Making pictures turned out to be very convenient and simple. I make small paintings from 2-3 scraps of panels, connecting them together. I cover the top with the remnants of non-woven wallpaper, then I paint something with acrylic paints and cover it acrylic varnish.
I also make the frame from panels: I cut them with a knife if there are no narrow ones. Then I paste it in two layers toilet paper. When everything is dry (usually the next day), I paint with acrylic brown paint or acrylic
wood varnish. I covered everything with ebony acrylic varnish in two layers, then several layers with clear acrylic varnish. The frames became hard, and no one who saw them had any idea what they were made of.
For a large painting I only made a frame, and painted the picture itself directly on the wallpaper. The frame turned out to be light, although large. And if it ever falls, certainly no one will get hurt!
Tree night light I wrapped it with regular brown tape and made the branches from wire. I glued it to the wall using liquid nails.
In one of the photos from panel trims The painting features a tree and the bottom of a fence hidden between the frame and the painting. After all, there are panels 1 cm thick, then it is very easy to make a pencil holder from them.
Construction is impossible without waste. What can you do with them? Many people throw it away. Do you know how many unique things will come out of them? Read on for details.
Lumber
The naturalness of wood is appreciated everywhere. Based on the parameters of the leftovers, a lot of things can be done. Thin slats and small boards are useful for knocking down boxes for apples, pears and vegetables, for baguettes or photo frames. Fragments furniture panels will be used for vertical gardening, containers for potted plants.Sanded flooring and other boards - for cutting hot trays and cutting utensils. Larger leftovers are useful for creating stools, shoe shelves, hanger panels, country furniture. You may need to decorate front door, a gate to the area, dresser or cabinet doors - small trimmings are perfect for small openings. Any scrap of board will be the basis for a drawing, a panel, or a starting plane for using a burning machine or wood cutters.
Plywood, OSB boards
A favorable material for working with a jigsaw. Painted flat figures will perfectly complement your home and site. The remaining pieces make original birdhouses, bird feeders, garden figures. Many people make food boxes, pieces of furniture, and use them for formwork. With imagination you can do a lot.Foam insulation with foil
Ecofol, adgilin, penofol and other types of foil insulation can decorate the room and country cottage area. Indispensable as New Year's street decorations (snowflakes, stars, figurines).The reflective effect scares away birds. To do this, three-dimensional forms are made from insulation, attached to a fishing line and hung on trees in the summer. If you want to have a double-sided reflector, you can glue two blanks.
Economic summer residents make portable refrigerators. It's not difficult: you just need to glue the lid and the inside of the box/box. These containers are suitable for winter storage vegetables on the balcony, as they will retain heat.
Siding, PVC panels
After covering a house or renovating interior spaces There remains a lot of scrap and scraps of plastic. Make a mini fence for your flower garden. This material can be used to delimit plantings in beds.The moisture resistance of such waste is used to cover small outdoor buildings, including wood sheds, rabbit hutches, showers, and wells. With skillful placement, you can make a gutter for water drainage. In conjunction with wooden beam you will get shutters for the windows, a canopy over the gate, a parapet for the gazebo.
Drywall
Anything will be used: broken pieces, scraps, crumbs. Complex designs are mounted on a frame, which is created using a mounting/ceiling profile. Small parts glued onto a plaster mixture (milk + plaster). The creator's thoughts are limitless. Here are some examples:Decorative elements for patios, gazebos, living rooms (geometric shapes, plant options);
photo stands, stationery, vases for dried flowers;
miniature furniture for children's houses;
shelf for the bathtub, casing for communications;
niches for heating radiators, slopes for doors and windows;
decorations for hangers, shelves, racks;
decorative false fireplace.
Pieces of tin
The practicality and convenience of the material are noted. You can really bend, cut, saw, resulting in any configuration. The material is suitable for outdoor crafts. For example: lamps of fancy and primitive shapes (pendant, lawn). Some people use the trimmings for garden urns, ashtrays, and flower containers, including hanging ones.
The home craftsman makes stainless steel patches on linoleum, interior thresholds, floor protection from sparks near the stove or fireplace. The thrifty owner uses small cuts in the form of clamps and gaskets for nuts/bolts. They tie together building elements with strips and use them as a spacer to tie up a large tree. Large sections limit creeping roots in flower beds.
Ceramic tile
Decorate with the remains of floor and wall tiles country pond, garden figurines. They finish the basement of the house and add fragments to the blind area. Small pieces are used for decoration kitchen furniture, in wall cladding. They are turned into a mosaic, they are used to lay out the surface of the tabletop, and embedded in cement paths.There are still many ideas for using construction waste. It is important, before parting with such “garbage”, to think about it. possible application. There are plenty of topics for fantasy.
Throwing surpluses or discards remaining after construction and repair work into a landfill is not the most reasonable solution, according to experimental craftsmen. If you approach the issue creatively, the results can be pleasantly surprising.
What can be done with linoleum
“If after renovating, for example, a living room and a nursery, you still have at your disposal large, relatively large, albeit with different patterns, pieces of such flooring, this is very good,” says the master finisher Sergey Valov. — Firstly, you can use them to make a mosaic and cover, say, a pantry. In such a room, it is unlikely that anyone will make at least some complaints about the elegance of the coating, but keep an eye on the cleanliness of the room in which pickles, jams, etc. are usually stored household chemicals, it will be much easier.”
And from small scraps without an insulating layer, the specialist adds, an excellent glue can be obtained, which in its characteristics is not inferior to similar products from popular global brands. The method for preparing the composition is extremely simple - you just need to tightly fill the container with pieces of linoleum, and then fill it to the top with acetone and close the lid. “In a day,” Valov clarifies, “the glue will be ready. This composition, which has a consistency similar to thick honey, can successfully bind together the most various materials from felt to metal."
With its help, you can securely fix tiles to the ceiling without even washing off the whitewash. By the way, many home craftsmen note that if you add chalk to linoleum glue in a 1:2 ratio, you will get a good putty for sealing cracks and depressions in the walls.
“When the linoleum trims are quite wide and have a layer felt insulation, they can be cut into insoles for shoes, or even used as stylish home slippers by sewing a fabric top to them,” says the designer Nadezhda Agafonova. “Only in the latter case should you use a nylon thread and an awl with a hook, since it is quite problematic to pierce the linoleum even with the thickest sewing needle.”
How to use extra wallpaper
Pasting over something else is the simplest solution, which suggests itself when you have one or two unused rolls at hand. But what?
For example, the ceiling, the designers say, because this trend, popular in the 80s of the last century, is gaining popularity again. Or a refrigerator, because it’s much more original than those boring magnets.
“As for the ceilings,” notes Nadezhda Agafonova, “this is not a bad idea. But only under one condition - if the color scheme and pattern of the remains are in harmony with the main tone of the wall coverings. Otherwise instead original interior You can get complete bad taste. The refrigerator is also a controversial issue. Of course, if its body is scratched and dented, motley vinyl wallpapers can save the situation. But, on the other hand, why use wallpaper when you can buy self-adhesive vinyl with a longer service life?
Wallpaper trimmings will look much more effective on furniture facades, says the designer. Of course, provided that their dimensions are sufficient for this. “By covering drawers and doors with pieces,” notes Agafonova, “you can ensure that the furniture fits even more harmoniously into the interior.”
But it’s even better, the expert believes, to use the remaining rolls and trimmings for cooking “ liquid wallpaper", the price of which in specialized stores is quite high.
The recipe for making such a coating is quite simple. The wallpaper needs to be torn into pieces and soaked in water (at the rate of 1.25 liters for every 2.5 meters) for 2-3 hours. After this, the resulting composition must be “grinded” using a construction mixer (or a drill with an appropriate attachment). Then you need to add any color (two or three caps from a standard bottle are enough), approximately 40 teaspoons gypsum plaster and 20 milliliters of PVA glue.
All this is actively mixed and applied to the wall using a spatula. Along the way, all the unevenness that plagues new buildings and old houses alike can be leveled out without any preliminary operations. And for added beauty, adds Agafonova, you can add glitter to your work composition.
Where to put the fragments of tiles, plastic and drywall
On this occasion, designers are simply bursting with ideas.
When it comes to finishing tiles, then some interior experts suggest using ceramic shards as dishes or cutting boards. Such ideas are usually presented to the consumer under the guise of creativity, designer chic and the latest fashion.
However, the classic breaking of the remaining tiles into small pieces and creating a mosaic, perhaps, gives the remaining tiles the greatest chance of avoiding trash can. Indeed, a wide variety of surfaces can be used as a basis for such collages. For example, after framing a bathroom mirror, an old coffee table, or even an ordinary kitchen tray with tiled mosaics, these interior items acquire a very original (and sometimes even exclusive) look. appearance.
Owners of country houses also benefit, Nadezhda Agafonova emphasizes. By covering the foundation and blind area with tiles, they not only create an additional protective layer, but also make the building bright and memorable.
From scraps of PVC panels you can make a very durable and lightweight garden picket fence. They can also be used to create warm beds or designing flower beds. If you enclose several pieces of plastic in wooden frame, then window shutter lovers will have a very interesting example at their disposal.
With help mounting profile pieces of drywall can be turned into wonderful vases for dried flowers. And if you line them from the inside with pieces of old polyethylene, they can also serve as boxes for seedlings (especially if the drywall is moisture-resistant).
Metal and tin scraps can make good lampshades for street lamps, as well as garden bins and containers for storing various small items.
Do you have any clever ideas for using leftovers? building materials? Well, share them in the comments, and perhaps, hot on our heels, we will prepare another tutorial for home renovation fans.
If you have just finished renovating, this means that a bunch of seemingly unnecessary things have accumulated in your apartment. But don’t rush to take everything to the nearest landfill. From the remains of pipes, linoleum, tiles and other things, you can create both cute trinkets and very useful things.
Unexpected uses of linoleum
Let's start with the useful things. For example, linoleum is very versatile as a recyclable material. If you cut the insulation from it into small pieces, place them tightly in a jar, fill them with acetone, and close the lid, then in a day you will have glue that can be used to glue any materials. Experts say that even tiles will stick to it. And if you add chalk there, in proportions 1:2, you will get a very high-quality putty. Staying on topic practical application, let's name a few more options:
- Upholstery of furniture, especially outdoor furniture
- All kinds of rugs (mouse, bath, car)
- Paths between the beds in the country
- Baskets, and even shoes
You can also make a beautiful three-dimensional mosaic from it. And especially when linoleum different colors, the drawing turns out very beautiful. But from thin linoleum you can cut and sew various flat toys.
And for those who are not at all afraid of originality, you can also lay out an ornament on the wall with linoleum. Then your room will be all in the same style.
Create a unique creation with tiles.
But with tiles everything is simpler, but it gives greater freedom of imagination. If you break it into small pieces, you get original mosaic. Where to put it is your own business. Create an outline for a bathroom mirror, or lay out an ornament on coffee table, or maybe decorate the wall near the window. And if you have a dacha, then lay out a path to the house, and the yard will take on a new look.
Shelves and much more made of plasterboard
Drywall is very lightweight material, and this is not only about weight, but also about its processing. You can make a lot of interesting and useful things from it, for example:
- Housing for communications in the bathroom and toilet
- Caskets
- Watch face
- Decorative fireplace
You can decorate an entire room with it, adding three-dimensional elements to the wall and ceiling and decorating them with different colors.
PVC pipes for any purpose
But at PVC pipes There are just so many uses. The most popular among garden owners is hydroponics. This system is based on the fact that the roots of plants must be constantly washed with water. Holes are cut in the pipe that match the diameter of the plant pots. This system ensures constant circulation of water, from which plants take all the necessary substances.
Another way to use pipes is as an animal feeder. Moreover, it may be like Domestic bird, and cats and dogs in the apartment. This makes a very convenient feeder. You don't have to bend down to pour the food, and the animals don't scatter dry particles, as happens when feeding from a saucer.
There will also be a use for the leftovers in the apartment. From them you can build a functional or decorative wall. Simply cut large diameter pipes into small circles and fasten them together. And if you decorate them on top, then no one will ever guess that it was construction waste. Such walls can be used to store shoes or various small items in the hallway or room. And products with a smaller diameter can be used for stationery.
You can make a decorative book rack from small diameter pipes. It will add special style and charm to your room, and everyone you know will think that it design solution, and this is just your housekeeping.
Pipes can rightfully be called the most multifunctional, and continuing their theme, we will touch on copper (or other metal) thin products. Don't know where to use them? Quite unexpected, but practical and nice option- candlestick (candelabrum). You can put it on the table and have a romantic dinner.
Or invite friends and sit in an informal and cozy atmosphere. A unusual look A candlestick will add originality to your feast. And it will be great for bookcase described in the last paragraph. You can use these candlesticks anywhere:
- In the apartment
- In the country
- In open gazebos
- Themed cafes, etc.
We hope that this article helped you take a different look at the garbage that has accumulated after repairs, and you will find a worthy use for it. But when arranging your apartment, do not forget that some building materials contain harmful substances that are best not placed in close proximity to food or in the bedroom. For the rest, don’t limit yourself.
Country construction, repairs and decoration are processes that take up a lot of free time and finances, and when, after completing useful tasks, you notice a lot of remnants of various materials, it becomes a little disappointing for the money spent. But we won’t be upset, because all the leftovers can be put to good use and there is no need to throw them away..
Never rush to throw away construction waste and leftover building materials. Everything that was not included in the main work can still become useful for the dacha.
Crafts from plasterboard
Truly universal material It may also be useful to you in the form of scraps and broken pieces.
You can make the following from drywall:
- Small vases for dry bouquets, you just need to cut the plasterboard into even pieces and fold it into a mold using a mounting profile;
- Various geometric figures for room decoration country house, gazebos and patios;
- There's enough interesting solutions and for miniature pieces of furniture in children's playhouse on the tree. For example, the same shelves, racks, different decor.
If you can no longer use drywall, give it to the kids, because with any piece of damaged material you can simply draw on asphalt or slabs, using the material like chalk.
What can be made from pieces of tin
This material it is very practical, because, like pieces of stainless steel, it can be bent into any shape. This makes it possible to create the most unusual crafts for the dacha.
- First of all, these are original lamps, which, using metal scissors or a grinder, are acquired fancy shapes;
- Also, from similar material, thin steel or scraps of tin, you can make small country bins and ashtrays;
- If the pieces are large, they can make good containers for flowers, even hanging ones;
- You can also use stainless steel and thin steel for more useful things, for example, putting patches on cracked linoleum, using strips of tin to connect the joints of flooring in country house, make clamps for bolts and nuts, cut washers, tighten with pieces of material wooden buildings and fences, install them as a lining when tying up large tree branches so that their bark is not damaged by the rope.
Useful uses of leftover and off-cut boards
Almost anything can be made from wood, within reasonable limits, of course. Naturally, we are talking about garbage residues, because we already create many useful things in the country from solid lumber.
- So, if there is a thin strip left, it can be used for boxes, just like, in principle, a small board with timber;
- Cuttings of furniture panels, for example, from a press, will become excellent containers for vertical gardening;
- Larger boards can be sanded and cut into kitchen utensils– boards for chopping and chopping, coasters for hot dishes;
- Naturally, if there are materials good quality, they are always suitable for country furniture - shelves and racks, small stools and chairs, shoe stands, etc.;
- It is worth noting that sawdust also brings benefits in the country, but all our readers know this very well.
You can make a lot of interesting things out of wood, and therefore you shouldn’t throw away any of its remains.
If among the readers there are masters of wood carving, they will find another original use for all materials!
Useful scraps of OSB and plywood
Construction waste obtained from these materials will be a godsend for people with imagination.
But whatever you come up with, we have ideas too:
- A birdhouse and a house for a squirrel are the first things that come to mind!
- Next, feeders for birds and even animals, where the material will serve as the base of the roof;
- OSB and plywood scraps can be turned into quite good boxes for storing food and non-food products, a variety of bulk products;
- An interesting idea is to use pieces of plywood and slabs to create formwork for the construction of small architectural forms;
- Such garbage can also participate in the production of country furniture, along with lumber, which was discussed above;
- If you have a jigsaw, you can always cut out original garden figures or fragments from leftover materials.
Using old polyethylene
Besides, old film you can cover anything... the same piles of sand for construction, stacks of bricks or decorative tiles for arranging a summer house, bulk materials, feed. One has only to fold it several times, and even old and shabby polyethylene film will be a good protection against moisture.
It will also find excellent use in major construction projects. The film can be used to cover foundations and only poured areas so that the concrete does not dry out and crack in the sun.
In the issue of film, we moved a little away from the main topic of crafts and leftover building materials, but now we are returning to it.
Foam insulation: using scraps in the country
Most often, such materials are applicable before New Year holidays, since you can easily cut snowflakes and stars of a wide variety of shapes from them. But they can often be used for standard room decoration.
One side of this material is foil-coated or coated with reflective material. That is, it shines. This makes it possible to create bright shapes that will transfer sunlight to the walls, floor and ceiling. Such crafts look especially interesting when suspended, on a fishing line or thread.
Most often, all thermal insulation work where such materials are used occurs with insulation that is foil-coated on one side. But if you need a double-sided object, you can cut out two mirrored shapes and glue them together reverse side. Then the star, snowflake or figurine will shine on both sides.
Savvy summer residents find many other uses for penofol, for example, they additionally insulate the sides of greenhouses, make small portable refrigerators with their own hands, simply by sewing the material inside onto the walls of a small box. But the most fun use is sewing children's costumes and their various elements from the material.
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Remains of plastic, polycarbonate, acrylic
- First of all, various flashlights come to mind. We have studied with you many lighting options for the garden and dacha area, and therefore it will be easy for you to come up with lanterns and lamps made of plastic and polycarbonate, especially if the scraps of materials are colored;
- Colored plastic and polycarbonate with shades in the decor of the fence look very good. Once we already raised a similar topic and even showed you photos of similar fence decorations;
- From small scraps of acrylic you can make boxes and chests, which can perform both decorative and household functions;
- In addition, these materials can fully participate in the production of garden figures. By combining wood, steel, plastic and other materials, you can make garden gnomes, fairytale castles, and various animals with your own hands.
Remains and broken bricks
We use this type of construction waste perfectly as backfill and materials for leveling holes. But today we propose to think about more useful structures.
- These can be the same fairy-tale castles of a decorative nature, located in the garden, in which the brick will act as the base;
- In addition, small lamp columns can be built from brick;
- The building material will also be used in the production of heavier and more permanent furniture, for example, as a base for benches or even under a table in a new gazebo.
What to make from PVC plastic panels
Covering walls and ceilings and various buildings outside and inside with plastic is a fairly popular process for renovating a dacha. But, due to the low cost of the material, or due to incorrect calculations, we often buy PVC panels with a reserve. Then, when the material remains, we think for a long time about where else it might be useful.
We have already mentioned certain options, but there are more interesting ideas:
- A miniature fence made of PVC panels will last for several years until the material deteriorates due to the influence of atmospheric phenomena;
- The material is also excellent for demarcating garden beds, flower beds. The result is a multi-colored and very colorful decor;
- If we return to country crafts, then plastic can become the roof of small garden buildings, can be used as gutters for collecting rainwater, and even provide simple but quite attractive shutters for the windows of a country house if you combine the panels with wooden beams.
Bulk mixtures and use of their residues
This can be either several scoops in a bag or a whole bag of material. Naturally, such material will not go to waste at the dacha - grease, seal cracks, repair garden paths And so on.
But the mixtures can also be used for decorative purposes, for a wide variety of crafts.
- We have already talked about how with the simplest, even homemade forms produce decorative blocks for walls;
- Also, they told you how to make a drinking bowl from cement, quickly and quite simply;
- But you can use your imagination, select special molds and pour out whole figures for the garden, which will easily last up to ten years even under the worst outdoor conditions. You just need to treat the finished crafts with protective paints, which will give them a brighter look.
Remains of ceramic tiles and mosaics
They say that materials of this kind are irreplaceable in the country, but mainly in economic terms.
- The remains of the tiles can be used to decorate the base of the house to protect it from external influence;
- The same material can be used to cover a new blind area;
- If there are very few tiles, and they represent a battle, then, like the mosaic, it is worth moving it to the garden. Here you can decorate garden figures with pieces of multi-colored, glossy material with various patterns. For example, you do garden gnome... so now you don’t have to paint it, you can decorate it with pieces of tiles. A turtle from the remains of cement in the garden will receive an exclusive shell in the same way. Tiles or mosaics will serve as an unsurpassed finish and a small decorative pond in the country.
We have hundreds more tips in our arsenal, but we simply cannot fit them all into one article. We have mentioned almost all the popular materials used in the garden, and now you just have to focus on the fact that not everything should be immediately thrown into the trash, because any piece or scrap can be useful.
Crafts from building materials and beneficial use construction waste – interesting and popular topics. Thousands of summer residents across the country every day come up with incredible decor from metal and wood, leftover foam and paint, scraps of polyethylene and dry mixtures. So why don't we try it? We are sure that with our experience the crafts will turn out just as good!
