Inexpensive beautiful and eco-friendly furniture in your home - is it dreams, fantasies or still reality? The answer to your wishes is the excellent and original cardboard furniture !You can not even imagine what a huge amount of various furniture you can make yourself from this material. And how to make dreams a reality, you will learn from our article.
Today cardboard furniture is very popular in many countries. Its advantages are quite understandable - light, durable, eco-friendly, inexpensive and, most importantly, it can be easily manufactured with your own hands.
Look around you and pay attention to the furniture that surrounds you. What do you see: a table, chairs, stools, a cabinet, a furniture wall, shelves. This is all you can do yourself from cardboard. And, believe me, the strength of such furniture will not be much inferior to chipboard or wood.
A huge number of interesting ideas you can realize only in one in the children's room: to make a fairy castle, original children's chairs and even armchairs, interesting in the form of shelves for books or toys, cut out in the form of various animal lockers.
Unusual bookshelves for a children's room from cardboard
Without limiting yourself to a children's room, you can decorate a dining area in a cardboard style: a large table, comfortable chairs.
Interesting furniture from cardboard photo
Even such a conservative room as an office can be supplemented with various elements from pressed cardboard, for example, an organizer for pens, rulers and other trifles, author's stylish shelves, intricate table lamp.
Unusual bookshelves from cardboard
Office furniture from cardboard boxes
Cardboard furniture for office
Cardboard furniture for cabinet
If you can not make any interior items yourself, but you want to surprise your friends or just make an extraordinaryity in your homespace, order furniture from pressed cardboard from the manufacturer, which works with this material.
Cardboard furniture for cabinet
Cardboard bed
Cardboard furniture Photo
Another surprise for many will be the use of cardboard furniture outside the premises - tables in a street cafe. In order to emphasize the feature of such furniture, you do not even need to paint it.
Cardboard table
The presence of cardboard items in your home or office will show you and how advanced in the movement of a recycling person. The main task of this movement is from the secondary raw materials, unnecessary items, to make interesting and useful objects in everyday life. The whole European part of our continent, as well as the West of the keen one, is mastering in this direction.
Even fashion designers at the exhibition represent furniture from pressed cardboard: racks, chests of drawers, sleeping sets, hallways, bedside tables for a vase or TV, computer tables and much more. Of course, the cost of furniture from a well-known brand will be much higher than your own work, and buying designer furniture from cardboard may become equivalent to buying ordinary furniture. But why overpay for what you can do yourself!
Original furniture from cardboard of German designer Reinhard Dienes
Designer furniture from cardboard from SmartDeco
Designer furniture from cardboard from SmartDeco
Designer table from white cardboard from SmartDeco
Designer table from cardboard from SmartDeco
Designer table with boxes from cardboard from SmartDeco
Designer cardboardfurniture from SmartDeco
Before proceeding to the basics of manufacturing cardboard furniture, it is necessary to understand what kind of cardboard is needed. What gives strength to our future product.
The cardboard we need is corrugated. As a rule, home appliances are packed in such boxes. Such a cardboard is called laminated. It can have one layer and be called a single layer, two and three layers, respectively. The more layers, the stronger your construction will be. Therefore, it is best to use the last two types of work: two-layer and three-layer. Also, the strength of cardboard depends on its color: light cardboard is less durable than dark.
You also need to distinguish between the front side of the cardboard and the back of the cardboard. To understand this, it's enough to look at it and hold it by hand - the smooth side is facial, and it can also have different inscriptions.
What is necessary for making cardboard furniture with your own hands
In order for the process of making furniture to go smoothly and you do not distract anything, first of all you need to properly prepare. All tools should be at hand. If you have small children at home, it will be best if the main process of work passes without their participation. If the children have already reached the age of 5, then their participation, on the contrary, is very useful, especially if the interior subject that you plan to make is intended for the children's room.
Here is a list of handy tools and additional items that you may need to make furniture from cardboard boxes( of course, this list you will adjust depending on what you decide to make):
- metal rulers of different sizes;
- centimeter tape;
- stationery knife for cutting paper;
- pencil for marking;
- elastic band;
- glue gun;
- liquid glue "Moment";
- glue for wood high-speed;
- Adhesive for wallpaper universal;
- brushes for glue;
- sandpaper( you will grind the sections by it);
- adhesive tape: protective and paper to glue the edges;
- moist sponge;
- parquet varnish;
- paper kraft or tracing paper.
The closest thing to the list is Kraft paper. It is brown and white in color. Its purpose is to make the -ready cardboard furniture smoother, and also edge the products with this paper. First, brown edges are processed all the edges and seams, and then lightly pasting all furniture to make it more convenient to decorate. If you do not have kraft light paper, you can use tracing paper instead. To glue the corners, you can use a protective tape, it is glued with a wet sponge. Another way is to use white acrylic paint instead of white kraft paper.
The main conditions when working with Kraft paper and tracing paper - do not cut them with a knife or scissors, and rip!
We make furniture from cardboard with our own hands
Having all the essentials at hand, you can start working. For an inexperienced master it is not recommended to take immediately for complex pieces of cardboard furniture. Take what is easier. The fact is that, without knowing some of the nuances that will arise in the work, you can cool off from this lesson and not only not finish what you started, but also not make other furniture options that could be a push in your skill.
Pattern for the beginning is better to download from the Internet. As a rule, it is very easy to show how to make cardboard furniture in the master classes, so repeating everything to the smallest detail, you will be able to fill your hand and in the future yourself to come up with different shapes and furniture options for your home.
The most simple items that can be made from cardboard are a children's or coffee table, as well as various shelves for books and interior items, small boxes for the children's room. By the way, as the legs for a table or stools you can use cardboard tubes, on which food film, foil or baking paper was wound. But cardboard tubes from the fabric can be used for the legs of large tables or as a basic construction under a multi-level cabinet.
Cardboard furniture with your own hands
Cardboard shelf with your own hands
10 useful tips for the correct manufacture of cardboard furniture
- Furniture of a symmetrical shape will be more stable. You can draw one half of the picture, because the second one will be identical to the first one.
- If you have planned a large ledge in the projected furniture, you should understand that this can lead to its instability. The way out is to add a support to the protruding surface. You can make it from cardboard tubes.
- As a rule, furniture has at least 3 elements: a facade;back wall;one or more internal elements( they are scored, in which later it is necessary to insert transverse parts).The number of transverse parts depends on the depth of your furniture and its stability.
- Furniture that will be actively used for a large number of items, for example, bookshelves, tables, should be more solid, and which you do not plan to overload, it can be easier.
- When you design the future furniture, do not forget that approximately 0.6 cm you will go to its pasting.
- Cutting the cardboard is most convenient with a jig saw, but do not rush, but gently draw the line to the corner.
- If you cut cardboard with a special paper knife, then a metal ruler will help you.
- Using two elements for cardboard furniture, which overlap each other, pay attention to the direction of the waves. So, the first layer: the waves go horizontally, and on the second part the waves should go upright. This will give greater strength to the structure.
- If your design consists of boxes of different sizes placed on top of each other, then they can be fixed together with special plastic clips that are used in cafes on street tables to keep the tablecloth from gusts of wind.
- If you do not know where to get large cardboard tubes, then contact the fabric store, they just throw them away.
How to decorate furniture from cardboard with your own hands
You can decorate cardboard furniture with everything your heart desires:
- fabric - you can forgive it for putting it on special pins;
- wallpaper - use the patterns you like or the same as on the walls of the room;
- self-adhesive paper with printed pattern;
- acrylic paints - with their help you can decorate furniture in any colors, mix them or create drawings;
- various applications, decoupage.
How to decorate furniture from cardboard with your own hands
How to decorate furniture from cardboard with your own hands
Designer cardboard furniture from SmartDeco
As you can see, the process of making cardboard furniture by oneself is very interesting and fascinating, it turns out to be really exclusive. If you have children, then thanks to this method, you can not only develop their creative origin, but also to enable themselves to make furniture for their toys, houses, garages and much more. If you are just a creative person, then surprise your loved ones and friends with new furniture now for you will not be very difficult.
