You can make a product for letters from wood, a plastic box, metal, a metal-plastic pipe and a plastic bottle. It will take 2-3 hours to assemble the structure. To realize such a fantasy, you need a minimum of tools and skills. A beautifully crafted DIY plastic bottle mailbox is sure to catch the attention of passers-by, guests, and the postman.
Design Ideas
The options for building a letter box are unlimited. Designs are made large, small, oblong, fastening several bottles. If the owner of a private house has a broken receiver for receiving letters, then you can make a simple design in 30 minutes. But the look of the product will be boring and nondescript.
Add beauty with coloring and unique assembly, equipping the bottle product with a visor, an aesthetic tripod to hold the box. A bright colorful coating is applied to the surface. Do-it-yourself plastic bottle mailboxhands paint with animals, birds, ornaments, various symbols. It will take much more time to install this design.
You can make a complex fixture model. In addition to coloring and painting on crafts, trees, flowers, and characters are created from plastic. To work, you will need minimal artistic skills to make the item beautiful. Additional elements are also painted. If it is a rose or a chamomile, then the color is selected according to the flower.
Advantages of plastic
Plastic boxes, bottles, buckets are stored up to 100 years. It is practically one of the longest decomposing materials. Other benefits:
- easy to wipe off dust;
- material does not break;
- accessible to everyone;
- does not get wet;
- not afraid of frost;
- does not pose a risk of injury (in case of cutting and assembly of the product);
- any paint is applied to the surface.
What the material is afraid of is strong compressive pressure. The bottle may wrinkle. Prolonged heat exposure can melt plastic.
Materials and tools
A beginner can get the job done and make a complex plastic mailbox. Ideas are minimal. Every homeowner has tools for making. Inventory and material list:
- plastic containers (the quantity depends on the design model), if a homemade product is being built with plastic additional elementsfor decoration, you will need plastic bottles of 5 liters and 4 pcs. 1, 5 and 2 l each;
- a set of acrylic paints that are not afraid of moisture, they are sold both in tubes and in jars, the color variety is huge, so choosing the right shades is not difficult, you also need a brush;
- instead of acrylic, you can choose paint sprayed in cans;
- scissors, pencil or marker, quick dry glue, stencil if characters will be created;
- to install a mailbox from a plastic bottle with your own hands, you will need a wooden or steel rod, if the private yard is fenced or the owner does not want to place the letter box outside the yard, then the design can be made by attaching it near the gate, and in the fence cut a gap 2-3 cm wide and 15 cm long.
Finance will have to be spent on the purchase of paints, glue and bottles. The owner of the mansion probably has everything else.
Simple design
From an eggplant with a volume of 5 liters, they make convenient designs for letters, and most importantly, quickly. Here you do not have to engage in creative work and paint the surface. Street mailbox is assembled according to plan:
- A round hole with a diameter of 10 cm is cut out of plastic material in the bottom with scissors.
- From another 5-liter bottle of square shape, a round part with a cross section of 12-13 cm is cut out in the sidewall. A hole is made at the edge. The container itself is no longer needed.
- On the back of the first blank above the cut out window, retreating from the bordercircle, pierce a hole with a nail.
- Push a bolt into a shallow hole, put on a round element, put a nut on and tighten, but not much, since this mechanism should rotate.
- Prepare a wooden rack on which the container is placed. A piece of plywood 7 × 7 cm is attached to the end of the support. They are screwed into the end with two self-tapping screws. The plastic product is placed in the center of the platform.
- The bottle can be fixed to the platform with quick-drying glue or use a screwdriver with a special long nozzle and screw 4 screws into the plywood. The protruding screws from under the bottom of the platform are removed with pliers.
At the end, the support is dug into the ground with a depth of 30-40 cm. The postman will open the round door with a shift to the side and place the letters inside, then close it back.
Product coloring
If the owner wants to add beauty to the product, then you need to arm yourself with paints. In this case, professional artistic skills are not needed. Mailboxes for a private house are painted in stages:
- The body is spray-painted green. Light and dark shades are required. For easy application of dark and light green, the background is applied with a spray gun from a distance. In this way, smooth transitions of shades are achieved.
- Several colors of acrylic are chosen and the grass is drawn with a brush, along the contour of which they are outlined in dark green. So the elements stand out, and they will look even more beautiful. Chamomile, peonies, gerberas or climbing plants are depicted on the body.
- To drawflower, suggest the boundaries of the petals and the core. Chamomile is painted in yellow and white. Depicts veins in darker shades and refines shadow areas.
To apply an ornament or hieroglyphs on a mailbox from a plastic bottle, a paper stencil is made with their own hands, in which figures are cut out with scissors. The canvas is applied and fixed with adhesive tape on the body. Then the open areas are painted over with a spray can according to the principle of graffiti.
Additional decoration
Special beauty can be created with plastic figures - roses, daisies and other flowers. In this case, you will need to invest time in the construction of objects, but the result is worth it. How to make a plastic bottle mailbox prettier with a rose:
- A strip is cut from the bottle - this is the stem. The part is twisted into a tube and glued together.
- Scissors cut spikes. You can make ordinary triangles or cone-shaped elements, which are also fastened with glue.
- Petals are assembled from plastic pieces. They must be curvilinear. The original photo of a rose will help to make an approximate figure. All manufactured parts are glued together.
At the end, each detail is painted. The stem is green and the petals are burgundy. Shades and highlights are applied to achieve realism.
