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Make a Coffee Table from Cardboard - Simple DIY furniture
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Make a Coffee Table from Cardboard - Simple DIY furniture

Learn the basics by making a coffee table, or a kid's table, that looks like wood.
Created byNaama Yaffe Mendelboim
Last updated 9/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn the basics of making furniture from cardboard.
  • How to make sturdy table from cardboard that can carry weight
  • How to get a smooth finish before you paint the cardboard
  • How to paint the table so it will look like wood (faux wood).
  • You will make a coffee table or a kid's table, that will surprise your family and friends.

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 55m total length

  • Introduction0:25
  • Tools2:33

    The tools and materials that we will need to make the furniture.

  • Planning the table1:20

    How to begin and what are the first pieces that we'll need?

  • How to cut safely2:47

    Some safety rules, and how to cut the first line.

Requirements

  • No special skills required, and no carpentry skills needed
  • You will need: Cardboard from large packages that you can find on the street.
  • A craft knife and a cutting mat, but you can also use simple cardboard instead.
  • PVA glue (school glue), hot glue gun and glue sticks
  • A ruler
  • Sandpaper
  • Gummed paper tape, but you can also use simple paper instead.
  • Acrylic paints - the colors I'm using in the class are: White, Dark Titanium and Burnt Umber. but you can use whatever color you like.
  • Varnish for wood furniture.

Description

Learn how to make simple coffee table completely by yourself. DIY ecological project using free and commonplace material - cardboard.

  • you will learn how to make furniture from free material, instead of buying ready-made and expensive furniture.

  • Get tremendous satisfaction from your creation.

  • You don't need large spaces or carpentry skills, you can make furniture even on a table in a small apartment.

  • You will learn how to make unique furniture that will amaze everyone. No one will believe that this is actually cardboard and not wood.

  • It is a great ecological project that uses found materials.

We will make a coffee table or a table for a child.
Use the measurements that are in the Resources of the "Making the table" section.

You can change the dimensions to your needs. I recommend that the length of the table will be no more than 70-80 cm. because in cases of very long tables, there should be some support in the middle.

You can paint the table as I did, to make it look like wood, or paint it with a different color and style.

Cardboard furniture? Is it strong enough?

Yes very much. In the course, I teach the principles of building with cardboard so that its strength is properly utilized and thus it is possible to make strong furniture that carries weight.


Can the cardboard furniture be cleaned?

Definitely. We will paint the furniture with acrylic paint, and apply varnish, giving it a good protective layer against moisture. Then you can clean the table with a wet cloth.


Is it complicated?

It is very simple. We learn step by step, and every step is simple to understand and perform. And in the end, you will have an admirable piece of furniture that you built yourself.

And if there are failures? You can always fix it, it's just cardboard.

The main thing is to enjoy the process and creation, we don’t look for perfection.


* The videos may contain cats.

Who this course is for:

  • For people who love do-it-yourself (DIY) projects
  • For people who are ecological minded and want to make crafts using found materials
  • For people who look for unique and interesting new skills, and make unique pieces.

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