Make furniture easily by yourself with cardboard - a complete guide
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Learning Journey Context
Designed for experienced practitioners. We recommend having a solid grasp of Crafts & DIY fundamentals before starting this specialization.
Relevant for professionals pursuing roles within Crafts & DIY.
Quick Facts
What You’ll Learn
Introduction to this class
Tools and materials
The strength of the cardboard
Designing cardboard furniture
Example: Planning a small cabinet
The building order of a cardboard furniture
Important! How to cut cardboard safely
First step the main panels
Example: The main panels of the cabinet
What to do if you need larger cardboard
Cross sections
Example: cross sections of the cabinet
What glue to use
Assembling the main parts (Cabinet)
Supports
Example: supports for the cabinet
Top and bottom (Cabinet)
Smoothing the surface
Filling gaps and holes
Securing the corners (gummed paper tape)
Using paper and glue
Drawers
Boxes
Legs / wheels
Painting
Painting the cabinet - Faux Wood effect
Chair - Some notes about designing a chair
Chair - Drawing symmetrical shapes
Chair - Cutting curved shapes
Chair - Cross sections in different sizes
Chair - Assembling the seat
Back of the chair
Chair - How to cover round parts
Chair - smoothing the surface
Chair - paint and stencil
A shelving unit: planning and parts
A shelving unit - assembling
Additions to the shelving unit
Smoothing and Painting the shelving unit
Conclusion
Outcomes
- Learn how to make furniture completely by yourself. DIY ecological project using free and commonplace material - cardboard..
- you can make furniture from free material, instead of buying ready-made and expensive furniture.
- Design a piece of furniture exactly the size that fits your space.
- Make furniture that will be unique and will amaze your friends..
- Get tremendous satisfaction from your creation.
- You don't need large spaces or carpentry skills, you can build furniture even on a table in a small apartment.
- You will learn in this course.
- How to build sturdy objects from cardboard that can carry weight.
- What to consider when designing a piece of furniture.
- How to make rounded parts from cardboard.
- How to make drawers and boxes for storage.
- How to get a clean finish for the product.
- How to paint cardboard furniture so it will look like wood.
- Cardboard furniture? Is it strong enough?.
- In the course, I teach the principles of building with cardboard so that its strength is properly utilized and thus it is possible to make strong furniture that carries weight and lasts for a long time..
- Can the furniture be cleaned?.
- Definitely. We will paint the furniture with acrylic paint, giving it a good protective layer against moisture. Then you can clean the furniture with a wet cloth..
- Do I need carpentry skills and a large workshop?.
- You don't need a spacious workshop or heavy tools. You can make cardboard furniture even on a table in a small apartment, and the main materials are cardboard, a cutting knife, and glue..
- What materials and tools are needed to make cardboard furniture?.
- Cardboard from large packages that you can find on the street.
- A cutting knife.
- A cutting mat, but you can also use simple cardboard instead..
- PVA glue (simple white school glue).
- A ruler - preferably a long one (60-90 cm).
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks.
- Gummed paper tape, but you can also use simple paper instead..
- What will we make in the course?.
- To learn all the steps of building furniture in detail, we will learn how to build a small cabinet with drawers. But it is not necessary to build this cabinet exactly, you can apply the information to another piece of furniture of your design..
- I will also demonstrate the making of a royal chair, and in the process, we will learn how to make rounded shapes with cardboard..
- I will finish with a demonstration of building a shelving unit with storage boxes..
- Will I know how to make other types of cardboard furniture?.
- Certainly, the principles learned in the course can be applied to a wide variety of furniture..
- And if there are failures? You can always fix it, it's just cardboard..
- The main thing is to enjoy the process and create, we don’t look for perfection..
- * The videos may contain cats..
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