Dual Use Cardboard Furniture

by navarun

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Intro: Dual Use Cardboard Furniture

As cardboard boxes are discarded as waste and available plenty, an idea passed in my brain to create something useful with it, then after some search in internet came up with an idea of creating this dual purpose cardboard furniture.

STEP 1: Preparation of Strong Base

  • take the cardboard boxes and cut it into a rectangle shape (4.5 x 1.3 ft)
  • now mark the cardboard sheet and bend the sheet in a zigzag pattern as shown in the figure
  • the ending of the sheet also to be bent

STEP 2: Joining the Sheets

  • paste the two sheets in a opposite pattern as shown in the picture and place the weights (books or anything available) on these and let them dry for few minutes (approx. 30 minutes)
  • then paste each of the pasted two cardboard sheets to each other to form a honeycomb like structure and let it dry for few more minutes
  • now a strong base has been created

STEP 3: Flexible Base Usage As Sofa and As a Bed

  • take 3-4 cardboard sheets of size (4 x 1.3 ft) and paste them together and this becomes a strong platform that can be placed on the base which we have created first to use as a small sofa kind of furniture.
  • use this furniture when required or store it by compressing the base when not in use
  • make five cardboard sheets as above mentioned above
  • expand more the honeycomb structured base and place the five sheets of cardboard and now it can be used as a bed

4 Comments

jxa213 3 years ago

Good concept--consider replacing your main picture with one that shows the honeycomb structure. That way, people skimming through the various instructables will immediately see what's cool about your idea!

navarun 3 years ago

Thank you, will consider your suggestion.