Furniture made of cardboard
Many people probably had to deal with a situation where you need to cost-effectively as possible to design the interior. This is a typical scenario when moving from one rented apartment to another, opening a new office if you need furniture to the cottage or a game set in the nursery.
Corrugated cardboard - one of the most popular packaging material consisting of a sheet of cardboard, corrugated paper layers connected. There are several basic methods of work with corrugated cardboard, each of which allows you to create design objects that can add significantly to the interior.
Method 1: layer-gluing sheets of cardboard
Glue sheets of corrugated cardboard together for furniture invented in the 1970s by famous architect Frank Gehry (Frank Gehry) . He created which brought him fame series called Easy Edges for the company Vitra . Four items in this collection are available so far, the average cost of each of them - 400 dollars.
Technically bonding layer by layer - one of the easiest ways to make furniture out of cardboard. Suffice it to think of the future object silhouette, cut the right amount of contours and glue them together. To increase the strength of the product, the corrugated sheets of adjacent layers should be arranged in different directions.Suitable for gluing cardboard PVA glue or spray-purpose adhesive. The ends of the resulting object can be painted or even use them for other stuff (eg plywood).
Contrast porous and smooth surfaces and the resulting monolithic forms give similar object similarity with traditional African furniture. Such objects can be not only time, budget solution, but also an elegant accent in the luxurious interior.
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Our opinion:
- If you have never done gofrakartona furniture, it will be easier to start with the most simple shapes and designs. To better understand how to work with the material, you can first make a preliminary layout - the smaller models.
Method 2: carcass furniture
Prefab objects made of corrugated cardboard are systems stiffeners. For connecting the individual elements in each of which grooves are made in half the height of the joint. To increase the strength is better to take five-layer corrugated cardboard (corrugated two layers and three layers of cardboard) or glue several sheets together, alternating the direction of the corrugated layers.
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Our opinion:
- Corrugated cardboard combines well with other materials.Connect with wood products give solidity and will look like the original due to the difference of textures. Adding textile elements (eg, soft seats for sofas and chairs) will make the interior more comfortable.
Method 3: carcass furniture, paper pasted over
This method is well suited for creating complex shapes. In many ways, it repeats the previous one, that is based on the creation of a hard skeleton. But in this case, the side faces of the cover sheet corrugated board, the joints are pasted over with paper tape and glued on top of several layers of torn into strips of kraft paper.
The surface of the product can be sanded, primed and then stain and varnish. On the Internet there are a lot of detailed master classes, how to make furniture in this way.
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Method 4: Origami
On the Internet you can also find the pattern in which several additions of cardboard to obtain stable and functional design. To bend a sheet of corrugated board, it must be notched metal knife on the outside crease line.
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Method 5: A combination of straight and curved elements
The basis of this structural principle - fixing a bent sheet of corrugated cardboard with flat elements. Thus obtained objects with rounded corners, suitable, for example, for the interior in the nursery.
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Method 6: modular design
The modular method assumes that the structure consists of individual, interconnected segments. Cardboard classic design of this type can be considered as a hemisphere of triangular or hexagonal modules - one of the symbols of the hippie culture, which became popular in the 1960s. In America, many parents collect their children such playhouses still. Modern Objects of this type often have a complex structure consisting of different shaped elements. These designs are often modeled using special programs.
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These are the primary ways to work with corrugated cardboard. Sometimes several techniques used in one product at a time.
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The versatility of corrugated board allows each based on their own project or ready-made patterns that can be found on the Internet, create an object for your interior.
