Chest of drawers: drawings and turn-based master class

Make a chest of drawers yourself can anyone who has a desire for this. But it is worth to know that such furniture has a number of features:

• fragility. Products from cardboard, unlike wooden, can not last several decades. A year, two or three with high quality, skillful assembly of the product and accurate operation - about ten years.
• furniture from cardboard is not suitable for rooms with increased moisture, bath for example.
• despite its external flabbiness, furniture made of cardboard is capable of withstanding decent loads.
• environmental friendliness. As you understand, such furniture is easily processed and absolutely does not pollute the environment.
• flexibility. The sufficiently high plasticity of the cardboard makes it possible to impart almost any desired shape to the product, which, together with the low cost of the final product, makes it a very attractive material for the manufacture of furniture, especially for children.

But if you are a creative and extraordinary person, like to experience everything new and do wonderful things yourself, if you know how to rise above the public prejudices, that such furniture is the destiny of the poor and want to try to make something like the photos above, read our master-class for beginners how to make a chest of drawers with their own hands.

Step-by-step MK on creating a chest of drawers from cardboard

It's not at all difficult to make furniture from cardboard yourself, the main thing is to show imagination and interest. But if you do not have your own design ideas, do not despair, be inspired by the examples of chests in the photo, combine them, refine for yourself and you will not notice how to turn into an art designer of your own cardboard furniture.

Before you start tinkering, of course, you need to make drawings and diagrams. It is better if these are schemes themselves drawn, since the chest of drawers according to such schemes will be of the necessary size and will ideally fit into your interior. If you do not have the skills of a draftsman, then study the chest of drawers from the boxes with your own hands, listed below, just do not forget to replace the dimensions with the required ones.

What is necessary to prepare

• Cardboard, between layers of which there are two layers of corrugated cardboard;
• Titan Glue or Moment. You can also use a glue gun;
• Adhesive PVA;
• Metal ruler;
• Stationery knife;
• Office paper;
• Acrylic paint;
• Fittings for decorating the chest.

Description of work

We will manufacture a simple chest of drawers, a classic form. Having made such a chest of drawers at least once, in the future, you can easily make chests and lockers of more complex shapes and designs.

We need to cut the billet with the stationery knife under the shelves of the right size, the back and side walls. Important: to ensure that the chest of drawers is strong, each part should have a copy, which you then glue together for greater reliability.

Now glue the parts with Titan glue. You can use the Moment glue or, even better, a glue gun with hot silicone.

Then put the glued parts under the load for 60 minutes.

Stick parts on the side shelves so that there are slots for the shelves. Build the structure, as in the photo.

When the whole structure dries, we need to glue all the edges and edges with paper or paper tape.

Then we start working with shelves for the chest of drawers from cardboard boxes: prepare the workpieces for boxes of the right size. Then "compact" the parts by gluing to each identical workpiece.

Drawers collect from well-dried parts and glue.

The master class has come to an end, it remains only to decorate the chest of drawers to your taste. For example, you can glue with self-adhesive film, do decoupage or do as described in this master class: pasted with crumpled paper, then, after drying, paint with paint.

In order for the drawers to slip better, you can glue the bottom with a self-adhesive film.

Inside the boxes, cover with wrapping paper.

It turned out that such a capacious chest of drawers from cardboard boxes with their own hands.