If you have a lot of wine corks in your kitchen drawers, put them together in one bag. You can make many useful and beautiful things for the kitchen, living room, dining room. Today, handmade products are very popular, so you can make with your own hands not only a functional, but also a stylish item that will become a unique decoration for your home. In today's review, the HouseChief editors will tell you how you can use regular wine corks.
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- 1 Hot stand
- 2 Handles for wardrobes and dressers
- 3 Bathroom rug
- 4 Kitchen apron
- 5 Fruit basket
- 6 Napkin holder
- 7 Shoe mat
- 8 Pencil holder
- 9 Tray
- 10 Finally
Hot stand
To preserve the surfaces of your tables, you will most likely use hot coasters. They come in different sizes and are designed to hold tea cups, pots or pans. You can buy ready-made coasters from the store or make your own from preserved wine corks.
For work, you only need glue gun, a small piece plywood, stationery knife and plugs. Additionally, you can use a satin ribbon and beads for decoration.
Decide what shape you want to make the stand, and depending on the model you choose, keep the corks as they were, or cut them in half. Then, using your glue gun, start glueing the corks together in a heart, circle, or square shape.
To make the stand stable, attach the workpiece with hot glue to the base - a piece of plywood. You can also secure the structure with a metal or regular satin ribbon.
Handles for wardrobes and dressers
If you have different handles installed on cabinets, dressers and cabinets that do not match at all, remove them and make beautiful stylish handles out of corks.
Prepare the corks in advance - grind them with sandpaper from the bottom and secure the screw, and then attach the handles to the drawer of the cabinet or dresser. This solution can be temporary, for example, if your cabinet handle breaks, or permanent. You can paint the corks with matte paint of any color or use additional decorative elements to make the furniture handles original.
Bathroom rug
Making a do-it-yourself bathroom rug is very simple - take wine corks, cut them vertically, and also use rubber mat or plywood as a lining.
Use a glue gun to secure the plugs to the base. Most often, decor is not needed for such a rug, it itself looks very stylish and original.
The advantage of such a rug is that it will perfectly fit into any interior. To make a rug, use a rubber base - you can get the cheapest rug in the store. Cut the plugs in half and start sticking on the backing. You will get a beautiful drawing if you lay it out on the rug in advance and only then begin to fix it with glue.
Kitchen apron
If it's time to replace your kitchen apron, don't rush to the building hypermarket. Remove all accumulated corks from the pantry and lay out apron of them.
To get a beautiful kitchen apron, follow the instructions:
- Prepare all the necessary materials: wine corks in large quantities, glass, stationery knife, glue.
- The first step is to prepare the wall for gluing the corks. It is best to paint it with black water-based paint, so no gaps will be visible after you stick the corks.
- Cutting the plugs in two will save material if you are short of them. In addition, it is much easier to glue plugs with a flat surface.
- Apply a small amount of glue to the flat side of the cork, press the cork firmly against the wall and press down for a few seconds to allow the glue to set.
- Repeat this action until the wall is completely covered with corks. Keep one clear pattern, it is best to place the plugs either vertically or horizontally.
You can make such a kitchen apron yourself without hiring helpers.
Fruit basket
Making a fruit basket out of wine corks is very simple - you only need the corks themselves, a glue gun and decorative elements to decorate the craft. You can use a ready-made base and stick plugs on it or fold the structure yourself.
Start forming the basket from the bottom - put the corks in 3-5 rows, then build up the walls of the future basket. After laying out two or three layers, leave the structure to dry for several hours, so you will allow the glue to fix and you will be relieved of the need to glue the basket again, from scratch.
Use quick dry glue. When the bottom and sides of the basket are ready, start laying out the handle. Start at the walls and work your way towards the center, filling in the empty space.
Napkin holder
Wine corks can be great materials for making elegant napkin holders.
You can use whole plugs or parts of them to create holders. In the process, make sure that you have the right amount of traffic jams. As a decoration, you can use not only beads, but also plastic flowers, geometric shapes made of plastic or satin ribbons.
Shoe mat
Corks are ideal for creating doormats because they absorb moisture well and dry quickly. Get the simplest and most affordable rubberized rug from a hardware store, prepare corks by cutting them in half and start gluing to the base with super glue or glue pistol.
No additional coating is necessary - after the corks are glued on, leave them to dry for 24 hours.
Pencil holder
Making a minimalist pencil holder is very simple, you only need 20 corks, a cardboard or cork base and glue.
All you have to do is start glueing the corks in a circle so that there is a hole in the center that is big enough to accommodate your stationery. If you have too many pens and pencils, use more plugs - 26 or 30.
Tray
To make a beautiful cork tray, use a standard wood base. Match the color of the corks and place them on the bottom of the tray with glue.
It will take you no more than fifteen minutes to create such a tray - place the corks vertically and horizontally and start gluing them to the bottom of the workpiece.
Finally
If you find an impressive supply of wine corks during general cleaning, do not carry them to the trash can. Using only corks, plywood and a hot glue gun, you can make many beautiful, useful and functional items for your home. Make a do-it-yourself rug for the bathroom or kitchen apron, and you can also make some pretty fruit vases.
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