We entered the so-called "life hacking" in recent years in fashion. Improvised by simple manipulations are building something useful for the home. In the course of going and wooden boxes from which is easy to assemble the original, multi-functional furniture. Basically use its container products: canned fruits and vegetables. The bachelor apartments will look good military boxes, which previously was stored weapons and ammunition. Stylish, "masculine" décor specifically stained to preserve the natural markings and shabby appearance. Of course, such non-standard decoration combine in the interior design is not with all styles. Strict classic, uncompromising modern, sleek high-tech combined with hard wooden packaging. Boxes will look cute and appropriate in homes where implemented the concept of Provence, country, ethnics, fusion, Scandinavian, Russian, rustic style. If you try to decoration, the decoration can be a similar blend in a design composition and minimalist loft. Let's talk about how to use the wooden boxes in the interior and on how to make them from elements of furniture with his own hands.
Content
- wall shelves
- Shelves
- The footwear stand
- Bedside tables and coffee tables
- Ottoman hallway
- Entertainment complex for cats and dogs
- The use of boxes in the garden
- How to prepare the boxes for use
- conclusion
wall shelves
The most commonly used rack drawers, but there are plywood "model". For room decoration useful both. Wall storage system is needed in every home. With hinged shelves could save space in a cramped bathroom, living room, kitchen, and even in the pantry or on the balcony. Of fruit and vegetable wooden boxes make a great organizer that helps keep clothes and household items in an orderly fashion. After pretreatment, the packaging modules are fastened Mezhuyev by screwing screws in their sidewalls. If you need "single" shelves with gaps between them, it works to zoom out. Their color to the desired color, and decorate the bottom cover is attached to the wall either vertically or horizontally. Bumpers serve as shelves. In another embodiment, the boxes have a "natural", that is one of the side leans against the surface. Such shelves are obtained capacious, but are more commonly used in the pantry, so the contents will not be on open display. Original solution becomes manufacturing wooden frame, wherein zadekorirovat boxes will be placed in a retractable containers. By the way, the same way you can organize hanging shelves from the baskets. To the storage system looked more beautiful, it is decorated with wrought iron support from below. Metal is combined with wood. Unusual design solution will design the walls in the hall with the help of different-sized boxes. center of the composition becomes a mirror in a wooden frame. Around it are placed boxes of different sizes: some are used as a housekeeper at the other place hats and gloves, and the third - houseplants and fine decor. Rounding out the design of fixing rails with hooks for bags.
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Wooden boxes can be decorated of the original shelves for storing wine bottles. Inside they are divided into sections by means of bars, and then lacquered, decorate twine, burlap pieces, fastened on a wall and laid substrate of hay. Thematic shelf for storing wine is ready. In another embodiment of the drawer cabinet is done openly. They give it vertically, a top cover reinforce via decorative countertops boards. Inside, the bar-mounted shelves for horizontal placement of bottles in wine cellars.
Shelves
Wooden boxes will turn out different racks. They can be strict rectangular shape or have asymmetrical edges that give the room a special color setting. Ideal like storage system for home studio, working room or living room. Boxes fastened together by means of screws or wood screws, stained and put to a wall. Keep on such racks can be anything that your heart desires: books, things, decorations, food, towels and pillows, household chemicals, fine decor. Original look design, on the shelves which are placed "necessary" things, interspersed with flower pots. Rectangular racks can be assembled from the same boxes, which are arranged in an orderly fashion or vertically and horizontally, but in such a way as to form a proper storage system form.
Boxes attached to special feet with gaps between the modules are an excellent food supplement in a rustic style. They keep the vegetables (potatoes, onions, carrots), jars of pickles or canned. It is important that each box was mounted in a natural position, ie the bottom down. Thus, the cabinet strength increase, because the packaging was originally designed for heavy loads.
The footwear stand
Closet for going on the same principle as the rack of boxes. The only thing that should be taken into account: different heights sneakers, shoes, boots and winter boots. For the first two boxes of suitable shelves arranged horizontally, and under high footwear they are placed vertically. If you draw a homemade cabinet of old container, which is uneven paint, then this element will complement the hall in the style of Provence.
Bedside tables and coffee tables
From boxes can be made curbstones, coffee tables and boxes for storing small things instead of plastic or wicker baskets. In the latter case, the container is selected with high bumpers. It simply sanded, varnished or painted or fitted with twin handles on the sides for easy moving. Bedside collected from two boxes, interconnected. They store pictures, clocks, telephones, magazines and books, and the top cover is used as a shelf under the lights or indoor plants. To create a coffee table will need:
- Four drawers;
- plywood;
- Screws;
- Wheels (optional).
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Plywood cut pallet square shape. The width of the faces should correspond to the sum of the length of the box and the height of another. If desired, you can add a small indentation on a pair of centimeters. To pan, first attach the wheels, and then the boxes in a spiral, ie the subsequent sidewall abuts the rear wall of the previous one. Empty middle decorate floral composition, or a group of the candle lamp. So the coffee table can be decorated living room or back yard in the summer. It is complemented with sun loungers, collected from the pallets or puffs of old tires, decorated of a rope.
From miniature boxes, you can make decorative boxes for jewelery or boxes for flowers on a festive table.
Ottoman hallway
To make an ottoman hallway or living room, you need:
- Box;
- durable wood sheet for the top cover;
- foam;
- Material for upholstery;
- Staple gun;
- Wheels.
Box oshkurivayut and varnish. Its bottom wheels are attached, and fix the top cover. If you want to use an ottoman also as a storage system, it put on a loop, so that later revealed to the seat. Then the cover is fixed foam and its stud matter using stapler.
Entertainment complex for cats and dogs
Of boxes and metal pipes create an entertainment complex for cats. As is known, tailed in flats it becomes boring. The animal did not spoil the furniture and wallpaper, it can take its own tiny cottage where cats go to sleep, play and potochat claws. Some boxes are closed with plywood covers to the input circular openings, other leave only the bottom that covers soft foam and upholster cloth, and third fixed scratching posts. The modules are interconnected in an arbitrary order. In addition, "house" system equipped with ladders to the animal it easier to move around the "floor". Instead of purchasing loungers for a cat or dog from the crate create cots. Oshkurivayut box carefully. Varnish is better not to cover, as the smell may not like pets. Then on one of the sidewalls, which will face is cut a pair of top rails. Inside the box are filled with foam or other soft material and overcoated with a blanket. Additional bed decorate miniature pads sewn by hand. Of course, the size of the box and pick up under the future crib dimensions of a pet. To make a bird feeder, require stainless steel bowl, wooden container and plywood. Cut from a sheet of the last top cover. In the center make a circular hole under a bowl. Then the plywood fastened to the box. It remains only to insert a bowl. It is necessary to choose with protruding bumpers that capacity and will hold on to the cover. Bowl can be easily removed to wash or replace it with another. From the large feeder box is made double on the same technology of the twin vessels under the food and the water.
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The use of boxes in the garden
Of the boxes make excellent beds. They can be simply put on the substrate, creating an original composition before the house, or to connect to a vertical flower bed with several floors. Boxes in chaotic disorder put on each other, parallel connecting screws to obtain a stable structure. The bole complex embodiments use four slats, fixed in pairs at an angle to each other. Instead of steps on this "ladder" feature boxes with flowers or herbs. If you have a free wall outbuilding or a wooden fence, the modules are fixed on him, on the shelves of the manner in which put the pots with plants. Original composition is one of the five boxes, four of which form the sides of a rectangle and the fifth will be the center, the angles in contact with the other modules. If the disposal container is available in different sizes, some of it is manufactured tiered flower bed. A large box at the bottom and top to put smaller modules so as to become the tiniest tip of the pyramid. Beautifully in the composition alternating "square-rhombus" will look. Also of drawers make garden beds, locomotives, where the modules are equipped with decorative wheels and transformed into carriages, and the front will be the "head of the train."
How to prepare the boxes for use
Before you build something out of wood packaging, it is necessary to prepare. If there remains an old paint layer, it is removed with a spatula on the box surface. Numerous irregularities "splinters" necessarily thoroughly sanded to a perfect smoothness. the box is then coated with lacquer or primer, if you plan on staining. In cases where the container will be used outdoors or in "wet" rooms (bathroom, kitchen), it is necessary to further handle special structures that clog the micropores in the wood and will prevent them from entering the moisture.
conclusion
Boxes made of lamps, stands for utensils and containers for planting in the spring. Beautifully will look overall rack on the wall in the living room with fireplace. One part of it is filled with books and decoration, and the other is used to store firewood, stacked in neat rows on the shelves. To register using the boxes can be any room. If the bedroom has a solid wood bed, it can easily be equipped with pull-out shelves under the mattress for the storage of spare clothes and bedding. If you have an attic, but there is full of furniture for its execution, it furnish a home-made furniture pallets and boxes, which will be difficult to find containers after dressing for fruit and pallets for heavy goods.