40 ideas for crafts from wine corks for home and garden

Collecting corks from wine or champagne is a small hobby of many admirers of this drink. First, the corks are folded into a beautiful large glass in the form of cognac and serves as an original decoration of the interior. Then comes the moment when the glass is filled to the top, and the corks continue to collect. This means that the time has come to find a more original and even practical application for them. In our article you will find 40 ideas for crafts from wine corks for home and gardenwhich you will surely like.

Practical crafts from traffic jams

Key rings

Many of us have a large number of keys - from the apartment, from the dacha, from the entrance gate to the dacha cooperative, from the garage, etc. To make it easier to distinguish where a bunch is, or not to bother and try to remember which key belongs to which lock, you can use wine corks to make distinctive key rings. All you have to do is securely attach a sturdy cord or metal ring to the cork body. You can use a special mount for trinkets, which is simply screwed into the cork as self-tapping screw. However, despite its density, the cork in this case will crumble, and the keychain will easily be lost. It is most reliable to make a through hole along the entire length of the cork with a thin drill, stretch a cord into it and tie it tightly. And then, just decorate the keychain to your liking and put a distinctive inscription. And most importantly - if you suddenly miss the keys in the water, the keychain will work like a float, of course if the bunch is not very heavy.

Vases and bowls

From wine corks of the same thickness and size, you can make original vases, for example, for fruit. All you need is to get glue that is safe and with which edible objects can come into contact, and come up with a shape for the future vase. A good example, which is easy to do on your own, is shown in the figure. Also, using traffic jams, you can decorate a boring flower vase. For this, vases with smooth walls are suitable. Corks can be glued whole, cut into halves, quarters and circles, it all depends on your imagination.

Succulent mini pots

Of course, using such a pot as a permanent is not recommended.But if you are suddenly breeding plants with a small root system, or you have been asked for sprouts, you can present it in such an original pot. Besides the fact that it is simply beautiful and unusual, cork, as a material, will retain moisture in the soil for a long time.

Flowerpots

Theoretically, from wine corks you can create independent pots. It is only necessary to provide a waterproof gasket between the ground and cork walls. However, difficulties may arise with drainage holes. Therefore, the easiest way is to simply use corks as a beautiful decoration of the walls of the pot. This is also a great way to make all the pots the same. As you know, this technique has long been used by many designers to make the interior a single and harmonious one.

Lampshade for lamp or floor lamp

In a similar way, you can decorate lampshade table lamp or floor lamp. Before you begin to work, evaluate how similar an element is appropriate in your interior. If the room is decorated in eco style, rustic or country, then such a lampshade will only emphasize its features. If the interior belongs to modern styles, then you should refrain from the idea. But in a country house such a lamp will be appropriate in most cases. Especially if the walls of the house are finished wooden clapboard.

Unusual chandelier

From traffic jams you can form an unusual ceiling for chandeliers. Such a lamp will look great in the interior of the kitchen, in any room of a country house and on an open veranda. You can form the ceiling frame from thick wire, you can find in the bins the old frame from the fabric ceiling. Next, with the help of a thick thread of the desired color, it is necessary to fix the corks on the frame. To do this, a hole is drilled in the cork into which the thread is threaded. You can drill through the entire length of the cork, but it will be easier to make a hole perpendicular to the body of the cork under the top. Such a frame will be movable. By changing the length of the thread, you can make it more voluminous and stepwise. You can also cut the cork into circles, make a hole in the end, and with a thin wire weave a rigid frame. By the principle of weaving with beads. And then, you can supplement the chandelier with beautiful pendants made of beads, artificial flowers, fringe, paint or leave as is.

Jewelry Organizer

If you have accumulated a large number of jewelry, you are surely convinced that storing them in a casket is not very convenient. Especially if it does not have branches. The chains are confused, sometimes it is difficult to find a pair of the selected earring, etc. To simplify and organize your favorite jewelry, we propose to make an organizer for them. For this, a photo frame can be used, which is simply completely glued with corks, and then the desired number of beautiful pins are inserted into the corks.

You can make a high stand out of traffic jams. For this, a base, corks and toothpicks are taken. A hole with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of a toothpick is drilled in traffic jams about half their length. Next, insert a toothpick into each cork. We make the central element - in one tube in the middle we drill two holes whose direction is perpendicular to each other. From four sides we insert corks on toothpicks. If they are too long, break off the piece. You should get an element with one vertical plug, to which four horizontal plugs are attached to the sides. Next, just do the right amount of such parts and with the help of matches or the same toothpicks connect together, forming a vertical rack. On the side "legs" you can hang chains and beads, bracelets, wear rings.

Stationery stand

Having at hand about a dozen corks, you can adapt them to a cup for pencils and pens. You will need to additionally cut the bottom, for example, from thin plywood. So that in the end the cup does not turn out to be too narrow and not spacious, think in advance how many stationery items will be stored in it and how traffic jams will be cut. Before cutting the bottom of the desired diameter, add the thickness of the cork around the perimeter. Use glue to form walls of pieces or whole corks.

Note board

Many families are used to leaving each other small notes with a reminder of something important. Usually they are attached with a magnet to the refrigerator. Instead, you can create a small, or large, at your discretion, a note board. To do this, purchase a frame of a suitable size. It can be a frame for both a picture and a photo. On the back wall of the frame you need to glue the plugs. In the future, the board will be more convenient to use if you cut the cork in half or in three parts. At the same time, it is not necessary to observe perfect evenness. Cork circles fill the entire cavity, and the notes are attached with decorative pins. You can form a word on the board from traffic jams of a different color, for example, “home”.

Darts

From cut wine corks, it’s very easy to craft a target for the popular darts game. Corks can be cut into circles, or cut lengthwise into rectangles. Do not try to make the elements too thin, otherwise the darts will not be fixed when hit in such a surface. You can combine circles and rectangles, the main thing is to create a surface that will have the least amount of gaps. As a basis, you can take thin plywood, which is easily glued cork. Make a hole in the base in advance and fasten the loop from the lace. When everything is ready, it remains only to put the markup.

Stand for mobile phone or laptop

If you like to watch videos on your phone, then you just can not do without a convenient stand. Of course, in any store you can buy a ready-made stand, but why spend money if traffic jams are idle? You will need no more than 10 traffic jams. Measure how many traffic jams one under one lie down on the length of the screen of your smartphone and how much width, cut the traffic jams as in the photo. Use thin plywood as the base. Stick corks on it and use either a piece of plywood (as in the photo frame) or two corks as an emphasis. Also, a laptop stand, which will serve as an air cushion and will protect the device from overheating, will be a useful device. Take a sheet of plywood that matches the size of the laptop. Drill small holes around the perimeter of the sheet at a distance of 7-10 cm. If necessary, make a few more holes in the middle. Now using thin screws for drywall screw a wine cork into each hole. You will get columns around the perimeter on which the laptop will be placed. To hide the plywood, you can paste it on both sides with thin cork circles.

Hot stand

Agree, it’s convenient when there are many hot coasters in the house of different sizes and for different dishes. Many such useful coasters can easily be made from traffic jams. Moreover, you can think in advance which stand for which pot or pan will be used, and determine its diameter and height. And then it remains only to cut the plywood into the desired size of the workpiece and paste over them with cork fragments. You can just glue the corks together, but with the base is still more reliable.

Tray

If your old tray is already worn out, the picture is cracked or peeling, or the varnish has torn off the wooden surface in places, you can radically renew it. To do this, the surface is degreased and glued with cork. They can simply be cut in half lengthwise, in circles, stripes. Further, from the obtained fragments, you can try to lay out the mosaic or simply paint the surface later. To prevent the paint from washing off, the plugs must be varnished.You can create a tray from scratch using denser plywood as the base. To make it more convenient, along the perimeter you can form low sides from whole traffic jams.

Canapes Skewers

Surely no holiday table can do without canapes. Especially children like this food. And so that it was not only tasty, but also beautiful, and the skewers themselves were not made from harmful plastic, but from natural materials, we will make them ourselves. You need to buy special long sticks for canapes. And decorate their top with figures from corks. It can be just circles with a pattern, rhombuses, triangles, hearts. They can be painted and supplemented with a beautiful ribbon. This decoration will look very unusual and your guests will surely like it.

Drainer

In this case, we recommend using an old plastic tray as a base, which is resistant to moisture. Its surface is thoroughly washed and degreased. Further, at a small distance from each other, corks are glued to the surface. They can be divided into two parts so that the stand is lower. And if you make fragments of different heights (with a difference of no more than 5 mm), the dishes will not slip. Be sure to turn the dryer over after use so that drops of water flow out of the gaps between the plugs and the surface dries well.

Kitchen apron

Perhaps one of the most spectacular ways to use wine corks is by lining them with a worker kitchen apron. Depending on how exactly you will stack the cork, you can achieve a completely different pattern. In this case, you need to cut the cork into halves along. In this case, it is very important to try to maintain a constant size of both halves in thickness. After sawing, it is recommended that the cut be lightly peeled on fine-grained sand paper. When the plugs are ready, prepare the work surface for gluing. Ideal when the kitchen just completed repair, and the wall has not yet been lined with anything. Then it’s easiest to stick a moisture-proof drywall to the work area, to which the corks will adhere perfectly. Also, do not forget that washing grease and other contaminants from the surface of the cork will be problematic. Therefore, the finished cork apron must be protected with glass.

Original countertop

By analogy with laying cork on a kitchen apron, you can use this material to create unique countertops. It could be countertops kitchen set, dining table, coffee or coffee tableeven windowsill can be decorated in this way. The only condition is that at the end of the work, protect the cork top with protective glass.

Cork mosaic for walls or floors

A more complex and painstaking way to finish the plane of the walls and even the floor is to create a cork mosaic. By the way, any other surfaces can also be faced on the same principle. It is necessary to cut a large number of plugs (depending on the area of ​​the coated surface) into thin circles. After that, the front side of the circle should be sanded on sandpaper, so leave a small allowance on one side. Further carefully priming surface finish. Put a drop of glue on each circle and stick it on the wall or floor, or anywhere so that there is a small distance between the circles. When the glue dries and the circles are firmly fixed, use grouting composition for tiled joints, fill in the voids between the elements of the mosaic. After removing the excess grout and drying it completely, open the mosaic with several layers of protective varnish. Of course, for rooms with increased cross-country ability, such flooring is not suitable. But for a small area of ​​the floor, for example, in an improvised wine room, just right.

Birdhouse

This option of using wine corks will be especially relevant in a country or garden plot. After all, such an unusual birdhouse will not only become a shelter for birds in the cold season, but also decorate the surrounding landscape. In this case, the house can look both very simple and as a real work of art. It all depends on your imagination and patience. Before proceeding with the formation of the house, be sure to open the cork with several layers of protective varnish on all sides and let them dry. This will protect the material from the negative effects of the environment. In conclusion, you can apply another layer of varnish, but already on the finished house and only outside.

Cork filament curtains

An original way to separate one functional zone from another is to create unusual filament-type curtains. The easiest and fastest way is to simply drill a hole along the entire length of the cork and simply string it out onto a strong thread mixed with other decorative elements, for example, beads. In the end, it remains only to fix the ends of the threads on the bar at the desired distance from each other, and the bar above the doorway. Such a curtain will look a little rough, so it is more suitable for a country house. Within the apartment it is better to give it a more decorative look. For example, cut the cork into thin circles, and fasten the circles together with metal small rings. In this case, you can make a different distance between cork circles and insert beads. A similar curtain can be used to decorate not only the doorway, but the window. It is better if the window is dull so that gusts of wind do not vibrate the curtain.

Furniture handles and legs

The legs of cabinet furniture are often made of coarse, thick plastic, which, if not carefully moved, can scratch the surface linoleum or laminate flooring. It is completely possible to replace plastic legs with cork only in light pieces of furniture. And in other cases, we recommend gluing the chopped cork onto plastic, thereby protecting the floor covering. At the cottage, old handles on wooden furniture can be replaced with corks from wine, or better from champagne, they are larger and have a convenient shape. Such handles look especially successful on cabinets, cabinets and dressers, as well as on kitchen sets.

Clothes rack

Using a regular wooden board and corks, you can make a roomy hanger. Again - this is a suitable option for a summer residence. At the same time, the board did not have to be in perfect shape and evenness. It can be a fragment of a not cut bar. It is necessary to carefully sand it with sandpaper and clean it from dust. After this, mark with a pencil at what distance the hooks will be located from each other. Then, using a self-tapping screw, the length of which should be such as to completely flush the board and exit from the back side by at least 2/3 of the length of the cork, screw all the corks according to the marking. To facilitate the task, you can pre-drill holes. In the end, it remains only to open the makeshift hanger with varnish.

Bath mat

Everyone knows that the cork has excellent cushioning, thermal insulation properties and is absolutely not afraid of moisture. All these benefits can be used to create bath mat. As a basis, it is better to take rubberized material, which is also not afraid of moisture and waterproof elastic glue, which will not lose its properties. The cork cuts as you like and sticks to the base. Getting on such a surface will be very nice.

Gardener marks

One of the most exciting times for any gardener is planting a crop or a new ornamental plant. Most sits a lot at once. In order to easily later identify which plant variety has ascended and give it proper care, it is most convenient to use special labels with the name of the plant. Often at the end of the garden on a regular stick, a bag of seeds is simply put on and stuck into the ground. But after the first rain, it is not possible to read anything on the packaging. Wine corks and a regular marker for signing discs come to the rescue. Traffic jams can be fixed both on a wire, and on a stick.

Towel Hooks

Champagne corks have a very good shape, which can be used as a hook for towels or bathrobes. Thanks to the extension at the end, even the heaviest robe will slip off such a hook. You can fix the plugs in the same way as in the hanger section.

Wine cork decor items

Frames for photos, mirrors, watches

Here the flight of your imagination can be limited only by the number of traffic jams available. Glue them in random order, paint, decorate, hide the edges with decorative twine, in general - do it!

Decorative candle holders

And in this case, there are a lot of ways to implement the idea. You can make floating candlesticks, table, pouring corks into a beautiful glass, and putting a candle inside. The main thing - do not forget about safety measures.

New Year's toys

On New Year's Eve, you always want something magical, a holiday sensation. Cheer yourself up and your loved ones by making fun and cute Christmas-tree decorations. The best thing to do from traffic jams is New Year's deer! And if you also know how to knit and do not be too lazy to put them in bright hats, this will be an original souvenir for your friends.

Original christmas tree

What a holiday without a Christmas tree? You can make a small Christmas tree from wine corks. It can even be dressed up with a small garland and put on a festive table. In combination with candlesticks from corks you can create a real magical atmosphere.

Christmas wreath

This is a favorite Christmas decoration of Europeans, which quickly fell in love in our country. To make such a wreath, you must first make the base. If the product will be voluminous, you need to twist a very dense and thick bundle of newspapers, wrap it with thick thread and form a bagel. Glue plugs and decorative inserts on the finished surface. You can cut the outline of the circle from plywood and stick the cork on it, and then on top of each other. Such a wreath will be voluminous on one side only, but it will be convenient to hang it on the door. By analogy, you can make not only Christmas decorations, but also decor for the kitchen, complementing it with bunches and grape leaves.

Christmas garland

By analogy with the technology of manufacturing filament curtains, you can create a real New Year's garland. And for a more elegant look, you can twist the cork with a real LED garland.

Toys that can be made with children

To take a child for a couple of hours and spend time together, you can make a couple of primitive toys in the form of a boat or a doll. From the resulting dolls you can then arrange a real puppet show.

Figures for interior decoration

From traffic jams, you can create a lot of very nice flat or volumetric figures that will decorate the interior. Examples in the photo below.

Decorative prints

Having cut out a certain figure at the end of the cork, you can use it as a stamp. And the stamp itself can be used to apply the same pattern on walls, on clothes, just as a fixture for children's creativity.

3D letters and inscriptions

At one time, it was very popular to create inscriptions from threads and pins, rigidly fixed to the base. The disadvantage of this method was that in the future it was not possible to rearrange such an inscription or disassemble into separate letters. Volumetric letters, from which it is easy to collect words, can simply be glued from traffic jams.

Wall panel

Creative people with advanced artistic abilities will love the creation of wall mosaics from corks. A simpler option is a plain panel.Corks can be used in different heights so that the surface is voluminous and interesting.

Cork decorations

You won’t believe it, but from corks you can create such an extraordinarily beautiful decoration that if you look at them it won’t occur to anyone that they are made of ordinary wine cork. See for yourself.

Holders for invitations

A very original way to arrange personalized invitations on any holiday table is to use the decorated cork as a holder. Manufacturing options are shown in the figure.

Pet toys

If a cat lives in your house, you must have noticed the love of these creatures for traffic jams. To make it more convenient, you can braid the cork with a thread and tie small bells in it. Then such a toy will not get bored so quickly.

The original way to finish the stairs

This method of decorative use of corks is one of the best. Look how interesting the ordinary wooden staircase began to look. And it took only glue, corks, plates from wine boxes and patience.