Alternatives: How to Make Cardboard Furniture

If you’re broke right now but in desperate need of some furniture, you can make your own. The instructable below offers you great insight on how to do so. And since you can create virtually any design from cardboard, you can also come up with your own space saving cardboard furniture.

This is also a complimentary video to the instructable (below). You can see the actual process of how you create a central frame and the support pieces that result in the initial shape of the furniture you’re trying to make.

The cardboard along the outside is then bent to create curves, pieces are glued on, thereby resembling real pieces of furniture that are made of solid wood or wood composites. Later you add color and the finishing touches and voila, you’ve got an awesome piece of furniture made of cardboard.

Note, the clip above was taken from a DVD demonstration by Eric Guiomar. If, after seeing the clip, you’d like the DVD for yourself, you can get it from VineStreetWorks through this page.

Consider checking out this other video clip for additional help, but note it’s in french. However, you can still learn from looking. You don’t necessarily have to understand what she’s saying.

Also you can look at beautiful pieces of furniture made with cardboard here (english translation through BabelFish). It’s done using the same method which is called the Schmulb method.

If after checking everything out, you want to try your hand at making cardboard furniture (and you can’t afford to buy cardboard) free cardboard is available at places like Wal-mart. Call (Wal-mart, etc.) and request info on how you can have them hold cardboard for you so you can come and pick it up.

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