A vase made from a linoleum pipe or 8 ideas on how to use unnecessary trash

Today, dear readers, I will tell you about the great potential hidden in a simple waste cardboard tube from toilet paper, from foil or paper towels, from linoleum or carpeting. Often people simply throw away such things as unnecessary. But there are many ways to give a second life to these unnecessary things. See what you can make from cardboard tubes.

Nurturing an Idea

These children's molds can be used for papier-mâché decorations.

My ingenuity has often helped me through life; I have often used ideas I had seen, but here I am turning a pipe in my hands and can’t figure out where to use it. And on TV there is a program about renovation, the final stage is decor. And vases, many vases of original shapes. That’s when it hit again, I’ll make a vase, I thought.

How a muse comes to a creative person

1. At first I wanted to make two or three crafts from a linoleum pipe, cutting it into pieces. Then I changed my mind and wanted to build a large floor flowerpot. “What’s beautiful will be brighter,” more presentable, and more flowers will fit.
2. I was puzzled by the material – pressed paper. You can’t pour water in there; you only have to insert a dry bouquet or branches. But here an idea was born, about which a little later.

Since the material is paper, it means that ordinary office glue or PVA will be suitable for processing it. At worst, you can cook homemade paste.

Paste for papier-mâché can be made from flour.

1. Pour the cheapest flour with water, stir until smooth and bring to a boil. Which is what I did, because I was too lazy to go to the store for glue.
2. Then memories of childhood surfaced, how my mother and I made papier-mâché from scraps of newspapers and paste. As far as I remember, the products were durable and easy to paint.
3. So I did. I picked up old newspapers, soaked the pieces in a basin of water and went to have breakfast, because the excitement that had arisen in the morning began to brazenly interrupt thoughts of a culinary nature.

Preparation of materials

With a full stomach and the matter being resolved, I went back to the pantry for extras. I came across children's sandbox molds in the shape of starfish and octopuses. Yeah, if so, then my future vases from linoleum pipes should be made in a marine theme.

Creative process

I had all the tools at home - scissors, pencil, tape measure, hacksaw, sandpaper. The necessary materials: rags, several pieces of cardboard and a bag with the remains of dry alabaster, were also available at home. In general, that's the whole set.

How I made a vase

First I cut the pipe at an angle. The oblique cut will be the neckline.

1. The pipe in a vertical position turned out to be quite high; we still had to saw off the excess. I wanted the neck of the vase to be slanted, it would be more original and elegant. I marked it out, cut it with a hacksaw like a sausage for a holiday, and the result was a meter-high piece.
2. Next we had to come up with a basis for greater stability. I cut a circle from a piece of fiberboard with a diameter 15 cm larger than the diameter of the pipe itself.
3. To properly glue the stand to the base, there is one proven instruction. The thin walls of the pipe will not stick firmly enough if you do not make an elementary thick filler.
4. The newspaper scraps did not impress me with their roughness; I had to “snatch” half a roll of toilet paper. I soaked the paper with PVA slightly diluted with water, adding two tablespoons of alabaster. The last ingredient will speed up the hardening of the mass.

The photo shows the glued bottom.

1. I laid out a heap of paper-glue dough on the marked center of the base and literally “slammed” a pipe into it. Quickly, before the mass hardened, I leveled it along the seams from the outside and inside. The arm was not long enough to reach the bottom, so I rescued a handle from a mop and tamped it down with it. On the raw product, I checked the vertical with a plumb line on all sides.

At this point, you can insert a suitable sized waterproof container inside. For example, a plastic pipe sealed at the bottom end or a strong, narrow and long plastic bag. In this case, the vase is suitable not only for dried flowers, but also for fresh flowers standing in water.

1. Half an hour later the pipe stood rooted to the spot, and this could not but rejoice. Mobility and stability have been achieved. The best part remains – decoration.
2. After sitting with a cup of coffee and thinking, I decided to rob my mother-in-law for a couple of old stockings (these were left for onions). I chose black ones, and, overcoming the desire to go scare the scandalous neighbor upstairs, I put them not on my head, but on a pipe coated with glue.

Options for creating a folded surface from stockings.

1. It all took three pairs of stockings with the socks cut off. If you take less, there will be few folds, and they are what added originality. Along the way, I decided to leave two gaps between the folds; here I wound twine around wet glue.
2. In a draft, my semi-finished floor vase dried out in about an hour. During this time, I kneaded “dough” from soaked pieces of newspapers, paste with the addition of alabaster.
3. I greased the sandbox molds with vegetable oil and filled them with the mixture, carefully compacting and leveling them. You can pull it out immediately, only carefully. It is more convenient to glue half-baked and still flexible blanks to the semicircular walls of the pipe, which I hastened to do.
4. It was almost time for dinner, and I wanted an enchanting presentation of the beauty I had made with my own hands in front of my family. I painted the folds with a semi-dry brush with silver acrylic paint “along the tops” and sprinkled them with glitter. I painted the starfish blue and went over the rope with gold paint.

Ready-made version of three tubes.

1. Shells filled with papier-mâché dough were successfully placed in the empty spaces; small spaces were complemented with rhinestones. In the end, it turned out to be very solid, a sort of theme of a hot summer night on a sandy sea beach.

My 8 craft options

During the process, I came up with a dozen ideas for using unnecessary pipes. The price of the components is zero or negligible, but the pleasure and benefits are disproportionately greater. The evening display of my product was all the more joyful because I was rewarded with the wild delight of my mother-in-law and wife who arrived from the dacha, and was even pardoned for taking stockings and rhinestones without permission.

And here is what came to mind during the day of creativity:

1. Vases can have an infinite number of options in style and design . Moreover, it is interesting to choose the design to match the style of your interior. Color and accessories that match the design of the room - and now you have an exclusive item.
2. A vase stylized as a birch trunk looks great . Honey mushrooms molded from papier-mâché will settle on an imitation saw cut.

You can also make an amphora from a pipe. This is what its base looks like.

1. The work is a little more complicated - a Roman amphora . Here you will have to cut out many identical profiles of the desired shape from cardboard and glue them to the base. Afterwards, the structure is covered with fabric or tape and painted.
2. There are many benefits from the pipe and in the corridor . It is convenient to store umbrellas and canes, fishing rods and even a selfie stick.

This “oak near Lukomorye” can grow in your child’s room.

1. For the New Year, start making a Christmas tree with your children . The pipe will serve as the trunk, but the rest is easy to figure out on your own, with your family. You can also decorate a nursery with an ordinary tree made from a pipe.
2. I would advise avid cat lovers to make a scratching post for their pet . The pipe is coated with glue and wrapped with strong rope.
3. The flower bed on the balcony can also be made from pipes . They are installed horizontally, the ends are sealed, and a strip along the entire length is cut off at the top. The pipe is lined with polyethylene, soil is filled in and flowers are planted.
4. A container for storing small children's toys, because there are a lot of them throughout the house . There will be something to do on a free day with your child, designing and decorating a new item in the children's room.

Master class on making:

Step 1: Cut the pipe

The first thing we need to do is cut the pipe into two parts using a saw, you choose the height of future vases at your own discretion, you can simply throw away the extra piece.

Step 2: making the bottom

• After the vase blanks are ready, you need to place the blank on the cardboard and circle the bottom of the future vase, stepping back about a centimeter from the pipe.
• Using a glue gun, glue the cardboard circle to the bottom of the pipe.

Step 3: decorate the vase

Then, around the lower base, on the protruding part of the glued bottom, you need to thoroughly smear it with glue and wrap a rope around it, which you need to press against the cardboard until the glue dries.

1. Then you can continue to wrap the pipe with rope all the way to the top, periodically gluing it to the base to keep the rope in place.
2. At the very last turn , you need to completely glue the rope around the pipe, securing it well.
3. In order to hide the edge of the pipe, you need to glue the rope on top.
4. After this, you can carefully trim the edge and glue it from the inside so that it is invisible.

For animals

We can also come up with something for our smaller “brothers.”

Using large cardboard tubes, you can make a house, a scratching post, and a play complex for your cat.

If you have a rodent, then you can build a labyrinth for it. And even if you just put a few straws in the cage, the rodents will be delighted. Such tubes remind them of minks, and they can be chewed