DIY cardboard chest

Creativity for some people is a hobby, for others - an opportunity to escape from worldly concerns, for others - additional income. Despite the reason, this process gives pleasure, balances and promotes self-realization. Another important advantage is the minimal cost, since it is possible to make anything from any improvised materials. For example, make a chest of drawers out of cardboard with your own hands. This piece of furniture can be an original gift or decoration of a room for a little needlewoman, thereby ensuring order, because now all the little toys, things, accessories will be in place.

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Features of cardboard furniture

Unlike ordinary furniture, cardboard has its own characteristics:

• short service life;
• the inability to use in rooms with high humidity, for example, in the bathroom;
• despite the apparent fragility, the design is able to withstand loads;
• the flexibility of the cardboard provides the desired shape of the finished product;
• the possibility of easy movement, thanks to its light weight;
• low cost.

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Material required

To make a chest of drawers from cardboard boxes with your own hands, you will need:

• a cardboard box, the size of which coincides with the size of the future chest of drawers;
• School line;
• a simple pencil;
• knife;
• plain or hot glue;
• Scotch;
• self-adhesive film.

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How to make a blank?

To create a chest of drawers from cardboard with your own hands, we will consider a detailed master class. First, we will make the base, in which we will make double partitions. This is necessary so that they do not bend when pasting and are durable:

1. On one side we cut off the lateral closing parts from the box. They will be the walls of the future chest.
2. For internal partitions from the side covering the parts of the box, mark with a pencil the desired depth from 4 edges.
3. We cut the cardboard along the lines, but not completely, by slightly pressing the knife.
4. In the corners we make cuts to the depth line.
5. We bend the side inward, and we get double walls.

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We make shelves

For the manufacture of shelves we use side walls cut off at the first stage. Our shelves will also be double:

1. Having determined the number of shelves, we measure out the cardboard of the desired length.
2. We halve a piece of cardboard box with a knife. Cut only the top layer of paper.
3. Fold along the cut line in half and paste into the base.

Important! You can use hot glue.

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Crates

Boxes are quite laborious to manufacture. It is advisable to tinker them separately:

1. Take measurements inside the base from all sides.
2. Calculate the size of the box.
3. Cut them out of cardboard and glue them with tape.
4. Check if the drawer easily enters the chest of drawers. If there is any difficulty, then cut off the hooking points.
5. Having adjusted the sides, make a bottom. To do this, circle it on the inside of the box.

Important! After all the elements are ready, you need to glue them. Better to start with drawers and the inside of the base.

To make your piece of furniture look like a real one, make handles at the drawers. They can be bought at hardware stores and screwed on, or made from colored shoelaces by threading them through the holes. Now you know how to make a chest of drawers from cardboard.

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Dresser for little things

If you want to make a chest of drawers for small things with your own hands, use the same tools + various beads and beautiful pieces of fabric for decoration. The design will contain 2 sections. However, the amount can be both increased and decreased.

Manufacturing Features:

• We take 2 boxes of the same length, but of different widths, so that one can fit in the other.

Important! If there are no such boxes, make them yourself by analogy with the drawers in the description of the chest of drawers.

• Beautifully glue our boxes with paper, cloth or other improvised materials. You can glue the mirror to the cover.
• We attach the inner box to the outer plastic levers and decorate to your liking.

A DIY chest of drawers for cardboard is ready!

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Stock footage

By connecting imagination, you can make furniture from available materials of any size. Your item will be in a single copy, whether it be a do-it-yourself chest of drawers, a place for a stationery or a classic wardrobe for small details.