Cardboard Coffee Table

Step 6 Decoration and Final Thoughts

For decoration I spent months hoarding old chocolate wrappers. They were then cut down and glued onto the table. Really there isn't a huge amount to say here. I like this approach as it means pretty much the whole table is recycled. The central pyramid has a recycling symbol made out of two different types of chocolate foil.

The Mark 1 of the table was decorated with a huge map created from old road atlases. And I also have thoughts about using old election leaflets too. Really your imagination is the only limit here!

I will say though, the whole top is covered with sticky-backed plastic. This seems to protect the cardboard from day to day spills. The first table I made survived nearly 18 months of daily use - and it wasn't spills that finished it off either.

The table is now in daily use and works really well. Being flat across the base it can be slid around the floor as needed and it does seem strong enough - now the children have learned not to climb on it!

Comments

[mary candy]

I like very much such furniture

[spark master]

rather spiffy actually. if you glued a thin piece of wood down each corner fold and a block of wood in each crner you could put recyled chair wheels in the 4 corners, and then it is a mobile occasional table. This beats the pants off my friends idea of filling various old boxes with her hubbies old text books and mags and using them for end tables by a couch. She took really nice fabric cut a circle, hemmed it, and draped it over the boxes. They were very strong and totally tossable when move time came. sparkie

[Grahamwithimps]

Yeah, one of the faults with my original coffee table was that it kept getting nudged out of the way and that weakened it. When I made this one, I was very careful to keep the pyramid sides a tiny bit shorter so they don't quite reach the floor. That way it's flat cardboard on carpet, and it gets pushed and dragged around quite happily!