DIY vase (71 photos) - step-by-step master classes on creating decorative vases

Preparation of the workplace

As usual, the first thing you need to do is equip your workplace where you will work. The rules are not complicated: there should be no unnecessary things on the table, all the tools should be in their place and at hand. Not everyone has their own desktop, and you’ve probably already thought about creating one. Making a table is not difficult; choosing a place for it in the house is more difficult. A good option is an insulated balcony, where you can start working on your craft at any time. If you have a specially equipped room with a workbench, then you are lucky. In a separate article you can read about preparing a desktop where I tried to describe in as much detail as possible the entire process of creating it. After you have completed the process of creating a workplace, you can proceed directly to your future craft.

Eco-decor: 35 decor ideas from branches for the home

Bouquets in a vase of twigs and dried flowers are banal, but often look very beautiful. Or you can decorate the vase by gluing unusual branches and tying them with ribbons.
Compositions of dried flowers on a shelf next to souvenirs and figurines can look advantageous.
Three-dimensional paintings or panels.
Frames for photos or paintings.
Stands for pens and pencils with holes cut into the block.
Wooden candlesticks - just glue original branches to a glass glass and you will get forest beauty.
Lighting fixtures made from branches - why not? It is easy to decorate the stand of a simple floor lamp with decor from branches, in such a way that no one will guess that this beauty was made with your own hands.
Partitions in the room - put up screens if necessary, why not make it from wicker wicker, decorated with twigs, ribbons and leaves? Spaciousness is in fashion now; with the help of branches you can create an openwork and transparent separation between living areas.
An unusual bottle with a beautiful branch inside - why a boat? There are a lot of ships, but the decor of the bottle made of branches is one in a million.
Curly branches can be complemented with paper flowers
Decorated dry branches for a vase on the balcony will look beautiful
Clothes hanger - previously deer antlers were hung for such purposes, but an unusual gnarled branch will also work.
Furniture wicker from branches, especially a rocking chair, creates a unique coziness.
It is possible to weave anything from a vine: a vase, a flower stand, even a house for a cat;
Tree branches in the interior can be simply placed or hung on the wall, under the ceiling - they will look original.
A large branch imitating a whole dry tree in the corner of the room will look good - firmly fixed, with some kind of pendants - no one will be able to take away from you the unity with nature that you will gain with such a neighborhood.
Twigs and twigs can be used to easily decorate flower pots or vases.
Vase decor with plants and flowers
A large number of plants in a vase will harmoniously complement the interior of the room
Branches can be decorated with small flowers and beads
Read also: 13 ideas on how to make an unusual flower container with your own hands
Mirrors or mirrored wardrobe doors decorated with saw cuts of branches.
Wicker wreaths made of branches and leaves look beautiful on the front door.
A large branchy branch in a pot can be decorated with colorful birds, pleasing to the eye. Or fruits - this decor is ideal for a children's room.
Small branches in small vases can decorate some free space.
Many large and complex branches are so beautiful that they can be placed on a wall instead of a picture.
It’s not difficult to make a picture from branches: a background of wallpaper, a stylish frame and beautiful contents.
The branches as a holder for women's jewelry will be fabulously beautiful and extremely convenient.
You can decorate an entire wall with branches, turning it into a forest. The presence of lighting will also be important.
Dry branches can be used to beautifully cover the battery.
A hot stand made from twigs will bring not only aesthetic, but also practical benefits.
You can make a completely eco-friendly toilet paper holder from a knotty stick, and it comes with the same wooden “hooks” for towels.
Hooks for kitchen utensils are also easy to make from knots.
Dry branches combined with glass can turn into a chic coffee table. Or without glass - a nice tree stump can become a table.
Wood knots can be beautiful shelf holders.
Chairs and tables made from a combination of wooden planks and branches will create a special coziness, as if you were living in a tree. But in such a complex job you will need the knowledge and experience of a carpenter.
Dry branches are suitable for wooden stairs instead of railings or balusters.
You can even make a cornice from a branch, although it will be inconvenient to use.
Everyone loves lamps; if you attach diode mini-bulbs to a beautiful branch, twisting wires around the branches, it will turn out that you have a fairy-tale forest at home.
A hanging table made of beautiful sawn wood will be convenient next to the bed.
You can also make a silhouette of any creature, such as a kitten, from branches and place it on the wall instead of a painting.

A vase with dry branches can be placed in the bedroom

Flowers can be coated with bright shiny varnish

And an endless number of ideas! Rare branches in the interior are so complex and beautiful that you want to look at them. Each tree has unique branches, but often we pay so little attention to this, focusing on the leaves.

There are an unlimited number of options for decorating with branches for the home; in principle, any branch you like can be hung on the wall, on a curtain, or put on a shelf in a closet. Especially if this branch is valuable to you in some way: brought from a long journey, it reminds you of other days, of loved ones, of old dreams and hopes. The functional use of decorative branches is also important - they can replace many common things in our everyday life.

Large thick branches will look very beautiful in the interior of the room

Branches for a floor vase can be painted golden

Any branches are suitable for decorating a vase.

Plywood selection

The main elements will fit on A4 plywood, since some parts need to be made in several copies, you will need several blanks. The thickness of the plywood should be from 2.5 to 3 mm, and depending on the thickness, sawing should be done along the internal or external contour, this is important for the grooves into which the elements of the craft are inserted. Before transferring the drawing to plywood, sand the workpiece with coarse sandpaper and then with fine sandpaper. Wrap a block of wood in sandpaper and then start sanding. Sand the prepared plywood along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy-matte in the light and silky to the touch. Pay attention to grain placement, knots, dents and other imperfections. Quality and color. If the plywood is not of very high quality and delaminates when sawing, read the recommendations for eliminating plywood delamination.

Varnishing crafts

If desired, the dish can be varnished with stain to resemble valuable types of wood, or simply transparent; this is not necessary, but it will add greater individuality to your craft. Try to choose a good and high-quality varnish. do it with a special brush, take your time. Try not to leave any visible streaks of bubbles or lint from the brush.

Wooden vases look very beautiful. Usually made on a lathe. But 90% of the wood turns into chips. There is a technology that allows you to make a vase from a flat panel.

Here's what happens:

It took me a long time to choose the material to test. On the one hand, you want something interesting, on the other hand, you don’t mind spoiling it. In the end, I settled on walnut, with oak and wenge inserts.

A walnut board 75mm wide and 15mm thick is cut into 3 parts. 4mm oak veneer must be cut into 15mm dies.

How to do this if you don’t have a circular saw, but you have a couple of clamps and a scoring saw? Like this - the fist is clamped between the walnut dies...

And sawing.

The result is an even die of the required thickness:

I glue the walnut into a shield with spacers - two oak dies, with thin wenge veneer between them. (which was sawed using the same technology) Scratches from the saw are visible. A slight sloppiness, plus solid oak, which was sawed along the grain. No big deal, the shield will still have to be sanded to even out gluing errors.

And again I glue it with spacers and leave it overnight:

I use a belt sander to level the shield and remove any remaining glue. Perhaps we should have made the wenge continuous:

The result was a shield 14 mm thick. It took 0.5 mm on each side. Based on the shield and the desired dimensions of the vase, the angle and pitch are selected:

I print the drawing, use an awl to combine the centers of the shield and the drawing, glue the drawing:

I cut a small rake at an angle of 38 degrees:

I fix the shield with clamps on the jigsaw table and using the rail as a guide, I drill 2mm holes with a drill at an angle of 38 degrees:

I insert a file into the hole:

And let's go! I cut the first ring:

And here it is - the bottom!

The wood is very hard, it is sawed slowly, if you press it a little, the file will burst. To replace the file, you need to return the table to a horizontal position, unscrew the fastenings of the file, thread the shield, again adjust it to 38 degrees, adjust the tension... Moreover, the file almost always breaks when there is 3 cm left before the end of the ring.

Second ring, the picture begins to emerge.

Bottom view:

And after the fourth ring, the files ran out. I used one and a half packs. No more, I'm putting it off until tomorrow.

I stopped by the store, bought 8 packs of saws (to be sure there would be enough), and sawed:

I'll move the rings:

Sleight of hand and no fraud, the rings are folded into a vase:

Can be combined with shift. You can make inserts between layers. There are plenty of options.

I start gluing without a bottom for now, to make it easier to sand the inner surface:

Checking the alignment of layers:

I leave it overnight under load:

Result. The surface is rough, but the alignment of the lines is without serious disturbances. The darkening is traces of sawing with an ultra-thin saw (41 teeth per inch), which sank into sawdust and the wood burned.

It is necessary to level the inner surface. Attempt number one is a steel rod with sandpaper glued to double-sided tape. Not an option, too flexible.

Attempt number two, sanding drum on the same spindle. It doesn’t fit either, the machine is lightweight (as I intended it to be). Doesn't hold up, plus it's inconvenient to work with.

Attempt number three. Grinding drum on a flexible sleeve.

The drum is small, sawdust flies where it is least needed, but you can work:

For fine grinding, I collect petals of 400 sandpaper:

But it doesn't polish. I continue with my hands. It takes a lot of time, the surface is far from ideal. I discover an error - the penultimate ring is glued with an offset of 180 degrees. Well, this will be a reminder... In the end, it could have been much worse. Let it add charm - it will be a border. The main thing is that the spacers aligned properly.

The biggest nuisance is the sweat that pours into your eyes and falls onto the vase.

The respirator was once snow-white:

I glue the bottom. To speed up the process, I use my weight with dumbbells in my hands as a press... The vase can withstand more than 100 kg without squeaking, despite its lightness and thin walls. Now I’m thinking, what would have happened if the vase had shattered?

Recently, the value of classical art has given way to everything original and non-standard. For better or worse, we live in an age of the new and unusual. Natural materials are in fashion: no wonder, there is nothing more beautiful in texture and more unique than natural wood, branches, dried flowers.

Tree branches in the interior should be appropriate and almost invisible - like everything in a good renovation, when nothing catches the eye, but a feeling of comfort is created - you did everything right.

Vase decor can be made from branches

You can hang decorative eggs on the branches

You can decorate the branches with paper flowers

A love of creativity is instilled in children from school: they are told to make herbariums, paintings from dried flowers, and crafts. This is how we learn to understand the beauty of nature and the uniqueness of natural materials. If you remember, we made crafts from branches for any occasion: seasons, gifts for March 8 and February 23, or crafted something useful. You can weave a pencil holder like a basket, or make a whole picture: attach a wood panel with burning to a wicker base. It is also good to decorate photo frames from tree branches. A homemade gift is stylish, beautiful and original in our age of cheap souvenirs and unnecessary cheap gifts.

You can decorate a vase in absolutely different ways

As we grow up, it is important to keep creativity alive. It happens that at a party you can see an unusual collection of wooden figurines: the author saw various animals in twigs and twigs, cut them out, varnished them and surrounded the room with them. On the one hand, the dog can be guessed, and the twig has not ceased to be itself, natural, unique and asymmetrical. That’s why the dog is a little crooked, but unique. In the same way, you can make a candlestick from tree branches - just take the twig you like, cut out a hole for the candle, varnish it - and the thing will delight you for many years. Cheap and cheerful.

Wavy branches will look very stylish

Dry branches can be painted in different colors

The branches can be painted with shiny paint, it will look beautiful

After going to the forest, if you decide to use dry branches in the interior, you may need the following tools:

small saw;
knife, screwdriver and everything for the necessary holes in wood;
hammer and nails;
glue or better glue gun;
wood varnish and a convenient brush;
paint: white is most often used, but any will do, depending on the style you want;
threads, ropes, ribbons for tying.

First of all, the wood must dry: a couple of weeks indoors, 7 days on a radiator, or a couple of hours in the oven with the door open;
Dried wooden blanks are treated with paint or varnish, depending on the purpose. Treatment is necessary for aesthetic beauty and long service life, and to prevent any nasty bugs from infesting the wood, which will then eat your furniture.

Dry branches can be combined with flowers

Flowers are ideal for vase decoration

How to paint branches for decoration white

Collect beautiful branches from the nearby forest.
Dry them thoroughly in a warm room.
Decide if you need the bark: it usually falls off on its own after drying, but if the bark holds tightly and you want to keep it, leave it.
Go to your local store and browse the entire range of acrylic paints. Perhaps you will change your mind about taking only white color, and take paints of all the colors of the rainbow. It's not bad.
It is better to paint wood in a ventilated room, such as a balcony in an apartment. And it’s important to take your time and let it dry thoroughly.
The number of layers of paint depends on your desire for brightness and intensity of the shade.
To give the branch a shine on top, it should be coated with regular wood varnish.

Voila! The material for decoration is ready, you can move on to the next stage - the direct creative process.

Dry branches with flowers will look gorgeous

You can decorate the branches with different colors, it will look original

Golden branches in a vase will perfectly complement the interior of the room

Transferring the design to plywood

You need to translate the drawing accurately and carefully: secure the drawing using buttons, double-sided masking tape, or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the individual parts so that you can use the plywood sheet as economically as possible. There is no need to rush, because your future craft depends on the drawing. If you are short on time, then to speed up the translation process you can use the technique of quickly translating a drawing; for this, I suggest that you read the article in the tips section: Drawing technology.

Schemes, drawings and patterns for products made from plywood sheets

Computer drawing programs

Today you can easily find a diagram, a pattern for a plywood structure, so that you can then prepare any drawing using computer-aided design systems (including the above cat pattern). Next, use a plotter to print it onto a paper sheet of the required format.

Popular drawing programs are the easiest to learn and can be used in 2D and 3D modeling, including for plywood structures:

"KOMPAS" is a complex of automated systems with the ability to prepare drawings in accordance with the standards of the ESKDI and SPDS series;
AutoCAD is a two- and three-dimensional computer-aided design and drawing system.

So, if you cannot find a detailed drawing of the plywood product you need, then the application capabilities of the given software will help you make a full-fledged drawing using any diagrams and patterns posted on the Internet.

Kayak

The price of the construction plywood from which the kayak is made is simply incommensurate with the pleasure that the person who made it with his own hands and who loves rowing boats will receive.

The Eskimo kayak is the same kayak among the Aleuts - a traditional rowing boat of the Arctic peoples. This boat can be single, double or triple. Let's post drawings of a plywood kayak for one person.

The algorithm for building a rowing boat from plywood sheets is, in principle, general, with the exception of some nuances. A step-by-step procedure for cutting, processing and assembling a kayak can be seen in the video in this article.

Plywood table - simple and functional

Clear drawings of a plywood table with your own hands, which will be easy to implement even for a person without special carpentry skills and experience.

Clear drawings of a plywood table with your own hands, which will be easy to implement even for a person without special carpentry skills and experience. Table cover (1 sheet) - 1300 x 600 x 16 (mm) Inner wall (1 sheet) - 1170 x 400 x 16 (mm)

Cutting out a vase from plywood with a jigsaw

There are many rules for cutting, but you need to rely on the most common ones. First you should cut out the internal elements and then start cutting out the outline. There is no need to rush when cutting. The main thing is to always keep the jigsaw straight at a 90-degree angle when cutting. Saw out the parts along precisely marked lines. The movements of the jigsaw should always be smooth up and down. Also, do not forget to monitor your posture. Try to avoid bevels and unevenness. If you go off the line while cutting, don't worry. Such bevels and irregularities can later be removed using a flat file or “coarse-grained” sandpaper.

In what interior style can decor from dry branches be used?

Classic - between the rich sofas against the background of wallpaper with royal lilies, a huge floor vase with a dry bouquet looks gorgeous.
Provence is accompanied by dry bouquets in vases, dried lavender and laurel.
Modern style - may include decor from branches in any forms and quantities acceptable by the owners.
Eco-style requires maximum naturalism: wicker furniture, a lot of wood, rough fabrics, decor made from natural materials.
Minimalism allows for a maximum of one beautiful dry twig on the wall instead of a picture or in a vase as opposed to a whole bouquet, that’s what minimalism is for.
The mixed style is itself modern art, and it is sometimes very difficult to imagine in advance what might be there.

The combination of colors will perfectly complement the interior

Living branches will look very beautiful

Tree branches in the interior, like many free materials lying in any forest, have a very valuable advantage: they are free. You breathe a second life into them, increase the price of a piece of wood with time, effort, materials spent: paints and ribbons. When you get tired of this trash, you can always throw it away. Everything requires change, tastes are revised, children are born, they will have other plans for your living space, beautiful but useless things are covered with a thick layer of dust, it is almost impossible to remove it without damaging the composition. And when the children grow up, you will be with them looking for beautiful twigs in the forest, cutting out dolls from them, hanging them on the wall in beautiful compositions, or making school crafts.

Second life for old things

Both for indoor flowerpots and outdoor flowerpots, recyclable materials are perfect - an inexhaustible source of creative ideas and creativity. An outdoor flowerpot can be seen in almost any object...

Unusual uses for old things

Flowerpot made from old tires

In this video from the channel GARDEN, VEGETABLE GARDEN, WITH YOUR OWN HANDS, you will find a simple explanation of how to turn a tire into the shape of a flowerpot, and the decor is everyone’s imagination and skill.

And this flower basket made from tires from the Kaleidoscope will be an excellent decoration for your garden.