Cardboard furniture

Intermediate - Half a day - Complete

Keywords :

Cardboard - Let's recycle - Recycling objects - Paper and cardboard techniques

Cardboard is used for boxing up everything from toys, to shoes to furniture, so chances are you've probably got tons of cardboard lying around. What to do with it all? Give it a new lease of life in the form of cardboard furniture of course! This video shows how you can reuse cardboard to build a chair, and avoid waste at the same time!

Supplies

Tools

Cutter-knife

Materials

Cardboard
3 Threaded bolts
6 Screw nuts

Directions

Cut a template in the sidewise shape of your lounge chair in a cardboard or wooden board.
Cut 3 holes, each in a corner of the template, which will be used for the 3 threaded bolts.
Cut your cardboard with the cutter-knife and your template. Don't forget the 3 holes.
Put all layers of cardboard on top of each other and put the threaded bolts in the holes.
Compress the cardboard by tightening the screw nuts.

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