DIY decor ideas that never go out of date
Several ideas for making various decorative items: boxes, wall panels, decorative inserts for furniture and other products, I found in a magazine published 46 years ago.
These ideas have not become outdated even now. The material is available and many and even children can make a beautiful thing out of it.
We are talking about end cuts of various trees. Trunks and branches cut into twigs or parts that have grown in unfavorable conditions can give an unusual and beautiful pattern when butt-cut.
It can be forest or garden "rubbish". Moreover, the most interesting drawings of the butt can be found on saw cuts of dried branches or fallen trunks.
Dead branches or parts of the trunks of fallen trees that have been under the snow for a couple of seasons, rain, hot sun, can acquire unique shades of color, for healthy wood is not inherent.
Decorative panels for caskets can be glued from end cuts. For this, you can use thin branches from 3 cm. diameter.
The process of making such panels is quite simple: the branch must be given a square or rectangular shape, the end plates must be sawed, which are first glued into strips, and then into the panels.
You can glue the end cuts into decorative hot coasters.
Also, end cuts can be cut into pieces and collect figures of fish, birds, animals from them.
So the figurines of the fish are made from two cuts. One of them has a displaced core that mimics the body of a fish, and the other is cut into three parts that mimic the fins and tail.
Owlets in the same figure are made in a similar way.
There are many opportunities here. You can try to combine different species, cut the ends at an angle, assemble decorative inserts for furniture, or make tabletops entirely from saw cuts.
The use of end cuts for decoration, it seems to me, will never really become outdated. Currently, there are craftsmen who make furniture based on forest "garbage" and about one such a workshop I was talking on the channel a few months ago.
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