Making a candlestick with your own hands: 10 cool ideas and 71 photos | ivd.ru

Doing something with your hands for your home is a great idea, because the object stores the warmth of your hands and fits perfectly into the interior. In the article we tell you which candlesticks can be made independently and show inspiring examples.

Home decor as a seasoning for any dish. With it, the interior looks more interesting and the house feels more cozy. It is especially pleasant to decorate an apartment with objects made independently and with a soul, because they can still be personalized and perfectly fit into the interior. In this article we will tell you how to make a candlestick with your own hands, consider different options for the New Year and relevant in any season.

All about making candlesticks

Place in the interior

The variety of home decor is amazing, you can choose anything. At the same time, candles remain a classic option, and stands for them have long performed not only a practical function. A beautiful candlestick will decorate an open shelf or coffee table, it will complement the interior of the living room, bedroom, kitchen. Models with a neutral design will go well with other decor, and bright and unusual ones will act as an accent. By making it yourself, you will be able to create the design that will fit exactly into your interior.

In addition, handmade is a great gift option. You can present the products as an independent gift or attach them to the main one as a pleasant addition.

The photo below shows candlesticks in interiors in different styles. 

What will be needed for manufacturing

To begin with, let's look at what improvised materials, small things and tools are needed. Not necessarily, absolutely everything from the list will be useful to you, only a few elements will be needed, depending on what idea you want to bring to life. At the same time, many of the listed items will be found in almost any home.

Decorative elements and materials

Tools

Universal candlesticks

With your own hands, you can either repeat the design you like in the store, or create something unique. The easiest way will be to proceed from what materials from the list you have, and work with them without buying anything specifically.

From a jar or glass

The jar or glass must be heat-resistant so that the glass does not crack. It is easy to make a candlestick out of them, and there are many ways to decorate the product. The most attractive option is to "drown" a tea candle in a jar. You can also take a low thick candle, the diameter of which will be quite a bit smaller than the neck of a jar or glass. In this case, the candle should rise 2-3 cm above the container. Just put a stable candle inside the jar, and put a small one on the glue. Just think in advance how to light a candle in the recess you will need a lighter with a long spout. You can decorate the jar in different ways.

From the bottle

Another "source" that is easy to find at home is an opaque wine bottle. It can be used to make an elegant decor: Gothic or traditional.

For the first method, you will need a bottle, a long thin candle and a lighter. Insert the candle into the neck so that it is well fixed. To do this, the lower part can be cut with a knife, making it narrower. Then you need to light a candle and wait for the result. And the result will be that chaotic wax smudges will appear on the bottle, it looks romantic and Gothic! It is important to choose exactly such candles that spread when burning.gorenje.

The second method, on the contrary, requires candles, which decrease as gorenje, but do not leave wax traces. They also need to be inserted into the neck of the bottle, narrowing, if necessary, the base. The "joint" of the bottle and the candle is not very beautiful, so it should be decorated. Use artificial or live twigs, ribbons, fabric fragments. Remember: the higher the candle protrudes from the throat, the more lush it is better to make the decor so that the design does not look short.

On a wooden or cork base

This method is good because you can easily attach the candles themselves and the accompanying decorations to the base of any material. Take, for example, a cork stand for hot with a diameter of about 15 cm. This size is enough to place one large candle or a set of several smaller ones in the center.

Around the field for a flight of fancy. For example, style the candlestick according to the season: in spring, surround the candle with green leaves, twigs, flower buds, cotton; in autumn, yellow and brown leaves, acorns, small pumpkins; in winter, spruce paws, cones, red berries, "sprinkle" on top with a special spray that simulates snow. Carefully and firmly fix all the decorative elements will turn out with the help of an adhesive gun.

Made of gypsum

Plaster candle holder is an actual option, because such a texture is now in trend.

Minimally processed, a little rough and very simple, they are perfect for a modern interior and minimalism. It takes a little bit of materials to make it.

The process is technological, so we will analyze it in stages.

If you do not want a white stand, then initially knead the desired color into plaster or cover it with acrylic paint before applying the varnish. The finished thing can be decorated in the ways already described.

If you know the sequence of actions, it is not so difficult to make a candlestick at home with your own hands, photos of the possible result are presented below.

Made of sawn wood or wooden bar

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The first option of working with a tree is more complex. You will need a ready-made saw or a bar, which you can buy at a hardware store or ask a master in a woodworking shop.

If you choose a split, you can create a whole set of several candlesticks of different sizes.

The second option is beautiful in its simplicity. It is necessary to glue ready-made small glass candlesticks to the bar, noting in advance at what distance from each other they will be placed. Leave the set in this form or add decor.

From a reel of scotch tape

Another easy and fast way. Its plus is that the candles in such a candlestick are easy to change as they burn out, they are not attached inside and are simply removed from the recess.

The whole process consists in decorating the outer part of the coil. For example, you can wrap it with jute twine, fixing the coils with a glue gun, or any thick yarn of the color you need. Then the product can even be left without additional decoration.

Christmas candlesticks with your own hands

Polymer clay houses

Such candlesticks are a popular attribute of Scandi-style, especially relevant in winter and for the New Year.

Unlike other types, in such a candlestick, the candle seems to hide inside and turns out to be a mini-lamp. It is not difficult to work with polymer clay, but it is important to follow the algorithm of actions.

Compositions with cones and fir branches

To implement the idea, you will need branches of artificial spruce (it is better to choose with cast needles, they look more natural), fabric or paper poinsettia flowers, cones, Christmas balls, spray snow, silver and golden spray paint. In addition, you need a base made of wood, cork, durable cardboard.

The main task is to put everything together. There are many options for combining all the "ingredients", they are limited only by your imagination. Sprinkle part of the composition or individual parts with artificial snow or shiny paint. It is easy to connect all the elements with an adhesive gun. The candles themselves in such a product will be located in the center, the whole decor will frame them, as it were.

A miniature candle holder for the New Year can also be made from a single cone. You will need a very large bump, the upper third of which must be carefully cut off. In the resulting hole, we place a tea candle, fix it with glue. The mini candlestick is ready! They can complement larger candle stands on a table or shelves, placing elements around.

From a wreath on a wooden base

To simplify the task, instead of decorating with cones, twigs and other New Year's attributes, use a ready-made wreath.

Here you will also need a base of some material. Its diameter should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the wreath, so that the base is not visible. Having fixed the wreath on the stand, put a candle inside, or preferably several. You can even use multi-format: thick and elongated.

If the wreath was not decorated with any elements initially, then do it yourself the process will still be much easier and more creative than technological.

A product decorated with cinnamon

Another symbol of winter and New Year's time is cinnamon.

This is not only a fragrant spice, but also a cool universal decor, which is also great to use when creating a candlestick. Use sticks of different heights and thicknesses, so the stand will look more interesting and "livelier".

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