Home iconostasis made of wood with carved patterns
Tradition everything home iconostasis there is not one century. Although in modern houses icons often are put on the shelves of a bookcase or hang on the wall, it is best to equip them for a separate special place.
Single storey direct rack - shelf for icons
A good option would be suspended shelves, according to the canon which should be placed on the east wall of the house. Often this corner shelf make a height of two or three stories.
Beautiful wooden shelf icons in the corner of the room in three tiers
Corner shelves for the icons with the candlestick
Content
- 1 species
- 2 Materials and tools
- 3 manufacturing phase
- 4 decoration
- 5 Video: Shelf for the iconostasis with his hands Woodcarving Woodcarving DIY
species
Shelf for icons "Home iconostasis mini-corner"
The workshops can be ordered to stand home icons of any size and configuration, but it is quite expensive work.
Angular shelf fiberboard, made in three tiers
A simpler option - use a regular corner shelves of the hardware store, but in this case you may have problems with the size. Also you have to look for the model that best "fit" in the interior. All of these difficulties can be avoided by making the shelf for icons on your own - it is quite feasible, even with little experience joinery.
Mounted corner shelf for icons of wood
Shelf for icons with your own hands can be of any convenient design. Corner shelves are made of single or in several layers. To connect several levels typically used carved wooden supports. Finished the shelf is often decorated with carvings, openwork plates, covered with a special varnish carpentry, wax.
A small corner shelf for two tiers of icons
Home iconostasis with his own hands
Materials and tools
For the manufacture of corner shelves used different decorative wood species - for example, oak or cherry. Less expensive material is pine boards. In addition to the tree, you can also use plywood or particleboard. Board thickness may vary from 1.5 cm to 2.5 cm. Also need a small plank width to carve support.
For work you need the following tools:
- Roulette or ruler;
- Saw-hacksaw;
- sandpaper for wood;
- electric jigsaw;
- elekrodrel;
- screws;
- carpenter's glue;
- varnish for wood.
Required tools
For fixing the finished shelf to the wall will also need a drill for stone, metal corners and hinges, screws and plugs.
manufacturing phase
Carved corner shelf for handmade drawings icons
Before starting work, it is necessary to make the project drawing. The size and number of shelves depend on the form of icons, which will be located on the finished home iconostasis. To produce a simple two-tier rack, need two pine boards 1.5 cm thick, and four support.
- Using marker or pencil drawing is transferred from the paper to the tree. Side adjacent to the wall must be placed in relation to each other at right angles. The outer edge can be straight, semicircular or shaped.
- With the help of a saw and a jigsaw cut out the drawing details of future products.
Scrollsaw jigsaw pattern of three parts - side, a side and a bottom
- The edges and surfaces of the parts are ground with sandpaper.
- Props can be made simple in the form of flat plates, or give them a shape using a jigsaw.
Billet milled stenciled on special equipment
- If necessary, from a thin board to cut ledges shelves.
For vytachivaniya decorative details will need a lathe or are ready to take
- Using screws shelf is attached to the supports and then interconnected.
Putting the shelf - to machined components using self-tapping screws are screwed bottoms
- Joiner's glue is used to strengthen the joints, as well as to attach bumpers.
When connecting the sidewalls with the bottom screws should fall in the middle of the bottoms ends
- To the rear of the shelf or attached to supports metal hinges.
Bumpers screwed via cylinders - screws inserted into the holes from the bottom cylinder worn, hardware twist to skirting
- In the wall of drilled holes for anchors fixing bolts on which to hang the product. You must ensure that support the weight of mounting shelves with icons.
The final step - coating of the finished product with linseed oil, and attaching brackets on the corner
After completion of the finished shelf treated stain and varnish. Suitable as a colorless varnish, and those that give the color of the board of various types of wood. When choosing quick-drying lacquer product is ready for operation within a few hours.
Small shelves for the icons of different colors - pine, walnut, mahogany
decoration
Depending on the complexity of the elements decorating the shelves under the icons, they can be made with their own hands or buy ready-to option
The most common way to decorate a home shrine - woodcarving. It can perform on their own with the help of the jigsaw. If you lack the necessary experience, carved items can be purchased at the hardware store, buy the studio. Ready carved plate mounted on the shelf joiner's glue.
Thread selected softwood birch, spruce, pine, aspen and juniper
Another way to burn jewelry ornament is via special device - for this pre-applied pattern on a drawing pencil tree. You can also paint the shelf - special paints for wood sold in the building department. An alternative would be strictly monochromatic color pattern coating the enamel paint of another color.
You can burn decorative enamel with the subsequent opening of individual fragments of the image on the shelf
To further reinforce and beautify the shelf, its rear wall closed wooden panel. It is also possible to decorate carvings, lacquer paint, enamel.
Shelf for icons with beautiful rear wall
For registration of the upper portion of the shelf under the icon, you can select the outline of an Orthodox church
If you are using a plywood board, these methods will not work - but on this panel will look spectacular painted with acrylic paint with the addition of gold.
Small curly shelf for icons with candlesticks and lamps
