Furniture made from plastic bottles: photos and video instructions

Table and chairs made from bottles for a summer cottage

The modern world is characterized by creativity and the presence of many original ideas. Useful objects are created from items that most often become trash. For example, furniture made from plastic bottles is an interesting idea that requires creative thinking.

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Summer cottages are a place to bring ideas to life. Creating something with your own hands is interesting, and things turn out unique. Making furniture from plastic bottles is not as difficult as it seems. But the process itself has a number of advantages that are worth noting:

The embodiment of a unique idea;
Spending free time doing interesting activities;
Creation of a useful item;
Saving money.

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Purchasing interior items involves additional financial costs, but not every person wants to spend a lot on a summer cottage. Therefore, creating furniture from plastic elements is an excellent option for saving the family budget. In addition, it will be resistant to humidity and external weather influences.

An excellent budget furniture option - a plastic sofa and a coffee table

Outdoor breakfast table

A cute and comfortable table made of plastic material can be built quickly and easily. The only materials you need are 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:

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

Requirements and materials

Original room with fencing and furniture made from plastic bottles

Before you make furniture from plastic bottles with your own hands, you need to decide on its structure and design. There are many options; if you wish, you can create the following unique things:

bed;
sofa;
ottoman;
table;
chair.

Each item has its own design features, and the design is selected according to your own taste. Creating furniture from plastic bottles begins with preparing the required materials and tools. You will need to have:

New plastic bottles of different colors for creating furniture and crafts

plastic bottles, each design will require a certain amount;
sufficiently thick cardboard;
foam rubber to create a soft seat;
finishing materials (this can be the fabric from which the upholstery is formed);
scissors and tape.

Tools and materials for creating unusual masterpieces

In some cases, additional tools may be needed; this fact depends on the type of product being manufactured.

Original table made from plastic bottles

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Manufacturing stages

Having decided on the desired type of furniture, you can proceed to its manufacture. It is necessary to calculate the required number of bottles in advance and prepare them. Some fans of recycling things collect basic material gradually. After waiting until a certain amount of empty containers is collected, they combine the bottles into a block. The resulting modules are stored in a suitable place - a garage, closet, basement. After a sufficient number of plastic bottles have been collected, they proceed to the formation of the furniture itself.

Drawing creation and preparatory work

When preparing a drawing, it is desirable to estimate as accurately as possible the space that the piece of furniture being manufactured will occupy. This way you will be able to correctly determine the height of the chair and its width, the depth of the seat, and the dimensions of the armrests. Then compare the obtained dimensions with the dimensions of the materials available. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the thickness of the auxiliary elements - tape, film, covers. After creating a frame from plastic, the structure is supplemented with soft foam rubber, the seat is given rigidity through the use of plywood or chipboard, the furniture is decorated with fabric, although this does not significantly affect the occupied space.

To make a chair, you will need to create several sketches that, to scale, depict the desired piece of furniture from different angles. The drawing can be done schematically. Having previously indicated the length, width, height of all elements and plotting these parameters on the drawings, you can calculate how much material will be needed to bring the idea to life. When making a chair, you need to periodically (after creating each individual element) check the drawing.

When preparing for work, all plastic must be washed, cleared of stickers and dried naturally.

Making blocks from bottles

Once all the necessary materials for making the chair have been collected, the preparatory work has been completed, you can proceed to the first stage. To make the blocks from which the frame is then made, you will need several bottles and tape. The whole procedure looks like this step by step:

Two thirds of all plastic bottles should be cut in half. The part with the neck is directed with the lid down and inserted into the other half with the bottom. Then a whole bottle is installed into the resulting structure, onto the top of which the lower part of another cut container must be placed. The neck of the second bottle goes to waste. The result is a rather hard plastic element, reminiscent of a loaf.
Having made a sufficient (according to calculations) number of such blanks, they should be connected into a single module using tape. For better stability, all bottles should be placed with their necks down.
It is necessary to wrap the structure with adhesive film as tightly as possible. This way it will be possible to obtain an element that does not deform during subsequent use.

At the end of the work, you should have several finished blocks: a base, two armrests, a backrest. At this stage, it is necessary to measure all parts of the future chair and check the parameters reflected in the drawing. If some parts turn out to be smaller or larger in size, the block structure is unwound, adjustments are made, and everything is reassembled.

Cut off the neck of the bottle

Connect the whole bottle and the cut part, secure with tape

Connect the prepared elements with tape

For the base you need 4 blocks of 6 elements each

Assembly

You need to start assembling a chair from bottles by installing blocks in the form of a rectangle or square on the floor. Referring to the diagram, you need to fasten them with wire. This will create the foundation for the future product. The same blocks should be laid on top of it, but they should be placed across. If it is necessary to assemble in several rows, you can stack the elements in a checkerboard pattern. Next, you need to raise the rows to the height at which the seat is supposed to be built.

In order to make the structure stronger, it is recommended to install “risers” one or two bottles high in the corners of the base. They are formed from rounded blocks 10–12 elements thick. To fasten all modules, tape or cling film is used. The same round blocks are used to decorate the armrests. The back is created last - it can be made round or square, as desired.

Glue blocks with two elements to the base. Starting from level 4-5, add only blocks of the back and armrests. Finished product

Upholstery and soft seat

To upholster a chair made from plastic bottles, you will need foam rubber, which, if necessary, can be folded in several layers. You can make an additional cushion on the seat, similar to those chairs that are sold in stores. The same can be done for the back of the product.

The chair is covered with a suitable fabric over the foam pads. If you don’t have time to create a full-fledged cover, you can simply throw a blanket over the product. If possible and desired, furniture can be decorated with flock, nubuck, chintz, artificial leather, jacquard. If the product is intended for a cottage or garage, you should not use expensive materials - the cover can be sewn, for example, from old blankets. But at this stage, every craftsman who assembles a chair from plastic bottles with his own hands is free to let his imagination fly.

Make a cover and put foam in it

Instructions for implementation

Let's take a closer look at how to make common furniture options from plastic bottles.

Lightweight and comfortable pouf made from bottles, covered with fabric

Ottoman

We take the bottle and make an incision in its wide part;
insert another part into it with the neck;
repeat steps 1 and 2 until the desired height of the product is obtained;
wrap the resulting structure tightly with tape;
we make a sufficient number of such blanks of the same height and fasten them together with adhesive tape;
result: round design;
we cover it with foam rubber to ensure softness;
we upholster the product and get a full-fledged ottoman.

The product can be decorated in different ways, the main thing is to choose the right pouf style.

We make a beautiful ottoman from bottles according to instructions with photos

Shelf

This version of the product is suitable for manufacturing by beginners. The shelf is suitable for a room, country house and location on the site. It does not take up much space and is suitable for storing small items. To make the product, you need to complete the following steps:

select the size and shape of the structure;
cut off the material at the neck;
cover the resulting parts with acrylic paint (you can take several colors);
We fasten the parts with tape to each other;
We fix them to the wall with self-tapping screws.

You can add an additional element - plywood, to which the parts are secured, this will add reliability to the structure.

Convenient and spacious shelf for toys made from large plastic bottles

Sofa

A sofa made from plastic bottles will look original in the garden. To do this, you need to follow the steps provided:

purchase two-liter elements in quantities of 500 pieces;
you need to buy wide tape;
make a reliable foundation;
The top is removed from each bottle, and the neck down should be inserted into the lower part;
Another bottle is installed in this design, which is covered with a cut-off bottom;
We use tape to connect two elements; the product must be wrapped securely;
the resulting modules serve to form the structure itself;
first the seat is assembled, then the supporting part, and lastly the armrests;
We fix all the elements with tape.

You will need quite a lot of adhesive tape - this should be taken into account when preparing the tools. The sofa can be decorated as desired.

Beautiful sofa made from bottles with your own hands

Stylish and comfortable sofa frame made from bottles

The process of making a chair from plastic bottles with step-by-step photo instructions

Stool

Even a beginner can make such a piece of furniture. To do this you will need to complete several steps:

preparation of 10 two-liter parts filled with sand or water for structural reliability;
rewind them tightly with wide tape;
production of individual sections (used as legs) and their fixation;
installation of a seat embedded from a plywood sheet, it is nailed or screwed to the bottle caps.

It is necessary to use a large amount of adhesive tape to increase the reliability of the stool.

Simple stool made from plastic bottles

Original do-it-yourself stool made from bottles

Decorative decorations made from plastic bottles

The bottom, neck and body of the bottle can be used as decorative decorations.

Garland

A garland for lighting a garden or a children's room will be an interesting decoration. To do this, you need to cut off the top of the bottle; you can cut it in the shape of a star or a flower and insert an LED garland into the cut necks.

The bottoms of the bottle will make beautiful snowflakes if you hang them in the rain and paint them with acrylic paints.

Decorative curtains

You can make decorative curtains from the bottoms of bottles. By connecting them together on a vertical thread, you get a bright and original curtain.

You can use bottle caps to decorate curtains.

Butterflies

Butterflies for decorating the garden and walls are made from the middle part of the bottle:

To do this, cut off the top and them from the bottle.
The resulting cylinder is cut vertically.
The resulting fabric is slightly heated and straightened.
A butterfly stencil is applied to the canvas and painted with varnish or acrylic paints.
The butterfly is cut out and glued to the wall or to a wooden skewer to decorate a garden bed or flowerpot.

A wide variety of crafts will help you decorate a room, make toys for children, and transform your garden plot. Available material will help develop creativity and imagination using various forms and ideas.

Decoration

An interesting solution to using bottles in the interior for decoration

Do-it-yourself furniture made from plastic bottles is decorated at your own discretion.

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There are several common options:

the use of foam rubber, padding polyester, to ensure the softness of the product;
use of sheathing or finished cover;
pasting the product with decorative elements.

Stylish and budget table with a frame made of plastic bottles for the living room

Proper decoration will give the furniture an original look that will delight others.

Beautiful decoration of furniture made from plastic bottles

Original decoration of the site with structures made from multi-colored plastic bottles

Preparatory process

The most important thing is to act strictly according to the scheme and carefully attach the bottles.

We warn you right away that in order to make a chair, you will need a lot of bottles, about 90 pieces for a large chair.

However, its size can be reduced. In order for the process to move faster and easier, we recommend stocking up on large bottles - two or one and a half liters.

In order to assemble such a chair, you should carefully study the assembly diagram.

In addition, you should stock up on stretch film and wide tape.

Sofa

An interesting solution for any garden plot or cottage would be a sofa made from plastic bottles. To do this, follow the following steps:

two-liter bottles are purchased, and their number cannot be less than 500, since a smaller number will not be enough to obtain the optimal size of the sofa;
standard adhesive tape is used as fastening, but it must be wide enough;
bottles are not very strong elements, therefore, under the influence of significant load they are easily crushed, so it is imperative to make a strong and rigid base for the furniture;
The top part of each bottle is cut off, after which it is inserted neck down into the lower element;
the next bottle is inserted into the resulting base, covered with the previously cut bottom;
then bottles of 2 elements are connected in the same way, after which they are securely and firmly wrapped with tape;
a direct structure is formed from the modules made, and approximately 17 modules are usually needed for sitting;
These elements are used to assemble the seat, then the back, and then the armrests;
All the resulting parts of the future sofa are connected to each other with tape.

During the process you will need a large amount of tape, so it is recommended to purchase a lot of this material in advance.

Cutting bottles

Assembling the back and armrests

Connecting all the elements

Stool

A small stool is considered the easiest to create. It can have various unusual shapes, so it is often intended for children. The process of its creation is divided into stages:

approximately 10 two-liter bottles are prepared;
they are tightly rewound using tape;
separate sections are made from 3 or 4 bottles, which are tied to the main structure in different ways and from different sides;
it is important to use a large amount of adhesive tape in order to obtain a reliable and deformation-resistant structure;
to increase stability, bottles can be filled with water or sand;
the seat is cut out of plywood, screwed or nailed to bottle caps.

After creating the structure, it is decorated in different ways.

We take two-liter bottles

We wrap bottles with tape and make a seat