How to make a cardboard chest of drawers with your own hands?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Many of us are fond of creativity - someone for the sake of simple entertainment, someone creates for sale, and someone just wants to please children. This article will tell you how to make a chest of drawers out of cardboard with your own hands. After reading, you will be able to make your own designer item that will be useful in the house and will delight you and your guests.

Before you start making a cardboard chest of drawers with your own hands, you need to prepare all the necessary tools for the job and choose a box that matches the size of your chest of drawers.

Tools for the job

For work we need:

1. Cardboard box.
2. Pencil.
3. Ruler.
4. Stationery knife.
5. Glue.
6. Self-adhesive paper.
7. Scotch.

Carton blank for chest of drawers

To begin with, on one side of the box, cut off the side closing parts with a clerical knife. On the other side, they will serve as a chest of drawers.

We need to make the inner walls of the future dresser out of the box double. This will give himstrength and stability. To do this, from the side where we left the closing parts of the box for the chest of drawers, we measure the required depth. We draw a measured depth with a pencil on all four sides. With a clerical knife, we cut along the lines not to the end, but only the upper part of the cardboard, without pressing hard on the knife. In the corners you need to make cuts to the depth line. Next, bend the side inward, thereby obtaining double walls. Plus, such walls will not bend after pasting. The base for a small chest of drawers made of cardboard is ready. We continue to work by adding drawers and shelves.

Shelves for cardboard chest of drawers

A do-it-yourself cardboard chest of drawers needs shelves. To do this, we use the side walls cut off at the first stage of work. They must also be made double, like the walls of the base. To do this, measure the cardboard of the required length and determine the number of shelves. We divide the resulting piece of cardboard box into two equal parts and with the help of a clerical knife we also cut not through, but only the top layer of paper. Fold in half along the cut line and glue into the base with glue. You can use hot glue for this procedure.

Crate making

It will take a bit of work to make the boxes. Each box must be made separately, because if you hurry up and do everything at once, then it will not fit into a chest of drawers made from cardboard with your own hands.

Take offmeasurements on the inside of the base and remember that you need to measure all sides. After you have taken all the measurements, you need to calculate the dimensions of the box, taking into account pasting. For example:

1. If you are wallpapering, then you need to reduce all sides by 4-5 mm. Let's say the right and left sides are equal to each other and have a length of 25 cm, then the subtraction will look like this: 25 - 5 mm \u003d 24.5 cm. This will be the value of each of them. So we do with all the remaining parties.
2. If you are pasting with self-adhesive paper or ordinary white paper, then it will be enough to reduce by 3 mm. Let's take the same dimensions - 25 cm. The calculation will look like this: 25 - 3 mm=24.7 cm. We do the same with all the remaining sides.

After you have calculated all the details of the box, they must be cut out of cardboard. Glue with tape and measure the drawer to fit into the chest of drawers. If there are any difficulties and the box is tight and does not move out well, then cut the tape and cut those areas in which you noticed the hooks. Ignore - and your boxes after pasting will not fit into the opening or even get stuck in it. As a result, a do-it-yourself cardboard chest of drawers will become just a useless thing in the interior.

When you are working on a box, you can not immediately make the bottom, but first adjust the dimensions of the sides, and then circle the bottom of the box along the inside. Do this for all the necessary boxes and proceed to pasting, it is better to start from the inside and the boxes.

The boxes should have handles, you can buy small ones with screws and screw them on, or if you dochest of drawers for a child, made from ordinary colored laces, threading them through additional holes made on the front. Your chest of drawers is ready, give it the most honorable place in the house.

Cosmetic drawer

You can fantasize, create your own variants of chests of drawers with your design ideas, or use ours and make another option - a do-it-yourself chest of drawers for cosmetics from cardboard. For manufacturing, we use all the same tools + additionally (for decoration) - beads of various colors and diameters and lace pieces of fabric. Decorate the finished product to your taste, complement it with your ideas and design. Our design will consist of two sections, if desired, their number can be reduced or increased.

We take two boxes of the same length, the width of one should be slightly smaller, since in our case the smaller one is inserted into the larger one. If you did not find the right sizes, then you can make them yourself, as you made the boxes in the first version of the chest of drawers. We paste over the boxes with cloth or paper, use what is at hand. If desired, a mirror can be glued to the lid. In order for the construction of two boxes to be complete, we attach the inner box to the outer box on special plastic levers. We decorate your finished little chest of drawers with all kinds of beads and rhinestones.

Chest of drawers for jewelry

Well, the last option in our article is a do-it-yourself cardboard jewelry chest of drawers. All women love jewelry, but how and where to store them,practically no one knows. To do this, we propose to make a beautiful chest of drawers in your style for the interior.

We will need:

1. Empty milk or juice boxes.
2. Empty shoe box, in good, unworn condition as it is stronger than a regular cardboard box.
3. Scissors.
4. Glue.
5. Wrapping material or paper.

Determine the number and size of future drawers. Choose how you will position the chest of drawers - horizontally or vertically. When taking measurements, remember that you need to reduce the thickness of the pasting. When working with fabric, its thickness is multiplied by two.

Inside we put cardboard partitions and glue them, as well as all other details. They will extend the life of your chest of drawers. After you have assembled the entire chest of drawers and glued all the details, proceed to the design. Don't forget drawer handles. You can make them from ordinary shoelaces. On the front side, you can first string a large bead.

Place all your decorations in the chest of drawers and place it in a convenient place for you.