This article describes what you can do crafts from plastic pipes with your own hands.
Organizers - convenient devices for storing trifles
Without even having special skills, you can easily make such useful crafts from plastic pipes with your own hands. Even very short cuttings of different diameters will go into action. For work, you need a sharp knife and glue.
The drawing shows how to cut off one edge of the pipe pieces, then to make a convenient organizer for writing trifles or bath accessories. It is only important to try to ensure that the angles are the same everywhere.
Then, slices of the workpiece are mounted on a plane: stand or wall. If desired, you can paint the organizers or apply a pattern or ornament to them. And you can even stick pictures of the most pleasant moments of life.
According to this algorithm, you can make other crafts from plastic pipes with your own hands: a creative shoe shelf, a keeper of socks, a wine shelf. And if the slices are done strictly horizontally, then you get beautiful flower pots or flower vases.
Designer find - a chair made of scraps of propylene pipes
A good owner will not lose anything. With a reasonable approach, every little thing will go into action, and through the efforts of a patient master, amazing crafts from plastic pipes can turn out. With your own hands, using the same knife and glue, a luxurious chair is easily made.
Pipe pieces in this case are cut into arbitrary lengths in large numbers. It is important only to observe the same dimensions of the longest supporting pieces.
Then the segments are glued along the length. The longest supporting pieces should be located at the same distance from one another. For armrests, cuts are prepared above those that make up the seat. And for the back you will need even longer ones.
It remains only to sew beautiful pillows and stuff them with a padding polyester or sheathe the foam components of upholstered furniture with a fabric.
Polypropylene pipe scrap stool
They say that the goal of cunning is fiction. This is absolutely true! Only not a goal, but an economical person is able to invent something similar - to create amazing crafts from polypropylene pipes left after repair or construction, that is, practically from garbage. So, with his wise approach to life, he will never be a naked.
For a stylish stool, thin trimming of pipes of different lengths will be required. Before work, you should make patterns according to the drawings of paper. Pipes with asymmetric bevels are cut on them on both sides and glued together along the length. The last cut is the supporting one, it will serve as a leg. Therefore, it is the longest and with a horizontal bottom cut.
When all four side parts are assembled, they are fastened with corner trim. The bottom is assembled from short pieces with a horizontal cut from above. The stool can be painted in any color, or you can leave it white - it all depends on the preferences of the master.
Fence flower beds or sandboxes
By the same algorithm as chairs and stools are made, you can build other necessary things. It will be practically crafts from garbage.
From plastic pipes, excellent original fences are obtained at the summer cottage or in the courtyard of a country house. Moreover, you can use even the shortest trimmings of various lengths and thicknesses. They are fastened together along the length in the form of a miniature fence and dug around a flower bed or sandbox
You can use glue to make such a creative fence. And it will be even more interesting if the trimmings are tied with wire, simulating wattle.
Children's Corner
If you make a fantasy, you can create interesting crafts from polypropylene pipes that will delight your beloved children. Cool coasters for laptops and easels, awnings over a crib and frames of play houses are easily assembled with fittings and tees.
It is possible to strengthen the joints with glue, and cover the product with paint and varnish. And you can decorate the crafts on top with stickers or ornaments.
The greenhouse for the seasonal dacha
It is difficult to list all the crafts made from plastic PVC pipes, made by DIY dreamers with their own hands. But not to mention such a necessary and useful structure as a greenhouse is the height of indiscretion.
For construction, you need to fence off the allocated space with boards or bricks and dig pins around the perimeter. Their diameter should be slightly smaller than the pipes used.
Now you can begin to design the frame of the greenhouse. Therefore, the next step will be to fix the pipe segments on the pins in the form of arches. To do this, first put the ends of the pipes on the racks on both sides. Then, you can additionally attach the pipe from the bottom with a strip of tin to the perimeter of the fence.
You can add rigidity to the structure using several pipes, which should be placed perpendicular to the arches. Crossing points are criss-cross pulled together with wire or strong cord.
Now it remains only to pull the film on the structure - and the greenhouse is almost ready.
Coffee table with curly legs. Master Class
Crafts from plastic pipes (PVC) are amazing design work. For example, an original coffee table with a glass top and bent legs will become a real attraction of the home.
Of course, first of all, you should carefully think through, calculate and draw out all the details of the future model of crafts made of plastic pipes. It’s not difficult to build drawings with your own hands if the master has a skill in this regard. Otherwise, you can use the ready-made, which is offered here. Dimensions are taken at random.
The legs of this table are arched. To add rigidity to the pipe, you need to reinforce it. A robust wire is suitable for these purposes. The master on the desktop draws a life-size shape of one arch and puts the first pipe section with a rod inside. Then he gives the arch the desired shape. The same should be done with the second segment. Although to give the desired shape, you can use the cardboard template.
Then, on the table, the shape of the arch-holder is drawn, on which the countertop will lie. It is also appropriate to use a template here. Holders are made according to the algorithm described above.
It is best to connect the legs to the tabletop holders with tees. For greater fixation, you can coat the joints with glue or cement. The design, assembled from scraps of PVC pipes, is painted in the desired color. The glass can be glued to the holders to prevent it from slipping. Although the wood worktop will be quite appropriate in this model.
In general, many other useful and beautiful things can be made from pieces of polypropylene pipes, you only need to think carefully and apply your manual skills and diligence.