Decorative birdhouses are an extremely hot item.
Everyone likes decorative bird houses.
However not everybody has decorative birdhouses! If you are cunning, you must try your hand at decorating birdhouses.
You can keep them for your own collection, provide the decorative birdhouses as gifts or you can have it to the business of selling bird houses! Before you beautify your bird house, you need to actually obtain your house bird to decorate.
You can purchase an extensive range of unfinished bird houses at any craft store or hardware store.
There are a lot of wooden bird houses, metal bird houses, and also clay bird houses.
Any of these houses could be decorated.
There are also bird kits that you can purchase to create your own birdhouse.
If you are extremely crafty you can always create your very own birdhouses with the use of any material that you like.
There are continuous methods to decorate the house of your bird.
The apparent way to beautify a house of birds is with paint.
However don't merely hit on a coat of color.
Paint the house of your bird in fun prints or designs.
You could create a hippie house with the use of fluorescent paint and creating a tie dye or psychedelic design.
Or you can create a garden by painting flowers.
If you want stripes then paint stripes! If you want dots then paint dots! Look at magazines to provide you ideas on prints and color schemes.
Then obtain your paint and paint brushes out and get busy! Other methods you can adorn a birdhouse is with mosaic art.
You can purchase tiles or glass beads and glue them to the bird house with waterproof glue.
Or you can make use of stones, shells, buttons, bottle caps or anything you can think for your mosaic art.
You can also make use of things such as broken glass.
Breaking sentimental plates or glasses and using them for mosaic art is a great way to keep the glassware but to make space in your cabinets! Break them up and glue them to house bird! Just be careful that you do not cut yourself in the process.
Always shatter the glass within a bag that is covered by the towel and sand the edges.
You can also beautify bird houses by doing decoupage art or paper mache art.
For decoupage art, cut out pictures you want from a magazine and glue them to the bird you can also print photos on your printer and make use those photos.
Then paste the pictures and magazine photos into the house with the use of decoupage glue.
For paper mache, you could cover a plain bird house with the paper to provide it a paper mache look.
Then you will get a good, strong bird house that birds can normally use yet it will look like the paper mache.
For both decoupage paper bird you will like to rainproof them by adding a coat of waterproof varnish to your finished work of art.