Crafts From Laser Discs For Home And Garden

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Compact discs are a thing of the past, they were replaced by other technologies. Previously popular material lies unnecessarily and requires disposal. But in the right hands, this is the potential for creativity. You can make useful things for summer cottages from disks and decorate your home interior

CDs and suburban area

Compact discs are ideal material for outdoor crafts. Works made with CD, DVD are durable: they are not afraid of cold, rain, snow and sun. You just need to choose the right material for fixation.

Summer residents use discs in different ways. They create planar figures for the garden. For example: windmill, animals, flowers, birds, insects. Having fastened the elements with wire, plastic cords or branches, they construct volumetric figures.

Laser discs are often used for garden purposes. They serve as additional illumination of shady areas. For this purpose, they are placed in a sunny place in the form of a decorative planar image, a stand-shield, on the wall of a house, a fence. The refracted sunbeam is directed to the shaded flower garden, creating a comfortable environment for the plants.

The discs help save the crop. It is enough to tie nylon threads to them and hang them on the branches of fruit trees, they will scare away birds and your cherries, plums, apricots, currants will not suffer from the invasion of feathered gourmands. Also, bird nests will not appear on the site and sparrows will not settle.

Hanging balls, turntables made of discs will not only bring originality to the design, but also make your territory inaccessible to small rodents, crows, jackdaws. Walking chickens will be an obstacle to leaving their home territory. The reflective ability of CD, DVD is used to eliminate overheating of the roof, pasting them partially or completely over the surface of the roof of the terrace, gazebo, veranda, utility block.

The use of discs for interior decoration

Compact discs are interesting material, working with them you can create masterpieces for your home without any problems. There are no limits to imagination and ingenuity. The home interior will be magnificently decorated with lamps from disks, photo frames, vases, candlesticks, boxes. Flowerpots and flowerpots pasted over with discs look interesting.

Many decorate pieces of furniture with colored pieces, paste over the coffee table top, make wall mosaic panels. Whole discs are used to create decorative curtains, containers for trifles, and coasters for glasses.

How to cut CDs, DVDs

Flickering and refraction of light on the disk occurs due to the surface holographic film. When working with this material, you need to take into account its fragility and try to keep it intact.

Scissors are used for cutting. The density of the material assumes the use of quality, hard and sharp instruments. It is advisable to choose large-sized scissors: garden or kitchen scissors for cutting poultry. More convenient discs for cutting will not be for double-sided recording, but with plastic with an image on one side, and a holographic film on the other.

Fixation of "laser" elements

Having mastered the technique of cutting discs, you can not limit yourself in shapes and sizes, create different pieces, which will then serve as material for exclusive crafts. Before work, you will only need to sort large and small pieces into separate containers.

Any glue is used, for the street it is necessarily waterproof. It can be tested by trying to glue two plates together. If, after drying, they hold tightly, then the glue is suitable.

When creating monolithic large surfaces, cement mortar is used. In this case, the process of creation is faster. Cut pieces are placed on the solution, barely pressed / pressed. Half an hour after laying out, the excess cement that has come out must be removed and the surface of the discs wiped with a vinegar solution. For this, 9% vinegar and water are taken 1: 1. The finished project can be protected from scratches with epoxy. The product will have a shiny, transparent, hard surface that does not affect the holographic effect.

Mosaic discs for wall decoration

Any country building, decorated with a shining mosaic of discs, will successfully highlight any area. In addition, the reflective effect will fill the space with light, give an interesting look and visually enlarge the boundaries. In shady places, it will serve as additional lighting. A similar mosaic can be done inside the house, for example, in the kitchen, in the hallway, in any small room.

To create a mosaic, select an area on the wall, mark the boundaries with a marker. You can use glue or cement mortar. Begin to glue from the corners, gradually moving towards the middle, filling the entire plane. Large chunks with gaps are applied first. When the entire area is covered, start filling in the gaps with mini scraps.

In any case, on the finished surface, you will have gaps between the disc pieces. These places are filled with cement mortar, followed by cleaning the surface of the discs with vinegar. After drying, a protective epoxy adhesive is applied.