Wine Cork Craft Ideas

Panel

It is easy to create a simple picture from corks by filling the outline with scraps and choosing an interesting backing. Advanced artists and craftsmen sculpt stunning three-dimensional panels from this material.

Such wall decorations fit organically into the interior of hallways, living rooms and private offices.

Frame

An extremely simple, but effective craft made from wine corks is a photo frame, a baguette for a painting or decorative rim for a mirror. You will need a cardboard or wooden base, good glue and some free time.

Making such crafts with children is fun – the work is not difficult, so even a capricious child is unlikely to get nervous because he does not succeed in something.

Three-dimensional letters

This type of decor is at the peak of popularity in Europe and the USA. The idea is to make three-dimensional letters and make words out of them. The base can be a wooden backing or a metal frame, but the craft can easily be glued together from the corks themselves and used as a mini-sculpture.

A cute tradition is to confess your love, propose and accept with the help of such letters, leaving messages for each other.

Door handles

Have you broken or lost the handle of a cabinet, bedside table, chest of drawers? Don’t like the look of the handles of your interior doors? With minimal effort, you can make a replacement from wine corks.

Furniture makers use this material to decorate real furniture fittings, which you can’t call a craft, they are so beautiful.

Lamp

Not only from empty bottles, but also from what they were sealed with makes nice table lamps. If you have a lot of raw materials, assemble a full-fledged chandelier. This can be done using a metal frame or knitting needles.

The material is almost non-flammable, which guarantees the safety of homemade cork lampshades.

Candlestick

By pouring a hefty handful of corks into a glass flask or vase and placing a smaller container with an aromatic candle there, you will get an original table decor for a romantic evening.

If you don’t have enough materials for the craft, just surround the glass with a candle with corks in a circle and tie it with twine.

Jewelry organizer

Girls will love the idea of getting a cork jewelry organizer, because earrings can easily be stuck into this material, and rings and bracelets can be hung on the hooks.

Check out a selection of master classes on creating storage organizers.

Hanger

Single corks nailed to a wooden base perpendicular to the wall will serve as a convenient and original clothes hanger.

Key holder

A lighter design made of parallel elements with screwed-in hooks forms a nice wall key holder.

Note board

A note board is constructed using the same principle as an organizer. You can hang it on the wall in the kitchen and pin messages to your family members when you leave for work in the morning, or you can place it above your desk and use it to remind yourself of business.

These boards look great in children’s and teenagers’ bedrooms – kids love to use them and decorate them creatively.

Fridge magnets

Let’s continue the theme of notes – you can attach them to the refrigerator door or a metal board using cork magnets. To do this, cut the base in half and glue flat magnets, “gnaw out” a groove for a thicker magnet with a knife, or simply insert a magnetic button on a pin.

The crafts are easy to decorate, stylizing them as miniature flowerpots, and the plants can be not only artificial, but also live ― tiny succulents will do, for which the soil poured inside will be enough.

Hot coasters

The simplest option is to make a circle of vertically standing wine corks and tighten it with a steel hoop. But you can also get fancy by taking a wooden base and pasting it with individual fragments, creating an interesting geometric pattern.

Cork barely heats up, so it is an excellent material for making coasters for hot dishes.

Furniture

The remnants of former luxury can be used to lay out the surface of the table and fill it with transparent epoxy resin or simply cover it with glass. But it is not necessary to do this – coffee tables with such a tabletop look great even without additional finishing.

There are such enthusiastic masters of cork business who cover large furniture with this material: sofas, armchairs, chests of drawers, wardrobes.

See how you can remake old Soviet furniture with your own hands.

Clock

They say that “happy people don’t watch the clock”, but with such an unusual clock made of corks you will turn this saying upside down. The craft will be more difficult to make, but it will look no worse than store-bought ones. Watch an interesting master class and repeat it at home.

Foot mat

A useful and pleasant craft made from corks is a bathroom mat, which is always warm, soft to the touch and dries quickly. You can use a ready-made rug from a plumbing store as a base.

To make a bath rug, you need to use special waterproof glue so that the product lasts a long time.

Phone stand

You won’t need many wine corks to create an original stand. Such an accessory will look great and will last for a long time. Check out a simple master class from video blogger Alla Gavrilova.

Decorative ball

A completely useless craft, but very beautiful and easy to implement. The diameter of the ball can be different, and if you make several of them, you will get a whole hedgehog composition.

Such balls usually serve as decoration for a home office or living room, but if desired, you can store something between the “needles”, for example, notes, napkins or small office supplies.

Plant markers

The summer cottage season is in full swing, and there is always time for useful crafts. In order not to get confused in the seedlings, it is better to mark them. Making eco-friendly markers from wine corks is easy even for a beginner. It is enough to find bamboo skewers and the corks themselves. Place a cork on the sharp end of a skewer and label it.

Curtains

It is easy to make something like thread curtains using wine corks, strong ropes or metal hooks. If desired, you can add wooden beads or glass beads to them.

Such curtains are usually fixed in doorways, but you can use them on windows as vertical blinds.

Bracelets and necklaces

In addition to interior decor, you can make a beautiful decoration for yourself with your own hands. The ideas are simply amazing in their originality. You can use corks as beads or cut them into small circles and make an original necklace.

Basket

Another craft for the dacha. If you are tired of a dull bucket or basket, then you can easily decorate them with wine corks. Cut the corks in half and glue them to the surface – with such an interesting basket you can not only go for a fresh harvest, but also decorate the table during pleasant gatherings at the dacha.

Check out ideas for creating wicker baskets.

Storage containers

What you can’t make from corks for your home interior: flowerpots, vases, candy bowls, bread bins, boxes… You can easily make any household or decorative container from this grateful material!