What can you make from a broken plate: 10 good ideas

Mosaics on the walls or things made from broken dishes look so impressive that you want to take a hammer and go to the kitchen or take out of the closet a set that was a wedding gift from parents. You don’t need any special skills to create, for example, a spectacular pot – watch the video and see for yourself. Using the same recipe, you can make cups for storing small items, a bowl for serving cakes or desserts, as well as wall panels or mosaic paintings.

If you glue a plate together and use it as intended, it won’t last long. Instead, turn a cracked saucer into a decorative candle holder: you can be as creative as you want!

There is such a sign: if a plate breaks, your organizer or jewelry holder will soon be replenished with a new necklace. (If, of course, you have a drill at home, the “grinding wheel” attachment is the easiest way to smooth the sharp edges of a fragment; otherwise, making jewelry and jewelry does not require any special skills nor any unusual tools.)

A broken plate turns… turns… into a whole plate! To do this, you will need a set of kintsugi – a Japanese technique for restoring ceramic products: the philosophy of this art is that each object has its own story, and therefore you should not hide or disguise cracks and the breaks – they only emphasize the beauty of the thing.

Multiply a few broken plates with the cheapest plastic tray and you will get an incredibly elegant object that will delight the eye and delight the guests who come to your house for coffee.

“We replaced the avocado with boiled potatoes and the shrimp with fried lard, but overall we really liked your avocado salad with shrimp recipe.” We think this tutorial for creating a singing wind from splinters is too complicated: why drill into wood when you can simply tie a rope around a branch?

Do you think a vase or flower pot made from a broken plate is too difficult a project? We found another one that everyone can do: the fragments can be transformed into decorative magnets.

You won’t be able to make slabs for laying a sidewalk or path from a broken slab – they are too thin for that. However, you can make garden decorations from the fragments: for this you will need white grout, transparent silicone glue, putty and stones of suitable size.

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This flower bed border is one of the easiest projects to make. At the same time, it will be the longest: after all, you will have to wait until you have accumulated so many damaged dishes. (Or just buy the cheapest one if you really like the idea.)

A key ring made from a shard looks very simple, but to create it you will need a drill: first you need to sand the edges with it, then you need to drill a hole for it ring.

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