Creative ideas for restoring and assembling homemade furniture

If you need to update your interior, then the easiest way out, of course, is to throw out the old furniture and buy a new one. But not everyone has the financial resources for such a radical step. This is not a cause for disappointment; on the contrary, it is a great chance to be creative in solving a problem. Indeed, in fact, you can update the furnishings literally for a penny, using modern and available materials. Several ideas for such a transformation were suggested by the authors of the YouTube channel “Take and Do». Take a look at their step-by-step photos. You may want to try some of them at home as well.

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1 Chest of drawers: from boring old to bright and fashionable
2 Trash poof in twenty minutes
3 How to make a lightweight transformable desktop
4 How to make furniture from stationery organizers
5 Original night light from an old lamp
6 Lampshade for chandelier made of ball and branches

Chest of drawers: from boring old to bright and fashionable

Inexpensive MDF dressers can be found in almost every home. They have comfortable roomy drawers, so it is quite difficult to abandon such furniture for the sake of updating the interior. But why give up?

Furniture restoration ideas — There is an easy way to update such a boring dresser. To work, you will need only a couple of free hours, decorative film with an interesting pattern and acrylic paint, tinted in color, which is a companion to the picture of the film

Take out the drawers, remove the handles and cover the facade with self-adhesive tape. Try to keep the film flat, without bubbles or wrinkles.

After that, install new fittings - it is better to buy it, since restoring the old one is too time-consuming process. It is much easier and cheaper to use new pens

The chest of drawers needs to be painted. To make the paint lay evenly and firmly, first lightly sand the surface and cover it with a primer. Acrylic paint dries quickly and is almost odorless, so the whole process does not take long

Agree, this update looks very decent. The dresser can now be called stylish. There is no need to change it to new furniture

Trash poof in twenty minutes

A comfortable pouf is an irreplaceable thing in the house. It is convenient to put your legs on it or put it near a coffee table. And you can make such a piece of furniture literally in twenty minutes from what is at hand. The simplest version of the base is to use ordinary plastic bottles "polorashki".

To make a pouf, you need 19 bottles, which you need to put together and tie with tape

Glue cardboard or plywood circles onto the bottles from the top and bottom. Better to do it with a glue gun

Additionally, fix the lids with adhesive tape, and on the upper part, place a synthetic winterizer or a soft pillow and also glue it with hot glue

Wrap the sides of the pouf with padding polyester and, so that it does not unfold, secure it in several places with tape

To decorate a pouf, you will need a piece of fabric measuring 1.5 × 1.5 m². Find textiles that match your interior

Secure the drapery on the underside of the pouf with a furniture stapler

Comfortable and very lightweight pouf, strong enough so that you can not only put your feet on it, but also sit confidently on it

How to make a lightweight transformable desktop

Finding a place for a desktop is not so easy in a small apartment. But there is an interesting solution - to make the table in such a way that it can be easily removed without taking up space, but at the right time unfold for work.

Pick up a rectangular framed mirror. It is important that the height of the mirror matches the height of the desktop

For the width of the mirror, order an MDF tabletop and fasten these two parts together with a pair of hinges

Now put this " clamshell" to the wall and mark the place where the table top will adjoin the vertical surface — Now put this "clamshell" to the wall and mark the place where the table top will adjoin the vertical surface

At this point, fix the tabletop with a couple more hinges to the wall.

When you need to work, the table top will lean against the mirror

And when the work is finished, lift it up and fix it to the wall on the latch. Now it is just a wall mirror, also a must in every home.

How to make furniture from stationery organizers

Organizer folders for various filing are made of plastic or thick durable cardboard. They can be used not only for their intended purpose. They will also come in handy as independent furniture or an addition to it.

If you screw such a folder sideways to the wall, you get a shelf. You can put books or a flower on top, and store various little things in the recess.

Plastic organizers can be used to store various things in the restroom. Here you can put a couple of magazines for long-term relaxation or a supply of toilet paper

If you screw such an organizer on the inside of the door in the kitchen cabinet, then it is convenient to store bottles with different contents or cleaning products in it.

Original night light from an old lamp

If you are tired of the old lamp, you can turn it into a very unusual interior night light.

For work, you need a sheet of foamiran. You can buy such material at almost any craft store. This is a sheet of thin and soft-touch rubber foam

Print an interesting drawing or ornament on a piece of paper. Place the sheet on the foamiran and with a thick needle transfer the contours of the pattern to the rubber, piercing it through. To make it more convenient, place a towel under the fom.

Now you just need to stick the fom on the lamp shade. Do it with a glue gun, it fixes the rubber perfectly

If you turn on the lamp in the dark, the outline of the pattern will show through many tiny holes. That's very beautiful

Lampshade for chandelier made of ball and branches

Ecostyle is now at the peak of its popularity. The use of natural materials makes the house very comfortable, and the interior is original. It is very easy to make a lampshade for a chandelier in this direction.

Prepare sticks from branches about 10-12 cm long and fix them on the ball with hot glue in different positions

Make several layers of such a coating, randomly placing branches one above the other.

When the glue hardens, and the hot glue hardens almost instantly, pierce the ball and remove it from the finished lampshade. Now all that remains is to place a lamp inside the lampshade

All these ideas are very easy to implement and will not take you long. In addition to this collection, watch a small DIY workshop on making a bean bag chair:

Which of the following ideas did you like best? Share your impressions in the comments. And if you have your own ideas, and you have recorded their production in a photo, send us your master class, we will gladly publish it!

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