How to make a chest with your own hands: drawings, materials, instructions

Ancient and unique things are always in fashion. They not only add zest to the design, but also have a certain appeal. But, unfortunately, truly ancient interior items are quite expensive. Therefore, you can try to make artificially aged furniture yourself. For example, a do-it-yourself chest.

To create the original chest, you can use various materials: polystyrene, wood, cardboard, fabric, newspaper tubes, etc. In shape and purpose, such furniture can also be used for a variety of purposes. It can be a chest table or chest of drawers, pirate for toys or miniature for jewelry. In general, you can use it as soon as your imagination wishes. We will consider only a few options.

From cardboard

As a basis, you can use absolutely any cardboard box suitable for the intended size. To make a chest as "real", you will need:

• Cardboard box.
• PVA glue, scissors, centimeter.
• Cardboard.
• Wallpaper or fabric.
• Leatherette.
• Baked clay.
• Napkins or thick cotton threads.
• Wooden legs or caps from plastic bottles.
• Black and gold acrylic.
• Sponge.
  

So, step-by-step instructions for creating a chest out of the box:

1. To make the lid in a semicircle, it is necessary to draw parallel lines on the inner lid of the box with something dull (for example, a pencil). After such a procedure, she will obediently take a semicircular shape.
2. For the side parts, it is necessary to cut 2 half circles (the diameter is equal to the width of the box). Further, these parts are glued with wallpaper and teeth are left on the sides for subsequent connection with glue to the lid of the chest.
3. The inside of the box is glued with cloth or wallpaper.
4. Side parts are glued to the cover.
5. The entire workpiece chest glued wallpaper.
6. Handles are attached to the sides.
7. Belts are cut out of the leatherette and glued on top to the PVA chest.
8. Baked clay is rolled up to two millimeters in thickness and intricate patterns are cut out. Further, such details are baked (not for long, since they are thin) and glued to a decorative product.
9. Threads from napkins (twisted) or twisted thick cotton threads are glued to the chest according to the planned pattern. You can braid them “in a pigtail” and glue them over the opening part of the chest.
10. Glue the legs.
11. We cover the entire product from the outside with black acrylic.
12. Sponge dipped in “gold” and with a light touch cover the entire chest with “gold plating”.

Such a handmade antique chest will become an excellent part of any interior. It will give originality and luxury to any room.

Do-it-yourself chest made of wood

This is a very common option. A do-it-yourself chest can be made of different materials, but wood is a classic. Although to create such a masterpiece will have to work hard.

What do you need?

For work you will need:

• Milling cutter.
• Coniferous board (section 120 × 40).
• Glue.
• Self-tapping screws.
• Hinges.
• Any accessories at will.
• Metal brush.
• Paint, varnish and primer.
• Brass lining on the corners.
• Strips of metal for the lid and corners for the edge of the chest.
• Metal pens.

Step-by-step instruction

The process of making a do-it-yourself chest from wood:

• First you need to prepare the material - the board is cut in size and planed.
• A quarter is made in the blanks using a milling cutter.
• A box is assembled from cooked boards.
• Using a mill, a quarter is prepared for the bottom.
• The bottom is assembled and attached to the box using self-tapping screws and glue.
• Semicircular ends for the cover are made. After them, the cover is “dialed”.
• Hinges for opening the lid and other accessories for decoration are attached.
• Wooden legs are harvested and attached.
• The surface of the manufactured chest is structured with a metal brush.
• It is covered with paint, and after drying also with a primer, the entire product.
• For the manifestation of the texture of the tree, it is sanded.
• The remaining accessories are attached - brass corner plates, metal strips for the edge of the lid and corners, handles.
• The entire chest is varnished.

If working with wood seems overwhelming, then you can replace it with plywood, which is easier to cut. Even professionals in their field, before starting to manufacture such original furniture, make a detailed drawing of the chest and try to adhere to it in the manufacturing process.

If it is difficult to make markings directly on plywood or wood, then you can use paper patterns of the future model of the chest, which are attached to the tree and outlined according to the pattern. This method will help to avoid disproportion in detail.

Pirate chest

All children, and adults, simply adore pirate parties at sea. And what kind of pirates without a hidden treasure chest? Only now, in order to find the hidden treasure, you first need to make the same pirate chest with your own hands.

For this chest idea you will need:

• Beer cardboard (sold at specialized scrapbooking or printing shops).
• Clay "Moment".
• Stationery knife.
• Ruler.
• Cardboard silver color.
• Brads nails (can be found in the same shops specialized in scrapbooking).
• Waste disk.
• Brush.
• A pen that no longer writes.
• A4 office paper.
• Unusual furniture handles for decor (available at hardware stores).
  

Do-it-yourself chest: master class

It is necessary:

• The bottom of the future chest (size 18 × 12) is cut out of beer cardboard - 2 pieces, walls (size 18 × 8) - 2 pieces, walls (size 11.7 × 8) - 2 pieces, a lid (size 18 × 19.5) . To make the sides of the cover, you need to circle the CD, cut the resulting circle and cut it in half.
• On the lid blank we draw parallel lines with a ruler at a distance of about 2 centimeters (the latter will be about 3 centimeters). With the handle, the workpiece is slightly folded into a semicircle so that the cardboard is slightly bent and takes the desired semicircular format.
• From the A4 sheet, 2 strips are cut off, each 4 centimeters wide, and bent in the middle. Half of each strip is cut with teeth. With these paper strips all the blanks of the lid are glued in the future.
• We connect all the details of the pirate chest with our own hands with the help of three centimeter strips of office paper, bent along. The manufacturing process does not end there.
• We make boards for our chest with our own hands. To do this, we cut strips of beer about 3 centimeters wide from beer cardboard, try to ensure that they are not the same. Stripes of about 19 centimeters are cut in length, i.e. 1 centimeter longer than the length of the chest in reserve for the bevel.
• To achieve the effect of “slightly rotten boards”, slightly cut off the side edges on the strips and corners.
• "Boards" are glued into place. The second bottom is also glued to close the ugly places of fastening of the sidewalls and the bottom.
• The blank is painted brown. After drying, a black paint imitating rot is applied to the slices. The edges of the boards are also tinted a little black.
• From silver cardboard we cut out strips of 2 centimeters in width and in length corresponding to the length of the lid and all three sides of the base box. Brown and black paint imitate dirt and rust on iron, smearing cardboard with paint. After the paint has completely dried, we insert the brads at approximately the same distance from each other and glue the strips to the workpiece.
• From the same silver cardboard, hinges for fastening the cover are cut out. We make them dirty and rusty by the same method as the previous stripes, glue “cloves” for the decor. After the paint dries, we connect the lid to the box with these fasteners with glue.
• Decorative handles are glued to the castle in the middle and on the sides of the chest.
  

Chest chest

To make such a chest with your own hands, you will need:

• Boards from pallets.
• 3 pieces of pine board.
• Handles for a dresser.
• Latch.
• Bottom corners to protect finished furniture from damage.
• Hinges.
• Stripes made of leather or leatherette.
• Small copper nails for decoration.
• Joiner glue and ordinary nails.
• Red felt and glue spray.

Stages

How to make a chest of drawers? This can be done in a few steps:

• Two identical rectangles are cut from a pine board, which are then rounded on top. These two side walls are attached to the base with wood glue and nails.
• The board from the pallets is cut in accordance with the size of the chest and attached to the side walls with nails. For a better and more reliable connection, the parts are coated with glue to each other, and then polished.
• Edges are processed by sandpaper.
• The entire surface is covered with stain and varnished.
• To open the chest, loops are attached.
• Attachment of all iron elements (handles, latches, etc.). To avoid cracking the tree, it is better to drill all the guide holes before screwing in the bolts. Before drilling, it is recommended that you first make a mark.
• The same straps are cut from leather or leatherette, which are attached to the chest equidistant from the edge with a hammer and copper nails.
• The inside of the chest is trimmed with red felt. It is attached with glue. It is better to use glue in the form of a spray.
  

Conclusion

So, we figured out how to make a chest with our own hands. As you can see, this work can be done independently. Moreover, manufacturing options can be very different depending on what you plan to get in the end.