Kick-Start Your Spring with Command Products

The Command Brand from 3M has some simple ideas that even those most afraid of DIY can follow to refresh your home for the year ahead.

Command Products are a range of ingenious adhesive strips and hooks which allow home lovers to hang decorations, pictures and much more without the hassle of nails, screws and tacks, throughout the home.

Holding fast to wood, tile, metal or to painted walls, Command Products can revolutionise the way that you hang almost anything. Yet when the time comes to refresh a room with a new look and style, the strips and hooks can be removed from walls quickly and easily without leaving any marks.

Why not try out one of these simple ideas to give your home a stunning spring update?

COLOUR-POP

This is a simple idea for recapturing a favourite family holiday or event in the form of a fun picture gallery.

First source a range of picture frames to display your photos in. Why not search in charity shops or at car boot sales for frames that can be easily upcycled?

The next job is to spray paint your chosen frames. We have chosen a summery palette of yellow, pink, sky blue and white to capture the memory of a seaside holiday. You could even stick small shells found on the beach to a plain frame for an added personal touch.

You don’t have to just use photos for your gallery. Sketches, postcards, mementos or illustrations can look just as stylish. As long as the pictures complement one another, you can be fairly creative with your choices.

Keep the spaces between the frames fairly small. A good tip is to lay them out on the floor and decide on the arrangement before you commit to hanging them on the wall. When you are happy with your selection, the easy-to-use Command Picture Hanging Strips are ideal for hanging your frames as they avoid the need to drill holes into your walls.

Command Poster Strips are also ideal for mounting postcards, flyers and unframed photos directly onto the wall to add interest to your picture gallery.

Command Products can be removed hassle free and with no damage to your walls. They’re repositionable too so it’s easy to straighten and realign your pictures by clicking and unclicking.

For a finishing touch, why not make a string of bunting using an old map or nautical striped fabric to add a touch of seaside charm to your feature wall? Bunting and other lightweight items can be easily hung on the wall using Command Clear Decorating Clips.

And there you have it – a beautifully colourful and vibrant homemade picture gallery for your home!

GLORIOUS GREEN

Fireplaces are often a natural focal point in a room; however if you have a non-working fireplace it can be difficult to know how best tobring it to life.

A simple suggestion is to match the wall colour to the colour of the wood, iron or tiling work within the fireplace itself. This will quickly add synergy to the space and will help to pull the look together.

To make a feature of your fireplace why not create a simple picture gallery above it which will create an instant impact, without the need for nails?

Try to balance out the colours in your picture gallery. Do this by ensuring the base wall colour features in most of your images and spread these out on the wall. This allows the eye to travel around the whole gallery easily.

Keep the spaces between the frames fairly small. A good tip is to lay them out on the floor and decide on the arrangement before you commit to hanging them on the wall.When you are happy with your selection, the easy-to-use Command Picture Hanging Strips, which are available in various sizes, are ideal for hanging your frames as they avoid the need to drill any holes into your walls.

Use Command Poster Strips to display unframed photos, postcards, mementos or illustrations. As long as the pictures complement one another, you can be as creative as you like with your gallery.

Command Products can be removed hassle free and with no damage to your walls. They’re repositionable too so it’s easy to straighten and realign your pictures by clicking and unclicking.

BRING THE OUTSIDE IN

First of all, choose the area in your home that you wish to update. This could be a bare wall in your living room, a child’s playroom or even your study - basically anywhere that you want to make a feature of! You will need to purchase a tree wall transfer in order to start off your design - why not check out notonthehighstreet.com? They have a great selection of styles to suit any room. Pick an area which is big enough to accommodate your chosen tree transfer and apply!

Plan your colour palette – what colours complement your existing décor? We worked on a cream wall and chose a brown tree transfer, so decided to keep our decorations neutral to complement this. You don’t have to stick to one or two colours though – why not go for a bold design and select several of your favourite hues?

Pick out some items to hang on your memory wall. You could focus on a specific event, such as your wedding, holiday or new baby. Using Command Products, you can hang all sorts of decorations and trinkets.To hang photo frames or canvases, Command Picture Hanging Strips are ideal.

You can take a small birdcage and clip photos or quirky post cards to it, and then hang it using a Command Clear Hook so that it blends in with the wall, or perhaps use Command Clear Mini Hooks to hang lighter items such as a little trinket or cardboard decorations.

Now it is time to hang up your design! It is recommended that you put the Command Hooks on to the wall and leave them for an hour to ensure that they stick fast before you hang your items on them. There you have it! A beautiful memory tree that looks great in any room and is completely unique to you!

PICTURE-PERFECT PLATES

Do you need to brighten up your hallway, dining room or kitchen? Why not do this with colourful melamine plates? You can hang your plates easily on a feature wall using Command Picture Hanging Strips to secure them. It is a simple way to hang decorative plates without damaging your walls.

Select your favourite pieces and create a point of interest, you can do this by using Command Picture Hanging Strips to secure them on discreetly, in no time at all. Try using bright colours to accentuate a bare wall; this can be done with plates but also other interesting lightweight pieces.

For high res images, samples or more information, contact Leanne or Charlotte at Escapade PR on 0118 9207675 or 3MCommand@escapadepr.com