This article contains a master class on furniture from plastic bottles with your own hands, which will help even from such garbage as plastic to make original and functional furniture. However, for such furniture it is important to collect a lot of plastic bottles, so there is no need to throw anything away. Everything is useful for furniture crafts.
Plastic chair
The first thing you can look at and understand in the basics of creating furniture is a chair that looks like the one in this photo:
Here is the assembly diagram for such a chair. This scheme is universal:
You need to cut the bottle into 2 halves. The top half needs to be inserted into the bottom half. At the next stage, you need to insert the whole bottle there and cover it bottom from another bottle. Thus, you should get several strong modules. Next you need to secure 4 modules with adhesive tape.
In order to make the armrests and back of the chair, you need to extend similar modules to the required length and secure them with tape or adhesive tape.
The chair is ready!
Original sofa
Using the same principle and exactly the same pattern, you can make a sofa. The furniture is easy to carry, it is light and compact, perfect for the garden.
A sofa will require more bottles than a chair, but the operation is identical. Just like for the chair, small 4 bottles need to be assembled into large modules.
Increase the modules to the required size, then cover the finished sofa with synthetic padding and sew a cover from a beautiful fabric.
Picnic table
How to make one like this original table? The principle of working on the product is quite simple. Glue the bottles to any surface, for example, a tray upside down. These will be the legs of the table, and the tray will be the surface.
To decorate the table, the product can be painted with acrylic paints, or glued to the tabletop various items, such as vintage photos or postcards. You can also use scraps of fabric for decoration.
If you are planning a large table, then the tabletop should be made of durable materials, for example, from plywood, old wood, or good option For the top of the walking table there will be a tabletop from an old table. To give the table strength, you need to use more bottles, and you should also design the tabletop in the shape of a triangle, square, or circle. On the back of the table, make markings with a simple pencil and, using tools, connect the bottles and glue them with lids to the back of the table.
To lengthen and strengthen the table legs, you need to glue the bottles in a certain way. The bottom of the bottles from the first row should be in contact with the bottom of the bottles from the second row. You need special glue for plastic or universal glue.
Here is the finished table:
Hanging shelves for the garden
The shelves are very convenient and can accommodate a lot of small items. Convenient and compact. Shelf design and shape can be any.
At the first stage of work, cut off the neck of the bottle and make a smear 2 times acrylic paint. However, before painting furniture crafts, dip the blanks in sand.
After the blanks have dried, the shelves can be hung on the wall.
Shelves can be mounted in another way. Secure the bottles to the plywood, and only then secure the shelves to the wall with tools. Before hanging the structure on the wall, you need to make cuts in the shape of a cross on the wallpaper and then drill a hole for the structure.
At the end of the work you should get bright shelves, like in the picture.
Video on the topic of the article
Video on how to make comfortable furniture made of plastic:
More and more plastic bottles are being produced every day; we have nowhere to put them and throw them away. We all know that we can’t just throw them in the trash, they pollute nature and kill us. People started doing a lot of things with bottles, and today there is another amazing invention - a sofa made of plastic bottles.
How to make a sofa from plastic bottles with your own hands?
To make such a sofa we will need:
Many bottles of the same shape and size;
- scotch;
- knife, scissors.
1. In order not to get confused in making a sofa, you need to clearly learn the diagram and follow it.
How to make a sofa from bottles. Scheme.
This method was invented to make your sofa more stable and able to support the weight of several people.
2. Let's get started with the bottles. We divide the bottle into two parts using a knife. We turn the top part over and insert it into the bottom.
4. But that’s not all, now you should take another lower part of the bottle, and stretch it over the entire structure. We don’t skimp on tape and wrap each of our “bricks” well.
5. We twist small blocks of four bottles with tape. Next, at eight, sixteen and so on.
6. We sew our blocks into a full-fledged sofa.
The sofa is almost ready, all that remains is to make it soft. This is a matter at your discretion. Use foam rubber, fabric, or just some kind of film.
VIDEO. How to make furniture from plastic bottles?
For those who like it creative ideas room design, the advice to make a chair for your home from plastic bottles with your own hands is quite suitable. Here are some options on how you can create a magnificent product from unnecessary trash that will still serve its owner.
Armchair made from vertically placed bottles
This craft is made from blocks of empty containers held together with tape. To make such a chair from plastic bottles with your own hands, you must first form the bottom layer. To do this, the containers are placed vertically with their necks down. Then lay the blocks crosswise and fasten them to the base with tape. The seat itself is made of a block identical to the lower base.
Risers are attached to the corners of the base. They can be made round by stacking blocks on top of each other. We should not forget that they are fastened together with tape. The same round blocks are used to decorate the armrests. The back is formed in the form of a semicircle.
Armchair made of one-in-one parts
Many craftsmen sometimes have the desire to make exclusive furniture from unnecessary trash. This master class will help you make a chair from plastic bottles.
You can also create a bed, sofa, or table from plastic bottles with your own hands.
DIY soft chair
To make the craft presentable, you can cover it with foam rubber or synthetic padding. Easiest to make easy chair in two stages: first make a seat that looks like an ottoman, and then design the backrest.
An interesting option is a tight-fitting one made from old jeans. To do this, the trousers need to be cut into strips 3-5 cm wide. They are ground into longer ones that are suitable in size (compare by pattern). The edges of the strips are hemmed by machine.
Following the rules of chess weaving, they make original material for tight fitting upholstered furniture.
Rocking chair with wooden sides
This craft can be used on the playground for kids to play. But even in the house it is very convenient to sit in a rocking chair made by yourself. An armchair made from plastic bottles with wooden sides will fit perfectly into the interior and create unique coziness and comfort.
Unlike the methods described above for making this type of furniture, here you will need additional details. The sides need to be made from wood panels, drilling holes in them for bottle necks. You will also need transverse wooden slats and one curved part that follows the shape of the bend of the sidewalls.
The width of the rocking chair will depend on the size of the bottles. They are inserted with their necks into the holes in the sidewalls. Using the recesses of their bottoms, the eggplants on one side are connected to the bulges of the containers fixed in the holes on the opposite side.
Armchair with wire frame
This craft looks original, emphasizing the style of minimalism. In fact, there is no decoration here, absolutely nothing superfluous. You could even say that such furniture is extremely appropriate in a high-tech design. This section of the article will tell you how to make a chair from plastic bottles with a wire frame.
It is clear that for manufacturing you need to use a wire that is thick enough to hold its shape under high loads. From it you need to bend triangular legs and a rim that will go along the edge of the chair.
Now more soft wire perform weaving by grabbing bottle necks and base rims. After the chair is woven, you should use tape to go along the outermost row of bottles from which the craft is made.
The amount of garbage that each person “produces” is growing every year. The problem is becoming global as flying plastic bags and the plastic bottles lying everywhere have become an eyesore for everyone. I’m grieving, it turns out that you can help, and even for your own benefit. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how diverse and, importantly, useful crafts You can make one from plastic bottles in just a few minutes. Well, or a watch... Depends on the scale.
The buildings
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:
- density - 1.38-1.4 g/cm³,
- softening temperature (t size) - 245 °C,
- melting temperature (t pl.) - 260 °C,
- glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 °C,
- decomposition temperature - 350 °C.
Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but are harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made takes more than 200 years to decompose. This same property allows the use of almost waste raw materials as construction material. Craftsmen Even houses are already being built from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, fences. Worked out various technologies- the approach is quite serious.
How to build a house from plastic bottles
The main idea is to pour into bottles bulk material, screw them on with lids and use them as bricks. Fill the bottles with sand and soil. Sand is preferable because there is too much plant debris in the soil that can rot. It must be sifted, dried, filled into bottles, compacted well, and topped up. The result is a kind of brick.
To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the “bricks”. There are options here too. This can be a regular mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, you can make clay mortar. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine on the side of the lids. Later, these “grids” will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so you can’t do without leveling.
We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse
You can build a greenhouse or greenhouse from plastic bottles. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary for sufficient light to pass through. To build a shed, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what’s inside.
The first technology - one to one
The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This one, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, folding the walls so that they retain heat will not work - it will “siphon” into the curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. You also need to prepare pins or rods - bottles are strung on them. Their diameter is small so that the neck passes freely. Now you can start building a greenhouse/shed from plastic bottles.
To build a greenhouse or shed, pillars are dug in the corners. Frames are assembled from timber according to the size of the walls. These frames will be the base for the bottle walls. We assemble them (the frames) on the ground and, ready-made, attach them to the dug-in pillars. When you make the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.
We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, and string them onto a pin. From such “columns” we assemble walls, roof
The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles onto pins, pointing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a row of the required height, we attach it to the frame. You can fasten it with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails... In any way available to you. We press the second row against the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten it in this position. So, row by row, we assemble all the walls, then the roof.
Using the same technology you can make a gazebo. But here there is no need for tightness, so you can collect shaped and colored containers. This will make it even more interesting (example in the photo).
Second technology - sewing plastic
Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. The central part is cut out of them, obtaining a piece of plastic square shape. The pieces are sewn together into long strips. In the strip, the pieces are placed so that they curl in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are positioned so that they curl in different directions. As a result, they equalize each other. The finished canvases are nailed to the frame. This completes the construction of the greenhouse for plastic bottles.
This type of “cladding” for greenhouses withstands winters well; it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to regulate humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will delay autumn for you and speed up the arrival of spring.
You can sew plastic for a greenhouse by hand, but it is not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious Sewing machines. Old Podolsk machines cope with this task. There may be problems with others.
Fence and enclosure
You can make a fence from plastic bottles different ways. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use bottles as bricks. The technology is the same as when building a house. To avoid plaster (after all, there is a high risk that it will collapse) - select the color of the plastic to obtain the required Rusinka. But in this case you will have to look for “building materials” of the same diameter or from different sizes lay out patterns. In general, the process is creative, no matter how you look at it.
You can also make filling for the fence from plastic bottles. Make a frame, say, from wood, and come up with a beautiful filling from shaped containers and their parts.
Furniture from scrap materials: recycling plastic bottles
Not only can you make a house and a fence from plastic bottles, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers rather than wood for the frame. With the lids screwed tightly on, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled into blocks, they are quite capable of withstanding loads of up to 100 kg or more.
A bed made of plastic bottles... needed good mattress, and the base is not too difficult to make
Although the furniture is made differently, the general algorithm of actions is the same:
- Select “building material” that is the same height and tighten the lids well.
- Collecting blocks the right size, fastening them with tape.
- Having assembled the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, adding furniture foam.
The trick is to ensure that the bottles fit very tightly against each other and do not move. The slightest play can lead to destruction of the structure. Therefore, assemble the blocks slowly, carefully securing them. You can stack bottles in layers, securing each layer in several places. For the inner layers, it is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.
Ottomans/banquettes
The easiest way is to make an ottoman or banquette from plastic bottles. We proceed in the order described above. You need to find bottles of the same height. It’s better if they are the same shape - it’s easier to assemble. From plastic containers With the lids tightly screwed on, we assemble the base in the form of a cylinder. It is advisable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - this way the bench will not tip over.
Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting radius of the base - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We secure them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the obtained dimensions, cut out the necessary spare parts. We sew a cover from furniture fabric, colors that suit the interior.
Such a banquette can be not only round. It is quite possible to make it square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be made heavier by pouring water. But water is not very reliable. It's better to pour sand. Both heavier and more reliable.
Sofas, chairs, armchairs
If you need furniture higher than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find “material” of the same shape and height. Leave the first bottle intact, screw the cap tightly (you can add sand to prevent it from turning over). The bottom of the other is cut off and one is placed on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move further, no matter how much effort you make. If the resulting height is enough, great; if not, put on the next one. This is how you assemble rows of the required height, then fasten them into blocks.
There is another way. It is more reliable in the sense that the bottles are not held by compressed air, but due to mechanical stop. And they have double walls, which is also important. Minus - more work, large quantity raw materials are needed. The whole process is illustrated step by step.
- Take the bottle, cut it approximately in the middle of the height ( top part with a smaller neck).
- We insert the upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) until it stops into the lower part.
- We take a whole one, the same size and shape, and insert it bottom down into the prepared structure.
- We cut the third approximately in half and put the lower part on the top (with a lid).
From such modules we assemble blocks of the required configuration, fastening them with tape. Don't skimp on scotch. You can first fasten two bottles together, then assemble larger blocks from the double ones.
As you understand, with this technology there are a lot of bottle tops left (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical things for the household.
Flower making methods
The most common crafts made from plastic bottles are garden figurines and flowers. About garden figurines read There are others interesting ideas, but there are a lot of collected interesting animals and insects. And we’ll tell you about flowers made from plastic bottles below - these are probably the crafts made from plastic bottles that bring the most pleasure. The process is simple, there are a lot of possibilities, the result is amazing.
You've probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you have to do is find the bottle beautiful color, cut off the bottom of it. Now you have a nice flower. In the middle you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from plastic strips cut into noodles, or glue beads inside, but more on that in a little more detail.
Using the power of fire
To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it’s more convenient with a candle). If available, take pliers, tweezers or pliers to hold the workpiece while processing. You will also need acrylic paints, glue and beads may be needed. The entire manufacturing process comes down to a few steps:
There are a lot of options here. Just start doing it. It may not work out perfectly right away, but you will understand what and how you can fix it. Check out some more pictures from step by step photos process of making flowers from plastic bottles.
The simplest
For beginner crafters, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles simple shapes for garden decoration. In this case, you can also use milk containers. To avoid painting plastic, look for colored ones. And it doesn’t matter so much whether they are transparent or not. They can be combined to produce flowers of different shapes.
To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm it up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, the core from a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy bottle will do). So it turned out to be a buttercup.
Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warm up a little at the base). Make a middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint clear plastic with acrylic paint.
The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, roll it up and then heat it. You will get a shaggy core.
It's all about the form... Despite the imperfections, they decorate the site
The topic is actually inexhaustible. A variety of flowers are made from plastic bottles. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much a matter of skill as different tastes and desires.
Useful ideas for the home
PET containers turned out to be so good material that they make a lot of useful things. In this section we have collected useful crafts made from plastic bottles that can be used around the house.
For the kitchen and more
If you cut off the bottom of a bottle with a capacity of 2–3 liters, you get a bowl or a bowl, and so that its edges are even, they can be melted on a heated iron. But so that you don’t have to clean the sole later, use a special silicone pad. If you don't have one, you can do this through a sheet of baking parchment.
Container for food. The plastic is food grade...
From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. There should be 1-2 cm of plastic left around the thread (we melt the edges using a well-known technology). Now it won’t be difficult to seal any package hermetically: we pass it through the cut neck, wrap it outward, and screw on the lid.
The bottom of the bottles attached to the bar makes an excellent newspaper shelf (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.
From plastic cut into strips you can weave different shapes containers. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips of a certain thickness. You need to cut in a spiral - the result is quite long strips. If their length is not enough, they are sewn perfectly.
Lampshades
You can even make a lampshade, but under one condition: you will use similar crafts from plastic bottles in lamps - only they hardly heat up. Plastic is incompatible with other lamps. We will describe three ways to make a lampshade from a plastic bottle.
First. Need a bottle large capacity. We draw it into strips of equal width. At the beginning and at the end of each strip, we make holes with a heated soldering iron or a nail heated on fire. We insert scissors into this hole and cut. The result is smooth stripes.
When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, take it out through the hole in the bottom, and attach the decor to the back side. Maybe a button, maybe a pebble suitable color. Now, by pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shaped lampshade. You can put a low power light bulb in it.
Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut part of the bottle with the neck into strips, wrapped the strips and secured them to the neck. To give the desired shape, the bend can be slightly warmed over the flame of a candle or lighter. We attach the resulting “flowers” to the base. So we get an unusual design.
They also make lampshades from the bottoms. You need to find a sufficient number of identical bottles, cut off the bottom of them, and glue them together using universal glue (choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues the plastic and hardens quickly.
Flower vases
Making a vase from a plastic bottle - what could be easier... Just cut off the neck and you're done. But there is a technique that allows you to get patterned walls. You will need a soldering iron with the most thin sting. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: use a heated tip to burn out the patterns.
Magically! To make the drawing appear brighter, take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in a regular can, but it’s faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.
These are the options...
Photo ideas
Crafts from plastic bottles is such a broad topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What’s nice is that if you know a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do just by looking at photographs. So here we have collected a few ideas that we found interesting.
You can even make a boat...
And this is just decoration...
A plastic bottle is an easily accessible and inexpensive material. In addition to its direct purpose, there are many other useful ideas. Plastic has long been loved by craftsmen to construct and decorate with their own hands. Summer residents especially like furniture made from this material.
Large accumulations of plastic bottles are an environmental disaster. What if you take it and add it to it? a large number of PET to the point? We add sleight of hand, tape, and imagination and in the end we get very useful structures, such as a stool or a cascading flowerbed of containers.
How to create a plastic “masterpiece”?
IN in capable hands plastic bottles get a second life, becoming useful. And to build something truly interesting, you need to acquire the following:
- an interesting idea;
- a ready-made sample of what was planned;
- stock up the right amount"building material";
- find step-by-step instructions.
Shelf for beginners
For a novice craftsman, it is best to start your work with something simple, for example, by creating a shelf from plastic bottles. They will be very useful in the country and even at home. They are attached to the wall, take up minimal space, and at the same time serve as a great stand for various objects.
Work progress for creating a PET shelf:
- select the shelf shape, height and width;
- The necks are removed from the bottles; they will not be needed to create this product;
- the finished structure is coated with acrylic paint for beauty;
- The completed and completely dried shelf is attached to the wall with self-tapping screws.
You can also add plywood elements to the structure; with its help, the shelf will become much stronger and more reliable.
PET furniture
Furniture made from plastic containers, always looks unusual, and most importantly, it is very cheap.
To create a sofa and armchairs, a very large number of containers of the same size are required. Plastic furniture often amazes with its lightness, convenience and interesting design ideas. There is nothing complicated in assembling it, you just need to do it in sections: first the seat, then the back and armrests. It is most convenient to collect it from bottles of the same size and color, for example, kvass or lemonade.
Assembly is very simple - layers of bottles are wrapped with tape. To make the furniture soft, just like “real” furniture, a little air is released from each container and then screwed tightly.
The design of furniture and its purpose is a matter of taste. It all depends on the number of bottles, their color and size. For example, we connected 8 identical containers with tape - and we got a wonderful ottoman, now we just need to decide on its appearance. To create a soft seat, you can use a piece of foam rubber or a soft lining. The pouf's cover is made according to its size; a zipper can be sewn into the sides for easy putting on.
To build a useful mini-table for a laptop, you only need to make 4 stands from PET, and any piece of plywood will play the role of a tabletop.
To create a sofa you will need much more material, time, and, most importantly, patience.
You can also make a simple stool from plastic bottles. It is done in 4 stages:
- Prepare 10 pieces of 2-liter containers filled with sand or water. This is necessary for the strength of the structure.
- Wrap them with wide tape.
- Make separate sections - legs. Then fix them.
- Screw or nail a piece of plywood to the bottle caps, which will serve as a seat. That's it, the stool is ready!
Pleasant trifles
Decorate country cottage area or a veranda with crafts made from bottles - always beautiful and original. Beautiful roses and chrysanthemums, daisies can be included in a huge bouquet, which will be placed in a vase made of the same material. And if you add a little more imagination and wrap the flowers diode strip, you can recreate an unusual night light.