Mosaic by Your Hands

Currently, some things done by themselves, are of particular importance. Buy in the store or find on the Internet you can almost everything you need, in the light of this special value can represent any thing done by yourself, a mosaic with your own hands, for example. Mosaic can decorate a variety of interior objects of a country house and individual items. In addition to the fact that the surfaces with mosaic will serve as a good decoration of the interior of the house, parts of the facade and individual elements of small garden architecture and sculpture, they can acquire an additional semantic and functional load. In addition, making jewelry for a country house or a garden with their own hands, is especially easy and pleasant.

The most interesting thing is that the mosaic with its own hands and with love and artistic taste performed can decorate not only large surfaces, such as the walls of a country house, but also quite small household items - these can be flower pots, for example, trays or countertops. Moreover, mosaics are often adorned even hung in the garden bird feeders and original swimming pools for feathery friends. Nobody can forbid to decorate with the use of pieces of colored glass and decorative pond, and "weeping wall", and even garden paths, that's just the way to walk with such beauty - it will be a pity to be ...

Now it's time to talk about how to make a mosaic and from what materials. The most beautiful panels are obtained, probably, from smalt, but it's more to whom one likes. Smalta is a very interesting material, which is an opaque colored baked glass. Smalta is usually performed in the form of plates or small cubes. It is used especially for making mosaic. Very fine look small items of household utensils, decorated with mosaics of smalt, but the patterns and whole pictures, made in this technique by the real artists, look great too.

If smalt is not at hand, it is possible to use other options - from pieces of broken colored glass to broken tiles. You can use anything, and in a variety of combinations. Even colorful bright beads are quite suitable for creating mosaic pictures.

Well, well, so how to make a mosaic - let's move on to practice. First, you need to select a sketch of the future product. After this, the process of the birth of a mosaic pattern begins, consisting in careful laying out the pattern with colored pieces. The main requirement in the performance of this work is extreme care and accuracy, otherwise it will be possible to simply spoil the almost ready work.

To begin with, on a full-scale sketch lay out the entire composition, after which you need to prepare a surface, which will be decorated with a pattern or a picture of smalt. Clear the surface of dust and dirt is not just necessary, but it is necessary, otherwise the finished mosaic will not hold properly. Then on the cleared surface it is necessary to put a special compound - any mixtures that are placed on a ceramic tile, for example, vetonite, are suitable. It is undesirable to abuse the thickness of the bonding layer, just a few millimeters.
Now on the surface you need to very carefully move all the pieces that were laid out on the sketch, while the pieces should be slightly pressed into the base.

After the last piece has been laid, you need to step back a little to the side and, looking around the work, admire it and evaluate whether everything is done as planned. If everything is fine, the pieces can be drowned in the solution completely as it should. Next, the surface should be slightly tampered and smoothed, and remove the excess solution with a knife. An hour and a half later, the resulting mosaic with its own hands can even be polished with a dry clean cloth.

Mosaic with its own hands, made of smalt, can be used to decorate dishes, trays, as well as sections of walls in living quarters. If you use less "noble" material, such as broken tiles or colored stones, then it is appropriate to decorate the blind walls of buildings outside, garden paths and even deaf fences - all this will look spectacular and beautiful.

Thus, with a little effort, you can decorate any room. So tile for kitchen mosaic will by all means make this most popular in the house a premise in which in the evenings the whole family gathers, more cozy and attractive.

It is understandable that the design options for rooms using a mosaic can be a huge number, so you need to give vent to your imagination.