How to make a chicken wire cloche
Looking for a cloche for your home in Farmhouse style? Let me show you how I made a budget friendly chicken wire cloche in an hour.
Do you agree that anything looks better under a cloche? Well I think so, that’s why I can never have enough cloches in my home.
Today I want to show you a very budget friendly alternative to a store-bought glass dome. The large and tall glass cloches are hard to find and don’t come cheaply. That’s why I made a homemade cloche out of chicken wire. It was a fast and easy project, and very friendly on the pocket book too.
Supplies for making a chicken wire cloche
You will need:
- Chicken wire
- Work gloves
- Wire cutters
- Needle nose pliers
- Baling wire
- A large vase, bottle or something round to use as a guide
I used a bit of leftover chicken wire I had in the shed. But a role of chicken wire isn’t expensive and you can use it for a whole lot of projects.
How to make a chicken wire cloche
Five easy steps to make your own wire cloche
Get chicken wire
Buy or barter a piece of chicken wire. You don’t need much. A sheet of 2 feet is probably enough.
Put on your gloves
No seriously. This is an important step: put on work gloves! The cut edges of the chicken wire are sharp and you will need some protection.
Use the wire cutters to cut your sheet of chicken wire
I used a vase to use as a guide for the shape and size of the chicken wire. Cut your chicken wire into a sheet. Make sure that the cut edge has little endings sticking out. These will come in handy in the next step
Make a tube of chicken wire
Using your large vase, or bottle roll the chicken wire into a tube. The needle nose pliers will help you to bend the endings from step 3 around the other edge. You will now have a tube of chicken wire that can stand on its own.
Shape the dome
The finished edge of your tube becomes the bottom.
Use the needle pliers to bend to top of your tube inwards. Cut away excess bits of wire with your cutters. Bend the endings around each other until you get a nice dome shape.
It sounds more complicated than it is, because it is really self-evident as you go along.
Because I am always into white, I lightly spray painted my chloche white. But I can imagine it looking good in black too. Or using rusted wire for a junk-style look.
How to use your chicken wire cloche
As you can see I used my wire cloche over some blooming daffodil bulbs. I think the rustic nature of the chicken wire works very well with the delicateness of Spring blooms. Placing a cloche like this over live flowers and plants is ideal, because the open structure of the wire allows them to breath, where a real glass dome would suffocate them.
Of course a cloche like this works great in a junk-style decoration. Place it on a rustic round platter and put a vintage object underneath.
A cloche is also great to group small items together and make them look less cluttered and more like a purposeful collection. Especially when your items are taller and of variating height, they will look stunning under a cloche like this.
And finally a wire cloche is ideal to place over a candle stick or a grouping of candles. If careful you could even burn a small votive candle underneath. It will get plenty of oxygen and the wire won’t burn.
I hope I have convinced you how easy and fun it is to make a chicken wire cloche yourself and how useful it will prove to be in your decorating. Have fun and craft away friends!
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It's a wonderful cloche, Marianne. I like your cupboard, too.
I started buying cloches about 7 years ago. It's taken that long to find all the ones, I have. I seem to find them in all sorts of venues
Mary Carol Garrity's shop, Nell Hill's, has a couple of neat cloches right now, with birds on top. I don't know if she ships internationally.
Her site is:
http://www.nellhills.com
She has authored several beautiful decorating books. I've toured her home a few times and met her. She's a lovely lady.
What a neat idea I'm going to have to try. Love your pictures. Have a wonderful day.
Sandy
It looks great, Marianne! I made one last spring after reading Carol's post too.
What a lovely idea, Marianne. I really like the cloche over the paperwhites, it looks so natural (and I love your white cupboard…I have a little chippy table that I photograph everything on, too!
I have a hard time finding cloches, too. Or if I do, they are very expensive. I want to tell you that there is a Cloche Party tomorrow given by Marty at a Stroll Through Life. You can find her websire on my sidebar. Showing you cloche would be a big hit. Let me know if you have a problem finding her site.
xoxo
Jane
Hi Marianne,
What a great and beautiful idea, I love it. You have something better than a store bought cloche. Thanks for stopping by and the wonderful comment.
The Swedish Room
What a great idea! It is a lovely, fresh take on the traditional cloche. I wouldn't be surprised if they start popping up all over Blogland now!
love it! I think I will give it a try!
Shellagh
it's a lovely cloche! and the table is a dream!
Beautiful! I am so looking forward to Spring, and I love the cloche idea. What pretty photos!
Thanks for linking to the new party!
~Kim
Toch ff wat tips: een kaasstolp kan een goede cloche zijn, ik heb er denk ik al een stuk of 5(!) gekocht bij de kringloop ed. Je hebt van die foeilelijke klokjes onder een….juist ja…voor 3 euro ben je helemaal gesteld en als laatste: er zijn nogal wat plantenstandaards en vazen die omgekeerd perfecte cloches opleveren voor onder de 2 euro heb ik er 3 gescoord van wel 30 Ã 40 cm. hoog. Misschien zijn ze op dit moment net iets te gewild, maar ik wilde je mijn tips toch niet onthouden! Succes!
Who knew some chicken wire could look so chic! Love it!
Blessings!
Gwen
What a cute idea!
What a cute idea!
Isn't that just the cutest thing! I love it, Marianne! And I could never get tired of seeing that table. (I only have one actual cloche myself. Just doing the other glass containers thing.)
Brenda
Isn't that just the cutest thing! I love it, Marianne! And I could never get tired of seeing that table. (I only have one actual cloche myself. Just doing the other glass containers thing.)
Brenda
Marianne, i could look at your white table/cupboard all day long…LOVE your chicken wire cloche…it is beautiful!!!
Oh Marianne it turned out wonderful!!! I just love it with the paperwhites underneath (love paperwhites)!!!!! Great job!
And that white cabinet it fantastic too!
🙂 T
Stoppiong by for the first time from Everything Etsy. Love the look of your blog!
Beautiful project!
What a wonderful idea! It looks so cute!
So pretty! I had a hard time just finding a glass cloche four years ago! Now they're everywhere. But I rarely see wire ones. Paperwhites do smell beautiful!
Manuela
Love the cloche. What a smart idea, making your own! I just love it.
Oh, you're good. This is adorable! Maybe I could do this?
Be a sweetie,
Shelia 😉
What a beautiful idea. Thanks so much for sharing. Lia
I've seen chicken wire cloche before but never in white. It is just lovely! Great job! All of your photos are so beautiful. I'm off to take a look at the rest of your blog.
Simply perfect and I still love that white suitcase table! Lezlee
Wat een lief kastje heb je daar.
groetjes Jannet
So beautiful – what a great idea.
I love your white cupboard ;D
~ Tina
Oh, wat grappig! Nou van mij mag je lekker doorgaan hoor, met je witte kastje te dekoreren!
Een heel fijn weekend – Irma
What a great idea and it looks beautiful. I too had been on the lookout for cloches and lucky for me I was able to find two at our local thrift stores.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Fantastic idea! I love this! You could make it any size you want!!
I have just got to try to make one of these. I just love the look and it is so pretty with the flowers inside. I really love that pretty table too and it is so unique. the display inside is awesome. Thank you so much for joining the party, this is so much fun. Hugs, Marty
Good morning Sheila. You should come by for a visit. Hahaha….I did the same thing too! Great minds I guess. We see something and then have to try it! I loved this idea. I put a small finial on top of mine but it keeps toppling over and I know it will break soon. I love this! Great display. I have a favorite display place too and I wondered…."do people get tired of seeing this!" Hahahah….oh well. We only have one home…this isn't Martha Stewart where there are SEVERAL vignette display areas! Big smile.
Have a blessed day.
Debbie
So lovely cloche!!!
Have great weekend!
Anu
This looks so great! I love it!
Hi Marianne, thanks for visiting my blog. When i read this post, at first I didn't know what cloche was (haha!) but now i do. I like that everythings in the photos were white with candle lights 🙂
Just found your blog…I love cloches,too….I jumped over to the cloche party link you gave,too (Thanks!) and I hope to do a blog post soon!
Heart Hugs,
Coleen
Very clever- and it came out great.
You have such a beautiful home! Neat idea for the cloche. Thanks for visiting Crafty Girls Workshop today and saying hi. I've added myself as a follower and will definately be back soon. Your blog is so pretty too!
Anna
OH! I love your wire cloche! Mayhaps I could try my hand at it!
smiles, alice
Hi Marianne,
I'm so excited I came over…I've seen some fancy chicken wire cloches around and just love them. I too have some chicken wire left over from another project and I thought I could make my own…I really didn't now how I would do it, and here you are…Thanks for the inspiration. Can't wait to make mine. Have a wonderful weekend.
Hugs and Kisses,
♥Ana~A Petite Cottage
You did a great job!I love the smell of paperwhites.
Hello
Love your photos, the wire cloche is very cool.
Blessings
Rebecca
Great design idea…looks great with your plant. I'd like one like that for my deck, come spring.
Enjoy your weekend,
Carrie
Great design idea…looks great with your plant. I'd like one like that for my deck, come spring.
Enjoy your weekend,
Carrie
So cute! When you can't find something, create yourself! Now that is my kind of thinking!
This was a great idea. I think you blog is lovely.
This was a great idea. I think you blog is lovely.
easy and elegant
What a great idea! I'm on the lookout for a cloche also but haven't come across any yet.
Beautiful cloche idea. Its serene. Boy do I love that table its sitting one. What a beauty. Rosie
Thanks for popping over to the UK! I love your pretty blog, what a good idea, the chicken wire! fantastic, what a difference it makes too.
Really enjoyed your post, thank you.
Hugs and Love Suex
Thanks for popping over to the UK! I love your pretty blog, what a good idea, the chicken wire! fantastic, what a difference it makes too.
Really enjoyed your post, thank you.
Hugs and Love Suex
Thanks for visiting me today! I love your wire cloche. I've been seeing them today and this may be an answer, at least until I find one with a little bird on top!
This is my first time seeing your cabinet…I love it!
Sue
What a beautiful cloche! You are very clever. I am only new to your site so I just love your pretty white table!
Thank you for visiting and for your lovely comment. I look forward to seeing you again soon.
Best wishes,
Natasha.
What a beautiful cloche! You are so talented to make it yourself! Great job!
Katherine
How clever of you. It turned out beautifully! I also really like the table it is on. laurie
Those wire cloches certainly are popular. I must get me some chicken wire.
Pretty creation, Marianne! And I like the plant you put in it….Christine
I love this idea!! Very sweet!
Thank you for dropping by my blog.
this is just yummy! the cleaverness of it all!!! brillant. said a girl who has a major crush on chicken wire.
i just started a tumblr blog. just started on…your white suitcase table is on their & soon this will be. love what you create!
What a grand idea! It looks fantastic.
I love your handmade wire cloche. I think I may just have to try this!!!
Rhonda
Oh volgens mij ben ik een tijdje niet bij je geweest…..soms zie ik ook door de bomen het bos niet meer. Wat een mooie cloche heb je gemaakt zeg, echt knap gedaan.
Je foto's in linnenlook zijn ook prachtig. Hoe maak je ze nu in de look? Met een speciaal progr.?
Leuk trouwens dat je even bij me op visite was. Ik kon ze helemaal niet maar het zijn stoffenstempels zei je? En waar werden die voor gebruikt, weet je dat?
Nu nu weer genoeg vragen. Wat een fans heb je trouwens zeg, super.
Zoveel reactie hier maar nog meer volgers ……….
Ik kom vaker bij je hoor.
Fijn weekend
Hi Marianne!
Here comes a greeting from Sweden! 🙂
What a wonderful blog you have!
Gorgeous pictures, really!
If you want to visit my interiorblog you can choose a language, if you want to understand what I write.
It would be an honor to have a visit from you! 🙂
Hugs from
"Miss White in the Madickenhouse"
I so happy to see you lovely cloche, I cannot find them anywhere, so I have been wanting to make one after seeing a tutorial somewhere, don't know where, but I saved some chicken wire aside when we cleaned out our garage. Now I am waiting for warmer weather so I can go in there and find it. Yours looks very lovely! One question, are the holes in your chicken wire fairly small, I am wondering if maybe mine is too big. Thanks, Cindy S.
This is a great option for those of us with nosey hands. I would feel safe leaving this out in my house with my two boys. The glass ones I have to keep up really, really high and then I don't get to enjoy them.
This is a great option for those of us with nosey hands. I would feel safe leaving this out in my house with my two boys. The glass ones I have to keep up really, really high and then I don't get to enjoy them.
Brilliant, Marianne! You made chicken wire elegant!
Amy
Your blog is quite phenomenal beauty and sensuality!
Agneta, Sweden
I have to commend you on your great creativity! Your cloche looks great whether it's glass or chicken wire. In fact, I'd like one of these myself. Thanks for sharing.
Hee Marianne, ik zit net eens alles goed bij je te bekijken en zie….. je woont in M'tricht? dan kan ik ook Nl schrijven denk ik? :))) Je hebt zo'n mooie side, en je dekoraties zijn geweldig, je zult dit wel als beroep doen denk ik? machtig mooi. kompliment. Enne, nog bedankt voor je kompliment. 🙂 Liebe grüsse van Jeany
Je trouve charmant ces globes en grillage de poules.
Bonne semaine
manon
I just love this idea! It looks so pretty and perfect for Spring.
Gorgeous! I love this idea, and I just happen to have some chicken wire, too!
hallo Marianne, schitterend idee die cloche van kippegaas, ga ik ook doen. En je witgeverfde koffer is ook prachtig geworden. Dat wordt dan dus mijn logeerkamertje.
Doei, Ans