Shelves for flowers with their own hands with a photo: wall, hinged, hanging, corner and others

For most housewives, growing houseplants eventually becomes a real hobby. While there are not too many pots with violets, cacti, ficuses and other delights, no questions arise with their place of residence, and shelves for flowers do not seem such a need. Bravo plants will settle on the windowsill, and if the living space allows, then in a real home greenhouse. But still, the moment when the next green pet does not find a corner is inexorably approaching, and then you will have to seriously think about these accessories.

Which is better: to assemble a shelf for flowers with your own hands or to buy it ready-made? It all depends on personal preference. The second option is, of course, easier to implement. Finding suitable flower shelves from the photo and ordering their delivery is a matter of a few minutes, but maybe you should not rush?

A self-assembled design will be a completely unique thing, because only the master decides what shape to give it, what color to paint it in, and in general, what to make it from. Try yourself as a furniture designer, what if you like it? So, get acquainted - the flower shelf!

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Shelves for flowers: species diversity

To decide on what shapes and proportions to make a flower stand, the plan for the location of plants in the room will help. Basically, in order to save space, they try to put them on the walls or use hanging shelves for flowers, but this is not always possible. There are plants so large that they can only be placed on the floor. This allows you to classify products as:

• wall;
• floor;
• suspended.

Further designs may vary in shape. They can be made:

• straight;
• curly;
• corner;
• multilevel.

It will divide the shelves for flowers and their capacity into subspecies.

Here, single, double and multi-seat models are conditionally highlighted.

The first are good in the wall version. Liana-like plants and small bushy densely flowering greens look great on them.

Plants with identical conditions of maintenance are placed on double shelves of floor and wall type, most often of the tree family.

Multi-seat models are universal. You can see such shelves for flowers on the wall, on the window, on the floor. It is advisable not to put too heavy pots on mounted models. They may not withstand the load and fall out with a piece of the wall. But the one made by hand for flowers was originally designed for serious weight. So if you arrange a greenhouse of large plants, then only on it.

Any of the considered structures can be assembled in an angular format. Thus, both space will be saved and design talent will be demonstrated.

Fans of climbing vegetation may like the photo ideas of hanging flower shelves with ceiling fixtures.

The classification is clear. What are flower stands made from? They can be assembled from any, sufficient strength, materials. Here and glass, and plastic, and plywood. But still, for many, the tree remains the priority of choice. Let's see the most interesting solutions.

Plywood wall flower shelf

Probably, it is easier and cheaper to find material for the manufacture of wall structures. It is easy to cut out figures from plywood, and of any size. And you don't need any special skills to work with it.

So why do they start to create a flower shelf with their own hands? Are you thinking with a training tool? Not at all. The creative process will begin with the creation of a sketch. And here, on paper, you can pour out all your fantasies. Then there will be plenty to choose from. You can pore over the design of the future masterpiece for a long time, carefully working through all the details, but being carried away by aesthetics, it is important not to forget about the main purpose of the product. Wall shelves for flowers must be durable and withstand the expected load.

The next step will be the creation of a design drawing, indicating the dimensions and type of fasteners. We will transfer it to a plywood sheet.

It is most convenient to cut the workpiece with an electric jigsaw. At the finished canvas, the saw cut lines are cleaned. You can carefully do this with sandpaper. We treat plywood with a protective impregnation to increase its moisture resistance and leave to dry.

The final touch in the work on the wall shelf for flowers will be opening it with varnish. The product can be decorated as desired. How?

1. Paste with a beautiful self-adhesive film.

2. Paint with paints.

3. Decorate with rhinestones, beads, buttons, shells, etc.

In general, show creativity.

They try to fix the structure to the wall on corners and metal brackets.

By the same principle, a shelf on the window for flowers will also be assembled. It is fixed on the slopes of the window opening. Cascades of such small products look interesting.

From thick plywood it will be quite possible to assemble a stand for tall plants in bulky pots standing on the floor. That's just when working with your own hands on a floor shelf for flowers, you will have to think not about fasteners-clamps, but about legs. Ordinary pieces of a bar, sawn into neat cubes, are suitable for their role. For such a stand, stability will be very important, so it’s better not to experiment and leave the structure with all 4 legs, although their number may vary depending on the shape of the structure. For example, a round, large diameter shelf can have 8 of them, and the legs are cut unusually - in the form of hockey pucks.

Do-it-yourself plastic flower shelf on the windowsill

It sounds like a pun, but the shelf for flowers on the windowsill is made from ... the windowsill. It can be found ready-made in hardware stores or bought from plastic window manufacturers. In addition to the plastic sheet, you will need:

• nickel-plated pipes;
• flanges;
• brackets;
• work tool.

The window sill is cut in length into three parts identical in size. Next, three holes are made in each blank, into which the rack pipes will be inserted. They are arranged according to the following scheme: 2 holes along the edges of the back line and 1 in the middle of the front. The result should be a reference triangle.

The next step in working on a do-it-yourself flower shelf will be cutting pipes. Three parts are given the same length. We assemble the structure and fix the elements with flanges and screws. For greater reliability, the two rear pipes are attracted by brackets to the wall.

Plastic shelves are very practical. They are not difficult to care for, plus they are not afraid of water, which is very important in the case of flowers.

How to assemble a corner shelf for flowers

To create a shelf of an angular shape, any materials will fit. Small structures can generally be built from their remains and scraps.

Actually, not a lot of work. The main surface is cut, for example, from chipboard. It can be shaped like a triangle. For greater decorativeness, the base of the latter is made figured, more often - arcuately convex, although other options are not excluded. You can look for non-standard design ideas for corner shelves for flowers in the photo.

The issue of further assembly and fixation of the structure depends on its type. If this is a floor option, then perhaps a more relevant solution would be not a single shelf, but a full-fledged rack. In it, the shelves may have the above-described shape and be located one above the other at the required distance, or they may be given a rectangular shape. In the latter case, the structural elements will diverge on both sides of the bearing support at a right angle. Compositions look interesting, where the shelves for flowers are fixed asymmetrically, like a ladder, a Christmas tree. It's good to play on the size of the details. Thus, the product is given the appearance of a pyramid. On the pyramidal structure, it will be possible to expose a whole cavalcade of plants of different sizes.

With hanging shelves for flowers, the situation is even simpler. They are simply fixed on decorative brackets. If you plan to make a multi-tiered model of a flower stand, then all the elements are assembled on a common stand, which is often a piece of pipe. A hole of a given diameter is made in each shelf, and they are strung one after another on a support. Fixing at the desired level is carried out by flanges.

Wooden flower shelves

Wooden shelves are the embodiment of reliability. Properly assembled and well-fixed structures are able to withstand significant weight loads.

And the coasters please with a variety of models. From wood, you can design the simplest options, and a real exclusive. The desire to try to make a beautiful shelf for flowers with your own hands after viewing the photo arises even among not the most gifted creative individuals. And believe me, with certain efforts, they will succeed!

Well, how much skill is needed to varnish a piece of timber and fix it with metal corners on the wall? Even a schoolboy can cope with such a task.

There is creativity - change the brackets for leather belts. Fold them in half and fix them on the wall surface, after which you simply put the timber treated with paint into the loops formed. Such a hanging flower shelf is equally good on the window and on the wall.

You can complicate the task and make a two-tier or three-tier structure of a similar type. In addition to the fact that a large number of pots will fit on the shelf, its design will add individuality to the interior.

Assorted tree trimmings are easy to assemble with your own hands into a corner flower shelf. Blooming greenery with its brightness successfully diversifies the empty corner space.

Connoisseurs of the exotic can combine wood with other materials. In addition to flowers, the compositions will look just great.

Glass shelf for flower window

Although the window is considered the main location of such shelves, no one bothers to move them to the walls and even to the floor. The texture of the glass will allow plants to receive a sufficient portion of light everywhere. Such designs will become a real interior highlight if they are provided with original lighting.But back to the window version. How to assemble such a shelf for flowers with your own hands?

From glass, you need to cut three to five blanks and prepare two wooden slats. Be careful, any glass will not work. It must be thick, from 5 mm and also hardened, otherwise it cannot withstand the weight of the pots.

To fix the shelves, you will have to cut grooves in the rails. Make them deep enough so that they serve as a reliable support for the main load-bearing elements.

Combined flower shelves

The most popular combination is the duo of metal and wood. The wooden base, laid on a beautifully welded or forged figured metal frame, fits perfectly into modern interior solutions as a wall or floor flower shelf.

To create such an accessory, you will need skills in working with metal, so it will be difficult to assemble it with your own hands. It is better to order the model of interest to a specialist.

But this is not the only option for combining materials. The tree can be supplemented with leather, rope, glass. Glass, in turn, forms a wonderful pair with chrome-plated metal, and the latter interacts well with bright plastic. You can take a closer look at the standard and outrageous combined designs on the Internet.

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Ideas for unusual flower shelves

Floating design

"Excellent wall shelves for flowers are obtained from materials donated by nature"

A very effective piece of furniture. The shelf, together with the flower standing on it, seems to be hovering in weightlessness. It is really impossible to determine by what miracle it keeps on the wall.

There are several ways to make something similar, but if you are going to work on the original shelf yourself, use the Crag Jig system.

Excellent wall shelves for flowers are obtained from materials donated by nature. For example, try to ennoble and transform an attractive-looking, not too large snag. It is cleaned of bark, treated with protective compounds, stain or varnish, after which flat sections from a stump or thick branch are attached to wide knots. Having attached an impromptu shelf to the wall, it is additionally decorated with paper butterflies and fabric flowers. The logical conclusion of the composition will be green plants put up on stands.

driftwood theme

For people with imagination, natural materials are just a storehouse of unique ideas. Look at the photo gallery of flower shelves, and you will see that they really make the most successful interior elements.

There is not much work on them, and even that is not difficult. The snags found after the windbreak will just need to be slightly tweaked, trimmed to emphasize the existing shape and simply supplemented with an original stand, or maybe decor.

A floor shelf for flowers assembled from the remains of trees with your own hands will turn out wonderful. Depending on the type of source material, the product may have a stand or rest on a natural base. According to one version, the accessory is assembled from several, medium-thick branches, which, after polishing and varnishing, are installed on a plywood base. Pots of flowers can stand in real nests made of vines, fixed in an interlacing of branches, or on stands made in a geometric shape. The latter are firmly fixed to the branch cuts.

The second version of flower shelves can hardly be called an accessory, as it is a full-fledged element of room decor, which is not just a stand, but a whole semantic composition.The basis here will be the stem part of a sawn tree with a branching system. The branches are cut so that they have the opportunity to fix shelves for flowers at different levels with their own hands. There should be a lot of such coasters and they should not be too large. When plants are placed on them, the effect of a living tree should appear.

A chain is wound around the trunk, on which a cat carved from wood will subsequently be planted. If you don’t want fairy tales, complement the composition with birds of paradise seated along the branches, or implement other design ideas.

Do-it-yourself mobile floor shelf for flowers

A model indispensable in homes where large plants are loved and kept. The simple design of the shelf will help solve the problem of moving heavy flowerpots during cleaning.

How and with what to work

For the main part, you can take a new wooden cutting board, a piece of furniture board. They are given the intended shape and polished. To assemble a flower shelf with your own hands, you need to stock up:

• screws;
• furniture wheels;
• sandpaper;
• screwdriver;
• pencil;
• ruler.

Work progress

The whole complexity of the procedure comes down to the correct fastening of the wheels to the wooden base. Since a massive thing will stand on the stand, it is important that the structure as a whole is monumentally stable.

Markup will help to achieve the desired effect. We turn the future shelf for flowers upside down and divide the surface into 4 equal sectors. Now it is necessary to expand the wheels in each sector so that their fastenings are at least 1 cm from the edge. We mark with a pencil the points of screwing in the screws and fix the movable mechanisms to the shelf. The accessory is ready to use.

Economy version of a multi-level shelf

“This type of hanging flower shelves can be fixed only on wooden window frames”

The design is easy to assemble even by female hands. Let's try together to make a shelf for a window for flowers? It is necessary to prepare several boards, the length of which is slightly less than the width of the window opening, several self-tapping screws and a fabric belt. What is the last one? This is a dense tape used for the manufacture of reins, dog ammunition, insurance.

This type of hanging flower shelves can be fixed only on wooden window frames.

How much to buy ribbons? Calculations will help to make the formula: 4VP + 2SHD + 10cm. The abbreviations are as follows:

• VP - the distance from the point of fixation of the ends of the tape to the shelf;
• SD - shelf width;
• 10 cm is the minimum margin required for a hem.

If this is too difficult, take measurements empirically.

When all the elements are collected, it remains only to form a shelf for flowers with your own hands. For this:

• cut the nylon tape in half;
• fold each resulting part in half:
• gently bending the ends, we fasten the resulting parts to the window frame.
• we put the board in the loops.

In order to make the structure multi-tiered, the tape is stitched across at a calculated distance and the next "floors" of the boards are laid. Assume another multi-layer fixation option, in which new loops are made from tape, but of a shorter length and put them inside the strips supporting the first shelf. The simplicity of the accessory will come in handy in rustic-style interiors. By the way, it will be possible to hang such a shelf for flowers on the wall, on the balcony, on the veranda.

For more stylish environments, the option can be improved and instead of boards, use a plastic tray, for example. Small succulents will feel great on it, and it will be more convenient for you to care for them.

Luminous wall shelves under the flowers

Do you think that we will now talk about hinged structures with LED backlighting? Didn't guess! There is a much more interesting and tempting option to transform a simple flower stand into something non-trivial, mysterious, alluring.

It's easy to add magic to the interior. Prepare an assortment of polyester resins with the addition of pigments with a fluorescent and luminescent effect and an embossed board.

The word "embossed" means a board of low quality: in knots, notches, covered with a network of deep cracks. Well, if it is in an unusual form. That is, not just an even rectangle, but, let's say, something abstract, amorphous, unedged.

Next, the future hanging shelf for flowers is laid on an absolutely flat, level-measured surface and they begin to fill it with a resin mixture. It must fill all the voids and irregularities without going beyond them. After pouring, the cracks are sealed with tape, and work on the workpiece is suspended until it is completely dry.

Then comes the grinding step. The protective tapes are removed and the surface of the shelf under the flowers is carefully, with light movements, processed with fine sandpaper.

The varnishing of the product will complete the work. It is covered with nine layers of fixing varnish.

It remains to fix the design on the wall and wait for the evening to see how it will shine.

Wall shelves for flowers in a similar design will look great in futuristic interiors, as well as children's rooms.

hanging gardens

And this is also possible! There are many ideas about this. For example, to the vegetation on the windowsill, add a hanging shelf for flowers, collected with your own hands and fill it with flowing vine-like ones. A cascade of single hanging shelves looks good on the window. Corners and narrow niches are decorated with the same designs, where wide shelves cannot be. Hanging garlands can become an interior solution for a veranda with high ceilings, loggias.

Hanging shelves for flowers, especially those assembled with your own hands, are a universal accessory that fits into the decor of any stylistic orientation. They can be transformed into ergonomic multi-tiered structures. By saving space, you get the chance to keep as many plants in your house as you like. In such a flower staircase there can be 8 or more steps. However, the more complex the design of the shelf for flowers is, the more accurate the engineering calculations should be. Agree, it will be inconvenient to use a thing if it sways, twists, twists.

Not in favor and too high designs. There will be difficulties with care and watering. Without a good stepladder, the problem cannot be dealt with. Yes, and if there is a ladder in the house, climbing it daily is a dubious pleasure.

Not the best way things are with too wide shelves. There is no access to the last rows.

Wherever you make a shelf for flowers: on the windowsill, in the corner, on the wall - do not be lazy to first sketch out its drawing, then you will be able to analyze the design in detail and make it really reliable for centuries.

Hanging gardens are in demand in interior design. They make out corners of rest and halls, decorate loggias. Assemble a wall-mounted tiered flower corner shelf with an asymmetrical or symmetrical look. Arrange decorative plants with beautifully falling crowns on its steps, put a couple of armchairs with a coffee table against their background, throw a soft carpet imitating the skin of a zebra or leopard at your feet, and now you are almost in the tropics!

A similar picture can be drawn against the background of a flower shelf built from a pallet or part of it. To give it a domesticated look, the wood is sanded, painted or stained and opened with a non-shiny varnish. The design will be a good addition to eco and ethno interiors. In the company of succulents, such a still life will evoke memories of the Wild West.

Original flower shelf in the kitchen

You can’t even imagine what professional designers offer you to work with. If you want a stylish decoration in the kitchen - take beer bottles, boards, screw-in fasteners from staples with links, and get to work! To make it more clear what it is about, look at the photo of such a flower shelf on the Internet. In three of the six boards, we drill 4 holes of such a diameter that bottlenecks pass through them. It should look like the legs of a table. Now it remains to collect all the details into a single whole.

We put the bottles on one board, put the second on top of the necks and fix the result with brackets. Fasteners must be installed so that they are hidden between adjacent bottles. How many such tiers to make at the flower shelf on the wall, decide for yourself.

In addition to the wall structure, you can build an additional shelf for flowers on the windowsill, just make it white and give it the look of a divergent staircase.

Let's use the boxes

If there are several wooden vegetable-type boxes in the house, then you can also assemble a magnificent ensemble from them. They should be sanded, patinated and fixed on a stand made in the form of a three-stage sliding ladder. On such a bookcase, ivy and indoor grapes, hedera and campanula will look great.

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Rules for the location and filling of shelves

“Go away from the standards, because you can make a flower shelf on the windowsill, wall and floor with your own hands from any stick”

In addition to the fact that you need to assemble the shelves for flowers with your own hands, they must also be adequately placed in the space of the rooms. Simple rules will help to harmonize green shoots in a homely atmosphere. What should be remembered when organizing green oases in the house?

If your heart is given to decorative flowering plant varieties, then it is better to place them on a wide floor shelf for flowers, as an option, collected by yourself. However, it should not be done under the ceiling, otherwise, instead of the rainbow effect, there will be a feeling of space distortion. Leave it at a level not exceeding half the height of the room.

Fans of tiered whatnots need to follow the recommendations for composing compositions. The higher the plant stands, the shorter it should be. Therefore, the most magnificent and voluminous individuals occupy the lower shelves, and the smallest ones occupy the upper.

If the shelves for flowers are made by hand, you should take care of the reliability of their fastening, and in the case of floor options, also stability. This is triple important when there are kids and animals in the house.

In the case when it is supposed to place not one, but several plants at once on the shelf, it is worth selecting species with identical care conditions into the group.

Get away from the standards, because you can make a shelf for flowers on the windowsill, wall and floor with your own hands from any stick. It is enough to process and decorate the driftwood with cute details that emphasize the natural origin of the accessory. These can be figures of bugs, moths, bees, applications. Fantasize and create author's masterpieces. Perhaps this will become your hobby and profitable business.

Yes, and in relation to filling, options are possible. Who said that only plants have a place on wall-mounted flower shelves? In the library, for example, books, candlesticks and portraits of geniuses can join them. In the bedroom, flowers will be accompanied by family photos.In the living room there are figurines and original vases. There are mini reproductions in the lobby. In the nursery - toys.

Shelves for flowers are not exclusively a piece of furniture. The area of ​​their application is not limited to four walls. The presence of spacious loggias and balconies allows you to organize full-fledged greenhouses on them. Summer residents decorate flower beds with flower shelves and racks. Their role is played by: bicycles, barrels, old garden stairs, chests of drawers, washbasins, suitcases and other country-attic goods. As hanging shelves for flowers, you can use: a watering can and a samovar, as well as all old utensils that are no longer directly used in the household.

From the green corners decorated in a similar style, it breathes with unique comfort. Self-made shelving structures are the center of a small flower paradise and evoke a constant feeling of tenderness with the simplicity of their solution.

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Conclusion

As you can see createDIY flower shelf even without superpowers. You don't need to spend a lot of money on it. The main thing is to be able to fantasize and have the desire to realize your dreams.

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