Don't throw away plastic packaging - it's valuable decorative material! A curtain, a partition and even a lamp - all this can be made from plastic bottles.
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The role of the partition is to zone the room. Partitions made from the bottoms of plastic bottles can easily cope with this task.
Glowing garland. If desired, you can make a luminous partition or night light from plastic bottles. We use a regular core as the core. Christmas garland on LEDs: they do not heat up, are located at an equal distance from each other and will serve as an excellent basis for your garland.
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This one is brilliant simple idea came to the mind of designer Michelle Brand from Manchester. In 2007, she even received awards from environmentalists for items that can be made from plastic bottles. Here are some of her ideas.
To make exactly the same partition you will need big number empty plastic bottles, a sharp craft knife and scissors, a roll of beading wire, clean sand and a frying pan.
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Using a similar principle, you can make plastic curtains. Choose a solid canvas or assembled in such a way as to cover only part of the window.
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Cut off the bottom of the bottle using a breadboard knife.
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We remove noticeable irregularities using scissors.
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Pour sand into a frying pan and heat it on the stove.
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For a few seconds, immerse the edge of the cut bottle in hot sand. This way the cut edge becomes smooth and neat. All that remains is to connect the elements using thin wire.
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Original ideas from manufacturers: decorative partitions made from injection molded plastic, sound-absorbing molded felt and polypropylene.
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Making decorative curtains on your own is not that difficult if you show a little imagination and be patient. But we must take into account that this is quite painstaking work that requires perseverance and maximum attention. You can buy ready-made beads and make chic thread curtains, but if you don’t want to spend money, then pay attention to the materials at hand. Wonderful curtains are made from discs, pompoms, paper tubes and homemade beads.
You can make accessories for curtains with your own hands, with a little skill and imagination.
Decorative curtain made of beads
You will need:
- beads;
- fishing line;
- metal crimps for jewelry;
- pliers;
- cross stitch pattern;
- wooden plank;
- L-shaped bracket – 2 pcs.
In order to make a decorative curtain from beads, you will have to work hard. The first thing you need to do is purchase wooden slats, it must be smooth and durable, since such curtains have a decent weight. After purchasing, leave the bar in the room for 7-10 days.
To create curtains from beads, you will need beads of different sizes and colors and strong threads.
This is necessary to acclimatize the material, otherwise the tree may pull and warp. After this, drill holes for the fishing line along the lower edge of the future cornice. The distance between the holes will depend on the diameter of the beads. It is important not to place the threads closely, otherwise the product will be overloaded; the ideal distance is 1.7-3 cm.
The cornice can be painted with acrylic paint of a suitable color, decorated using the decoupage technique, tinted using stain or colored varnish; the L-shaped brackets are screwed on after the curtain is ready. If you are making a curtain for a doorway, then you will not need brackets; in this case, it is better to drill holes with reverse side strips, then place the cornice on the dowels. Instead of wooden beam you can use branch beautiful shape. To design an arched opening you will need a flexible plastic profile.
In order to determine how many beads you will need, you need to make 1 thread, count all the elements, multiply by the total number of threads. If you want to make a curtain with a specific motif, then you need to take an embroidery pattern and count the number of cells of each color. Buy beads with a large supply, as some of them may be defective or lost.
After the cornice is made and everything necessary is purchased, you can begin to work. The fishing line is threaded through the hole in the cornice, tied in a knot, the ends are burned with a lighter, and then decorated with a metal crimp, which is secured with pliers. Crimp is a metal piece for jewelry that serves to secure beads at a certain distance from each other. The first bead is strung at a distance of 3-5 mm from the cornice; if you do this closely, the thread will puff up, which will ruin appearance products.
Then everything is simple: the beads are strung in in a certain order, secure them with creams. If you make a curtain according to an embroidery pattern, then be extremely careful, first count the number of beads a certain color(for each thread), write down the data on paper, then it will be easier for you to work. The bottom of the curtain can be decorated with teardrop-shaped glass beads, the fishing line is threaded through the hole in the pendant, tied in a knot, then cauterized and hidden under the crimp. Decorative curtains ready!
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How to make beads for decorative curtains?
You will need:
- toilet paper (cardboard, egg trays);
- PVA glue;
- acrylic paints and varnish;
- wire (toothpicks, cocktail straws).
Making it is not a cheap pleasure; you may need about 5,000 beads. In order to reduce the cost of the process, you can make original designer beads using the papier-mâché technique. First of all, you need to prepare the mass for modeling: toilet paper tear into small pieces, soak it in water or boil for 20-30 minutes.
After this, squeeze out all the excess water, grind the mass in a blender or knead it with your hands. Then add PVA glue, knead until the mixture becomes soft and elastic (dough-like). Store the finished mixture in a jar or bag in the refrigerator.
After the mass of papier-mâché is ready, you can begin sculpting. You need to roll a ball or oval, pierce it with wire or a toothpick (cocktail straw). The beads are strung at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other and hung to dry. The ends of the wire are secured between stacks of books or wrapped around a support.
The main task is to dry the beads in a suspended state - then they will not be deformed and will acquire the correct shape.
Finished products are painted acrylic paints. You can make colored or plain beads, draw stripes, polka dots, curls, or make a more complex pattern, it all depends on your imagination. After painting, the products are coated acrylic varnish, it is important to apply it very thin layer, then during drying the varnish will not collect in drops. Ready-made beads can be used to make decorative curtains.
Sometimes you want to bring originality and something unusual into your life that no one else has. And plastic bottles are perfect for such hand-made items. They are always being rearranged, lying on the balcony for years, and taking up everything in a garbage bag. free place. And who would have thought that empty bottles you can give a second life by creating a masterpiece with your own hands, for example: curtains - transparent flowers floating in the air, shimmering in the light, letting the sun's rays pass through them. It will look very original and impressive. You definitely won’t see such a curtain in a photo catalogue.
Curtains made from bottles
Making curtains from bottles with your own hands is quite simple and does not require any special skills. First you need to prepare everything you need. The design of such a curtain depends on your imagination, and the number of bottles and other decorative elements also depends on this. So, what to pay attention to:
- We will need empty plastic bottles of 0.5 or 1 liter. It is desirable that they be the same shade and transparent.
- Brown bottles are too dark and are not suitable for apartment decor. But a single curtain sheet on dacha gazebo will look very unusual and protect from sun rays, not letting in ultraviolet radiation, and hiding you from prying eyes.
- If transparent bottles have different shades, you can arrange them in a checkerboard pattern, or create your own pattern. To make it easier to assemble a curtain with a picture, draw it or print your favorite photo with the design.
- To ensure that the edges of the cut bottle are smooth and not scratched, they will need to be melted. You can do this beautifully using heated sand, or using a lighter, but in this case, work carefully, otherwise black marks will remain from the fire.
- The number of bottles depends on the size of the fabric and the design of the curtain. It’s better to stock up on them, because in the process of work you can spoil the container.
The design of the curtain can be anything you like: long threads lying on the floor or short threads barely touching the window sill; decorated with beads or seed beads; a single fabric or flowing, moving threads.
Master class on creating curtains from bottles
So, you have a lot of plastic bottles, desire and time. First, determine the place where exactly the curtain will hang; its design depends on this: length and width, mobility of threads, decor with beads and other points. For the doorway it is better to make a movable and long curtain; on the window you can hang a short one that completely blocks the view from the street. After everything is thought out, you can start working.
Curtain made from bottoms:
- Cut out the bottoms. This can be done in several ways: cut exactly in a circle as close as possible to the base of the bottom, or not evenly, with indentations, cutting through the petals of the flower.
- Melt the cut edges with heated sand in a frying pan.
- We use an awl to make holes in them. We heat the tool and carefully pierce holes: two - if the threads are “movable”, three or four - if there is a single fabric.
- Using fishing line, paper clips or hooks with stones, we connect the bottoms together according to the intended design.
- At the top we attach hooks on which we will hang the curtain.
- We decorate the curtain with large beads, ribbon bows, and you can even decorate it with your own photos. You can glue all this with glue. Or we leave the curtain without decoration, because it already looks very impressive.
- We hang it and admire the created product.
Curtain made of plastic rings
- Cut the bottle into rings. We determine the size ourselves, of course it is better that these are rings with a width of 0.5 to 1.5 cm. Otherwise, the curtain will look bulky and heavy.
- Melt the edges on both sides using heated sand in a frying pan.
- We cut them and thread them together like paper garlands to the required length.
- We carefully connect the cut site using a stapler.
- We decorate: we decorate with paints in bright colors; hang a large bead or stone in the middle of the ring on a paper clip; or we pass colored ribbons along the entire length.
- We attach a hook to each thread on top and attach it to a wooden or metal strip.
Be sure to take a photo, and also better video master class, because anyone who sees such an original designer decor will definitely ask how to make plastic masterpiece with your own hands.
What they don’t do now, even this interesting device like curtains made from plastic bottles.
In order to make curtains from plastic bottles you will need: plastic bottles, preferably, of course, that they are all the same size and the same color. If you wish, you can make curtains different sizes, and create beautiful drawing using a different color palette.
You will also need scissors, sand, fishing line, needle, and awl.
You need to carefully cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle, but it is advisable to cut it so that there is a small indentation.
The next step is to put the flower on the sand, then put a frying pan or tin bowl on the fire. A flower from a plastic bottle should be in the frying pan for about 1-2 minutes no more. We take out the flower, let it cool a little and only then pierce it with an awl or needle, thread it through the fishing line, making punctures in the different parts bottom.
This is how we make curtains for our apartment, for our home. Curtains can be different sizes and having different pictures.
You can make curtains by stringing them on a fishing line, then a flower from a plastic bottle, and then stringing a bead.
You can make curtains from plastic bottles different ways, for example, take a plastic bottle and then cut it into small rings.
The rings need to be cut, thanks to the hot sand, you need to slightly melt each part of the ring, then carefully connect it, putting on the second ring, you get such a garland.
Can be connected with a stapler or glue. So we make several strips, you can do it both in length and in width, then the last part of the strip needs to be carefully secured to the cornice.
It's rare when you meet Vacation home, similar to a shed. Construction Materials, pieces of furniture and accessories allow you to make any home cozy even for a while summer season. Curtains have always been a sign of comfort and harmony, and they also give a certain completeness to the interior.
IN country house the curtain can be made not only original, but also very appropriate, which will not become an obstacle to the passage fresh air. It can be hung to divide space into zones, like blinds on a window, a curtain in doorway or in the gazebo, on the veranda. The materials used are CDs, wooden corks from wine bottles, scraps of bright fabric, plastic cocktail straws or transparent balls, foam figures, ropes and much more.
IN modern world CDs are becoming a thing of the past, other storage devices are replacing them, and they are safely stacked. When you look at it, you want to throw it away, but you feel sorry for it and the disks begin to gather dust again. What if we try to breathe a second life into them?
Curtain for a summer house made of discs
Prepare yourself with disks, paper clips, a drill, a thin drill and gloves. Gloves should be worn so that as little marks as possible remain on the discs.
Start by laying out the discs on the floor according to the measured length and height. Use a nail to mark the places where you will need to make holes for fastening. It is important to do this step correctly so that there are no extra holes in the disks later. For example, the bottom and side discs will have fewer holes than the others, and this needs to be taken into account. Place the disc on wooden block And thin drill drill holes. Wipe the discs and secure them with paper clips.
Such a curtain made from CDs is made either flat or in the form of slanting rain, i.e. each length differs from the previous line by 1-2 discs. They are hung from the cornice using straightened paper clips.
Curtain made from wooden wine bottle corks
This product needs to be assembled required amount wine corks or, alternatively, negotiate a service at some drinking establishment for a nominal fee.
When the material is collected, we get to work. On a wooden plank the size of the opening, tie threads of fishing line of the required length, thread the end of the fishing line into a large needle and string the plugs. Make a knot after each plug, then they will not slide along the fishing line. Between wine corks For beauty, you can skip the beads, this will add decorativeness to the future curtain.
Curtain from plastic caps from bottles
In one of our articles we talked about interesting material-, but then they were used for patterns and creating garden path. Now you can make a curtain out of them. The principle of the previous version.
We tie a fishing line onto a wooden plank, thread the end of the fishing line into a large needle and string the lids on. We make a knot under each one so that they are in one place and do not move up and down. Lids use one or different color and size. It is not necessary to observe precise geometry.
Curtain for a summer residence made of polystyrene foam
It’s easy to make figures or just floats (like for fishing) from foam plastic. The principle of operation is still the same, a wooden plank, but no longer a fishing line, but a thin rope. White foam plastic gets dirty, it’s not very beautiful or practical, so we recommend painting each figure before assembling the curtains. Painted foam will last longer.
Curtain made of beads
The beads are strung on a thick fishing line, alternating large with small. They even use beads in stringing, which shimmer in the sun and give a glare. Try to find transparent beads that allow light to pass through; glass beads are good in this regard. Although if anyone needs to shade a corner or room, use opaque plastic ones.
Using the method described above, the curtain is made from plastic cocktail tubes, combining them with beads.
Thread curtains for the garden
Such curtains are popular and in demand not only for country houses, but also in apartments. U thread curtains There is big drawback- they collect dust, midges and any small debris, so it is better not to hang such a creation in the doorway at the dacha. Threads can be replaced with bright ribbons. It is not necessary to buy special satin; they are cut from any unnecessary fabric (sheet, tablecloth, floor-length skirt, which you no longer mind). They are attached to the cornice ( wooden plank) by gluing, tying, fastening.
Handicrafts can knit or crochet curtains for a summer house. Of course, there will be no shimmer or glare here, as well as a slight chime in the wind, but the color and comfort are undeniable.
Curtains for a dacha can be made with your own hands from any available material, the main thing is desire, a little time and patience.