What makes our home really cozy? Of course, nice and stylish little things! An important element, complementing the design of your apartment or house, can be floor vases.

And here for you there is good news: it is not necessary to spend a lot of money on expensive designer novelties. You can make floor vases with your own hands, and from rather ordinary raw materials! Today you will learn how to make a beautiful outdoor vase from a throwout material with your own hands easily and efficiently.

Are you ready to create? Then let's go!

Floor vase with your own hands from a can

Sometimes you can create the most unusual things from the simplest materials. Look at this vase, would you please think that the base under it were the three-liter banks, which are familiar to all? That's the same!

Confess, you wanted this? Then take out of your pockets the reserves of creative energy and go!

To create a vase from a three-liter jar you will need:

• Two banks with a volume of 3 liters;
• One tea saucer;
• One plastic container from canned food;
• PVA glue;
• Cardboard pallets for eggs;
• Silicone adhesive "liquid nails";
• Acrylic paint;
• Elements of decor of your choice;

Stage number 1

We create the basis of our vase. To do this, we take two jars, fasten the silicone glue bottoms, and to the neck of one of the cans glued upside down saucer. It will serve as a firm foot for the future masterpiece.

Then cut off the plastic container from the canned food and attach it to the neck of the top jar on the glue. Leave to dry for a day.

Stage number 2

During this period, we can pre-chop the pre-crushed cardboard pallets for eggs in the water until completely dehydrated. After that, the cardboard should be squeezed out and mixed with the PVA glue until a homogeneous mass is obtained. We apply the slurry to the base of our vase in a uniform layer. Leave for two days.

Stage number 3

After the workpiece has completely dried, we smooth the texture with alabaster.

Stage No. 4

In this form, the vase is fully ready for the final stage of decoration - decoration. Use your own imagination or advice, which we will give below.

Floor Vase with his own hands made of plastic bottles

Another great option is wasteless use of garbage. Do not throw away plastic bottles, you can create real masterpieces for them!

An outdoor vase made of plastic bottles can be made in different styles. For example, an ordinary five-liter bottle with a cut neck, wrapped in a thin birch bark, can be an excellent option.

The idea: "Dress" a plastic bottle in a stylish "sweater", crocheted or knitted. Such know-how will pleasantly surprise guests and will fill your home with comfort and warmth.

Read also: Vases of bottles with their own hands - 29 photos with ideas for creativity

An outdoor vase made of cardboard and papier-mache

Yes, you did not make a mistake, you can also make a stylish outdoor vase from cardboard. From expensive design it can not be distinguished, just believe. And if you can not believe it, see for yourself.

To create an outdoor vase of cardboard with your own hands you will need:

• Cardboard tube (can be taken from under the linoleum roll);
• Thin cardboard;
• Hot melt;
• Newspapers and egg pallets for papier-mâché;
• Polymer putty;
• Sandpaper with fine coating;
• PVA glue;
• Acrylic lacquer;

Stage number 1

Apply a pipe to the cardboard base and draw a shape for the future vase. We make 30 identical patterns, cut out.

Stage number 2

We glue cardboard blanks to the pipe, evenly distributing them along the perimeter. Leave for several hours until completely dry.

Stage number 3

We paste the base of the vase with pieces of newspaper sheets in several layers.

Attention: the paper layer must be sufficiently dense, so that in the subsequent finish the voids are not visible.

Stage No. 4

We soak pallets for eggs in water, squeeze and mix with PVA glue. Apply a uniform layer on the substrate, let it dry.

Stage number 5

We spread the vase with putty evenly. When the mass dries, smooth the texture with sandpaper.

Stage No. 6

We decorate the vase. It is convenient to do this with an aerosol paint of any color. On top you can finish in the style of decoupage, stucco molding or apply ornament manually using acrylic paints.

Stage number 7

Cover the surface with acrylic lacquer, leave to dry. That's all the tricks. An empty vase made from papier-mâché and cardboard is ready by hand. Enjoy!

Floor vase from the pipe

It's all very simple. If, after repairs, you have left unnecessary plastic or cardboard pipes at your house, do not rush to send them to a blowout, make a wonderful vase out of them.

Stylish floor vase from the pipe with your hands - it's easy, practical and beautiful.

Just wrap a cardboard or plastic tube with newspapers, fixing them on PVA glue, paint with acrylic paint in white and decorate.

Idea: for decorating an outdoor vase from a pipe, use old kapron stockings. Soak them in PVA, squeeze it well, and then put it on the prepared pipe. Spread across the square, creating curly folds. Allow the workpiece to dry, and then paint and zadekorirovat to your liking.

Floor vase from newspaper tubes with their own hands

Fashionable today the technique of weaving from a paper vine allows you to create adorable hand-made articles of waste material.

In order to make a chic wicker floor vase with your own hands you will need:

• Newspaper tubes (about 400 pieces);
• PVA glue;
• Scissors;
• Lacquer;

Stages of work:

1. We cross-braid 4 × 4, then fasten one tube around. This will be the basis of our future vase. Next, we perform seven rows of the usual circular weave around the base, gradually spreading along one tube.
2. After that, we start to take out the walls of the vase, bending and weaving the pipes that were divorced earlier. Moving upwards, gradually expand the product space up to 22 rows inclusive.
3. Further we weave evenly without dilution about ten rows, we cover the product with varnish.
4. Then weaving continues, narrowing the rows and tilting the tubes inside the product to about 72 rows.
5. Expand the neck of the vase for 12 rows and finish the weaving by creating the rims in 3 rows. Crop the remains of the tubes.
6. Cover the product with a thin layer of PVA, wait until it dries completely. Then comes the final stage of finishing - varnishing. This should be done several times in a row.

Decor floor vases with their own hands

Variants for decorating an outdoor vase can be a mass, the most trendy ones: wrapping with twine, decor glitter, silicone glue, as well as good old decoupage.

Of course, decorating the vase should be in accordance with the style of the room, this will depend on the method of its exterior decoration.

Well, since a beautiful vase is already ready for us, we can think about how to fill it.

Please note that not all kinds of homemade masterpieces are suitable for living bouquets, which means we will also make flowers for outdoor vases ourselves.

When creating an artificial bouquet, use the most common tree branches. It looks very nice and natural. In this eco-style vase for greater harmony with the bouquet can not even be painted. Attach to the branches balls of the remains of knitting threads - an excellent and economical option for needlewomen.

In any case, decorative branches for outdoor vases with their own hands have not gone out of fashion for a long time. So use them safely in decorating your own home.

No matter how the fashion is changing, needlework is always in a trend. Remember that from the simplest and cheapest materials you can create masterpieces of design art. The most important thing is fantasy and a creative approach to business. An outdoor vase with your own hands is easy, beautiful and stylish. Be creative and inspired.

Good luck!