DIY candlesticks: tips and master classes on how to decorate your interior simply and beautifully! (125 photos)

Original handmade candlesticks will be an excellent holiday decor. They can be used to decorate a dining table, shelves and other furniture sets.

There are different ideas for making candlesticks. In the photo of candlesticks made by yourself, you can clearly see various examples of making such decor.

Various materials can be used for manufacturing.

Candlestick made of wooden saw cuts

One of the best ideas on how to make a candlestick with your own hands at home is to use wood cuts. This material is actually an almost finished original candlestick.

This decorative candlestick is suitable for decorating the interior for any occasion.

You can prepare the cuts yourself or purchase ready-made ones. Depending on your wishes, choose saw cuts of the required sizes. To make a seat for a candle in a cut, use a drill.

A forstner drill is ideal as a tool. But you can also use a wood crown, a pen drill or a spiral.

Wooden block candlestick

Another good way to make a candlestick with your own hands is to use a wooden block. Instead, you can use a dry log or a board of appropriate dimensions.

The following tools and materials are needed:

a fairly wide dried wooden block;
a drill with equipment of a suitable diameter (to make a place for a candle);
square;
hammer;
gloves;
roulette;
stain and brush;
pencil.

We make a candlestick from wood with our own hands:

Cut a piece of the bar to the required length. Select sizes based on your needs. Determine how many candles should be placed, what is the distance between them, etc. Sand the cut area.
Mark places for candles. Start by determining the length of the edge margins. Next, simply place the candles on the workpiece, as they will then be placed.
Use a drill with a suitable attachment to make seats for the candles.
If desired, the wood can be given the appearance of antiquity and careless processing by tapping the sides with a hammer.

Stain the wood. Regular paint should not be used, as it will mask the natural wood texture for which the block was used.

Do-it-yourself wooden candlestick - progress of work

Let's take a closer look at the process of making a candlestick using the example of an angel figurine. First, let's prepare the details - the base, torso, arm parts, wings and other additional elements.

We make flat platforms on the body in the places where the arms and wings are attached (photo 1). We cut the blanks for each arm in the middle at an angle of 45 degrees, turn the parts over and glue them together (photo 2). We attach the arms to the body on dowels with glue (Fig. 1). To make the candlestick stable, we glue the figurine to the base - a round stand cut from thick plywood. We glue small legs to the stand from below.

Near the body, in the place where the wings will be attached, we form flat areas necessary for better contact (photo 3). Having glued the wings, we proceed to making cups for candles.

We knock out metal cups in the form of hemispheres with a leveled bottom using a hammer with a round head from sheet brass 0.5 mm thick (Fig. 2).

The diameter of the cup should be 1-3 mm larger than the diameter of the candle. After knocking out the center of the cup, we drill or punch a hole with a slightly smaller diameter than the diameter of the wire for the tip. We place a cup on the pointed end of the wire, and attach the other end of the wire segment to the corresponding hole in the figure’s hand.

If you paint a figure with watercolors right away, without applying primer, the wood texture will be visible. If you use gouache, tempera or acrylic, the figurine must be coated with acrylic primer. For this purpose, you can use PVA glue mixed with white gouache and diluted with water (photo 4).

Candlestick made from a glass or bottle

Hand-made candlesticks from glasses look very attractive. A glass is actually a ready-made candlestick.

It is enough to simply place a decorative candle in it. Alternatively, you can fill a glass with wax and install a wick to create a unique candle.

You can make a similar candlestick using the bottom of a glass bottle. Bottle candlesticks, unlike their glass counterparts, look more vintage and sophisticated. To make them you need to use cut bottles.

Design and operation of lathes

A wood lathe has one limited function: it only turns a piece of wood.
A carpenter gradually turns a finished object from a simple piece of wood: legs for furniture, a lamp body, railing posts, toys, boxes, cups, salad bowls, vases, etc. Unlike other woodworking machines, which are used only at certain intermediate stages, a lathe is suitable for all operations: from roughing to polishing. The required tools are grooved (cylindrical or V-shaped) and flat chisels, cutters, scrapers of various sizes and shapes. The machine rotates the workpiece, and the hand controls the movement of the cutter.