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.
Car tires in the garden
People with tunnel vision may not always see a car tire as an opportunity to create something new and not throw it in a landfill. Specialized websites offer many options for using old car tires.
You don't have to have a rich imagination. You just need to carefully study a few instructions for creating crafts with your own hands from tires and choose your option.
A huge tire from a wheeled tractor is quite suitable for installing a small pool on a personal plot. To do this, the wheel is placed in a pit of the appropriate size. Now it’s enough to cover the inside of the tire with plastic wrap, place decorative stones around the perimeter and fill the container with water.
The surface of such a pool can be decorated with artificial green leaves, lotus flowers, and waterfowl. An old tire from a car can be put to good use when arranging a small sports ground in the yard.
Tires are placed in a pre-dug shallow trench so that half of the slope is in the ground. You can paint tires with different colors of oil paint and give them to the children for use.
This unusual use of car tires for dynamic children's games will not only diversify the yard space, but will also appeal to children. Let them frolic and be healthy.
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
Simple fluffy slime recipe
This toy will have to be kneaded for a very long time, since the activator here is shaving foam. ARKO and Gillette products have good stabilizing properties, but you can also use others that you have at home. A mixture of water and soda made from 100 ml of liquid and 2 tsp will help the foam. powder. It is equally important to use thick glue, you can even use PVA-K or PVA-M.
What is needed for slime
- 200 ml PVA glue,
- 3-4 drops of paint,
- 12-13 Art. l. shaving foam,
- 2 tsp. a solution of soda and water.
Cooking method
- PVA glue goes into the bowl first.
- It needs to be tinted with liquid pigment.
- Next, add shaving foam literally 1-2 spoons at a time.
- After each use, mix the mixture well with a spatula.
- Next, you need to pick up the base and knead it.
- Lastly, a solution of soda and water is poured into it.
- Knead the mixture with your hands until completely cooked.
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.
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Step 1 | We decide on the dimensions and cut out a rectangle from the fabric, the width of which is twice the height of the trunk plus the hem, and the length is equal to the perimeter plus seam allowance. Fold the fabric in half widthwise and sew the edges. |
| Step 2 | We divide each side of this ring into three parts: one wide (the side of the case) and two identical narrow ones for the folding end. We sew the fabric along these marks, making pockets. |
Step 3 | We insert corrugated cardboard rectangles into the pockets, fold the fabric inward and glue them. |
Step 4 | We manually sew the fabric bottom to the box. The seam can be closed with braid or tape, gluing it around the perimeter. |
Step 5 | We paste over or cover with fabric a rectangle of cardboard according to the size of the bottom and put it inside. |
| Step 6 | We make the lid by cutting out the part shown from cardboard. We trim it with fabric on the outside. |
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
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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.
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Hanger made from old skis
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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
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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
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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
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