Cardboard dresser in the interior

In each of us the creator lives. In a certain period of existence, a person, as an individual, needs to do something with his own, not always golden hands. These impulses get their embodiment in all different ways. It depends on the degree of skill.

Original handmade products

It has become a fashionable trend to make products in the style of handmade - soap, decorative objects, decorations, paintings, watches, interior items, and much more. A furniture maker with carpentry skills can easily make a dresser, table or chair made of natural wood with smooth lines and carved details.

What do those who are bursting with creative impulses, but there are no special skills? The process of designing and gluing furniture out of cardboard will help you to express yourself. This is a cheap option; it helps to make a full-fledged and worthy piece of furniture for a children's room, living room out of unnecessary boxes, pieces of wallpaper.

White mini-chest of drawers

To make a chest of drawers from cardboard, another available material will be under the force of each. When buying home appliances remain boxes. We throw them away, despite the dense walls. Gluing the cardboard in several layers, we obtain an object having the desired strength.

Multicolored cardboard chest for sewing accessories pasted over with fabric

Cardboard furniture: design and construction

Beautiful small decoupage cardboard chest of drawers

In the manufacture of cardboard furniture there are several options for implementation. You can make separate patterns of the side walls, top, bottom, and then glue all the details. Another option is to insert smaller boxes into a large box from a refrigerator or a washing machine. The walls will come out stronger.

If to paste over an internal surface of shelves with bright fabric or color wall-paper, external - monophonic, the original, open rack will turn out. Shelves are able to withstand books, photo frames, a vase with flowers, other decorative items.

Cardboard chest of drawers

Having exposed the cardboard to the external, internal decoration, no one will guess that the rack, the chest of drawers from the cardboard boxes, you did yourself.

White cardboard chest of drawers with drawers of different sizes

Cardboard features and necessary tool

The cardboard is suitable for design and decor, providing the most diverse, original forms.

Starting to translate your creative ideas, consider the design of the future product, the place where it will be located. Cardboard, as a material, has advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages and disadvantages

• Strength. A chest of drawers made by hand is able to withstand decent loads.
• Low cost. You can do without investments, if the house has a supply of cardboard or you know where to get extra.
• Environmental friendliness. After use it is easy to dispose. Cardboard is a natural material that cannot pollute the environment.
• Flexibility. If desired, the subject is given any shape.
• Shorter service life. Cardboard is not a tree, it cannot last for 20-30 years. With careful use and high-quality assembly, the cardboard will last 5 to 10 years.
• Use in dry rooms. Cardboard is afraid of moisture. In the bathroom such a thing can not be put.

The main material from which the product will be made is cardboard. To him we take glue "Moment" or "Titan", PVA. Some use a glue gun. Ruler, stationery knife, pencil, too, will be useful.

Tools for making furniture from cardboard

For decorating, we use wallpaper, furniture film, fabric, acrylic paint, and accessories for boxes.

A small homemade cardboard chest of drawers decorated with cloth

The process of making a chest

Cardboard mini dresser for organizing stationery

For those who will be the first to make a cardboard chest of drawers with their own hands, choose a model easier. It is best to make a classic object of simple shape - a rectangle with 3-5 drawers.

Neat chest of drawers of cardboard boxes, pasted over with paper and with handles of ribbons

The production process consists of several stages.

1. Draw on paper a sketch of furniture in accordance with the size of the place where it will stand. Determine how many blanks you need to cut, exact dimensions.
   

   Making blanks for drawers according to the drawing

   

   For each box-box we make compartments according to the drawing.

2. Cut blanks back, side wall in double size to glue together. It is done for the fortress. Connect the surface with glue-moment, glue gun, then place it under the load for an hour, for coupling.
   

   Cut out blanks for the future dresser

3. From the inside of the sidewalls, glue the parts so that there are gaps in the places where the shelves are inserted. The dimensions of the groove should correspond to the height of the shelves.
   

   Glue the frame so that there are grooves for the boxes

4. Assemble the outer frame, insert the shelves.
   

   We assemble the frame and insert the shelves

5. For accuracy, the edges are pasted over with paper tape, paper.
   

   Pasting all edges and ends with paper

6. We make boxes. If the sizes are suitable, you can take ready-made shoe boxes, small household appliances. When there are none, make the boxes by analogy with the frame - cut out the parts, glue them together.
   

   Glue the walls of the box together

   

   One of the glued parts must be less

   

   Ready double drawer for dresser

7. Drawers, dry the cage itself, proceed to decorating. It all depends on your imagination. Make the finish with crumpled paper, paint in any tone. It turns out an interesting effect of natural leather.
   

   We trim with crumpled paper and paint with acrylic paint

   

   We paint in black saturated color

   

   Apply a golden paint on the reliefs for an unusual pattern

Mini chest of drawers made of cardboard for decoration, cosmetics, decoupage technique. Figure with napkins gently transferred to the product, using a mixture of water, glue. Used with a brush, dipping into the glue.

Inside you can glue over wrapping or any other colored paper.

Finished thing varnish, and you can use! Very nice and original, the main thing without extra cash costs. We look at our creation, rejoice in what we are craftsmen!

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