Do-it-yourself wooden crafts Are you planning to make renovations in a house or apartment with your own hands, starting construction, arranging a summer cottage, or making stylish decorative elements? All of the above operations are rarely accomplished without the use of wood.
This material is widely in demand because it is environmentally friendly, easy to process, durable and strong. And most importantly, it’s inexpensive.
Various DIY crafts for home and garden, including birdhouses, are also made from wood.
This is an affordable and versatile material that can be used both in construction and repair, as well as for decorative purposes. And the scope of its application is constantly expanding.
On our website you will find many different ideas using wood. These can be both original and interesting crafts for children, and more serious things, including various devices for the workshop and garage.
You can make garden furniture from wood, build gazebos and fences in your country house, terraces and recreation areas.
For work, you can use both ready-made lumber in the form of bars and boards, plywood, and what is at hand - old pallets, logs, branches and even stumps.
Stands
You can use the saw cuts to create cute coasters for hot dishes. To create such a useful item, you can take not the best round pieces. Cracks and remaining knots will make the stand an even more attractive addition to your kitchen or dining room.
- To create a stand, you need to take cuts from a mighty tree for plates or small round pieces for cups, peel off a layer of bark (or leave it as a decoration) and lightly sand the surfaces.
- In principle, the stand is ready. To give it greater durability, the wood is pre-treated with special impregnations.
- Cuts from thick branches are also suitable as an unusual stand.
- To do this, they are glued together with sidewalls, and the gaps between the borders are covered with a top layer of saw cuts, secured with glue with a slight offset.
- You can leave a single-story stand, but the glue should not come into contact with hot objects.
A stand in which the spaces between the cuts are filled with colored epoxy resin will look unusual.
In the same way you can create unusual candlesticks. To do this, a nail is driven into the cuts, on the tip of which the candle will be placed. Such a charming composition for
The New Year will be complemented by tangerines, spruce paws, and tinsel. For Easter, a cute craft will be decorated with fluffy chickens; for Valentine's Day and March 8, the decor will be tiny baskets with flowers or candies.
Material properties
Wood of various species has its own differences, which affect the complexity of processing and the durability of the product. The most accessible lumber is made from coniferous trees: it is pliable with hand tools, easy to saw and plan.
Thanks to their saturation with resins, they do not dry out and have a long service life. They are often used in everyday life, not only in construction, but also in the improvement of houses, gardens and summer cottages.
Photos of handmade wooden furniture can be seen in all design projects of elite cottages. The main quality of wood is environmental friendliness. According to some claims, it even has healing properties.
Mirror frame
Additional beauty of the mirror surface will be created by small cuts, fixed in the form of a nice frame. They can be glued directly to the mirror or you can first make a wooden frame onto which the round pieces are glued.
Round mirrors look especially nice in this frame, but traditional rectangles will also look very original. You can come up with similar patterns for wooden crafts yourself, creating the most unusual patterns.
Picture frames or entire walls are made in the same way.
Features of working with wood
As we wrote before, wood is quite easy to work with. In some situations, one ax and a hacksaw are enough.
And yet, if you plan to make something original from wood with your own hands in a home workshop or at the dacha, then you will need to have a set of certain tools available.
A hammer, plane, drill, chisels, hacksaw or jigsaw are the minimum that you should have on hand.
Ideally, of course, have a power tool, including a sander. This will not only speed up the work process, but also achieve high-quality results.
It is also important to note that the wooden blank must be dry. If you use wet boards made from recently cut wood, the material will crack over time.
When processing wood, it is important to use protective equipment to prevent chips from getting into your eyes and dust from getting into your lungs. You should also take precautions when using paints and varnishes.
Using boards
You can make wooden crafts with your own hands from an ordinary board. This:
- Ordinary and painted cutting boards (you can decorate them using burning or decoupage techniques);
- Tabletops (on a large board you can even create an imitation of a stream or pond);
- Various shelves.
In this case, the shelves can be installed on conventional fasteners or hung on belts or thick twine, clothesline or rope. You can even use small logs, installing them like a log house. As you can see in the photo of wooden crafts, such cute decoration elements create a cozy mood and are used to decorate rooms in rural styles.
Unusual solar boards will be a good decoration.
This master class on creating wood crafts is particularly simple:
- The wooden board is carefully sanded.
- Small through holes are drilled in it.
- Pieces of multi-colored glass or glass balls are inserted into the resulting gaps (they can be purchased at craft stores).
The sun's rays, passing through multi-colored elements, will color the room in an unusual way, giving it cozy warmth and comfort.
From small boards you can put together a cozy flower pot for home flowers.
Hangers made from boards will decorate the hallway. A minimalist design will be created by simple smooth boards with ordinary hooks. For a rural style, the original shapes of boards with wooden pegs are more suitable.
Decoupage napkins are designed to decorate simple wood. Although even a simple tree will look very nice.
Small tablets will become the basis for an original clock. It is enough to mark the dial and install the clock mechanism.
A funny wigwam for a cat will be created by three boards fixed at an angle of 60 degrees.
Table installation
Having prepared all the parts, mount them according to your sketch. Recess the nail heads using an extension. When using self-tapping screws, tighten with a screwdriver.
If it doesn’t work, unscrew it one by one and countersink the hole. Seal the recesses with mastic and wait until completely dry. Additionally, go over with sandpaper.
To highlight the wood texture, cover the surface several times with varnish, according to the instructions for use.
Important! Modern varnishes are toxic and it is not recommended to work with them indoors. Place the products outside the home until completely dry.
Use of logs
The simplest log from the forest will be an excellent material. Of course, a large log is unlikely to be useful in an ordinary apartment, but its parts can become an original pencil holder. You can do it by simply making the corresponding holes with a drill.
- A cute candlestick made from a log will decorate a table or bedside table before the New Year.
- And thick logs can serve as a bench in eco-style.
Master classes on making crafts
The imagination of the craftsman is limitless, and therefore from the material in hand you can make a wide variety of crafts for the home, garden, and playgrounds. These can be sets of decorative dishes, toys and educational sets for children.
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For garden plots, original flower pots and flower beds with a unique design are prepared from fresh logs. Flexible branches are used to braid palisades in the form of miniature fences.
When working independently, masters are guided by ready-made instructions and plans, and also always have the opportunity to watch educational video lessons for beginners.
Crafts for the garden
A variety of wooden crafts for the dacha will perfectly complement the exterior of the site.
- The simplest option for using wood would be an ordinary bench.
- For this, two thick logs are useful, on which a thick board is fixed.
- The simplest bench is ready.
More experienced craftsmen can add a backrest and armrests or decorate it with carved columns.
- A table and stools made of thick stumps will look cozy, and children will certainly love a treadmill made of wooden posts. They just need to be dug deeper into the ground or installed on a concrete pad.
- An unusual path made from saw cuts will decorate any area. You can create it in the most ordinary way or decorate the lawn with it, laying out wooden circles at some distance from each other.
A wooden bridge installed over a low flower border or over a dry stream, a cart with bicycle wheels, a decorative well made of small logs, a house for a gnome or a mill will look elegant.
Decorative circle for watches
The finished circle with a diameter of 100-200 mm can be used as a dial. All that remains is to purchase a themed kit, which includes:
- Numbers;
- Arrows;
- Mechanism with battery compartment.
However, this set can be removed from worn-out wall clocks, which are always in abundance at the flea market.
Flowerbeds
A cute train made of small boards and a piece of log will become an original flowerbed. To do this, you can simply put together boxes from boards and install a pipe on a log. And the kids will help paint the train with colorful paints and draw a funny face.
Instructions on how to create crafts from wood will help you make an original flowerbed from an ordinary stump. To do this, you need to remove the middle, fill it with fertile soil and plant low flowers. Or you can drag a whole log and select wood from it.
Making a wooden craft with your own hands is not at all difficult. Just look at the photos and find the most interesting options.
Basic decorative processing techniques
Decorative finishing of finished crafts does not always involve painting and varnishing. Today, more than a dozen methods of working with wooden surfaces are known:
- Turning. To work you will need a sharpening machine and a number of tools.
- Thread. Using sharp knives and chisels, craftsmen prepare incredibly beautiful figures with an abundance of small details.
- Woodburning.
- Mosaic.
- Embossing.
Particularly popular today is mosaic art, where a modular image is assembled from pieces of wood and bark of various tree species.
This technology is used to make beautiful jewelry boxes, gift boxes, and picture frames. There are also branches within the technique: inlay, intarsia, block mosaic.
