Making an ottoman from plastic bottles with your own hands

Making various home furnishings from garbage has been around for many years. Various improvised materials are used - car tires, old boxes, pallets and even plastic dishes.

An original ottoman made of plastic bottles with your own hands, step by step, can be easily made even by a novice master.

What materials will be needed for work

Homemade pouf is made in any desired shape. Its design can be easily changed by disassembling the structure, changing the cover. The most common shape is a cylinder; this product is very convenient to use.

Less often, square, oval, hexagonal, asymmetric products are made. The creation of an ottoman does not require large expenses - the necessary tools, suitable materials are available in every home.

To make a do-it-yourself bench from any plastic bottles, you will need materials:

• plastic bottles (from water, milk, beer) - in order to sit as comfortably as possible, curly ones are chosen. To create a highchair, containers of five, six or ten liters are used;
• double-sided tape or electrical tape - for fastening the bottles together;
• sand - they fill the bottles with about one third for the stability of the structure. If there is no sand, it is permissible to close the plastic container tightly with lids, freeze it - after thawing, the air in them will expand, the product will come out solid;
• foam rubber, from three cm thick - they wrap an ottoman with it to sit softly;
• fabric - a cover for a chair is sewn from it. Usually, the remains of upholstery material are used for upholstered furniture. It is advisable to choose a dense, non-marking, having a beautiful appearance;
• zipper - it is convenient to fasten the cover on it, but it is permissible to use Velcro, buttons, buttons;
• sewing thread;
• dense (preferably corrugated) cardboard or plywood - to create the bottom and top of the item;
• old newspapers;
• decorative items made of fabric, plastic, wood, nonwovens, etc.

Advice: for the manufacture of large products, for strength, bottles are first connected three at a time, then the very structure of the pouf is made from such "blocks".

Required tools

From the tools you will need scissors, sewing needles, a stationery knife, and a pencil. For a cylindrical ottoman, you will additionally need a compass, for a square or hexagonal product - a ruler, a square.

For the convenience of sewing, a sewing machine is used.

Tip: for work, you need a flat surface on which the bottles are connected to each other.

DIY making process

How exactly to make an ottoman out of plastic bottles with your own hands depends on the chosen model. This type of upholstered furniture can be made from containers of different sizes.

The creation process consists of choosing materials, tools, preparing bottles, creating the base of the chair, making upholstery, decorating the finished structure.

Preparing bottles

The bottles used to create the ottoman must be whole and the same size. There must be at least 20 of them.For greater stability, a little sand is poured into the container.

So that the chair does not creak when they sit on it, each bottle is wrapped in newspaper, which is fixed with tape.

Create the base (fasten the bottles)

To fasten the elements start from the middle. On a flat surface, the bottles are attached and tied to each other with tape in a circle. It is also permissible to first connect the parts in two or three pieces, after which the product itself is made up of several such blocks.

Above and below the bottle base, double-layer cardboard circles or other shaped parts are glued with tape. The product is wound with tape cross-to-cross. It is permissible to use plywood, fiberboard, but a jigsaw is required to cut them.

To make a high, most durable chair, half of the bottles intended for production are cut in half. Into the resulting halves, necks down, insert whole containers.

We make upholstery

Foam rubber is usually used for upholstery - it is fixed with threads, tape, and a construction stapler. The soft material is attached from all sides except the bottom.

After that it is covered with textiles - for this, the chair is measured, a pattern is drawn, and it is transferred to the fabric. The outer, decorative cover can be made of any furniture fabric, knitted or using the patchwork technique.

A zipper is sewn into the resulting fabric product along the bottom edge, any other fastener is made so that the cover can be conveniently removed, washed or replaced with another.

Advice: instead of fabric, to create a cover, it is permissible to use leather, leatherette, natural silt, artificial fur.

Decor

Decorate the finished product with textile flowers and bows, beads and pompoms, bright patches and pockets, buttons and butterfly brooches, fringes and tassels, colored cords and small soft toys.

Fabric "handles" are attached to the ottoman so that it can be easily transported from place to place, taken with you to nature. Braiding the product with a vine, newspaper tubes is also a great decor idea. Sometimes the necks of the bottles are not masked with cardboard, but left open - a construction with legs is obtained.

A ready-made ottoman made with your own hands from bottles will come out light and will surprise guests who find out what it is made of. Instructions, step-by-step workshops on making a chair or upholstered stool are easy to find on design and craft sites.

Simple and creative work to create such an item will help the ecology while saving on furniture. If desired, it will be possible to make more complex products from plastic containers - a table, a sofa, an armchair, a bed, a whatnot.

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