Decor from scrap materials - more than 25 ways to decorate your home with your own hands

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 from jars

Every home accumulates a lot of jars - glass and tin: from canned food, condensed milk, paint, etc. Don’t rush to throw them away, it’s better to see how many useful things you can make for your home from them.

Using tin cans

1. Shelves for hats, gloves and scarves in the hallway.

   
   Glove rack

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2. Shelves for towels in the bathroom. Towel storage
3. Storage system for neckerchiefs and scarves in the dressing room.

   
   Storing neckerchiefs

4. Wall organizer for sewing supplies or yarn.

   
   Organizer for sewing accessories

You can also attach tins to the kitchen wall above the work table to store cutlery. But this is not very convenient.

It is better to make a kitchen organizer desktop, with vertically standing cells.

Kitchen organizer made from jars

Step 1. Wash and dry the jars thoroughly. Then, if they have sharp, jagged edges, file them down.

Step 2: Paint the tins in your desired color to match your other kitchen decor and leave to dry completely.

Step 3. Cut a rectangular piece from a board or chipboard 5-8 cm above the jars. Its length should be equal to the sum of the diameters of all containers in one row. Paint this piece too and dry it.

Step 4. Punch a hole in the top of each can with a nail, using a block of wood for support.

Step 5. Assemble all the parts by screwing the containers to the wooden base on both sides with screws.

Step 6. For ease of carrying, attach a handle from a piece of leather belt to the end of the base using screws and washers.

Manufacturing process

Such tins are suitable not only for storing small items. They make interesting vases or flower pots in eco-style. To do this, just paste them in a circle with small twigs or fasten ordinary wooden clothespins to the sides.

Vase made from a jar and clothespins

Decorating a jar with twigs

Video – DIY crafts from tin cans

Idea for storing in glass jars

Depending on the size, glass jars can be used to store cereals, spices, stationery, buttons, small fasteners and many other things. But standing on a table or in a drawer, they take up a lot of space and can fall and break.

A great idea is to hang these screw-top jars from the bottom of a shelf or hanging cabinet. What do I need to do? Nothing special: just punch a few holes in the lids and screw them to the shelf from below. And then screw the cans into them counterclockwise.

The idea of ​​storing small items when there is a lack of space

To remove a glass container, just grab its bottom and turn it in the opposite direction.

The second life of baby food jars

Organizer for storing cereals

Glass jars are also useful in the workshop

Hot coasters and mats

Things needed in everyday life. And often not only in the kitchen, but also at the desk, in the living room. Rate 5 creative ideas.

Coasters for glasses made of felt.

Coaster made from wine corks.

An excellent rug can be sewn from leftover fabrics.

You can also make an interesting stand out of jute. Do-it-yourself natural decor in a popular eco-style.

And here is a rug for dishes made from jeans. Looks original.

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.

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 the 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

Unnecessary newspapers

Among the materials at hand for children's crafts, let's pay attention to old newspapers. They are perfect for making various things using the papier-mâché technique. To do this, finely torn pieces of paper are soaked in water and then applied to the prepared surface using glue.

To see photos of finished works, it would be a great idea to visit a portal of experienced craftsmen, for example https://mastersamodelok.ru/ - here you will find a large selection of crafts for any occasion.

After drying, the sample is removed from the mold, processed and painted. This makes wall plates, cute figurines, masks and much more that you need for home decor.

A more labor-intensive activity is weaving from newspaper tubes. To do this, you will have to produce the source material. Weaving from newspaper tubes is reminiscent of a similar activity where a vine is used.

The same techniques and schemes are used. But paper is softer and gives more opportunities for creativity. And the resulting products, coated with stain and varnish, can last for more than one year. And you can weave different things: from baskets and panels to laundry boxes and even furniture elements.

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

Popcorn boxes

Crafts for the home from scrap materials can be very easy to make, for example, a popcorn box. To create it you only need cardboard, scissors and glue.

Manufacturing:

1. From sheets of cardboard of different colors, you need to cut 4 trapezoids with a side of 11 cm, a lower base of 7 cm and an upper base of 9 cm. After this, at each of the vertices you need to mark and cut out squares with a side of 1 cm. Bend the resulting petals at a right angle. These will be the walls of the box.
2. For the bottom of the box, you need to cut out a square with a side of 7 cm from cardboard. After this, repeat the procedure that was carried out with the walls and also make petals.
3. Spread all the petals with glue and glue all the cut out shapes together.

The result was a box in the shape of a truncated pyramid. Also, for those who have artistic talent, you can glue a pyramid out of white cardboard and, at the end of the work, paint it yourself with markers.

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.

Hooks from forks Hooks from twigs

Hanger made from old skis

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

Frame

You can turn an ordinary photo frame into a work of art.

To create you will need:

• wooden frame;
• sandpaper;
• napkin;
• glue;
• soil for wood;
• acrylic varnish;
• brush;
• scissors;
• beads or rhinestones.

Stages of work when decorating a photo frame:

1. In order to eliminate the possibility of irregularities appearing on the frame, it is necessary to sand it using sandpaper.
2. Next, you need to coat the frame with primer and let it dry.
3. Choose a napkin with a pattern or design. Coat the frame with PVA glue and carefully place a napkin on the glue layer so that there are no folds. Thus, it is necessary to cover the entire surface of the frame.
4. After the surface is completely dry, you need to apply 2-3 layers of acrylic varnish.
5. Now you can decorate the product with beads or seed beads. Decoration depends on the wishes and personal preferences of the master.

The decoupage of the frame is ready, all you have to do is wait until it dries and insert the photo. It is necessary to do the work carefully so that the photograph becomes a pleasant decoration of the home.

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.

Hammered nails Beautiful and convenient organizer for threads

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

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

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.