How to make a new clock. The original clock decor can be created with your own hands

Karina Moroz | November 9, 2015 | 9456

Karina Moroz 9.11.2015 9456

Tired of the mediocre interior? We will share ideas on how you can decorate any room with unusual clocks made by yourself.

Happy hours are not observed. However, decorative Wall Clock can become not only a wonderful addition to any interior, but also an original gift.

You will need a clockwork (available at special store or taken from an old watch), some flat object to create a dial and a little imagination.

This idea will appeal to creative people.

You will need:

dominoes;
strong glue;
clockwork;
metal sieve for filtering noodles;
ruler;
ballpoint pen, marker or pencil.

1. Wash the sieve thoroughly and dry.

2. Use a ruler and a pen to mark where the dominoes should be placed. Glue them to the sieve and leave to dry completely.

3. Install the clockwork as indicated in the instructions on its packaging.

Set the time on the clock and hang it on the wall.

2. Vinyl wall clock

You will need:

clockwork;
vinyl record.

Make a hole in the center of the vinyl record. Attach the mechanism on the back side, and the arrows on the front side.

Vinyl record can be given unusual shape. To do this, you need to put it in a preheated oven for several minutes, then take it out with kitchen gloves and “blind” any figure from the melted plate.

3. Clock with a floral motif

If you didn't manage to get a clockwork, you can creatively remake the old ones. wooden clock.

You will need:

wooden wall clock;
acrylic paint for wooden surfaces;
tassel;
glue spray;
rhinestones or beads;
a printed color drawing with a floral motif (you can use beautiful wrapping paper or a piece of wallpaper instead).

1. Unscrew the clock mechanism.

2. Paint over the edge of the dial with color acrylic paint. Wait for it to dry.

3. Place the clock face on the plant motif and draw around the outline of the clock. Then cut out a circle slightly smaller than the clock face.

A wall clock is a very practical interior detail. In the kitchen, they make it possible to keep track of time without being distracted from cooking and without turning on the phone for this (especially since hands can be covered in flour, oil or something else during cooking). Located in the room, they allow you to quickly find out the time without reaching into your pocket for a mobile phone. Eco-style lovers can make a clock out of wood with their own hands.

What are the benefits of a wooden clock?

Wood is a special material, items made from it have a number of advantages:

Naturalness.
Low cost(provided that the product is made by hand, because processing by a master often turns out to be quite expensive, especially if it is an individual order).
Originality. Many people like to consider interior items from natural wood However, not everyone dares to keep such things in their home.

A clock made from juniper or other healing wood will disinfect the air. To do this, they do not have to be varnished. The look will be more natural if you carefully walk the sandpaper over the surface.

If you make a clock from a cut tree with your own hands, you can leave a layer of bark. This will give the product a more natural look.

How to choose a tree

The first step is to decide on the view. Will it be linden, soft enough and easy to work with, hard oak or healing juniper? You can choose what is easier to get or buy, and then cover with stain for the desired look.

After selecting the type, find suitable material. There are several possibilities in this case:

It is also possible to purchase a ready-made saw cut at a sawmill, in souvenir or specialized stores, or also via the Internet.
Make it yourself if you have a suitable stump or block, a chainsaw and the ability to use it.
Wait until the annual sanitation is carried out and ask the workers to saw off the right piece. Or take a whole block of wood from them and continue to act in accordance with paragraph 2.

How to prepare material

Before making a clock out of wood with your own hands, you should spend time preparing for work. After the material is found, it should be left in a dry place for two weeks to dry. This is not necessary if the saw cut was bought in a store, however, even a tree purchased at a sawmill can be raw. If the material was taken from freshly sawn trees, the moisture level in it is many times higher than the permissible one. Such a workpiece, not previously dried, should not be taken into work.

If the wood is neglected to dry, cracks may form in the finished clock. In the worst case, the saw cut will split, and all the work done will be spoiled, you will have to start all over again.

Materials and tools

There is nothing difficult in making a clock out of wood with your own hands with high-quality raw materials and tools. What you need to prepare before starting work:

Dry sleep.
Clock mechanism (you can disassemble the old ones or buy cheap ones).
Paint or a burning machine (if you plan not to draw the numbers, but to burn them out).
Scissors.
Tape or paper
Hot glue gun.
Fine sandpaper or sander.
Hammer and chisel.

You can avoid the unpleasant situation when, in the process of work, it suddenly turns out that something is missing, if you make a list of what you need in advance and check it with it.

How to make a wooden clock with your own hands

In order not to complicate your life by sanding the cut or preparing the dial after the mechanism is installed, it is important to follow the correct sequence of actions:

Drill a hole for the arrows in the center of the cut.
Use a chisel and a hammer to make a recess for the mechanism on the reverse side.
Treat the dial and recess with sandpaper or a grinder.
Install the mechanism, attach it with electrical tape and fix the box in which it is located using a thermal gun.
Draw or burn the numbers on the dial.
Set arrows.
Install the mount on the back so that the clock can be hung on the wall.

Having spent not too much time and effort, you can make a clock out of wood with your own hands. A one-off handmade item looks much more interesting than a mass-produced product.

Variety of wooden clocks

A watch from a saw cut is one of the simplest options. By analogy with them, it can be made not from a transverse, but from a longitudinal die. The product will turn out irregular shape, so it is important to select the material so that the longitudinal section is beautifully shaped.

There are many options on how to make a beautiful clock out of wood. Wall-mounted, handmade, made for yourself or as a gift, they will delight their owners for a long time.

Possible design options for wooden clocks:

cut out furniture board base of the desired shape.
Make custom numbers. For example, in the form of coins or wooden balls. You can do without numbers and their designations
Take a lot of thin plates or wooden rulers, fasten them so that you get a three-dimensional circle with a thickness equal to the short side of the plate. Get the original dial.
You can use birch bark stretched in a frame of beautiful branches peeled from the bark as a dial.

Craftsmen can make more complex wood clocks with their own hands.

Drawings of the mechanism can be found on the Internet on specialized resources. In order to create such models, one must have certain experience and skills. More simple options described above can be done by anyone with such a desire and a little patience.

The clock in the kitchen is the main clock in the house, because they are needed both during cooking and during the gathering of all household members about their business. And they can also decorate the interior and demonstrate the taste of the hostess, so they should be chosen consciously. Today we will talk about how to choose a clock for the kitchen with the help of 6 tips and 40 photo examples. Well, for those who like needlework, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the master class on making wall clocks for the kitchen with your own hands, which you will find at the end of the article.

6 tips for choosing a watch

Small kitchen - small clock, large - large

A large clock will clutter up the space, but in a spacious kitchen, or show itself in all its glory and be visible from any end of the room.

Medium and small watches big kitchen"lost" and will not look so impressive. But in small room are both convenient and compact.

The universal size of the dial is 33-36 cm in diameter as in the photo below.

"Duty" hours must be quartz

Mechanical watches are timeless classic, they are durable and valued more than quartz due to a more complex mechanism and manual setting during assembly. However, they have significant disadvantages - high cost, little choice designs, inaccuracies of movement and the need for timely winding. Agree that it will not be very convenient to regularly monitor the operation of the “duty” kitchen clock and start it, especially if it is wall-mounted.

Battery-powered quartz watches are more affordable, more accurate, do not require winding, and are silent. And the design range in this category today is much larger. You can choose from classic models - for example, with a pendulum - to the most modern ones, including electronic ones.

However, if you choose watches for the dining room or prioritize not ease of use, but beauty, durability and chic, then choose mechanical models. Most often they have very high-quality cases, excellent finishes and the classic "functions" of a fight, a pendulum or a cuckoo.

Pay attention to watches with additional features

When choosing a clock for your kitchen, consider what additional features you might need:

If you need them primarily for cooking, then get a small electronic or regular clock with a timer as in the photo below.

Consider a weather station clock if you grow or have, say, wood floors and kitchen set. A hygrometer and thermometer will help you control the humidity and temperature of the air.
Displaying the date and day of the week - simple but useful in Everyday life function.

Best watch for classical cuisine– wooden, with a round dial and Roman numerals

For classic interiors kitchens (baroque, empire, etc.) it is better to choose a wooden clock with a round dial, but not necessarily with a round case. After all, for example, watch cases with a traditional pendulum have the shape of a rectangle or ellipse.
As for the numbers, the Roman ones will be the most traditional, but beautiful Arabic ones will not spoil either.
Watch case and dial classical style preferably from natural wood, and not from common MDF or wood-like plastic. At the same time, for elegant and strict classics, for example, in the palace style, the wood should be polished, and for the Provence and Shabby Chic styles, it should be aged. Other details (dial, hands, etc.) can be metal in the color of antique bronze or gold.
For a dining room in a classic style or for a very spacious kitchen, you can choose not a wall clock, but a floor clock with a pendulum, weights, a fight, or with a buffet and a bar.

The best clock for the kitchen in modern style- concise but original

V modern interiors( , etc.) hours can be concise or, conversely, complex, but in any case original design due to the texture, color, shape of the dial and case, as well as unusual divisions and hands. Modern watches can be made of plastic, wood, and metal.

We do not recommend buying a clock for the kitchen without divisions - they look interesting, but it is inconvenient to track cooking time or navigate how many minutes are left before leaving the house.

In the slider you can see photos of clocks in modern kitchen interiors.

Place the clock in a place where it can be seen both during cooking and during meals.

Where is the most convenient place to put or hang a kitchen clock? The most common places are:

Above dining table or above the bar;
Above a door, arch or entrance;
Above the hood (if it has a visor or allows you to hang the device high);
There is a headset on the shelf (but further / higher from the stove and sink).

Try to choose a location where the unit is not exposed to direct sunlight during the day. The following selection of photos shows some examples of placing clocks in the kitchen.

Master Class

And finally, we present a master class on how to make a wall clock for the kitchen with your own hands.

Step 1. Prepare some kind of base for making a dial. It can be anything: wood, a plate, a vinyl record, cardboard, a polyurethane foam socket, or even an old colander. The main thing is that the workpiece is suitable in size to the hands of the clockwork and it is possible to drill a hole in it for its fastening.

Step 2. We mark the center of the dial and make a hole in it with a drill-driver (at low speeds so as not to damage the workpiece) or an awl. The diameter of the drill should match the diameter of the screw in the clockwork.

Step 3. If the material requires processing and decoration, then this must be done before installing the mechanism. As soon as the background of the dial is ready and dried, you will need to draw divisions or numbers on it (best with a stencil to make it neat). However, if you wish, you can do without them. At the end of the drawing, the entire dial must be covered with matte acrylic varnish on water based in 2 layers. Then the whole decor will become more wear-resistant and tolerant of wet cleaning.

Step 4. Now it's time to install the clock mechanism (you can buy it separately or remove it from an old / cheap watch). To do this, we separate the mechanism from the second, minute and hour hands and insert it into the prepared hole from the wrong side of the dial. Then, on the front side of the clock, we put nuts on the screw, the hour, minute and, last but not least, the second hand (if any).

Step 5. Hooray! The clock for the kitchen is ready, it remains only to twist the hands to make sure that nothing interferes with their rotation, insert the battery and hang the product on the wall.

But such photo ideas for the design and decor of homemade kitchen clocks can be taken into account.

so interesting and modern design You definitely won't find a watch in a store. Simple design from readily available materials. If your guests see this watch at your place, they will definitely pay attention to it, and certainly will not tell you that they saw the same in a nearby store.
Materials I took for the watch:

Wooden board 35 x 35 cm, 18 mm thick (hardware store).
A piece of plywood 3 mm thick (hardware store).
Nails 13 mm long or self-tapping screws.
Clockwork (can be taken from a boring watch).
Yellow paint.
Black marker.

Woodworking tools I used:

Hand saw.
Screwdriver-drill.
Hammer.
Pliers.
Ruler.
Right angle ruler.
Bit.
Sandpaper.

We're sawing a board.

We take our board and determine the size of the future hours. We draw and saw off the base with a hacksaw or hand saw. The 18 mm board saws well and it is advisable to use a saw with fine teeth so that the edges are even and minimal sawing is required. mechanical restoration after sawing off.

Making squares

Further, on one of the corners of the base, I drew rectangles 10 x 5 cm. We drank them with a step. Then I cut these rectangles into 5 x 5 cm squares.
Now you need to sand all the squares, removing burrs, and making the surface smooth.

We start milling holes for the clock mechanism.
We take the clock mechanism and apply it to the center of our base. Outline with a pencil. Next, we cut the recess. I used a wood cutter fixed in a screwdriver. You can also use a chisel and make a recess with it.
During work, we try on the recess to the mechanism. If everything is fine in the horse we drill a hole for the shaft exit, on which the arrows will be put on. After all the work done, we will process the base with sandpaper so that it becomes smooth.

Watch assembly

Before proceeding directly to the assembly of the watch, it is first necessary to prepare 18 small jumpers - connectors. Take a piece of plywood and use a hacksaw to cut 18 jumpers 0.7 x 4 cm.
We arrange the base, lay out our squares almost in a chaotic manner. It is necessary to arrange the squares so that the plywood jumpers are practically invisible. On the reverse side, respectively, we connect everything with jumpers and nails.

Clock painting

For painting, I used spray paint from a spray can. We hold the balloon at a distance of 20 cm and spray on the watch, from one side. After a while, and the paint dries very quickly, we turn the clock over and spray the paint on the second side. Everything, the base is almost ready.

Draw numbers

I took a black permanent marker and just drew the numbers. There is another option - print the numbers on a computer, cut and paste. So you can do that too if you want.

Watch hanger

I screwed in 2 screws so that there was something to hang the clock on. And I tied a rope to the screws so that I could hang it on a nail in the wall or a self-tapping screw.

Today, buying a wall clock or a clock on a shelf is not at all a problem. In the market you can find inexpensive watches in a great abundance of options.

As a rule, detailed clocks look the same, and easily fit into any interior. Such watches are made of cheap materials, so their service life is quite short.

Clocks in the interior, no doubt needed. But if you want a wall clock or a clock on a shelf to be a real decoration of your interior, we advise you to consider ideas on how to make a homemade clock with your own hands.

Yes exactly! Beautiful watch it is not difficult to do it yourself today, because you can find the necessary parts and tools for this in stores.

Homemade watches will cost you much cheaper, they will look original and even expensive, and they appearance will be noticeably different from the usual store options.

Do-it-yourself watches can be made independently using a large number of different decoration methods.

The New Lady Day team decided to assemble original design solutions on the topic "Homemade clocks with your own hands", to help you, our dear readers, find ideas that will tell you what kind of clock to make with your own hands.

Do-it-yourself watches, which you will see in our photo selection, are also the creations of ordinary people or lovers of all kinds of crafts, which suggests that it is quite possible to make a watch with your own hands on your own at home.

We make original clocks with our own hands: homemade clocks in the interior

We note right away that do-it-yourself watches do not require special knowledge from you, because you buy the mechanism in the store, everything else is a matter of fantasy and your desire.

Homemade clocks in the interior can be different sizes and shapes, it all depends on the style in which you decide to create a watch with your own hands.

Homemade clocks in the interior can use not only the usual icons of Roman and Arabic numbers as a dial, anything can serve to designate numbers, the main thing is that homemade clocks with an unusual dial fit into your interior, complement and improve it.

To make homemade clocks with your own hands, you can use a variety of techniques, such as fusing, decoupage, wood carving, etc.

Do-it-yourself homemade watch using fusing technique

As we have already said, do-it-yourself homemade clocks on a wall or on a shelf can be made from all kinds of materials. One of the techniques in which you can make original watches with your own hands is fusing.

For those who do not know, do-it-yourself fusing clocks are made from colored glass, which is cut out with small pieces of glass in different forms, laying out in a certain order to create a three-dimensional pattern or pattern on a watch blank.

For fusing watches, specially prepared pieces of glass are used, which were previously baked in an oven.

To make a clock with your own hands using the fusing technique, you will need a glass cutter, tongs, a grinder and a diamond drill for glass, and, of course, a fusing oven, clockwork, glue, eye safety glasses, a marker.

For some, the fusing technique seems very complicated. Yes, we agree that it is difficult to make such a watch with your own hands, but the result will amaze you.

You will receive a beautiful DIY wall clock with unusual pattern made of glass, which will become the main decoration of your room.

Homemade watches from pre-prepared small pieces of glass can be made by laying out the drawing with the most different ways and combinations. You will be delighted with such an excellent watch.

Clock painting: do-it-yourself homemade clock using decoupage technique

Another excellent technique in which you can create a homemade clock with your own hands is decoupage, which involves hand-painting or gluing rice paper or decoupage cards onto a watch blank.

To make such a clock with your own hands, you will need construction tape, a clock blank, a mechanism, a dial, glue, decoupage stickers, or paints if you draw a picture on the clock yourself, as well as varnish and sandpaper to give the clock an aged look. view.

Creating a homemade clock with your own hands using the decoupage technique, you can draw or paste a picture of any subject, in particular floral pattern, imitation of old boards on which something is drawn, a picture of a city, people, animals, newspaper clippings, etc.

Homemade decoupage clocks look very beautiful in the interior of the kitchen, Provencal and rustic style.

Unusual watch with your own hands: woodcarving

People who are fond of woodcarving will undoubtedly be able to make homemade clocks with their own hands, because such clocks in the interior look very solid and expensive.

For beginners, let's say that a wooden watch with carved patterns requires certain skills, which, in principle, can be mastered if you so desire.

In order to make a wooden clock with your own hands, you will need a drawing of the idea of a wooden clock and wood carving tools.

Also, you can not do without all sorts of additional little things, such as a mechanism, glue, varnish, marker, etc.

Unusual do-it-yourself watches - ideas

We have named the most famous and common techniques with which you can make homemade watches with your own hands.

But besides these methods, with the right tools, you can make a wall clock in the interior from cardboard, plastic, wood, plywood, fabric, buttons, shells, metal, dominoes, bicycle wheels, spoons and forks, old records, and many other materials.

You can also buy ready-made blanks for, and make a watch with your own hands to your liking.

In fact, there are a lot of ideas. Do-it-yourself homemade clocks will be a bright original spot of your interior, the main thing is that you make them willingly, think creatively, stock up on endurance and patience.

We invite you to watch a video of master classes on the topic “Homemade watches with your own hands”, as well as be inspired by ideas from our photo collection of homemade watches using different techniques.