What can be done from waste: furniture, shelves and more

During any construction is still a lot of waste. This may be boards, pallets, broken brick, the "extra" or aerated concrete blocks, cartons and the liner coil, remaining from wallpaper, plastic and metal pipes, etc. A list of these unnecessary things, you can continue infinitely.

Sort the waste and put to use what more can be used - so zealous owners do. After all, living "on the ground", you get used to appreciate every little thing, and if the matter is approached with an invention and imagination, useful items from the garbage with his own hands will find a second life.

Cardboard sleeve left over from roll material, can be the basis for the original furniture: tables, shelves, etc. Collect enough shells in a "package", cut them to the desired size, figure out from which it can be tabletop and furniture ready.

Bestseller any suburban area - it's an old car tire. In the capable hands of such material can be the basis of the foundation at the swampy area.

From old tires to make the original fence flower garden.

The lid may be a table.

Rocking chair. The cool thing!

Seats for swings.

garden pond

Wall flower bed to flower.

The main thing - to consider all possible options for using junk material and allow yourself the most unexpected.

Old wooden door can be the basis for the shelves. She will decorate the interior of a room or become a vertical storage system for different melochovki useful in the workshop.

Shelves can be made from waste gas or concrete blocks:

... scraps of rope and a wide wooden planks:

... water pipes:

... pieces of wood waste remaining after disassembly of pallets:

You can also collect from small wooden shelves original design in the form of words.

In addition to the house masters, who famously made of garbage with his own hands the furniture, the use of waste materials, recycling past, attracted the attention of designers from around the world.

Belgian designer Jens Prayet offers to do the original furniture and furnishings of the waste remaining after shredding paper and glossy magazines.

"Chopped" paper chips mixed with a binder (an epoxy resin) and further furniture is made from a sticky mass.

Moreover, adding a mixture of different components and the pigments, the designer manages impart surface noble shade, making furniture with the surface "under granite", etc ..

On average, per product, depending on its size, leaves from 5 to 20 kg of wastepaper.

More than the original version of recycled paper came up with a Taiwanese designer Cheese Chiu. This sliding "transformer" in the form of chairs, sofas.

Unusual furniture is made of two sheets of plywood and recycled cardboard. Sheets of cardboard special way connected to each other and form a structured "cell", which may be stretched, as fur accordion.

As a result, the chair for a few seconds, you can stretch, turning it into a sofa that can accommodate, depending on the model, from 8 to 16 people.

Tests have shown that the "transformer" can withstand a greater load.

Dimensions sofa chair when folded (model 8 people):

• thickness - 13 cm;
• height - 65 cm;
• Depth - 55 cm;
• weight - 15 kg.

The comments to this product designer says that due to the flexibility, sofa chair can fit into virtually any layout. It can turn the wall, quickly gather and remove when the guests arrive. Therefore, a flexible "transformer" can be claimed both in the homes and office buildings.

From the design deficiencies can be noted that the surface does not like the impact load (on cardboard remain dents). Also, a sprawling sofa chair can not be operated outdoors and in wet areas.

See, in that it is possible to turn the waste left over from the construction ofIt can be in the appropriate topic on FORUMHOUSE.

Users of our portal can read the article, which tells how to build the foundation of tires, And whether assemble furniture set without tools.

Also we recommend to watch the video, which shows, independently refurbish old furniture.