Toy furniture made of plastic bottles with their own hands. How to make a sofa out of plastic bottles? Original all seasonal flower beds

The amount of garbage that each person "produces" is growing year by year. The problem is becoming global, as flying plastic bags and plastic bottles lying everywhere have pricked everyone's eyes. I am burning, it turns out, you can help, and even for the benefit of yourself. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how diverse and, importantly, useful crafts from plastic bottles can be made in just a matter of minutes. Well, or hours ... Depends on the scale.

The buildings

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:

• density - 1.38-1.4 g / cm³,
• softening temperature (t dim.) - 245 ° C,
• melting point (t pl.) - 260 ° C,
• glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 ° C,
• decomposition temperature - 350 °C.

Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made decomposes for more than 200 years. The same property makes it possible to use practically waste raw materials as a building material. Craftsmen are already building houses from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, fences. Various technologies have been worked out - the approach is quite serious.

How to build a house out of plastic bottles

The main idea is to pour bulk material into bottles, screw them with caps and use them like bricks. Fill the bottles with sand, soil. Sand is preferable, as there is too much plant debris in the soil that can rot. It must be sifted, dried, bottled, well compacted, topped up even to the very top. Get kind of bricks.

To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the "bricks". There are options here too. It can be an ordinary mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, or clay mortar can be made. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine from the side of the covers. Later, these "grids" will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so alignment is indispensable.

We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse

From plastic bottles you can build a greenhouse or greenhouse. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary that the light passes in sufficient quantities. For the construction of a barn, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what is inside.

The first technology - one to one

The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, it will not work to fold the walls so that they retain heat - it will “siphon” into curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. It is also necessary to prepare pins or rods - bottles are strung on them. Their diameter is small so that the neck passes freely. Now you can start building a greenhouse / barn from plastic bottles.

For the construction of a greenhouse or a barn, poles are dug in at the corners. Frames are assembled from timber according to the size of the walls. These frames will be the base for the bottle walls. We collect them (frames) on the ground and fasten them to dug-in poles in a ready-made form. When making the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.

We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, string them on a pin. From such "columns" we assemble walls, a roof

The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles on the pins, directing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a row of the desired height, we attach it to the frame. You can fasten with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails ... In any way available to you. We press the second row to the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten in this position. So, row after row, we collect all the walls, then the roof.

Using the same technology, you can make a gazebo. But there is already no need for tightness, so you can collect figured and colored containers. So it will turn out even more interesting (an example is in the photo).

The second technology - we sew plastic

Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. The central part is cut out of them, getting a square-shaped piece of plastic. Pieces are sewn together in long strips. In the strip, the pieces are arranged so that they are twisted in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are arranged so that they are twisted in different directions. As a result, they equalize each other. Finished canvases are nailed to the frame. On this, the construction of the greenhouse of their plastic bottles is over.

Such a plan "sheathing" for greenhouses perfectly tolerates winters, it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to adjust the humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will push autumn back to you, and it will speed up the arrival of spring.

You can sew plastic for the greenhouse manually, but it's not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious sewing machines. The old Podolsk cars cope with this task. Others may have problems.

Fence and fence

There are many ways to make a fence out of plastic bottles. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use the bottles as bricks. The technology is the same as when building a house. To avoid plaster (after all, there is a high risk that it will collapse) - select the color of the plastic to obtain the necessary rust. But in this case, you will have to look for "building materials" of the same diameter or lay out patterns from different sizes. In general, the creative process, no matter how you look at it.

You can also make filling for the fence from plastic bottles. Make a frame, say, from wood, and come up with a beautiful filling from curly containers and their parts.

Furniture from improvised materials: recycle plastic bottles

From plastic bottles you can make not only a house and a fence, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers instead of wood for the frame. With tightly screwed lids, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled in blocks, they are quite able to withstand loads of up to 100 kg or more.

Bed made of plastic bottles… you need a good mattress, and the base is not too difficult to make

Although the furniture is made differently, the general algorithm of actions is the same:

• Select "building material" of the same height, tighten the covers well.
• Assemble the blocks of the desired size, fastening them with tape.
• Having collected the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, adding furniture foam rubber.

The whole trick is that the bottles fit one to the other very tightly and do not move. The slightest play can lead to the destruction of the structure. Therefore, collect the blocks slowly, carefully fixing. You can fold the bottles in layers, securing each layer in several places. For the inner layers, it is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.

Ottomans / banquettes

The easiest way is to make an ottoman or a bench out of plastic bottles. We act in the order described above. It is necessary to find bottles of the same height. It is better if they are of the same shape - it is easier to collect. From plastic containers with tightly screwed lids, we assemble the base in the form of a cylinder. It is desirable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - so the bench will not turn over.

Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting base radius - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We fix them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the dimensions obtained, cut out the necessary spare parts. We sew a cover from furniture fabric, a color that matches the interior.

Such a bench can be not only round. It is quite possible to make a square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be weighted by pouring water. But water is not a very reliable business. It is better to pour sand. Heavier and more reliable.

Sofas, chairs, armchairs

If you need furniture of greater height than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find "material" of the same shape and height. The first bottle is left intact, the cork is screwed tightly (you can pour sand so that it does not turn over). The bottom of the other is cut off, put one on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move any further, no matter how hard you try. If the resulting height is enough - great, if not - put on the next one. In this way, collect the rows of the desired height, then fasten them into blocks.

There is another way. It is more reliable in the sense that the bottles are held not by compressed air, but by a mechanical stop. And the walls in them are double, which is also important. Minus - more work, more raw materials needed. The whole process in a step by step illustration.

1. We take a bottle, cut it approximately in the middle of the height (the upper part with the neck is smaller).
2. The upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) is inserted all the way into the bottom.
3. We take a whole one, of the same size and shape, insert it upside down into the prepared structure.
4. We cut the third one in about half and put the lower part on top (with a lid).

From such modules we assemble blocks of the desired configuration, fastening them with adhesive tape. Don't feel sorry for the scotch. You can first fasten two bottles, then assemble large blocks from double ones.

As you understand, with this technology, there are a lot of tops from bottles (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical household items.

Flower making methods

The most common plastic bottle crafts are garden figurines and flowers. Read about garden figurines There are other interesting ideas, but a lot of interesting animals and insects are collected. And we will tell about flowers from plastic bottles below - these are probably those crafts from plastic bottles that give the most pleasure. The process is simple, the possibilities are many, the result is amazing.

You have probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you need to do is find a bottle of a beautiful color, cut off the bottom of it. Now you already have a pretty flower. In the middle, you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from a plastic strip cut with noodles, or glue beads inside, but a little more about everything.

Using the power of fire

To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it is more convenient with a candle). If available, take pliers, tweezers or pliers - hold the workpiece during processing. You will also need acrylic paints, you may need glue and beads. The whole manufacturing process comes down to several steps:

There are a lot of options here. Just start doing. Right away, it may not work out perfectly, but you will understand what and how can be corrected. See a few more pictures with step-by-step photos of the process of making flowers from plastic bottles.

The simplest

For beginner needleworkers, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles of simple shapes to decorate the garden. In this case, milk containers can also be used. In order not to paint plastic, look for colored ones. It doesn't matter if they are transparent or not. They can be combined, getting flowers of different shapes.

To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, a core of a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy will do). Here is the buttercup.

Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warming up a little at the base). Make the middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint the transparent plastic with acrylic paint.

The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, twist it into a roll and then heat it. Get a fluffy core.

It's all about the shape ... Despite the imperfection, they decorate the site

The topic is really inexhaustible. Flowers from plastic bottles are made in a variety of ways. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much about skill, but about different tastes and desires.

Useful ideas for the home

PET containers turned out to be such a good material that a lot of useful things are made from them. In this section, we have collected useful crafts from plastic bottles that can be used on the farm.

For the kitchen and beyond

If you cut off the bottom of a bottle with a capacity of 2-3 liters, you get a bowl or a bowl, and so that its edges are even, they can be melted on a heated iron. But so that the sole does not have to be cleaned later, use a special silicone pad. If not, you can do it through a sheet of parchment for baking.

Product container. Plastic is food grade...

From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. 1-2 cm of plastic should remain around the thread (the edges are melted using already known technology). Now it will not be difficult to hermetically close any package: we pass it through the cut off neck, wrap it outward, twist the lid.

From the bottom of the bottles attached to the bar, you get a great newspaper shelf (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.

From plastic cut into strips, you can weave different shapes of containers. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips of a certain thickness. It is necessary to cut in a spiral - as a result, rather long strips are obtained. If their length is not enough, they sew perfectly.

Lampshades

You can even make a lampshade, but on one condition: you will use similar crafts from plastic bottles in co lamps - only they almost do not heat up. Plastic is incompatible with other lamps. We will describe three ways to make a lampshade from a plastic bottle.

First. You need a large bottle. We draw it into strips of the same width. At the beginning and at the end of each strip, we make holes with a heated soldering iron or a nail heated on fire. We insert scissors into this hole, cut. Get even stripes.

When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, bring it out through the hole in the bottom, and fasten the decor on the reverse side. You can - a button, you can - a pebble of a suitable color. Now, pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shape of a lampshade. You can put a light bulb in it.

Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut a part of the bottle with a neck into strips, wrapped the strips and fixed them on the neck. To give the desired shape, the place of the fold can be warmed up a little over the flame of a candle or lighter. The resulting "flowers" are attached to the base. Here we get an unusual design.

They also make lampshades from bottoms. You need to find a sufficient number of identical bottles, cut off their bottom, glue them together using universal glue (choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues plastic and quickly hardens.

flower vases

Making a vase from a plastic bottle - what could be easier ... Just cut off the neck and you're done. But there is a technique that allows you to get patterned walls. You will need a soldering iron with the thinnest tip. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: with the help of a heated sting, you burn out the patterns.

Magically! To make the picture appear brighter, we take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in an ordinary can, but it is faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.

Here are the options...

Photo Ideas

Crafts from plastic bottles are such a vast topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What is nice, knowing a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do by looking only at the photos. So here we put together a few ideas that we found interesting.

You can even make a boat ....

And it's just a decoration ....

The great thing about plastic bottles is that they can be used in so many different ways. From them you can make not only all sorts of funny trinkets, but even pieces of furniture. Do-it-yourself furniture made of plastic bottles will be appropriate on the playground where children play, in the country, in a garage or a barn. You can also grab it if you are going to nature - it will not become a heavy burden for you, because it is light and easy to carry. Let's look at a few workshops on making such furniture, with which you can create interesting and original items from plastic containers of various shapes and sizes.

Table for breakfast in nature

A nice and comfortable table made of plastic material can be built quickly and easily. Of the materials, you only need a tray and four plastic containers.

Important! If the bottles are long and thin, then the product can be used as a coffee table.

The manufacturing process is quite simple:

1. Glue the bottoms of the bottles to the surface of the tray. These will be the legs of your table, and the tray itself will become the table top.
2. In order to make the product look more attractive, the bottles can be wrapped with strong and thin twine, jute twine or coated with acrylic paints.
3. The tabletop can also be decorated. To do this, you can decorate it using decoupage technique or, for example, lay small flat pebbles on the surface.

Big table

The principle of making a larger table is about the same as in the previous method. Only as the surface of this piece of furniture from plastic bottles with your own hands, you should choose a stronger material. For these purposes, a piece of plywood or, much better, a used countertop from some old table is suitable.

Important! In order for the table to be durable, a large number of plastic containers should be prepared.

You should act like this:

• First, give the countertop the desired shape - the table can be either square or rectangular, or round.
• Make the necessary markings on the back of the tabletop. In these places it is necessary to connect the bottles with caps on the back side of the surface with self-tapping screws.
• To make the legs stronger and longer, another row of bottles can be attached to the first row so that the bottoms of the first row join the bottoms of the second.

Important! As an adhesive, it is desirable to use a special universal adhesive for plastic.

• If you want to hide plastic containers, you can paint them somehow beautifully or paint them with acrylic paint.

Stool

You can also make a small chair out of plastic bottles with your own hands, for which you need to collect 7-10 identical two-liter plastic containers. Farther:

• Place the bottles together and wrap them tightly with tape.
• Depending on the number and shape of the containers, you can first prepare sections of 3-4 bottles, and then link them into one design.

Important! Do not spare the adhesive tape, otherwise the chair will crawl under the weight of a person.

• For the stability of the chair, you can fill the bottles with water or pour sand - a third of the volume of the container.
• Cut out a plywood seat (you can use several layers of heavy cardboard) and then screw or nail it to the bottle caps.
• Cover the entire structure with newspaper strips, and then paint the finished stool with acrylic paint of the desired color.

Armchair

An armchair is a rather practical piece of furniture made from plastic bottles with your own hands, which is convenient to use in the garden, since such a product is not afraid of either the sun or rain.

Important! Covering such a design with your own beautiful cover, you will get a stylish and interesting modern armchair.

As a rule, the manufacture of such a piece of furniture requires at least 250 plastic bottles. Here it is very important to understand how the bottles should be fastened, and this, in turn, will come in handy for creating other things. The starting material will be modules made of four plastic containers.

Stages of work:

1. After cutting the bottle in half, you should turn the top part over and insert it into the bottom.
2. Next, you need to insert a whole bottle into this design, and dividing another container in half, put the bottom one on top.
3. In order to fasten the module, wrap it with transparent tape.
4. Also, use adhesive tape to connect a large module.
5. By building up the module in this way, you need to make the details of the chair - the seat and back.
6. Then, putting a soft synthetic winterizer or foam rubber on the seat, put a cover on the chair.

footage

An ordinary plastic container is the most common thing. But do not count all the cases when it can be useful in the economy. From it you can make both small, but very useful things, for example, pots for seedlings, and build global structures, for example, an armchair, table or bed. Do-it-yourself plastic bottle furniture is easy, convenient and practical. Use your imagination and you will get very interesting and practical things for your household.

Plastic bottles are an excellent material for creativity and a handy tool for solving many problems. Whatever they do. And a variety of boxes, scoops, buckets, and brooches, and curtains. They are laid instead of pipes in dachas, flower beds are decorated with them, etc. My son and I decided to make an armchair, since, as it seemed to us, there was clearly not enough such furniture in the setting of our apartment. We now understand that we got a little excited, not taking into account the modest dimensions of our room, but five months ago we began to collect plastic bottles with enthusiasm.

As we accumulated, we cut them accordingly and put them into “blocks” of two. It looked like this: they cut off the neck of one bottle and, turning it over, installed it in the lower part. Then the second bottle was sent neck to neck.

As a result, such blanks of the future chair were obtained, which are much more compact and more convenient to store than the bottles themselves.

In total, our chair took something like ninety two-liter plastic bottles. Along the way, we stocked up on tape and stretch film.

When there were enough blocks, we started assembling. It will not be possible to visually demonstrate this process, since at the time of writing the material the chair was already assembled, but I will try to simply tell. Moreover, there is nothing complicated about this, and your imagination can tell you completely different, more interesting forms.
For the harness, we first prepared larger blocks based on the existing ones, tightly wrapping each four of the sixteen "bottles" with tape. Then, with the same adhesive tape, the resulting four enlarged blocks were combined into one.
Next came the turn of the "sidewalls" and the back. They are made of the same individual modules, only higher - not from two, but from three and five bottles. The extension scheme is quite simple. We cut off the bottom from the top bottle, set it inside, as we did with the neck before. After that, again, put the next bottle down with the neck. Etc…

By the way, testing the seat for strength, we found that the blocks inside diverge. It was this moment that gave us the idea of ​​stretch film. However, I think that in this case it was possible to get by with adhesive tape. But we had a film, and therefore we swaddled the base blocks with it.
We carefully taped the finished sidewalls and the back with tape to the seat and, not resisting the temptation, completely tightened the resulting structure with a stretch film. And here's what we got in the end.

This is, so to speak, the basis. The chair, of course, is harsh and needs to be improved. It can be "beaten" and sew a cover on it. My chair is still covered with a blanket and is waiting to move to the country, but my son and I are thinking about a bar counter made of plastic bottles in the kitchen. And what? It might very well be ;)

Sulatskaya Irina

The table was inspired by the ideas of avant-garde designer Jinhong Lin, who shocked the public with his chair made of plastic. We need a square base in which small holes will be made. The size of the hole should be such that the neck of the bottle is inserted into it. You can make this frame from plywood or other improvised material. Now we insert the bottles into the holes, they should all be the same.

To prevent the necks from “hanging out”, you can lay foam insulation material. Having inserted all the bottles, we wrap the structure with adhesive tape - for strength. The top will serve as a tabletop, if you are not very comfortable due to the uneven bottom of the bottles, you can put a board specially cut to fit the table. If there is a desire, then the resulting table can be decorated: paint the bottles themselves or the base, put the original tablecloth on top. By the way, banquettes are easy to make using the same technology.

In modern times, many needleworkers have appeared who are trying to make furniture and interior items out of old and unnecessary things. The scope for fantasies in this area is huge, so no one tries to limit themselves. Many are wondering how to make a sofa out of bottles, because there are a great many of these raw materials, but it’s not very profitable to just dispose of it.

And in fact, bottle sofas are very popular. They can be very harmoniously fit into any summer cottage or summer house. But, the imagination of people is very developed and now some are already installing plastic sofas in their apartments. This is because it is very simple to make it, you just need to be patient and have a lot of bottles of different denominations, but the same shape.

There are special instructions on how to make a sofa out of plastic bottles with your own hands, step by step. To do this, you will need, of course, a large number of bottles. It all depends on what shape you choose for your furniture. If you are making a sofa for the first time, then you should not aim at huge models, a small double option is enough. If you are making simple furniture and are not going to sheathe it and soften it with foam rubber, then you can cope with this task in just a few hours. To do this, you will need the following devices:

• sharp and large scissors;
• adhesive tape ordinary and double-sided;
• about five hundred bottles with a face value of two liters and four hundred with a face value of a liter;
• sharp knife.

It is worth noting that the made sofas are very durable. If they are designed for two people, they will withstand without problems, even if the person sitting has a lot of weight. The sofa parts themselves are very durable, and as a result, they can last much longer than standard furniture.

Assembly technology

You can assemble a complete model even alone. To begin with, it is worth preparing the bottles, washing them, removing excess labels, stickers and other interfering elements. Then, from three bottles, you need to collect one strong bar and secure it with tape.

1. Cut off the neck of the bottle.
2. We insert it into the bottom, cork down.
3. In the resulting vase, insert another, whole bottle.
4. We cover its neck with the cut off lower part from the third bottle.

In general, you get a fairly strong bar, which in addition needs to be secured with tape. In order to make it more convenient to fold the selected model, you need to fasten four bars together. This must be done carefully so that the bottles do not go, or rather, do not move at all in the assembled pack.

Further, you can let your imagination go into business. All instructions offered on the Internet are different, so you can come up with your own version of a comfortable and home-made sofa. The main thing is to pay attention to proper gluing so that after a while the parts do not start to move apart, spoiling the appearance of the furniture.