Pumpkin Kitchen Roll Holder - Paper Towel Stand

Testo del post Your kitchen roll is currently sitting on the counter looking like a kitchen roll. This is a solvable problem. A big, smooth, cartoonishly round pumpkin that swallows your paper towel roll whole. The bottom half sits on the counter, a column rises through the roll's core, and the top half drops down over it with a little brown stem on top. What you see is a pumpkin. What you get is paper towel, exactly where you left it. The good bit: it adjusts The column is two parts — a solid post and a sleeve that slides over it with a 0.2 mm fit. As your roll gets shorter, push the sleeve down and the pumpkin lid follows it. Fresh roll, half-used roll, that sad final quarter — the holder keeps its shape the whole way through. No screws, no tools, no separate versions to print. Two colours, zero AMS The pumpkin is one colour, the stem is another, and every part lives on its own plate. Swap the spool between plates and you get a proper two-tone model — no AMS, no wipe tower, no purge waste. If you have an AMS, nothing stops you. You just don't need one. Why it's worth the plate time 🎃 140 mm across. A real countertop object with real presence. 📏 Height-adjustable column that tracks the roll as it empties. 🧻 Fits standard kitchen rolls. The Ø36 mm sleeve slips straight into a normal paper towel core. 🔧 Friction fit throughout. No glue, no hardware, no fasteners. It just assembles. 🍂 Seasonal enough for October, and honestly still fine in February. Print settings   Nozzle0.4mmPrinter / profileBambu Lab A1 · 0.20mm Standard @BBL A1Layer height0.20 mmMaterialPLA — orange body, brown stemSupportsYes — tree (auto). Needed for the pumpkin's curved overhangs. Don't switch them off.BrimAutoInfill10% support cubicWalls / shells2 walls, 5 top, 3 bottom📁 Four plates, print in this order Base — lower pumpkin half (140 × 140 × 39 mm) Upper — upper pumpkin half (140 × 140 × 38 mm) Cilinders — both column parts together (Ø30 × 180 mm post, Ø36 × 127 mm sleeve) Stem — the only part in the second colour (16 × 16 × 34 mm) Print plate 4 last and you only ever change filament once. Assembly Post into the base. Sleeve over the post. Drop your kitchen roll over the sleeve. Upper pumpkin on top, stem into the upper pumpkin. That's the whole build — friction fit, no glue. If the sleeve slides more freely than you'd like, a wrap of tape on the post sorts it out in seconds. Tips 🐌 Slow the outer walls down. 200 mm/s across a 140 mm dome will show every imperfection in the curve. Dropping to 120–150 mm/s costs you some time and buys a noticeably cleaner surface. 🎨 Matte orange over glossy. The pumpkin's ribbing lives on soft shading, and gloss flattens it. Matte reads like an actual gourd. 🍫 The stem is tiny and prints in minutes — try a few browns and pick the one you like. It's the cheapest experiment in the model. ⚖️ If it feels tippy, weight the base. A handful of coins or a few steel nuts in the lower half before assembly makes it rock solid. Kitchen rolls are top-heavy. 🧽 Wipe the base occasionally — it's a kitchen, and PLA picks up grease. It cleans up fine with a damp cloth. 🎁 A white pumpkin with a black stem is a genuinely elegant version if orange isn't your kitchen's palette. Boost MeIf you print one, a Boost or a Make photo helps this model reach other people. I read every single one. 🎃