Ceramic mosaic from broken tiles or dishes as decoration. My crazy hands: kitchen apron from broken dishes Do-it-yourself mosaic from broken porcelain

If you want to make your home original and unique - this is your option! And it looks unusual, and the material goes to virtually nothing - just collect broken cups, bowls and saucers, as well as mirrors, fragments tiles, which remain in abundance after repair, stock up on "grout" - a fugue, patience and create! Such decor will decorate any home and make it different from others. And, of course, your children will definitely like the idea. So think, maybe it's time to update the nursery?

Mosaic (from French mosaique, or Latin musivum - dedicated to the muses) came to us from the Ancient East. Boxes of rare beauty, decorated with oriental ornaments, have survived to our time. From the East, the mosaic came to Ancient Greece, but its golden age already fell on the heyday of the Roman Empire, where everything was decorated in this way: floors, walls, fountains, dishes, decorated furniture ... The ability to beautifully lay out a mosaic was very much appreciated and well paid.

In the Middle Ages, mosaics began to be used to decorate temples and cathedrals, and with the adoption of Christianity, this art fell into Kievan Rus. due to lack of material interior decoration cathedrals were made for a long time, until the production of its own, Kyiv glass smalt was established. by the most a prime example fine work of Kyiv masters is "Oranta" in St. Sophia's Cathedral and the decoration of St. Michael's Cathedral. A little later, it is replaced by a fresco, although the mosaic, unlike the fresco, does not fade with time and does not require constant restoration.

So, having decided to decorate your home with mosaics, know that this art is already more than 5 thousand years old!

Today, there are hundreds of ways to decorate a house, and the mosaic has lost its relevance due to painstaking work and high cost. But with the growing popularity of the question of the second life of old things, hand-made mosaics from the remnants of broken dishes gained momentum. Who was the first to submit such an original idea, we, alas, do not know, but big role in the distribution of such creativity played ... cafes!

Cafes and restaurants, where spouts of broken ceramic teapots, handles of porcelain cups and entire panels of bright saucers stick out of the walls, are no longer a rarity. There are even similar cafes in Kyiv (for example, the lounge cafe "Lily of the Valley").

The famous Gaudi was one of the first to use broken tile and ceramics in architecture - who does not know the famous shops in his Park Güell in Barcelona?

So what do you need to get started? First, the material! It can be broken ceramics, glass or a mirror (the more voluminous the work, the more material will be needed).

Mosaic on the wall

First you need to decide - what exactly do you want to see in the end result? If these are pieces randomly placed on the wall, then you can get to work. And if you took on a whole panel or a simple picture, then you have to prepare the wall. To do this, it needs to be cleaned (from wallpaper, glue residue), leveled if necessary and sanded a little.

Attention! The temperature when working with a mosaic should be between +5 and + 30!

Draw a sketch on the wall - mark where and what you will have. In order not to find out in the middle of the work that your picture does not fit, or that it is significantly skewed!

Dilute the mortar for laying the mosaic (you can get it at any building hypermarket, just ask for a base under ceramic tiles). I recommend taking a solution white color otherwise your finished work an unwanted tint may appear. If you use glass in a mosaic, then look for a transparent solution.

Apply the mortar to the wall with a spatula. No need to process the entire wall at once! Do the work in parts - primed a piece of the wall, laid out a mosaic, and so on. Start laying out the drawing from the center. First - figures and minor details, and only then the background.

Note: if you have big chunks broken dishes, you can gently break it with pliers or smash it with a hammer.

After a day, apply grout. Before doing this, remove all excess glue from the mosaic with a soft, damp sponge. Rub the work in parts, carefully processing each individual piece of the mosaic. After 10-20 minutes, when the grout darkens, you can remove the excess with a damp sponge.

Don't think that broken dishes can only be used as wall decor! Needleworkers and craftsmen from all over the world have come up with many of the most unexpected variations on this theme!

Dish decor: vases, candlesticks, plates, trays, coasters for hot dishes…

Furniture decor: tables and chairs, sideboards and cabinets- yes, anything and that, as they say, it’s not a pity!

And how do you like such unusual birdhouses?

If you want to make your home original and unique - this is your option! And it looks unusual, and the material gets virtually for free - just collect broken cups, bowls and saucers, as well as mirrors, fragments of tiles, which remain in abundance after repair, stock up on "grout" - a fugue, patience and create! Such decor will decorate any home and make it different from others. And, of course, your children will definitely like the idea. So think, maybe it's time to update the nursery?

Mosaic (from French mosaique, or Latin musivum - dedicated to the muses) came to us from the Ancient East. Boxes of rare beauty, decorated with oriental ornaments, have survived to our time. From the East, the mosaic came to Ancient Greece, but its golden age fell on the heyday of the Roman Empire, where everything was decorated in this way: floors, walls, fountains, dishes, decorated furniture ... The ability to beautifully lay out a mosaic was very much appreciated and well paid.

In the Middle Ages, mosaics began to be used to decorate temples and cathedrals, and with the adoption of Christianity, this art came to Kievan Rus. Due to the lack of material, the interior decoration of the cathedrals took a long time, until the production of its own, Kyiv glass smalt was established. The most striking example of the fine work of Kyiv masters is "Oranta" in St. Sophia's Cathedral and the decoration of St. Michael's Cathedral. A little later, it is replaced by a fresco, although the mosaic, unlike the fresco, does not fade with time and does not require constant restoration.

So, having decided to decorate your home with mosaics, know that this art is already more than 5 thousand years old!

Today, there are hundreds of ways to decorate a house, and the mosaic has lost its relevance due to painstaking work and high cost. But with the growing popularity of the question of the second life of old things, hand-made mosaics from the remnants of broken dishes gained momentum. Who was the first to submit such an original idea, we, alas, do not know, but a big role in the spread of such creativity was played by ... cafes!

The famous Gaudi was one of the first to use broken tiles and ceramics in architecture - who does not know the famous shops in his Park Guell in Barcelona?

So what do you need to get started? First, the material! It can be broken ceramics, glass or a mirror (the more voluminous the work, the more material will be needed).

Mosaic on the wall

Attention! The temperature when working with a mosaic should be between +5 and + 30!

Draw a sketch on the wall - mark where and what you will have. In order not to find out in the middle of the work that your picture does not fit, or that it is significantly skewed!

Dilute the mortar for laying the mosaic (you can get it at any building hypermarket, just ask for a base for ceramic tiles). I recommend taking a white solution, otherwise your finished work may have an undesirable shade. If you use glass in a mosaic, then look for a transparent solution.

Note: if you have large pieces of broken utensils, you can carefully break them apart with pliers or smash them with a hammer.

Do not think that broken dishes can only be used as wall decor! Needleworkers and craftsmen from all over the world have come up with many of the most unexpected variations on this theme!

Dish decor: vases, candlesticks, plates, trays, coasters for hot dishes…

Furniture decor: tables and chairs, sideboards and cabinets- yes, anything and that, as they say, it’s not a pity!

And how do you like such unusual birdhouses?

Broken cups and bowls Last year have become valuable to me. At first, I was just sorry to throw away one of my favorite cups, the handle of which just fell off. And I, like a classic "save house", hid it))
Then there was another cup, and another, and another ... But now I did not throw them away on principle. Because I planned to make new dacha kitchen apron from broken dishes. Which by December of this year I have already accumulated enough.
This is what came out:

Now how did you do it.

Drywall was chosen as the basis. Purely for pragmatic reasons. Firstly, it is easier to saw (no jigsaws, dust and subsequent general cleaning). And secondly, it is relatively light, which is important, because the final work will be heavily weighted by materials, and if the base is also heavy, I will tear my navel again while I carry and fasten it.

IMPORTANT: drywall choose moisture resistant! A kitchen apron is an element of a wet kitchen. Especially if this kitchen, like mine, is in an unheated dacha in winter.

Unfortunately, I had to take the smallest sheet available at Leroy: 150 cm by 60 cm, although I needed 65 cm. But it was easier for me to take two small sheets home on a sedan to glue them later than one big.

We measure the required dimensions. We cut directly on the surface with an ordinary construction knife.

Then we turn the sheet with the cut outward, and on the other hand, groan-I-being with my fist, or like I do with my knee)) The sheet breaks evenly, as if it were so)

Then I had to adjust the sheet to the required width of 65 cm. To do this, I cut off a strip of the required width from the second sheet in the same way. Having attached it, I glued it with a sickle (construction mesh) soaked in PVA on both sides. I left the glued sheet to dry overnight.

Prepared and cut under required size(I have it 110 cm by 65 cm), for better adhesion, I first impregnated it with a primer, and then covered it with concrete contact. Left it to dry overnight again.

For later to be less problems with fasteners, even before the start of the creative part of the work, I drilled holes in the drywall. Drywall is very malleable, and you can drill with a simple screwdriver.

Holes are drilled at regular intervals.

And so that later, during work, not to accidentally cover them with glue or grout, you can insert beacons into them. For example, I stuck self-tapping screws. The main thing then is not to step on them with your heel :)

First glue the main elements. They are both practical and aesthetic.
Practical is:
- mugs (without handles), in which I can then put spoons and forks;
- broken handles glued horizontally: on them, with the help of hooks, I will hang towels and spoons;
- a broken bowl almost in half, which I can also use as small place storage (matches, for example).

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And the aesthetic ones are, for example, those I found in a box with porcelain tomatoes and garlic, which I “put on a dish” of a similar colors…

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... and also a vase made of the finest Chinese porcelain (a corner of the bottom broke off), a neat stand for hot dishes in Provencal style(cracked), and in the same style a poacher made (a tiny piece broke off from above).

After the main elements are glued, we begin to fill in the space formed between them. free space. Here is a pallet of fantasy! Pieces of multi-colored broken dishes can be completely mixed and glued in a chaotic manner; or you can - in clusters, selecting them by color and texture.
I chose the second option.

A few words about the actual process of breaking dishes. This is a dangerous business: the fragments really scatter like a fountain. And if the work is not carried out in a workshop, but in an ordinary living space, the matter can end not only with a splinter in the leg, but also with a “Kai diagnosis” - a splinter in the eye.

That's why - IMPORTANT! - we beat the dishes, covering it with a cloth! I, before tapping on the cups with a hammer, wrapped them in an old son's shirt.

Further comments are unnecessary - everything is clear from the photographs:

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After all the shards are glued and the glue has dried, you need to cover the seams (everything is exactly the same as when laying regular tiles). I also have a zaritka from the stash left over from the repair, so about optimal choice I don’t write anything - I used the one that was:

Grout goes really a lot! More than for tiled masonry, because. there are actually more seams. And have to work small areas and painstakingly. So I diluted the grout quite a bit.

A disgrace, but there was not one at home rubber spatula to work with grout. The need for fiction is cunning, and instead I used a piece from plastic cap from the factory food container from under the salad "Chuka" :)

We overwrite all the seams, immediately washing off the remnants from the surface of the shards. If the grout dries out, then you can’t peel it off!
Well, that's all - the apron is ready:

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And finally: workplace during this far from the fastest creative process it will look something like this :)

Eh, there were times when the service was considered the best gift. After the holiday, they solemnly put it in a sideboard and tried not to even touch it for an extra reason: what if it breaks? Times have passed, but services have remained. And if you still managed to break a couple of saucers or cups - this is not a reason to be sad. It is better to follow the example of one skilled mom and turn the pieces into a masterpiece to the envy of everyone.

Remember how in a fairy tale The Snow Queen» Was Kai supposed to make the word “eternity” out of fragments of ice? We don’t know about ice, but from the fragments of a broken plate, at least a whole alphabet will definitely be formed, at least ... new table. For example, the heroine of this review updates boring furniture with a mosaic of broken dishes. And it's so cool that you yourself want to go to the kitchen and break a couple of plates there!

To decorate furniture with mosaics, you will need:

1. Unnecessary dishes with beautiful patterns or their fragments;
2. Primer and a large brush or sponge;
3. Double sided tape or self-adhesive film;
4. Hammer;
5. Stationery knife;
6. Old T-shirt.

To begin with, we need picturesque fragments of dishes. For this purpose, mosaic masters use wire cutters or special files that cut porcelain.

But you can not really bother and follow the example of the heroine of this review: put the plate in old t-shirt, wrap it well and hit it with a hammer. Gross, but it works.

Now it's time to prepare the countertop or other piece of furniture that you are going to transform. The easiest way to do this is to cut the sheet of "self-adhesive" to right size and forms.

"Self-adhesive" if not by itself, but glued. Now you need to draw a pattern with a marker, which will very soon turn into a chic mosaic.

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If you want to make your home original and unique - this is your option! And it looks unusual, and the material is actually given away - just collect broken cups, bowls and saucers, as well as mirrors, fragments of tiles, which remain in abundance after repair, stock up on "grout" - fugue, patience and create! Such decor will decorate any home and make it different from others. And, of course, your children will definitely like the idea. So think, maybe it's time to update the nursery?

Mosaic (from French mosaique, or Latin musivum - dedicated to the muses) came to us from the Ancient East. Boxes of rare beauty, decorated with oriental ornaments, have survived to our time. From the East, the mosaic came to Ancient Greece, but its golden age fell on the heyday of the Roman Empire, where everything was decorated in this way: floors, walls, fountains, dishes, decorated furniture ... The ability to beautifully lay out a mosaic was very much appreciated and well paid.

In the Middle Ages, mosaics began to be used to decorate temples and cathedrals, and with the adoption of Christianity, this came to Kievan Rus. Due to the lack of material, the interior decoration of the cathedrals took a long time, until the production of its own, Kyiv glass smalt was established. The most striking example of the fine work of Kyiv masters is "Oranta" in St. Sophia's Cathedral and the decoration of St. Michael's Cathedral. A little later, it is replaced by a fresco, although the mosaic, unlike the fresco, does not fade with time and does not require constant restoration.

So, having decided to decorate your home with mosaics, know that this art is already more than 5 thousand years old!

Today, there are hundreds of ways to decorate a house, and the mosaic has lost its relevance due to painstaking work and high cost. But with the growing popularity of the question of the second life of old things, hand-made mosaics from the remnants of broken dishes gained momentum. Who was the first to submit such an original idea, we, alas, do not know, but a big role in the spread of such creativity was played by ... cafes!

The famous Gaudi was one of the first to use broken tiles and ceramics in architecture - who does not know the famous shops in his Park Guell in Barcelona?

So what do you need to get started? First, the material! It can be broken ceramics, glass or a mirror (the more voluminous the work, the more material will be needed).

Mosaic on the wall

Attention! The temperature when working with a mosaic should be between +5 and + 30!

Draw a sketch on the wall - mark where and what you will have. In order not to find out in the middle of the work that your picture does not fit, or that it is significantly skewed!

Note: if you have large pieces of broken utensils, you can carefully break them apart with pliers or smash them with a hammer.

Do not think that broken dishes can only be used as wall decor! Needleworkers and craftsmen from all over the world have come up with many of the most unexpected variations on this theme!

Dish decor: vases, candlesticks, plates, trays, coasters for hot dishes…

Furniture decor: tables and chairs, sideboards and cabinets- yes anything and that, as they say, it is not a pity!

And how do you like such unusual birdhouses?

Or this strange shell?

I was particularly struck jewelry that they came up with to create from fragments of ceramics! It turns out that a piece of a painted cup can skillful hands become an exquisite pendant!

So there is no limit to human imagination! Try it and you will create something unique!

How to care for a mosaic? Do not wipe it with wax, oils, products containing phosphoric acid or hydrofluoric. Use neutral cleaners (not abrasive). In case of heavy soiling, take a product that has a low acid content, and then rinse large quantity water.

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