Portable, Flexible Cardboard Box Furniture
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Portable, Flexible Cardboard Box Furniture
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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
With more online shopping and more boxes, we want to make more uses out of these packaging boxes. Specifically, the idea behind this design is:
Simple: Easy to make, disassemble, reassemble, and carry around.
Flexible: The same components can be reorganized differently for various purposes.
Fun: The many, many possible arrangements of the boxes allow for a varied color spectrum.
Supplies
- Cardboard boxes (almost any number of boxes works)
- Tri fold display boards or other big sheets of cardboard (for bigger pieces of furniture)
- Binder clips (a lot)
- Paint (Optional)
Unfold the Flaps of the Cardboard Box and Flatten It.
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Cut Off the Flaps of the Cardboard Boxes, Leaving Just the Box Body.
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Draw a Vertical Line Along the Middle of Both of the Smaller Rectangles in the Box Body.
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Cut Slightly With a Craft Knife to Make Folding Easier.
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Valley Fold Along the Cutline in Step 5.
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Use Small Binder Clips to Connect As Many of These Boxes As You Need.
Cover and Complete.
With 3 Boxes, We Can Make a Stool.
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Connect 7 Boxes With Binder Clips.
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Make a Bench Cover With a Big Sheet of Cardboard.
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Put on Cover and Complete the Bench. Adjust the Supporting Boxes So That You Can Use This Bench As a Storage.
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Connect 8 More Boxes With Binder Clips; Group Two Sets of Boxes Together With More Clips.
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Cover With Two Tri-fold Display Boards.
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Make a Table by Stacking Supporting Boxes and Then Cover With Two Tri-fold Display Boards.
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Put Multiple Boxes Squeezed Into a Trapezoid Together to Create a Circle.
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Cut Two Pieces of Inner Flaps
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Connect to Make a Central Support.
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Connect to Central Piece As Shown.
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Cover With Tri-fold Display Boards Cut Into Circles.
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Paint As Desired.
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Arrange As Desired.
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