Jewelry box: exquisite chests for every taste (23 photos)

A jewelry box is the most convenient attribute of a dressing table that allows you to store all kinds of small items, cosmetics, watches, etc. These small chests can be of various designs and are made from completely different materials: ordinary cardboard, wood, metal, leather. You can buy them in a store or make them yourself.

A bit of history

The jewelry box is a small box or box with a lid, designed to store jewelry, securities and other small items.

In ancient times, the box was called a casket, a casket or a bag. As a rule, all chests used to have a lid with a lock. Very often, these items were equipped with caches, for example, a double bottom or a special hidden space in the thickness of the lid. Sometimes a jewelry box made by a skilled craftsman had a special secret. It was possible to open such a product only by doing a series of certain manipulations.

A jewelry storage box could have a very high cost. Indeed, for their manufacture and decoration, a variety of valuable materials were used: ivory, gold, silver, precious and semiprecious stones. In addition, the craftsmen used technologies that were quite complicated for that time to create products: engraving, cloisonne enamel, filigree, grain, inlay. The best examples of such products, belonging to previously wealthy nobles, are now stored in museums.

Varieties of modern caskets

A modern jewelry box may well look no worse than its old predecessors. Moreover, with the development of technology, the ability to diversify the finish of this accessory never out of fashion has grown at times.

On the shelves of stores today most often you can find different types of caskets.

Caskets made of wood

Most often, these products are decorated with exquisite carvings or burn patterns and even pictures on them. Wooden jewelry boxes are considered a classic. The price for them can vary in a fairly wide range, since they can be made from ordinary wood, as well as from valuable wood species.

Leather caskets

A leather box is more suitable for a man. As a rule, such products look expensive and solid. The men's box does not need an abundance of decorative jewelry. She can be pretty concise. For her, it is quite successful to choose the texture and skin color. Such an accessory will serve faithfully in the storage of men's watches and jewelry (cufflinks, tie clips, etc.).

Caskets made of glass or crystal

Transparent glass or crystal caskets will reliably preserve jewelry and give the sophisticated interior lightness and special sophistication. Sometimes glass trunks are placed in a frame of metal, and also decorated with elegant metal patterns in the form of a flower, butterfly, etc.

Porcelain Caskets

Porcelain boxes are often decorated with hand-painted.They are considered a budget option, but they look very aesthetically pleasing, and in some cases such a white jewelry box may be as good as expensive models.

Caskets made of stone

A jewelry box made of stone, on the contrary, will not be affordable for everyone. These are, as a rule, exclusive products from jasper, malachite, carnelian, serpentine or from other semiprecious stones.

Metal caskets

A metal box for jewelry is a rather rare instance. Most often they are made of simple metal, and then coated with silver or tin. However, sometimes small caskets for especially valuable or memorable items are made entirely of silver or even gold, but there are very few such items.

When choosing a box, remember that this is not just a box for storing small items or jewelry. A casket is an interior decoration and an indicator of your aesthetic taste.

How to make the right choice?

What should be a jewelry box, a woman must decide for herself. To better navigate the variety of models, listen to simple tips:

• choose the size of the chest in accordance with the number and dimensions of the items that you plan to store in it, for a small ring it is unlikely to need a large box;
• so that small objects do not accidentally crumble, or so that small children do not use jewelry as toys, it is better to choose models with locks;
• a multi-tier jewelry box is very convenient if you want to place a large number of small items in different compartments (for example, one tier can be identified by rings, the second by earrings, the third by necklaces, etc.);
• the material of the box and the style of its design must necessarily harmoniously fit into the interior of the room.

A jewelry box is a great gift. Indeed, almost every woman will find many items that will be very convenient to store in such a chest.

DIY box

Those who do not yet have a useful chest for storing little things in the house should not despair, because a handmade jewelry box for jewelry can very well become a pleasant addition to the interior.

How to make a jewelry box made of wood, of course, people who know how to hold carpentry tools in their hands can figure it out. However, this requires certain skills and dexterity, but to make the treasured casket of cardboard on the strength of anyone, even a child. All that is required is a suitable box size and a bold flight of imagination.

The easiest way to make a chest from a box of perfume or cosmetics. The size of your future box depends on what size you choose the base (larger or smaller).

If there is no suitable box at hand, you can make it yourself from cardboard. By the way, in this case you will have the opportunity to give the box the desired shape. For example, it can be made round or in the shape of a heart. To do this, cut out the base of the desired configuration and stick to it along the edge of the strip of cardboard of the desired height.

After the box is ready, it remains only to give it a beautiful aesthetic appearance. The easiest way to do this is to glue the surface with colored paper. Next, the box should be decorated with decorative elements: applique, flowers, rhinestones, sequins, colored stones, patterns using the quilling technique, etc. Absolutely everything that your imagination can suggest is suitable.

The inner part can simply be covered with wrapping paper or made soft by cutting out pieces of thin foam rubber and covering them with a cloth.

Very beautiful caskets are obtained from threads on the principle of weaving baskets. They are made very simply:

• the base of the desired shape is cut out of cardboard;
• holes are pierced at a small distance from the edge in cardboard around the entire perimeter, about a centimeter from each other;
• ordinary toothpicks are inserted and glued into the holes;
• then the toothpicks are staggered to the top with braids of colored thread;
• weaving is decorated with rhinestones, colored stones or beads.

Your casket is ready. It remains only to decorate the ends of the toothpicks with a ribbon, a beautiful chain or in any other way.

A casket is an item that will reliably keep your jewelry, watches, jewelry and other little things safe and sound. And it is not necessary that this accessory cost a huge amount of money. Do-it-yourself products can also look quite beautiful and even elegant if you put a drop of spiritual warmth and a little imagination in them.