For those who like creative room design ideas, the advice to make an armchair from plastic bottles with your own hands is quite suitable. Here are some options on how you can create a great product from unnecessary trash that will still serve its owner.
Chair of vertically stacked bottles
This craft is made from blocks of empty containers, fastened with tape. To make such a chair out of plastic bottles with your own hands, you must first form the bottom layer. To do this, the container is installed vertically down with the necks. Then the blocks are laid across and fastened to the base with adhesive tape. The seat itself is made from a block identical to the lower base.
Risers are fixed at the corners of the base. They can be made round by stacking blocks on top of each other. We should not forget that they are fastened together with adhesive tape. Armrests are made with the same round blocks. The back is formed in the form of a semicircle.
One-in-one armchair
Many craftsmen sometimes have a desire to make exclusive furniture from waste rubbish. Will helpmake a chair out of plastic bottles master class.
- This model will require exactly the same bottles both in size and color. It is also important to make sure they are clean and free of stickers.
- To make such a chair out of plastic bottles with your own hands, first you should cut off the tapering part next to the lid from half of the eggplants.
- Then the prepared container is put on the area with the lid of the second bottle. Thus, get a "loaf" of plastic.
- The joint of two connected bottles is glued with adhesive tape.
- It is very easy to construct a chair from these parts.
You can also create a bed, sofa, table from plastic bottles with your own hands.
Easy armchair with own hands
To make the craft presentable, you can cover it with foam rubber or padding polyester. The easiest way to make an easy chair is in two stages: first make a seat that looks like an ottoman, and then design a backrest.
- For the seat, the required number of bottles are taken, which are installed on a cardboard template. The part is covered from above with another same template. The whole structure is fixed with adhesive tape.
- Then, a part is cut out of foam rubber or synthetic winterizer, which will soften the upper part of the seat. It is identical to the cardboard template covering the bottle design.
- Rectangular pieces of softener seat element wrapped around the sides. This design can be fixed with a needle and thread.
- The second stage of the bottles going back and armrests. For them, you can use "loaves" (how to make them was described above).
- The chair can be upholstered with fabric on top. Tapestry, coat fabric, velor, suede, leatherette are suitable for this purpose.
An interesting variant of the upholstery of the chair with a braid from old jeans. To do this, the trousers must be cut into strips 3-5 cm wide. They are ground into longer ones that are suitable in size (they are compared according to the pattern). The edges of the strips are hemmed on a typewriter.
Observing the rules of checkerboard weaving, they make an original material for fitting upholstered furniture.
Rocking chair with wooden sides
This craft can be used on the playground for kids to play. But even in the house it is very convenient to sit in a rocking chair made by yourself. An armchair made of plastic bottles with wooden sides will perfectly fit into the interior, create a unique coziness and comfort.
Unlike the methods described above for making this type of furniture, additional details will be required here. The sides need to be made of wooden panels, having drilled holes in them for the necks of the bottles. You will also need transverse wooden slats-screeds and one partial curved part that repeats the shape of the bend of the sidewalls.
The width of the rocking chair will depend on the size of the bottles. They are inserted with their necks into the holes of the sidewalls. With the recesses of their bottoms, the eggplants of one side are connected tobulges of containers fixed in the holes of the opposite side.
Wire frame armchair
This craft looks original, emphasizing the style of minimalism. In fact, there is no embellishment here, absolutely nothing superfluous. You can even say that such furniture is extremely appropriate in a high-tech design. This section of the article will show you how to make a plastic bottle chair with a wire frame.
It is clear that for manufacturing you need to take a sufficiently thick wire that can hold its shape under high loads. From it you need to bend the triangular legs and the rim, which will pass along the edge of the chair.
Now weaving is done with softer wire, grabbing the necks of the bottles and the base rim. After the chair is woven, tape should be passed along the last row of bottles from which the craft is made.
