mouse Themed

Mickey Mouse Themed

If there was one person who earned every kid’s love, it will surely be Mickey Mouse. Huge ears, round nose, and cheerful eyes. This character made everybody’s childhood worth living. So, design a room inspired by this wonderful Disney character. Adding an element of Mickey Mouse wallpaper art will bring comfort and fun to your kid’s room.

With a variety of art options available, choose the best for your son or daughter. A mouse-eared bed, paired with Mickey printed bedsheet, is probably the cutest napping place for your adorable little one. Give your own little finishing touch by buying a Mickey inspired dressing mirror and stool. This one tops the list for the best kids bedroom decoration ideas.

Conclusion

We’re sure that these ideas would have saved you from googling and finding inspiring ideas for your kid’s room. We bet that you would want to try out almost all of them with easily available decor options. Having a better space can do wonders for your kid. This allows them to be happier and playful. Let them live their best phase in the best way possible. We bet that your kids would love to show off their rooms to their friends and cousins, as well. After all who would hide their pretty room from others?

Today’s learner is tomorrow’s leader. Nobody can stop your kid from learning when he is around this great decor. So, what is stopping you? Go out and start shopping already. You would not regret doing all of this for that person you love unconditionally.