9 Simple Yet Savvy DIY Valentine’s Day Decor Ideas For Celebrations At Home

by Mehnaz Farooque | February 4, 2023 | 9 mins read

DIY valentine’s day room decor ideas for your home

Make your at-home Valentine’s Day celebrations unique and unforgettable with these awesome DIY Valentine’s Day room decor ideas!

Oh, how wonderful it is to have a day for romance!

Every year on February 14th, couples across the world celebrate Valentine’s Day in their unique ways. While some like to arrange perfect dinner dates in restaurants, others choose to go on a quick getaway to find their haven of romance. But if you’re more the at-home kind, we understand. And that’s why we have for you some amazing Valentine’s Day room decor ideas to celebrate the romantic day at home! These are easy and affordable DIY Valentine’s Day room decor ideas that are surely going to raise the bar of at-home dates. From charming front porch decor to cosy bedroom setups – pick your favourite or try all of these from our list here. We bet you, the fourth one is going to work magic for the evenings!

Pep Up Your Home Entrance With DIY Valentine’s Day Room Decor

As the saying goes, “Two things remain irretrievable – time and first impressions.” You must not overlook the prominence of front porches for romantic decor ideas. If you have a view outside your front porch then you ought to utilise it. This Valentine’s Day room decor starts  right at the door. It’s unexpected, romantic and doesn’t even require much preparation time.

If you’d ask us, all you need to do is have a simple wooden patio bench, some flower decorations on the door and the background wall. You can go for natural creeper plants or flowering vines near the front yard to create a fresh ambience that can also double up as the perfect setting for a breakfast date. This northwest entrance door features a striking and simple entrance setting with a floral and fruity garden, perfect for a picnic vibe.

DIY valentines decorations for home entrance, front porches decorated with wooden patio bench and flowers on a red wall.
A cosy home entrance that’s romantic and chic

Valentine’s Day Room Decor Ideas For Your Living Room

Living rooms are where the most amazing conversations happen. So, add to your checklist of Valentine’s Day decor ideas, a happening living room DIY decoration. If you have a comfortable couch or a tufted sofa in your living room then you are sorted with the main decor element! Just add some pink or pastel cushions to the couch and complement the setup with a projector wall for a night filled with movie marathons. If you have a centre table, you can arrange some flowers and place some memorable photos on it too.

Next, you can work on the couch’s background, where you can hang some handmade heart-shaped artwork or origami in the shape of birds and flowers to lighten up the mood. You can also hang a ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ banner centrepiece for the living room. While you can go with your regular light shade curtains for the living room, anything in lavender or pink will do wonders for your Valentine’s Day room decorations.

DIY valentine’s day decoration ideas for your home
A romantic living room for movie marathons
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Sweep Them Off Their Feet With DIY Tablescape Ideas

Now, we all know the stomach is the way to someone’s heart. So, don’t forget to value the importance of good food in your DIY Valentine’s Day room decor list! However, along with good food, you need to set up an appealing tablescape decor. If you are someone who believes in all things subtle and understated then this one’s for you. Set up your dining table with flowers and a pastel-coloured tablescape. Rose candlesticks, floral centrepiece, classy dinnerware together make a perfect ensemble for this.

But if you are on the dramatic side, feel free to add vibrant reds and pinks as decor accents to the table. You can also twist things up with the right set of dim and romantic table lighting to create a restaurant-style cosy dinner setting. You can also remodel your dining chairs by adding matching table and chair covers with some comfortable cushions. For a breakfast or lunch date, you can choose to opt for a subtler Valentine’s Day room decor setup but if you are looking at an evening dinner date, don’t hesitate to include some dramatic surprises.

DIY valentine's day decorations, the white dining room decorated with flowers and candles on the dining table.
Dining space with floral arrangements and candles

Romanticise The Balconies Too With Our DIY Valentine’s Day Decor

We know this might be a little too specific considering all of us may not have the luxury of a beautiful balcony. For those that have one, you can add this idea at the top in the list of your homemade Valentine’s Day room decorations! Flowers, plants, fairy lights, a cosy couch, quirky table lamps – you can have it all! Bring nature to your balcony with hanging flower pots and flowering vines. If your balcony is wide enough to fit a small bed, arrange a canopy-style bed decoration to set up your perfect private corner!

If you have a balcony swing, decorate it with plant creepers and fairy lights. Balcony dates can be great for daytime picnics as well as intimate conversations. Or if you have a west-facing balcony, a scintillating sunset might just be the perfect element to consider when playing date with your partner. And yes, don’t forget to include a piece of slow romantic music in the background. Always remember fragrance and music play key roles in creating romantic Valentine’s Day room decorations.

Balcony decorated for valentine day with flowers, plants, fairy lights and table lamps is DIY valentine decorations.
Enjoy Valentine’s Day dinner on your balcony

Special Valentine’s Day Room Decor Ideas For Your Bedroom

Your bedroom is where you can go over the top with romantic decoration. Go bold with pretty bed linen in reds or lavenders. You can also go for lace or floral printed bedsheets with flower petals and candles as surrounding design elements. You can even add a soft textured floor carpet in the same colour as in the bedspread.

In our quest for helping you find the perfect DIY Valentine’s Day room decor ideas, this bedroom decor comes both easy and impressive. A pastel-toned room decor with DIY heart-shaped table crafts can never go wrong. You can choose an old-school study table lamp along with hand-printed lampshades. Don’t forget to match the bedroom curtains with the rest of the setup. There are many other ways you can detail your romantic bedroom decorations as per your taste and personality. A quick tip: try adding decorative elements that would feel more personal to your relationship.

The room decorated with heart-shaped table crafts, bedspread and table lamp, valentine bedroom decoration idea.
An intimate bedroom space with DIY elements

A His And Her Corner With DIY Art Pieces For Valentine’s Day Room Decoration

Nothing looks more romantic than handmade craft pieces. So make sure your partner feels extra special with DIY art pieces for homemade Valentine’s Day decorations. While most room decorations for this special day will oversee the entire room’s setup, this point will accentuate the romance with detailing.

You can keep it simple by adding a his and her corner to your space with floral arrangements, some books, wine and decor elements for a classy Valentine’s Day vibe!

The room decor with homemade red candles, paper lanterns, and tree branch is the Valentine room decoration idea.
Go the classic route with a his and her corner

Valentine’s Day Room Decor Ideas For The Walls

Walls are one of the most visible spaces in the home and one can make the most of it with DIY room decorations on the walls. So let your walls speak, express and shower love! The best wall decoration ideas include hanging photos, frames with romantic quotes, abstract art and DIY heart decorations on the wall. In our selection of Valentine’s Day home decor, we thought of bringing something simple and easy to work at home. You can create metallic, wooden or even rubber-based heart frames to style up your walls. If you have light coloured walls, you can go with DIY red heart decoration frames for your living and bedroom walls.

The room decorated with roses on the table and heart frames on the wall is the valentine room decoration.
DIY room decoration to fancy up the walls
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DIY Reading Space As Valentine’s Day Room Decor For Fun Activities

Bookshelves and racks are fun corners to decorate. You can place Valentine’s special handmade greeting cards and photo frames on the shelf. You can choose to display books with pink, red and white covers or you can simply dramatise the space by going over the top with cliche Valentine’s room decorations. And if not for books, you can indulge in indoor games and board games with your loved one for the perfect end to your humongous list of dates.

DIY room decorated with candles and fairy lights on the wall and bookshelves is the best room decoration for valentine.
Candles and your favourite books for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Room Decor Ideas With Lights

Light up the romance this Valentine’s Day with the perfect lights. Not too bright and not too dim. Choose lights that go along with your romantic flow. You can use some of your Christmas decoration lights, especially those copper string lights you tucked away after Xmas.

And if you are planning to go for some DIY lighting decorations, you can work on heart-shaped balloons and wrap them with wool and fairy lights. There are several ways to style your space with lights so feel free to explore and implement. You can also come up with some hand-painted lamps and handmade scented candles. For the dining area, you can use dimmer ceiling lights or hanging lamps with warm led lights. For your bedroom opt for wall hanging lights to decorate the area behind the headboard.

A bedroom decorated with fairy lights on a brick wall is a simple DIY room decoration ideas for valentine's day.
Add a warm and cosy vibe to your Bedroom

And there you have it, super-amazing and yet simple DIY Valentine’s room decoration ideas that you can try out this year and surprise your loved one! Whether you like to keep things simple or pep things up a bit, we have given you some lovely handmade and romantic suggestions! So, start planning a little early and get ready to dress up your home for the big day. Lastly, a very Happy Valentine’s Day from us, don’t forget to send us some photos!

Want in on more such festive decor ideas? Read our blog on 2023 Valentine’s Day Decor Ideas

Mehnaz Farooque

Mehnaz is a creative content writer at Design Cafe who is often found obsessing over Ghalib's Urdu poetry or J.K.Rowling's books. She believes in this world of social assumptions and opinions, memes are the only way to make life better. Her love for detailing inspired her to write about interior design. If not working on a blog or binging on her favourite show F.R.I.E.N.D.S, she's dreaming about spending time in the mountains.

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