Shelves for flowers with their own hands: master classes on making from wood, metal, plywood, glass

Lovers of houseplants know how difficult it is to place all the flowers, because windowsills and tables are not enough to create a beautiful home greenhouse.

Those for whom the cultivation of houseplants becomes a real hobby always have a rich collection of different plants that require a lot of space. Each of them must be provided with enough well-lit space for conditions to be comfortable.

For them to look spectacular, it is important to successfully place them in the interior of the room. For this purpose, shelves for flowers floor, wall, hanging, which are performed in any, even the most unusual design, are ideal.

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Advantages of shelves made by yourself

On sale there are such products, with the help of which you can quickly solve the problem with the placement of a home flower bed. But they do not differ in great variety, represent the same type of standard designs.

When you make your own flower shelves, you can create your own unique design of the room, for each plant to choose the best option, how to present it more effectively.

When the shelves are made by your own hands, you can choose your own materials for them, calculate their size, the required number of stands, develop your own original design.

The cost of a shelf or several racks will be much cheaper than store-made products. And if you perform such constructions from discarded materials, unnecessary old furniture or other suitable items stored in the house, the costs will only be time and labor.

Varieties of shelves for flowers

According to their designs, methods of placement, flower shelves are divided into several types:

Floor shelves. The strongest, most reliable products, which are especially suitable for large plants in large heavy pots. They come in a variety of designs - in the form of racks, shelves, single stands, struts, pyramids, A-shapes, ladders, etc. To place them requires a lot of free space.
Wall-mounted. Hanging with various fasteners on the walls. They allow you to save more space, especially corner ones. The most common types are shelves, racks, compositions of several separately placed single shelves or various original configurations (triangles, squares, honeycomb-shaped, etc.).
Suspended. An excellent solution to save space. Such designs are attached to ceilings, window openings, designed for lightweight small flower pots. For reliability, strong anchor hooks are used as fasteners to the ceiling surfaces, on which the hanging shelves are then clung. Ropes, leather belts, chains, ropes and other suitable materials are used as hangers on which the shelves are attached.
For window sills. They make shelves for flowers on the window sill in the form of small figurative stands or in the form of multilevel shelves, which are attached to the window openings.

All of these designs can be installed not only indoors but also decorate their balconies, loggias, porches, and some even outdoor areas on suburban areas.

Beautifully look composition of several, made in the same style, different types of shelves - floor, wall, hanging. Materials for them can be chosen homogeneous (wood, plastic, metal) or combine different ones.

For the manufacture of shelves use the following materials:

Wood. Shelves made of this durable eco-friendly material, if properly assembled, can withstand heavy loads. Wood is easy to work with, even beginners can cope with the manufacture of shelves of simple designs. Experienced craftsmen make wooden shelves decorated with carvings, inlays, paintings. Without professional training, you can beautifully decorate the shelf in the technique of decoupage.
Plywood. This material is even easier to work with, but it is not as durable as wood. Various shaped products can be easily cut out of plywood. Original decorations can be made in the technique of painting with paints, decoupage, decorated with rhinestones, beads and other decorations, as well as covered with a self-adhesive film imitating any textures. Plywood shelves can be combined with other materials.
MDF and LDF boards. From the waste of these cheap, but durable and neat materials, using a set of simple tools, you can make cute original shelves. The cuts of all parts must be treated with a special color-matched adhesive tape.
Metal. This material is used in the form of profiles or chrome-plated tubes for the frame, as well as metal gratings or solid sheets for shelves. Beautiful exclusive products are obtained from forged metal.
Plastic. Plastic pipes, sheet plastic (transparent, colored, smooth, textured) and even PVC window sills are used to make shelves.
Tempered glass. Transparent shelves visually save space. But they are only suitable for lightweight small pots with flowers. Glasses should not be thinner than 0.5 cm. They are attached to metal frames with special clamps. Slots are made in the wooden frames for them, into which the glasses are then inserted.

Wall shelf made of plywood

To make such a product with a construction that is assembled only from sheets, you will need plywood and veneer to process the cuts. If the plywood shelves will be attached to a wooden frame, then prepare another bar.

Of the tools and additional materials will be needed:

hand (or electric) jigsaw for sawing plywood in shaped lines;
circular saw - to get a more even cuts in a straight line;
a set of shaped files for trimming edges;
sandpaper for sanding surfaces;
screwdriver;
self-tapping screws;
fasteners, hinges;
scissors, pencil, paper;
PVA glue (or joinery glue);
stain, paint materials for finishing surfaces.

How to make a shelf for flowers from plywood, sequence of work:

draw a sketch and make molds from paper;
According to the templates and made calculations, cut parts from plywood (bar);
level the edges with sanding files;
Sand the surfaces with sandpaper;
Assemble the whole structure with glue and self-tapping screws,
stain;
glue the edge veneer tape on the open sections of the parts;
varnish;
After the varnish dries, fix the canopies.

Corner flower shelves

You can save space by using a corner shelf. These products can be floor and hinged, placed on the inner or outer corners. They are made of any material.

They can represent a composition of a few single shelves or full-fledged spacious shelves. The assembly and fixation of such structures depends on their types and materials.

Wooden shelves

Preparation of wooden parts and the assembly of shelves from them is done almost the same technology as with plywood. Wooden shelves for flowers are more durable, with a great variety of design. For them use a bar, boards.

Even from leftover scraps you can make beautiful original products. Interesting designs of flower shelves are made from ordinary containers - crates, pallets.

A shelf for flowers from wood and metal

Combined products with metal frames of profiles or pipes and wooden shelves are collected in the form of bulk racks, small shelves, or hanging shelves.

Metal is used to make holders for pots, which are then mounted on wooden planks.

Metal shelf forged.

Products made by artistic forging create a classic, luxurious setting. Such shelves can be made only of metal or combined with wood or glass. The resulting interior details are very spectacular.

Most of these shelves are made floor standing because of their heavy weight. Forged shelves for flowers on the wall make small and medium-sized, install special fasteners with increased strength. The walls must also be strong enough to withstand this weight.

Shelf made of particle board and chrome tubes

To make such structures, you can use scraps of new chipboard or used parts of disassembled furniture. To finish the cuts, you will need an adhesive edge or T-shaped (U-shaped) edging.

To the chrome tubes you need to pick up the flanges corresponding to their size, which are needed as a support for fixing the shelves. If the design is floor-standing, you can install wheels for easy movement of the shelf with plants to another place, if necessary.

Order of work:

cut out the required number of shelves;
process the edges with an adhesive edge or edging (the U-shaped one is stuffed with a rubber mallet, for the T-shaped one it is necessary to make grooves in the edges on a milling machine);
make holes in the prepared plates with a Forstner drill or a mill, corresponding to the size of the tubes, in the upper shelf they should not be through;
insert the tubes into the holes and fix them with flanges on both sides of the plates (the upper with one lower);
attach furniture wheels or legs to the bottom of the tubes.

A glass shelf for a window

Shelves made of glass look light and airy, good light transmission, which is good for plants. Choose for them a strong tempered glass, with an optimal thickness of 0.5 cm. They are made in the form of racks with wooden or metal frames, which are attached to the window openings.

The constructions can be one-piece with vertical and horizontal supports, and also without vertical supports, when only horizontal supports are attached to the window frame, on which the glass shelves are then placed.

Ideas for making unusual shelves with your own hands

To make original designs of flower shelves, you can use the following ideas:

the shelf is made in the form of a trunk of a tree, on the supports are placed plants lianas, resembling tree branches with leaves;
an arch in the form of a heart is made, on the stands of which flowering plants are placed;
The floor structure can be made in the form of a pyramid, a house, a bicycle, and the wall structure can be made in the form of a honeycomb, a ladder, or waves.

Simple rules for the arrangement of shelves

When placing flower shelves, take into account the illumination that is necessary for plants. Away from the window set shelves for shade-tolerant plants, and loving bright light put on well-lit places, but not under direct sunlight.

Some plants do not tolerate drafts, especially when airing in the cold season. When arranging shelves, it is important to create a healthy environment for all plants.

All structures in color and shape must fit harmoniously into the interior of the room.

Conclusion

You can make beautiful shelves for flowers on your own without much preparation. First you need to come up with your own original design or find a ready-made, suitable for the interior of the room where the plants will be placed.