Blank walls are a missed opportunity—especially when it’s so easy to bring them to life with a few creative DIY touches. Whether it’s handcrafted art, framed textiles, painted patterns, or repurposed materials, wall decor is one of the simplest ways to make your space feel more personal.
To highlight some fun and stylish ideas, I used AI tools like Ideogram and Midjourney to create 15 DIY wall decor designs. Each image comes with the exact prompt used, so you can see how these ideas were generated and use them to kickstart your own custom projects.
1. Living Room with a DIY Geometric Painted Accent Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A modern living room showcasing a bold geometric pattern painted directly on an accent wall. The image should capture the entire room, featuring a mix of neutral and vibrant hues, with furniture arrangements that highlight the wall as the focal point.
Ideogram Prompt: A modern living room showcasing a bold geometric pattern painted directly on an accent wall. The image should capture the entire room, featuring a mix of neutral and vibrant hues, with furniture arrangements that highlight the wall as the focal point.
2. Bedroom Featuring DIY Macramé Wall Art
Midjourney Prompt: A serene bedroom scene capturing the entire space, featuring a large macramé wall hanging above the bed. The room should convey a bohemian aesthetic with natural hues and textures, incorporating cozy bedding and subtle decor accents that harmonize with the macramé’s intricate design.
Ideogram Prompt: A serene bedroom scene capturing the entire space, featuring a large macramé wall hanging above the bed. The room should convey a bohemian aesthetic with natural hues and textures, incorporating cozy bedding and subtle decor accents that harmonize with the macramé’s intricate design.
3. Dining Room with a DIY Rustic Wood Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A cozy dining room featuring a rustic wood accent wall made from reclaimed planks. The image should capture the entire space, showcasing a dining table set against the textured backdrop, with ambient lighting enhancing the warm tones of the wood.
Ideogram Prompt: A cozy dining room featuring a rustic wood accent wall made from reclaimed planks. The image should capture the entire space, showcasing a dining table set against the textured backdrop, with ambient lighting enhancing the warm tones of the wood.
4. Entryway with a DIY Pegboard Organizer Wall
Midjourney Prompt: An entryway featuring a large pegboard wall with various hooks and small shelves organizing keys, bags, and accessories. The image should capture the entire space, including a bench or small table that complements the pegboard’s practical and stylish design.
Ideogram Prompt: An entryway featuring a large pegboard wall with various hooks and small shelves organizing keys, bags, and accessories. The image should capture the entire space, including a bench or small table that complements the pegboard’s practical and stylish design.
5. Bathroom Featuring a DIY Framed Mirror Wall
Midjourney Prompt: An elegant bathroom with a navy blue wall covered in various DIY-framed mirrors. The image should capture the entire space, showing the mirror wall reflecting the light and the bathroom fixtures, creating an inviting and spacious feel.
Ideogram Prompt: An elegant bathroom with a navy blue wall covered in various DIY-framed mirrors. The image should capture the entire space, showing the mirror wall reflecting the light and the bathroom fixtures, creating an inviting and spacious feel.
6. Bedroom with a DIY Hanging Plant Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A bedroom featuring a wall of hanging planters filled with lush greenery. The image should capture the entire room, showcasing the array of plants cascading down the wall, and how they complement the bedroom’s calm and natural decor.
Ideogram Prompt: A bedroom featuring a wall of hanging planters filled with lush greenery. The image should capture the entire room, showcasing the array of plants cascading down the wall, and how they complement the bedroom’s calm and natural decor.
7. Dining Area with a DIY Plate Wall Display
Midjourney Prompt: A dining area featuring a wall with an artistic arrangement of decorative plates. The image should capture the entire space, showing how the plates contribute to the eclectic and welcoming atmosphere, complemented by the dining table and other room elements.
Ideogram Prompt: A dining area featuring a wall with an artistic arrangement of decorative plates. The image should capture the entire space, showing how the plates contribute to the eclectic and welcoming atmosphere, complemented by the dining table and other room elements.
8. Home Office with DIY Floating Book Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A home office showcasing a wall with invisible shelves supporting a variety of books, creating the illusion of a floating book display. The image should capture the entire room, highlighting how the floating books contribute to the office’s creative and inspiring ambiance, along with the desk and related furniture.
Ideogram Prompt: A home office showcasing a wall with invisible shelves supporting a variety of books, creating the illusion of a floating book display. The image should capture the entire room, highlighting how the floating books contribute to the office’s creative and inspiring ambiance, along with the desk and related furniture.
9. Nursery Featuring a DIY Paper Flower Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A nursery featuring an entire wall covered with large, handcrafted paper flowers in soft pastel colors. The image should encompass the entire room, highlighting how the flower wall contributes to the nursery’s whimsical and enchanting atmosphere, complemented by child-friendly furniture and decor.
Ideogram Prompt: A nursery featuring an entire wall covered with large, handcrafted paper flowers in soft pastel colors. The image should encompass the entire room, highlighting how the flower wall contributes to the nursery’s whimsical and enchanting atmosphere, complemented by child-friendly furniture and decor.
10. Living Room with a DIY String Art Installation
Midjourney Prompt: A living room featuring a large DIY string art piece on the wall, spelling out a meaningful word or creating a detailed design with colorful threads. The image should capture the entire room, highlighting how the string art complements the furniture and decor, enhancing the room’s artistic and inviting atmosphere.
Ideogram Prompt: A living room featuring a large DIY string art piece on the wall, spelling out a meaningful word or creating a detailed design with colorful threads. The image should capture the entire room, highlighting how the string art complements the furniture and decor, enhancing the room’s artistic and inviting atmosphere.
11. Bathroom with a DIY Tiled Mosaic Wall
Midjourney Prompt: An elegant bathroom featuring a full wall covered with a vibrant DIY mosaic made from colorful ceramic tiles, capturing the entire space to showcase how the mosaic enhances the room’s artistic and welcoming ambiance.
Ideogram Prompt: An elegant bathroom featuring a full wall covered with a vibrant DIY mosaic made from colorful ceramic tiles, capturing the entire space to showcase how the mosaic enhances the room’s artistic and welcoming ambiance.
12. Bedroom with a DIY Photo Collage Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A bedroom featuring a wall dedicated to a collage of photographs of landscapes framed in various sizes, capturing the entire room to highlight how the photo wall contributes to the space’s intimate and personalized atmosphere. You can see the entire bed, nightstand, window, and wall of photos in the image.
Ideogram Prompt: A bedroom featuring a wall dedicated to a collage of photographs of landscapes framed in various sizes, capturing the entire room to highlight how the photo wall contributes to the space’s intimate and personalized atmosphere. You can see the entire bed, nightstand, window, and wall of photos in the image.
13. Dining Room with a DIY Mirror Tile Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A dining room featuring an entire wall covered with mirror tiles. The image should capture the whole space, highlighting how the mirror tiles enhance the light and create an illusion of a larger room, with the dining table and ambient lighting complementing the elegant atmosphere.
Ideogram Prompt: A dining room featuring an entire wall covered with mirror tiles. The image should capture the whole space, highlighting how the mirror tiles enhance the light and create an illusion of a larger room, with the dining table and ambient lighting complementing the elegant atmosphere.
14. Family Room with DIY Framed Fabric Art
Midjourney Prompt: A family room displaying a series of colorful fabrics encased in frames, capturing the entire space to illustrate how these fabric art pieces add color and texture to the room.
Ideogram Prompt: A family room displaying a series of colorful fabrics encased in frames, capturing the entire space to illustrate how these fabric art pieces add color and texture to the room.
15. Kitchen with a DIY Herb Garden Wall
Midjourney Prompt: A kitchen featuring a vertical wall garden with potted herbs lined up neatly along the wall. The image should capture the entire kitchen, showing how the lush herbs add a touch of nature to the functional space, along with countertops and kitchen decor that highlight the freshness and utility of the garden.
Ideogram Prompt: A kitchen featuring a vertical wall garden with potted herbs lined up neatly along the wall. The image should capture the entire kitchen, showing how the lush herbs add a touch of nature to the functional space, along with countertops and kitchen decor that highlight the freshness and utility of the garden.
