Varieties of cardboard furniture, rules for care and maintenance
No money for ordinary furniture? It doesn’t matter, now there is a great alternative - cardboard furniture. After buying large equipment, large cardboard boxes remain in the house, which are a pity to throw away. Many people think about how to use packaging material on the farm and give cardboard a new life. There were masters who organized the recycling movement (turning unnecessary things into necessary ones), fashionable today, they make furniture out of simple cardboard boxes. It can be assumed that this is a fragile and unreliable material, bending under the weight of objects, but the craftsmen learned to process it correctly and give it the necessary density.
Advantages and disadvantages
Despite the simplicity of the material, cardboard furniture has advantages:
- Stylish, unusual design - they build any piece of furniture based on their own preferences and taste;
- Profitability - no need to spend money on the purchase of ordinary furniture, its delivery and installation. Buying the necessary instrument does not require large financial investments. Cardboard boxes for creating interior items can be found in any store, and for free;
- Mobility - at any time, furniture made of cardboard, made by yourself, just folds up and is transported in a small car to a new place, without a team of movers. And for furniture packaging do not need special skills;
- Integrity in any design - you don’t have to spend time shopping in search of the right model, suitable for the interior;
- Safety - there are no substances harmful to humans in cardboard. Creating this furniture with your own hands, you will definitely know all the components;
- Environmental friendliness - if the furniture bored you or failed, just disassemble it and take it to the trash. Cardboard will not harm the environment, because it is, in fact, paper. Cardboard can be used for other purposes, for example, to light a fire in nature;
- Durability - cardboard furniture can serve more than one year, subject to proper processing of the material.
Interior items have a drawback; if they are in a humid room, they quickly lose their strength characteristics and become unusable.
Varieties
Recently, many designers have taken a great interest in creating recycled masterpieces, which is cardboard. It is a flexible and pliable material that can take any form. In the skilled hands of the master, the old box can become a real work of art. Cardboard designer furniture is appreciated all over the world, in our country this direction is new, but has already won the recognition of creative people.
Cardboard furniture that can be made independently:
- Shelving - there are not too many of them, especially if they are made of cardboard.They can be of various shapes: square, semicircular, curved, floor and pendant - it all depends on your preferences and imagination. They can be collapsible, they are easy to remove. The material is compact, it is not difficult to store;
- Design computer desk - the design, with proper assembly and care, can become a decoration for your home. To give strength to the table, cardboard boards are glued from several layers of material, sometimes reinforcing elements are added. Furniture is equipped with various consoles and shelves, also made of multilayer raw materials. It is worth noting that the creation of this interior item does not take much time and money;
- Office desk can become a real decoration if properly processed and formed cardboard. You can develop an individual design, and the room will not look ordinary. The decoration options are so diverse that choosing a rack design for the interior is not difficult;
- A cardboard bed is another piece of furniture that can become the pride of the owners. Lightweight, elegant, with an elegant headboard model can be a real decoration of the bedroom. When ordering designs in furniture shops, you will have to pay a large sum. If you build a bed of cardboard yourself and arrange it correctly, no one will guess that the bed is made of recycled materials;
- Bookshelves and a niche for TV are made of cardboard in one design - it looks stylish and unusual;
- False fireplace - the design, designed in the style of Christmas holidays, looks original. If you want to please children at Christmas, install a similar design, hang beautiful socks, put New Year's gifts in them, and the children will definitely appreciate it. And if you design the structure with artificial stone, then you can admire it all year round;
- A coffee table with curly legs and a round tabletop, decorated in country style, can become a bright accent in the interior. And if you install alongside two unusual chairs with high backs made of cardboard, then the whole composition will look very original;
- A round or rectangular children's chest of drawers for storing things or toys will become your child’s favorite piece of furniture;
- Shoe rack - comfortable design with triangular segments looks very stylish. If you make the design modular, it will be possible at any time to add or remove extra sections.
Recycled cardboard furniture is different. You do not need to have extensive experience and knowledge in order to design a stylish and unusual interior in the apartment using this material.
Care Rules
To furniture from cardboard was not incapacitated in a short time, it must be properly used and well looked after. So:
- Cardboard is a material that is highly afraid of moisture. Even applying several layers of varnish will not save the furniture from rain or spilled coffee;
- Interior items should be used for their intended purpose. If you made a coffee table, then do not put heavy objects on it - it will not stand;
- Cardboard for furniture is a combustible material, it is necessary to make sure that there are no heating appliances and especially open fire next to such furniture;
- If you are making furniture for a child from cardboard, for example, a chest for toys, or small padded stools for playing, you need to explain that you can’t jump on these items, as they can break under the weight of the baby.
Cardboard furniture requires dry cleaning. Daily cleaning is carried out using a feather panicle or a dry soft cloth, which is simply dusted off. You can carefully use a vacuum cleaner by installing a furniture nozzle on it. Small impurities are carefully removed with a damp cloth and a small amount of soap. From cardboard you can create any interior items that harmoniously fit any, the most unusual design of an apartment or a country house. When you first get acquainted with cardboard, you should not take on the most complex designs - start with a simple one.
Which cardboard is more reliable
Depending on what kind of furniture you are going to create with your own hands, different cardboard may be needed. There are several types of raw materials, differing among themselves by the number of layers - 1, 2 or 3, they consist of small waves that can be observed at the cut. The thickness of the material depends on the layer. Before you start creating furniture, you should determine the parties:
- Smooth, front side (often with a pattern);
- Rough - inside out.
When choosing a material for the manufacture of interior items, you need to consider the following nuances:
- A single-layer material should be used only when creating curved partitions inside products, since it takes any shape well;
- A two-layer material is used to create vertical walls in cabinets or chests of drawers, on which there will not be a large load;
- Three-layer material is used to make the frame and the outer walls of the furniture, it is also worth considering that dark cardboard is more durable;
- Five-layer cardboard can be used for walls, countertops, shelves on which there is a significant load;
- Cellular or cellular material appeared on the market not so long ago. This cardboard used to be used only in aircraft manufacturing, but at the moment it is used for soundproofing interior doors and insulating entrance structures. At the moment, this material is used by designers to make beautiful and durable cardboard furniture.
The cellular material is a sandwich - between two layers of cardboard lies a honeycomb filler, which in turn consists of a thin corrugated cardboardglued with hexagonal cells. It is also worth mentioning the kraft paper used for gluing joints, and the finished structure. Sometimes craftsmen use tracing paper for pasting cardboard furniture, but this is not entirely correct. The fact is that using kraft paper the product walls are smoother. When pasting finished furniture, the paper should not be cut with scissors, but torn with your hands.
Cardboard needs to be strengthened regardless of the purpose of the item that is supposed to be made from it. There are several ways to do this:
- You can strengthen the material with the help of parquet varnish, it will protect the cardboard from moisture. Apply the composition already on the finished and decorated product;
- Perform symmetrical structures, since they are much more stable and stronger than curved, as well as irregularly shaped structures;
- When creating asymmetric products, a large number of supports should be used for their stability. This is especially true if you want to make a chair or bed out of cardboard;
- The crossbars that are used to create the structures give stability and strength, so that they must be the right amount. Do not spare the material;
- Also, gluing cardboard in several layers will help increase the strength of the structure, only you need to remember that if the waves go vertically in the first layer, then the second should be horizontal. For gluing layers of cardboard to each other, it is better to use PVA construction glue;
- To create a furniture frame, use only dark cardboard, as it is much stronger than white.
Given all these nuances, the furniture will turn out to be durable, high-quality and beautiful. Prepare cardboard, the necessary tools and get creative with the whole family. This will help not only get closer to the children, but also teach them how to take care of what they have done with their own hands.
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