Variants of original cork panels

You should never throw away wine corks. It turns out that you can make a valuable hand-made of them, which fully meets the modern requirements of interior decor. For example, you can make a beautiful, original panel out of corks. If there are no talents in the visual arts, embroidery has not worked out yet either, but I really want to do something with my own hands to decorate the wall, a cork panel will be an excellent option for such a craft.

First you need to decide what exactly to do. For example, on the eve of the New Year holidays, it can be an Advent calendar: within a month it will really look like a real panel. Or it will be a permanent composition. In any case, the approximate set of tools and materials is the same.

• Wine corks - universal material for panels. But in some cases, corks from plastic bottles, and from beer, and from champagne are suitable. Although wine corks look best. In terms of their structure and appearance, they are ideal for boho interior, scandi, shabby chic and today's fashionable eco-direction.
• Glue. It should be a strong glue, like "Moment". Neither PVA nor glue stick will be able to securely fix the corks.
• Paints. They are not always needed, but they may well be useful for the design of individual elements. As a rule, gouache or acrylic is used. But if you need to paint large volumes of panels, any high-quality paint (the one with which it is customary to paint walls) will do. The composition depends on the preferences of the author.
• Frame. Sometimes a ready-made one is taken, sometimes it is performed specifically for work from rails or other material.
• Additional decor. Depends on the theme of the work: it can be sequins and sequins, threads and stamps.
• Scissors, clerical or breadboard knife.
• Comfortable work surface. A wide table is fine, although those who are used to working on the floor should hardly change the habit.

Such successful, in fact, design constructions are obtained from traffic jams that after one work, the hands themselves are drawn to make a new one.

Looking at the diagrams, photo examples, peeping interior ideas on different thematic sites, you understand that this is not particularly difficult. For example, what is so difficult about making kitchen towel hooks from wine corks?

Craftsmen create unique mosaic compositions from plastic covers. For home decor, this may not always be appropriate, but for outdoor decor it is a godsend. Especially when it comes to summer cottages. You just need to perceive plastic covers as mosaic elements. Then from them it is easy to put together a street "application".

Some authors even make a repetition of some famous painting out of ordinary plastic lids. (they especially like to "quote" Van Gogh). Such work can already be called serious creativity.

If there is a children's gazebo or a playhouse on the site, it will be interesting for kids to find a mosaic based on their favorite cartoons on one of the walls or on the roof. This is how the "wall" parrot Kesha, a kitten named Woof, Smeshariki and other characters, made with the help of banal plastic caps, appear.

On the wall in the house, you can also make a panel in the form of a mosaic., but not every interior will accept this option: nevertheless, plastic today is present at a minimum in the design of the house. However, examples of finished works show how this can be implemented in practice.

Bottle caps are the most fertile material for creating a panel with your own hands. Here are just a few fascinating ideas.

1. Cork confetti. It will be an abstract composition - the cork is cut into flat circles no more than 2-4 mm thick. The circles should be painted in different colors in any convenient way, but precisely in those that will be consonant with the interior. Then, on a flat base of a suitable type and configuration, these flat circles with superglue (or its analogue) need to be glued according to a previously invented design. They should look like cheerful confetti in flight. And the main thing is that this panel should combine the colors that have met in the interior of one space.
2. Heart. One of the most repeatable variations created with simple wine corks. You just need to find about 2-3 dozen plugs (preferably of the same size) and glue them tightly along a predetermined contour in the form of a heart. Glue on a suitable flat base. Paint the formed heart red (only the upper part). Very fast, very simple, but conceptually, which is important in creativity.
3. Heart with a gradient. The principle of operation is the same, only there can be more traffic jams. The highlight of this work is a smooth color transition - the narrow part of the heart will be the darkest (deep burgundy, for example), but the top will not change color. Such a heart looks stylish in any interior.
4. Snowflake. And this option can be done, although such a decor, of course, will be seasonal. But you need a wooden base - for example, a snowflake outline cut from plywood. On this base, creating the structure of a snowflake, you need to glue the corks cut in half. That is, their flat side will stick.
5. Cork letters. Another of the ideas that literally lie on the surface. In one volumetric letter, you need to glue the corks and make as many letters as intended for a specific design idea. So often they create a voluminous word "Home" or "Love", which later become a wall panel. The corks can be left in their natural color, they can be dyed.
6. Star. The same principle of creation - corks are glued to a thin but strong base (plywood), and then either dyed or remain natural. Sometimes they are varnished or stained. This large wall star can be supplemented with a battery-powered garland, and then it will be used as a night light or evening lighting.
7. Round panel in a tray. Very often it happens like this: a tray is lying around on the farm, which is already difficult to use, but it's a pity to throw it away. If it is round metal, with a clearly defined rim, it's just fine. It needs to be washed, if necessary, tinted, and then simply filled tightly with corks, which, as usual, will be glued to the base. And then the resulting circle in the tray is fixed with a textured rope - and the boho panel is ready.

They rarely do anything with plastic champagne corks, but with the same porous, soft, cork structure pleasant in color, you will get a lot of wonderful crafts. Ideas can be found in the previous section, although there are a few more interesting additions.

One of them - panels of corks and dried fruits... Here, not only corks, but also dried citrus fruits will be glued onto a solid base with a clear geometric shape. The composition can be supplemented with cinnamon sticks, walnuts and other textured elements. This is a very appetizing panel for the kitchen, which will collect many compliments.

Another decent option is use corks as a frame for painting... That is, instead of a standard wooden or plastic frame, make a cork frame.If the painting depicts, for example, a still life with a bottle of good wine, such a frame would be especially appropriate.

Corks have become so popular because interior styles where such decor is appropriate have become dominant.

These styles work best for cork panels.

• Scandi - it has been breaking all popularity records for several years and stubbornly does not give up its positions. Scandi-style (although it is more correct to call it Nordic) is a lot of white, space, natural materials, expressive, but not numerous decor.
• Boho-eco - this style is dominated by naturalness and environmental friendliness, an abundance of handmade elements, thoughtful overload of details. The decor in this style is especially important, the convergence of colors is also. From a bright decor can only be vegetation: juicy green leaves of flowers diversify the overall light sandy range.
• Japandi - style, confidently stepping on the feet of the first two. This is a combination of Japanese style and Scandinavian style. Practicality, orderliness, restraint, minimalism and simplicity - that's what it is about.

Finally, you can just go from words to picture. The most inspiring works will tune in to the collection of corks as a valuable decorative material.

• In this craft, the plugs are in a specially created in-depth contour. The author did not embellish the work with either unnecessary details or color, and from this she did not lose in the least.

• A very cute cork owl. A little imagination, a good sample in front of your eyes, a sharp knife - and a charming craft is ready. Good for any room.

• And this is an example of a creative mood board: a board for ideas is ready to serve for a long time and not get bored. Here you can stick stickers, postcards, photos, everything that you want to keep in front of your eyes. A convenient thing, because you won't change the pictures on the wall often, and on the mood board you can change the visual composition as often as you like.

• A very interesting abstract composition with good proportions and colors.

• 4 letters at once connected into one festive word. Panel-pendant, which will decorate the house every year on the eve of Christmas.

• A beautiful element, if it is repeated somewhere else in the interior (for example, in a wallpaper pattern), it will be a very good solution.

• The "heart" theme will be played over and over again. And this is one of its simple, visually easy variations. It can become part of a festive decor or, for example, permanently "settle" over a wedding bed.

• The fish is another symbol that is often repeated in the interior. It will not be superfluous to add a little color to it.

• A very simple and very musical solution, you can thus beat the thematic corner in the house.

• The sweetest bunches of grapes are laconic, charming and does not require anything in addition.

• A large solution that requires painstaking work. But this is fashionable now, so it's worth considering.

• Stylish wreath, not tied to the New Year holidays.

Cork crafts are trendy today. They look stylish and emphasize the imagination and creativity of the owner of the house. Therefore, it is imperative to try yourself in this. Everything will work out!

For information on how to make a panel from traffic jams, see the next video.