Give broken vases a new lease of life with faux kintsugi!
If you follow me over on instagram, you might have seen a story of mine recently where the kittens broke another one of our vases (lucky they’re so cute!). It was such a shame as although its just an Ikea vase I loved the style of it. Ikea is a bit of trek for us, and it was literally a few days later that we had a delivery from them, so we don’t have any immediate plans to get another delivery or head up there (although that could very possibly change!). Anyway, it broke really quite cleanly and although we lost a bit of it, when I was looking at the fragments I realised I could probably glue it back together and it would be relatively sturdy.
After a bit of research online, I came across photographs of vases that had been mended with gold (actual gold!), which is a Japanese art of putting pottery back together. It not only looks stunning, but the philosophy behind it, to value an object’s beauty as well as its imperfections without hiding them, is also quite beautiful. I knew I wanted to try and achieve this effect with my vase but obviously melting gold and mending my vase with it was not going to possible. Keep reading to find out how I achieved this faux Kintsugi effect…
Broken vase