Pottery: ideas for homemade ceramics

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Ideas for homemade ceramics

We have collected ideas for pottery that will make the house and garden even cozier. Here you will find great craft ideas from practical to decorative!

Pottery: Ideas collected for you

Upcycling, sewing or pottery: DIY is very trendy! Decorating, painting, embellishing and handicrafts are a wonderful balance to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Pottery in particular can be a meditative act, who gets us out of the job stress. But how can I learn pottery? You can book a pottery course or as the saying goes: learning by doing! With guidebooks and a lot of trying out, you are guaranteed to succeed with pottery.

Pottery: ideas to get you started

This is what you usually need to design ceramics:

Buying your own (small) kiln is probably not an option at the beginning. But some pottery studios offer to fire pottery for a small fee.

If you don’t feel confident enough yet, you can also start with small projects that don’t require a turntable yet. For example, you can use Soft-Ton to create a simple mug with decorations. This clay also air dries, so you don’t need a kiln. In this way you can first test whether pottery is something for you at all.

Pottery: ideas for beginners

Whether for herb signs for the garden, Christmas tree decorations or just a heart – to get acquainted with the matter, such smaller figures are perfect. A vase or bowl is also a nice way to try things out at first.

Pottery: ideas for practical household helpers

Our beautiful DIY pieces should look chic and ideally still be practical! The advantage of self-made pieces: Depending on the home furnishings, we paint them the way we like it best, such as a jewelry holder with a plant motif:

Misplaced your smartphone again? With this phone holder do you always know where it is:

So the cards no longer fly around in the drawer, but have a decorative regular place – always at hand!

Space-saving and chic:

Making pottery: garden design ideas

Flower pots, bird baths or an elf horn: Ceramics also look beautiful in the garden!

Pottery: ideas for decoration in the house and garden

It doesn’t matter whether it’s winter or summer, there are great pottery ideas for every season and every occasion. Get inspired by more DIY pieces:

By the way: You can find even more great DIY trends, instructions and handicraft tips on our handicrafts topic page: Whether making your own shower gel, making the salt dough recipe yourself, painting children’s rooms or making window pictures – here you will find everything that makes DIY fun!

Video tip: Make your own hanging basket: How it works!

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