If your garden is empty and boring, you need to revive it with your creative crafts. You can create rest areas in it by decorating your own garden furniture. You can make a playground for children from improvised materials, decorate flower beds and flowerbeds with crafts. We will talk about how to do this and what materials are needed in our article.
And you need to start creating your own garden furniture with good ideas that will breathe something unique that will distinguish it from the gardens of your neighbors in the image of your garden. Furniture can be fun and easy to make. The main thing is that you do not need to spend money on your outdoor furniture. All that is needed is to find several old pallets, unnecessary tires, plastic bottles, old utensils lying around in the pantry. From all this, you can create something functional by including your imagination.
What can be made from plastic bottles?
Plastic packaging appeared more than 60 years ago, and it is in every home. Even jeans cannot boast of such success. Drinks, household chemicals and other liquids and oils, as a rule, are poured into such a container. After use, throw it away. But in vain! An empty bottle is a cheap and eternal building material, since in nature plastic does not break up for hundreds of years.
The famous experiment - a children's raft of bottles - passed the test, and now what started with a children's toy has grown into an independent direction in interior design. Plastic containers - a convenient material for the implementation of ideas for creating garden furniture with your own hands. Drawings and schemes in this case are not needed. The main thing is that plastic bottles should be the same. Furniture options can vary from simple poufs to sofas and stove benches. A plastic bottle is an easy building material, so it will be easy to carry such furniture.
Even the media wrote that at one time the Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher ordered a sofa from plastic bottles for his Italian restaurant Dolch. At design exhibitions, you can see not only sofas, tables, chairs and armchairs, but even houses and greenhouses for garden plots.
Garden pouf
Pouf made of plastic bottles is another opportunity to use what is usually thrown away on the farm. This is a practical and inexpensive element of garden furniture, and it is very easy to make it yourself. To do this, you need plastic bottles, tape-tape or electrical tape, non-woven, foam and decorating pouf material.
To make the pouf, seven plastic bottles are taken and seven more bottles are cut in half. Only bottoms will be needed. The second halves, where the cap is twisted, will go to other products. In order for the bottles to be strong, you need to do certain manipulations with them.
How to make a bottle tight?
Bottles without lids are placed in the freezer for about 15 minutes. After this time, the lid is screwed directly in the freezer (to avoid getting into the warm air). A chilled bottle is placed for 10 minutes on a warm battery. The widening air makes it hard. On the edge of the bottle with a neck, a part from the cut bottle is tightly put on. The material thus prepared is held together with tape. Sometimes it is replaced with electrical tape so that no rustling is heard.
The base of the pouf is ready. Further work will be associated with the decoration of this element of garden furniture, and a pattern of non-woven fabric and decorative fabric will be made according to the drawings with your own hands. A circle for seating should be cut from the foam rubber. Further assembly will turn this product into a designer masterpiece for the garden.
Material for garden furniture made of wood
The most profitable and not expensive material for the manufacture of garden furniture are pallets (pallets). Why did they pay attention to them? The pallet is a packaging material, and is made of strong and durable untreated wood. It is an excellent basis for modeling and creating elements of the exterior of the cottage and garden plot.
Currently, furniture from pallets occupies a leading position in the popularity rating, and is a designer find for the manufacture of furniture for gardens and summer cottages.
In order to make garden furniture made of wood with your own hands, you need to purchase wooden pallets. It is recommended not to take the first ones encountered, especially those used in grocery stores. They may contain bacteria that have settled in porous wood. That is, you should make sure that the wood is in good shape: clean, without oil stains and mold.
Where to get pallets?
Used pallets can be purchased at enterprises for which this wooden packaging is not returnable. The price of a pallet ranges from 30 to 100 rubles, and depends on the quality and appearance. It is worth agreeing that the prices are low, because from one pallet you can easily make a full-fledged bench in the garden or many shelves in the kitchen.
You can find such enterprises that constantly receive goods on pallets, but they are not returnable packaging. At such an enterprise, they are ready to give pallets for free, so as not to deal with their disposal.
Pallet handling
Mostly pallets are made of coniferous wood - pine, larch, yew. They have high moisture resistance. Experts with experience in the manufacture of furniture from pallets are advised to purchase only Euro pallets, as they do not require too hard grinding.
Before assembling garden furniture made of wood with your own hands according to the drawings, it must be cleaned of dirt. Sand the surfaces that will come in contact with your hands to avoid splintering. In order for the pallet wood to acquire water-repellent properties, it must be impregnated with an oil primer if the furniture is outdoors, preferably acrylic. The finished product from the pallet can be painted or varnished.
What can be done from the pallet?
Inventive people strive to create an interior in their garden and in the house that would compare favorably with others. Many are looking for new ideas, reviewing a lot of magazines, looking for tips on social networks to create coziness and comfort at home. Alternatively, you can make garden furniture from pallets. Chairs, sofas, plank beds, beds are made of wood with their own hands according to assembly schemes. Usually a rigid frame is assembled, and then soft linings or pillows are sewn. It all depends on skills, desires and preferences.
Turning a pallet into designer furniture
To create a designer version of garden furniture, you need to think outside the box, then a fresh solution will not take long. From ordinary pallets, original furniture will be born. For example, putting a pair of pallets one on one, and screwing on four wheels, we got an original garden table that can be treated with stain and varnished.
The wood of the pallet is so good because in the new version of its use, for the manufacture of furniture for the garden, there are traces that determine its former life. These little pieces of history mean that every table, bench or shelf is unique. A good example of how to make garden furniture yourself, is a video with a detailed master class for making benches from pallets.
About car tire furniture
Surely in the garages of the zealous owners have several unnecessary tires. Once they were necessary, serving as "shoes" for the car, but now they only occupy a place in the garage. But hands do not rise, just take it and throw it away ... But you do not need to throw it away. The design world of Europe and America is filled with tire products: tables, chairs, shelves, wash basins, garden sculptures. What prevents to find for yourself a good idea of garden furniture, and do it yourself with your own hands?
It turns out such furniture is very budget and functional. It can be placed in the yard and in the house, and there is no need to be afraid that her cat will scratch or get wet in the rain. Tire furniture is durable! It actually turns out to be of high quality.
If we compare the cost of furniture, consisting of a table and two poufs in a distribution network, then this will be an option from 18,000 rubles, and higher. Self-made furniture from old tires is a kind of design work that differs from the factory version in its individuality and creativity. By the way, the cost of such furniture at European design exhibitions is from $ 150 / 9,000 rubles.
A set of necessary materials
In order to make a DIY garden furniture set, consisting of two poufs and a table, you need to stock up:
- six tires;
- plywood at least 15 mm thick, you will need 4 cut circles equal to the diameter of the tires and 2 circles equal to the diameter of the inner hole of the tire;
- foam rubber 80-100 mm thick for sitting on poufs, 2 circles of the same diameter as plywood;
- thick glass for table top;
- fabric of various textures: jacquard, denim, any curtain or dense burlap;
- castors for poufs and a table, 4 pcs. on each and pseudopods;
- screws, self-tapping screws, screwdriver.
By the way, if you don’t have tires, you can simply get them for free by stopping by for tire service. They have not yet mastered the technique of manufacturing garden furniture from this material, so they distribute tires to everyone.
Making the base of the pouf
Garden furniture will consist of two poufs and a table. The progress in the manufacture of the table and poufs is identical.
Therefore, we will consider how to make a pouf, which is included in the set of garden furniture with your own hands:
- You need to take 2 tires, connect them with four bolts with wing nuts. They are convenient to use, since an additional tool for twisting is not required.
- For the bottom of the pouf, a pre-cut circle of plywood is used. It must be pre-painted to protect against corrosion and negative atmospheric precipitation.
- Four wheels on a metal base are screwed onto the plywood. They withstand a load of up to 100 kilograms. Mounting is carried out closer to the center, since pseudo-legs will be installed on the bottom. In fact, you can use simple wooden rounded handles, the cost of which is low, about 30 rubles. There will be no load on these legs, they actually just create the effect of the legs, covering the wheels with themselves.
- The wheels and legs are screwed with a screwdriver and small screws, the size of which is 5 mm shorter than the thickness of the plywood, therefore having a length of 10 mm. Each wheel is screwed with four screws.
- The pseudo-foot is mounted so that the wheel can scroll around its axis. The next step is to drill the attachment points of the legs. This must be done so that when screwing the screws into the leg, the plywood does not delaminate. Do not pay attention to the hole in the handle. She screwed two plywood screws.
- The plywood bottom is also connected to the tires using self-tapping screws. Holes are pre-drilled in plywood to prevent delamination. To screw the bottom to the tire will need 16 screws.
Upholstery pouf, the main part
So, the main part of the pouf is done. Consider further the features of the assembly of garden furniture. With your own hands a pipe is sewn from the selected fabric to drape the tire, the diameter of which in the finished form is 5-7 cm larger than the diameter of the pouf. The length of the pipe is equal to two heights of the pouf. Both its edges are tucked and stitched, and lace is threaded through them. The pipe is put on the already prepared ottoman and the lower drawstring is tightened. The upper part of the pipe with the drawstring pulled down into the puff.
In order for the bottom where the upper part of the pipe fell to have a finished look, you need to put on it a prepared, draped with fabric, smaller plywood circle. The fabric to the plywood circle can simply be "shot" with a furniture stapler.
Drapery puff top
The top of the pouf is made as follows: plywood is placed on the fabric and a circle is cut out from it, the diameter of which is 10 centimeters larger than plywood, a rectangle is sewn along its length, 20 cm wide. The edge of the rectangle is hemmed and a cord is drawn into it. By the way, you can put a “stop” on such a cord, which is used in jackets and backpacks. It is convenient in that it can be used to adjust the tension, and not knit knots and bows. In such a case, foam is then placed on plywood and everything is pulled together with a cord. The top of the pouf is ready.
A second pouf and a table are made identically. Only the top of the table is decorated with thick glass. In the middle, under the glass, you can put any decorative crafts
This is one of the successful homemade garden furniture. With your own hands, you can create simply unique products according to drawings or without them.