Learn to make beautiful flower pots
Surely, every house there is at least a couple of home colors, if you are not an amateur grower, which blows away dust particles from their plants, it is likely your pots live their quiet and measured life on the windowsill.
Than not remarkable, they are rarely relevant decoration home decor, for sale pick something interesting and unusual is difficult and inappropriate style of a particular space, they have to shoot for a cute curtain .
It turns out that if you put a little effort and play with your imagination, you can achieve great success, and ordinary clay pots turn into works of art that will be for you a real source of pride and admiration for others!
For those interested in how to make your own hands flower pots, we picked up a list of the most interesting and original versions, which can be useful for all occasions.
The most convenient starting material, which enables you to create a variety of masterpieces, is a common clay pots, without any pretreatment, patterns and decorations. They are inexpensive, and the flowers they are feeling well.
Plastic pots - also a very good source material for decoration, but it is worth noting that the plastic does not have sufficient porosity and, therefore, bad passes to the root system needed air.
In order to create a small and unusual potted miracle, you can use almost all known to you, art hand-made, ranging from conventional painting with acrylic paints, finishing knitting and crackle.
Decorate flower pots mosaic
In fact, it's probably one of the easiest and affordable ways, which allows you to use any available materials, and the result is a highly original and, at times, highly artistic home decor.
To create a mosaic or any other pattern, often used colored glass, stones, medium-sized pebbles, shells or pieces of residues from ceramic tiles, broken pottery, shells or seeds. In fact, you can use anything you want, but directly mosaic can come solely from smooth and flat materials.
On clay pot will stick pattern using hot glue, pre pieces of the puzzle must be folded into the alleged pattern on a table or other flat surface.
To get really interesting mosaics and bright, use 3-4 colors, otherwise it is difficult to pick up some interesting pattern. Primarily a clay pot glue drawing itself, and has only then undertake the execution of the background.
After the stones properly stuck, you need all the cracks fluff special grout, just cook it: must be mixed with PVA glue cement, gradually add small amount of water to result in a creamy mixture. Then carefully fill in all the gaps and cracks with a mixture prepared, for these purposes it is better to use a small brush.
After the solution has dried, wet sponge or cloth to remove any excess with a start surface mosaic and other decorative elements. If some of the decorative elements have fallen off, do not worry, they can be glued in place, about a day later, when the grout is completely dry.
If after 24 hours the grout strongly usohnet, the beauty can be applied to another layer, and then will have to wait one day. When everything is dry properly, will only cover the creation of varnish so that it shone and shimmered.
This technique is often used for decoration pots in marine style , because this topic is very popular, it is easy to maintain and build from simple and readily available materials. You are gathering dust on the shelves of seashells that you've been brought marine recreation?
So let them deal! Maritime decoration harmoniously looks particularly at large pots, floor and suspension, such creatures do not want to hide in the farthest corners of the room, because they will be relevant and harmonious complement your decor. We spread of shells and pebbles pattern, glue them as itself, as in the case of the mosaic (the more glue the better).
Instead of cement grout can resort to other means: the gap between the shells and pebbles fluff glue, and then, holding the pot at an angle, sprinkle its river or sea sand, so he settled on, blurry glue areas.
Once the glue dries, will cover the entire surface with varnish finished pot that will add to him the strength and shine. In addition to shells and tiles, you can use any other available materials: pieces of birch bark, pine cones, twigs, beads and glass beads .
Everything is decorated on the principle described above, but, depending on the selected elements of decor, and produced a variety of unusual results.
Decorating pots using decoupage technique
Notorious technique that allows to decorate and give a second life to many household items and home furnishings, and is able to help you out this time. For her performance you again, you will need a clay pot, napkins for decoupage with the pleasant drawing, brush, scissors, glue for decoupage.
If you want to potty acquired other color, it can be covered by a pre-acrylic paint suitable shade. To the bright and colorful motifs drawings looked harmoniously, it is better to put on plain pastel background.
Napkins for decoupage should be divided into layers, you will need only the top layer of paint. Cut out pattern and apply it to the pot, cover it with glue properly, it must completely soak them.
Further smoothes, keep below the figure were not formed bubbles or wrinkles, distribute glue from the middle to the edges. Once the drawing is completely dry, applied on top clearcoat.
Decoupage technique can be combined with more than anything, for example, sticking to the surface of the artificial moss or grass, twigs or pieces of strands of raffia, as a result, get the pot in a rustic style.
How else can you decorate a flower pot?
- If you've been nice to knit and then the pot is easy to dress up in knitted cover, depending on your skill and taste, can be used in a variety of knitting patterns and color combinations. The surface can be further decorate buttons or colored beads.
- Very original look pots, "dressed up" in a suit of burlap and large decorative buttons.
- There is another interesting option: wrap the pot in a colored cloth, such as a cell or peas, or maybe it was in one that was used in your curtains or tablecloths.
