TO MAKE A SMALL TABLE, IT IS NECESSARY ...

Creative personalities are always looking wherever direct his boundless energy. The best place for the application of forces - your habitat. If you already sewed curtains and covers, made ​​picture frames and photo painted decorative plates, woven baskets and tied a couple dozen napkins - it's time to move on to the furniture. Unlikely to be happy with your home scary carpentry workshop in the apartment, but you can relieve the itching and creative more simple way - let us make furniture out of cardboard . Well, you say, dollhouses we passed in early childhood, and cardboard boxes as a table - to the student youth. And you will be wrong. Today cardboard furniture can be incredibly stylish and interesting and will not be in direct guests at the thought of providing material support to you ... Furniture made ​​of cardboard on a particular technology, so that it is obtained strong enough to serve its intended purpose (tables, chairs, dressers, shelves), and not just stand in the corner as proof of your creative usefulness. Limitless possibilities for creating forms and surface decoration - painting, painting, decoupage, decoupage volume, weave cloth, and God knows what else - allow you to implement the most fantastic ideas that you never find in furniture stores. The technology is not particularly costly, inexpensive materials, and try your hand at this kind of crafts can practically any. Hunt for cardboard So, you need the raw material, ie ordinary packing cartons. If you have recently purchased home appliances or furniture and have not yet thrown boxes - let them in business. If the house did not find anything suitable, walk to the nearest store and ask them to give you the packaging container. in the manufacture of furniture comes in handy any cardboard. Typically, it is measured layers (this small waves that can be seen on the cut): the more layers, the stronger cardboard. You can meet one-, two-and three-layer paperboard: single most often used to fill the inner walls of the objects with rounded, curved shapes; two-and three - for filling the inner walls of subjects with straight lines. At the front there is a cardboard (more smooth, which are applied labels) and wrong side (less smooth). Tools If you have already brought home a few cardboard boxes, please be as the following items:

• Wrapping paper brown and white (for pasting inside and outside).
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• Stationery knife for cutting cardboard or scalpel, jigsaw. 
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• Hot adhesive gun. 
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• PVA glue. 
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• Scotch on the paper-based sizing of joints. 
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• Metal ruler and pencil. 

Sandpaper for processing sections. Where to start Manufacturing of furniture

made of cardboard lesson today fashionable in the West have long been widespread, so that in the bookstores for books, talk in detail about the process. Do not just take up closet or dresser complex shape with many drawers and shelves, you should start with something small to understand the technology to understand the details and do not burn out halfway. You can use the pattern of the books ready, and you can come up with something of my own. It will be interesting to try his hand at furniture for children, such as a small table or shelf, or stool. If you bring it to engage a child - new furniture will be the favorite, as will be done together with mom or dad. Moreover, it is easy and safe, and when decorating your kid can finally paint the table or chair, not for fear of spoiling the furniture. To make a small table, you need to carve out a strong cardboard two parts in the form of future countertops (normal rectangle, circle, oval or something else) and cut strips of cardboard the width equal to the desired thickness of the top (about 7-10 cm). Then one of the surfaces apply hot glue and glue strips of cardboard, folded accordion edge to the base. The more you paste the bars, the stronger will be your table. During this operation, you get a kind of cellular surface. Cover it with the second part of countertops and glue. Then paste over the sides of the cardboard strips, and to get a straight edge, edge basis okleyte paper. Now you can start decorating countertops - it can be painted, paint or decorate the carved images, and then lacquered. For the table legs can be used cardboard tubes, which are sold in hardware stores oil cloth or fabric (extracted in the same manner as cardboard, that is in the stores where they are discarded). They also need to stain and varnish. Then the legs using all the same hot glue stick to the counter. For durability can be cut in the bottom side of the support leg openings and strengthen them. either ready table. If you enjoyed the process and the result to complement your interior, you can move on. You can reflect on more complex forms of furniture, come up with new tricks furniture decoration, enter a new cabinet in the most incredible opening configuration. Be creative and create!
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