Do-it-yourself home crafts - features of work, tips on choosing materials, interesting ideas

No matter how spacious the home is, and no matter how thoughtfully the owners approach its arrangement, there is often not enough storage space in it. After all, over time, both the composition of the family and the habits of its members change, so the house becomes overgrown with all sorts of necessary things that need to find a suitable place.

Useful things for the home with your own hands

To do this, it is not at all necessary to buy a new cabinet or squeeze an additional module into the kitchen. You can do a lot with your own hands without spending a lot of money and turning things that have become unnecessary or leftover building materials into useful devices. Or creating unique decor for your home from them.

Crafts for phones

Mobile phones, tablets, laptops and other electronics have long become an integral part of our lives. But progress has not yet reached such heights that it works smoothly without recharging or connecting to the mains. As a result, our houses are tangled with wires, which not only create interference, but also do not look aesthetically pleasing.

This problem can also be solved with the help of simple DIY devices.

Charging point

Several devices can be charged simultaneously in the house. In order not to look for a free outlet or trip over wires, you can make a compact charging point for all devices from an ordinary shoe box.

It needs to make several holes in the front wall to output the “tails” of the charges, and one in the back for an extension cord with several sockets. Decorate the box as you wish.

Charging point

Hanging case

If the sockets in the house are located high, you can get rid of the appearance of hanging wires using a hanging case made from a container for shampoo or household chemicals of a size suitable for the phone.

Step 1. Cut off the neck of the bottle, leaving a pocket for a phone with a high back wall. We cut a hole in it in the shape of the charger.

Marking and cutting along the line

Step 2. Wash the resulting cover to remove chemical residues and wipe it dry or let it dry.

Step 3. Use fine sandpaper to sand the cut edges and erase the text and drawing from the surface.

Sanding

Step 4. Decorate the case in any desired way: paint, cover with fabric, use decoupage techniques, etc.

Decoration

The result of the work is in the next photo.

Photos before and after

Fast, easy and practical.

DIY home crafts for the bedroom

Garlands and photographs will help you decorate your bedroom walls in an unusual way. But you don’t need heavy frames with glass or any special things for this. Photos can be posted on fishing line, string, or directly on the wall using double-sided tape. And single-color garlands will create an atmosphere of comfort and romance.

Shelves of unusual shape will add freshness to the interior.

Great idea for girls to organize their decorations. You will need branches, cords and decorative nails. The latter need to be stuffed onto branches at the required distance and hung on the wall with laces.

The new is the well-forgotten old. It's the same with decor. You don't have to buy a new chest of drawers or cabinets when you have an old one. You can simply paint it. And then your favorite thing will serve you for many more years.

To save space, there is one very simple “trick” - a shelving wall. This will help get rid of most of the closets in the room.

Add some magic to your bedroom with cotton clouds and garlands.

An old ladder can serve not only as a clothes hanger, but also as a library shelf. This solution seems strange, but just try it – it’s really convenient.

The most important element of the bedroom is the bed. A large double bed is a dream. However, such a thing is often expensive. Don't despair, because making your own bed frame is not at all difficult. Using wooden slats of different thicknesses, self-tapping screws, saws and stain, you can make the bed frame exactly the way you want.

Crafts from old leather belts

Belts made of leather or high-quality leatherette can last a long time even after they are no longer worn. The buckle is cut off from them, folded into a loop and screwed to the wall. It turns out to be an unusual, but very convenient holder for newspapers, magazines, skeins of yarn and other small items.

New life for old belts

If you fasten two such loops at the same level and insert a rectangular plank into them, you will get a hanging shelf.

Hanging shelf

Note. When attaching leather to a wall or other hard surface, you need to place a washer under the head of a screw or nail.

Pieces of leather belts will also come in handy when making a tray if it is customary in the family to serve breakfast in bed. In addition to them, you need to prepare a large cutting board or furniture board, a small piece of plastic pipe and glue. As well as a hacksaw or jigsaw, sandpaper and finishing materials.

Tools and materials for making a tray

Step 1. When using a board or furniture panel, the material must be sawn to size and sanded until smooth. You can paint it, varnish it, paint it, burn out patterns or inscriptions with a special device. In a word, the decor is at the discretion of the manufacturer.

Step 2. When the board has dried after finishing, legs made from pieces of plastic pipe about 5 cm long are attached to it in the corners. Before gluing, they are sanded and, if desired, painted in the color of the wood.

Making legs

Attaching the legs

Step 3. Cut two strips from the belt along the length of the narrow side of the tray or a little longer for ease of grip, and fasten them along the edges with screws.

Tray with strap handles

Living room

Getting a stylish shelving unit quickly and inexpensively is no problem. Use wooden boxes. They can be arranged as you need, making shelves of various sizes. There is another plus - you can put together such a cabinet with your whole family and have a lot of fun.

Using the same principle, you can make a desktop. You will need modular shelving from Ikea, a table top, slats, screws and some paint. The number of shelves and the shape of the entire table depends on your needs.

In general, the use of wood in the interior is one of this year’s highlights. Wooden pallets, parts from old furniture, ladders, branches, etc. are used.

Hanging shelves will help make your living room more interesting. You can use both ropes of different diameters and belts.

A cornice is always a very expensive pleasure. But if you have a non-standard window and only need to order the appropriate size, then it turns into a complete pain. The simple solution is to use small-diameter plastic water pipes. You just need to paint them in a color that suits your interior.

Another life hack on the topic of curtains. How to decorate a window without using a cornice at all? You will need a wooden lath and a lot of hooks for clothes. Don't forget to sew the loops to the curtain.

You can zone the space in different ways: walls, screens, curtains. There is another way - jute cords. You can use any other materials like ribbons or colored fishing line.

Case for seasonal clothes

Storing seasonal clothes often becomes a problem if there is no room for them in the closet. You can solve this by making a folding trunk covered with a nice fabric. It can be placed on a closet, on a shelf or under a bed. Things will not be visible, but protected from dust, and the case itself will not spoil the interior. When the need for it temporarily disappears, when folded it will take up minimal space in the closet.

Storage cases

To make it you will need: fabric, corrugated cardboard and sewing thread.

If you lift the hard bottom vertically and place it close to the side, the case will easily fold down to a flat state. You just need to press inward on the stitching lines at the ends.

We sew a hanging trunk for storing things (click on the image to enlarge)

Hanging case with 6 shelves

Hanging open trunk

Unique paper flowers

Almost any flowers are quite easily formed from paper, but still, it is better to opt for simple and bright flowers. Here are the most common and easiest to implement options:

• Roses. Blanks are cut out of colored paper in a spiral, which are then rolled tightly. When the petals straighten out, you get a very spectacular rose.
• Corrugated paper is an excellent material for creating flowers. It makes very interesting and colorful crafts. To make a rose, you need to cut out 12 circles, the edges of which need to be sharpened and glued. Each subsequent row of petals should have more detail than the previous one.
• Delicious flowers. Here, sweets are used along with paper. Each candy, which serves as the core of a flower, must be covered with petals. A toothpick is used as a stem.

Hallway hangers

It is impossible to place a full-fledged wardrobe for outerwear in a small hallway. You have to be content with a wall hanger with hooks. And here you can get creative so that from the very threshold the guests understand that they are lucky to meet extraordinary people.

Fork hooks

Twig hooks

Hanger made from old skis

Handicrafts for the New Year

• DIY Christmas toys for the Christmas tree
• DIY Christmas wreath
• DIY New Year's ball

• DIY New Year's crafts from pine cones

• DIY New Year's crafts for 2022

Source of inspiration: pinterest.ru

Republished on December 17, 2022 due to additions to the material.
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Wooden office organizer

This model is good because it provides for placing not only pens and paper on the table, but also a mobile phone.

To make it you need wood glue and three rectangular bars 2-3 cm thick, one of which is slightly longer than the others.

Wooden organizer

Tools you will need:

• jigsaw or hacksaw;
• drill;
• bit;
• hammer;
• vice or any load;
• sandpaper;
• pencil with ruler.

Step 1. On one of the short bars, mark a groove or slot for the phone according to its dimensions.

Marking the slots

Step 2. Using a jigsaw, we cut through the block from the end, hitting the chisel with a hammer and hollowing out the wood between them. We grind the entire workpiece, including the internal surfaces of the slot.

Notching a groove

Step 3. Glue this block with the same one and leave it to dry, holding it in a vice or placing it under a weight.

Gluing

Step 4. Mark the second slot - for paper or notebooks, making a line across the block. We decide on the number and position of holes for writing instruments.

Marking hole positions

Step 5. We saw the glued bars along the transverse line. We select a drill of the required diameter and drill through the holes in accordance with the markings.

Drilling holes

Step 6. Glue the resulting two parts to a long block, aligning them at the ends. There should be a gap between them that will serve as a paper holder.

Connecting elements

Step 7. Decorate the organizer according to your preferences.

Painting in bright colors

Opportunities for a garage or small workshop

In an ordinary garage, most often there is no opportunity to turn around and organize a full-fledged production of any products or homemade products.

After all, to make a really cool thing, you may need special equipment: for example, a lathe, a drill press, and perhaps even a CNC milling machine.

However, even in a small home workshop or garage, you can create various useful homemade products. These can be devices to make work easier (stands for angle grinders, mini lathes made from electric drills, compact universal work tables, etc.), or some parts and mechanisms.

For example, on the site you can find a detailed visual process of manufacturing various trolleys for transportation, as well as electric hoists, winches and other lifting devices that can make it easier to work with heavy and large parts (mechanisms) or building materials.

Having made all the devices necessary for the work (these are cutting machines, grinding machines, etc.), you can start making specific homemade products: knives or forged elements. In general, even in the garage there is an opportunity to do something useful for yourself.

Organizers for spools

Those who sew a lot accumulate an incredible number of spools of thread of different colors and thicknesses. Keeping them in a heap in a box means wasting time searching for the right reel. And in bulk at the bottom of the box it’s too wasteful.

The most convenient organizer for spools is individual pins. And it’s as easy as shelling pears to make from a board or piece of plywood and nails, hammering them in at small intervals. If such an organizer will be stored in a desk drawer, you can stop there. If it will always be in a visible place, you should think about the decor.

The most convenient spool organizer

We offer two solutions for this problem. The first is extremely simple: you need to cut out a piece of polystyrene foam the size of any beautiful box, put it on the bottom and insert toothpicks.

The second will require a more detailed description.

Step 1. On a rectangular sheet of plywood, make markings so that the distance between the points in all directions is slightly greater than the diameter of the coils. In order not to lose the markings when painting, we fill small holes with a couple of hammer blows on the nail.

Holes made

Step 2. We measure out the decor from foam or polyurethane moldings, cut the ends at 45 degrees and glue them around the perimeter. Then we paint the structure. If the decor is very embossed, it will be more convenient to use aerosol paint in a can.

Painted decor

Step 3. Drive long nails into the marked holes.

Driven nails

Beautiful and convenient thread organizer

Advice. If you are hanging this organizer on the wall, drive the nails in at a slight angle to prevent the spools from slipping off.

This is just one of the options. It can be modified or the shape of the structure can be changed by cutting out any shape from plywood.

Figured thread organizer

Yard and garden

When decorating your home, you shouldn’t forget about what’s outside. Let's start with the entrance area. From concrete blocks and a couple of wooden slats you can make a cute and comfortable table where flowers, a watering can, a lantern or anything else will live.

By the way, you can make various benches from concrete blocks, decorate flower beds, build a barbecue, and even make flower pots. It all depends on your imagination.

You can also make stylish ottomans and armchairs with your own hands. You need old tires, liquid nails and thick rope. The finished structure can be painted in any color. These ottomans are suitable for both indoors and outdoors, because they don’t mind rain.

Boxes or pallets made of wood can serve as the basis for a garden cabinet. Here you can store various flower accessories, pots, watering cans and other tools. And if you leave a flat work surface on top, you can make something or replant flowers.

What could be unusual in a flower pot? It would seem - nothing. However, here you can surprise everyone. Plant succulents in a birdcage. When they grow, it will be very beautiful. And instead of a regular hanging pot, you can use an old chandelier.

An ordinary children's inflatable pool can be used as a sofa. Just put a blanket or blanket inside and cover the sides with pillows.

It’s so beautiful to use candles in the garden, but they are constantly blown out by the wind. To prevent this from happening, you can make candlesticks from empty tin cans or ordinary glass ones. You can decorate everything with stones or ribbons if desired.

These, of course, are not all ideas for home and garden, only a small part of what you can do with your own hands. You just need to not be afraid to experiment and fill your home with cute and beautiful things.

Crafts for the kitchen

The most functional and filled with things room in the house is the kitchen. Maintaining order in it all the time is the most difficult thing. We suggest making a stand for dishes and pockets for kitchen utensils for it.

Dish drying rack

It can be easily made from several wooden clothes hangers.

Dish drying rack

To make this model you will need a handful of small self-tapping screws and eight hangers from which you need to remove the hooks. And also remove the crossbars, leaving only two hangers undisassembled.

Next, three pairs of products are fastened to each other with a valet using self-tapping screws. Single hangers are installed between them, and the entire structure is fastened with the previously removed crossbars. They are attached under the crosshairs of hangers connected in a pair and along the outer edge.

If the hangers have recesses in the hangers, the crossbars are inserted into them. If not, they are screwed together with an overlap or the hangers are modified before assembly by making landing grooves.

Drainer. Application

Advice. In order for the dryer to last a long time, it must be coated with a water-repellent agent - paint or varnish.

Pockets for kitchen utensils

If the kitchen set is not equipped with a drawer for cutlery and small utensils such as ladles and spatulas, they can be stored in cute pockets made from wooden cutting boards and fabric. It can be replaced with kitchen towels or napkins, or even better - oilcloth, which can be easily washed if necessary.

Pockets for kitchen utensils

Step 1. Prepare everything you need in addition to the basic materials: glue gun, stapler with staples, scissors, tape for masking staples.

All you need

Step 2. Lay the board on the fabric and cut it along the contour, making allowances of 2-3 centimeters on all sides.

Uncover

Step 3. Fold the bottom edge of the fabric and fasten it with a stapler to the bottom edge of the cutting board, stepping back 1 cm from it.

Fastening fabric along the bottom edge

Step 4. Lay the fabric on the board and shoot the sides, gradually tucking the edges inward. At the same time, make sure that it is not stretched and does not fit tightly to the board, otherwise the pocket will turn out tight and you will not be able to put anything in it.

Fastening the fabric on the sides

Step 5. Lay the braid over the fastening line, masking the staples, and glue it with hot glue using a gun.

Fastening the braid

The pocket is ready, you can hang it on a hook and use it.

Original vase

The house needs not only useful things, but also those that simply give joy and good mood. Therefore, finally, we suggest making an original vase for small flower bouquets. This will take no more than a minute, and the only tools you will need are scissors.

Materials for making: a glass cup and a balloon. It is better to take a dense, opaque one with a matte texture. You need to cut off the tip with scissors, stretch it and pull it onto a glass, after dipping it in soapy water or lubricating the outer walls with oil.

You need to cut off the tail and pull the ball onto the glass

All! All that remains is to tuck the protruding tail inside, pour water into the container and place the flowers.

All that remains is to wrap up the protruding edge

Vase made of glass and ball

Such vases can be made at least every day, changing shape and color. Taking a balloon with a congratulatory inscription, you can give an original bouquet to your mother or teacher for her birthday.

Multi-colored vases

Festive decorations made from balloons

Hallway

Even the simplest entrance area can be made functional and stylish. Wood paneling will bring a fresh touch to the interior. Not only is it simply beautiful, it is also convenient. On the panel you can screw hooks for bags and jackets. You can also make a small shelf on top for useful little things.

There is also an interesting solution for small apartments. Shoe rack, hooks and cabinets can be combined into one organizer.

An ordinary front door can also be made into a stylish element with the help of wooden trims.

To keep your shoes out of the way and not dirty anything, you can make an unusual stand from a wooden box and stones. So even after a walk in the rain, your hallway will remain clean.

By the way, instead of pebbles, you can use an artificial mat made of plastic grass.

An old ladder can be used as a shoe rack. Now all the shoes will be at hand.

For a couple of years now, it has been fashionable to make all sorts of household items from wooden pallets. In the hallway you can use them as shoe stands. You can make a shelf on top for small items or just put flowers, and attach hooks for umbrellas on the sides.

There is a small life hack for pet owners. To keep dog or cat bowls out of the way, mount them on a separate shelf in a closet or under a countertop.

Surprise your guests with a non-standard approach to such an ordinary thing as coat hooks. Wooden slats, branches, screws, a little imagination and voila! The unusual hanger is ready.

Smartphone holders in 5 minutes

Perhaps almost everyone has a smartphone. But there are no holders for them. What if you need it, but don’t buy it by hand? Easily!

This is the kind of holder made from office clips in one minute. But take stronger clamps so that they hold well.

A sleeve and 4 stationery needles will also work well. You can paint it to your taste.

Another option: you will need a pen and some reliable clothespins.

A convenient pocket for charging a smartphone can be easily cut out of an empty shampoo or shower gel package.

And if you have some fabric and a love for needlework, you can sew such a pocket.

What can you make from plastic bottles for your home?

You can make many useful things from bottles that have gone out of use .

Beautiful stands for indoor plants will decorate your interior.

How do you like this decor??

To decorate your summer cottage you can make a cute pig .

You can learn more about DIY garden crafts in our previous article. But you can learn how to make flowers like these right now.

Old things can be transformed in the most unexpected way. From videotapes that have lost their relevance , you can make chic shelves for useful things.

Home decor: 6 ways to bring beauty

Every home has all sorts of things that lie idle, but it’s a pity to throw them away. It's time to turn unnecessary things into something not only necessary, but also beautiful. And when done carefully, they are downright designer.

Take a look at these sofa cushions. Is it true that stylish and cozy pillowcases are made from sweaters? I just want to sit down or lie down to rest.

And here is an option for the living room from a couple of sweaters. They combine perfectly: you get a set.

Tired of banal options for wall decoration? Create an original panel of buttons. Look how beautiful it looks.

There are a lot of possibilities. You can make a cat, a girl, a butterfly, a horse, a flower, a fish, an abstract pattern. The main thing is to think about where the panel will hang in order to choose a suitable plot and fit it harmoniously into the interior.

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If you are not ready for complex work, opt for a simple and effective option. Here is another panel with a tree, but it is much easier to do. At the same time, it also looks interesting.

You can make a house or a mill out of a bottle for your kitchen. For this you will also need twine, coffee beans, a piece of linen or burlap, cardboard, and glue.

You can also sew original curtains for windows from scraps for the kitchen. You will get original curtains in patchwork style.

And for the bedroom or your favorite sofa, a patchwork bedspread and pillowcases are suitable. This will definitely happen only to you.

A cute bear will come in handy to decorate your kitchen or bathroom. It rolls up easily from a towel.