How To Make Cardboard Furniture!Inexpensive yet durable is this cardboard furniture & above all its eco-friendly too. Despite cardboards apparent flimsiness, it can be made to support the weight of a person. So what’s that stopping you from making it from discarded cardboard boxes? Lets get started & make something useful & stylish.

Table
In a few simple steps Carol Duvall makes this table, which is four feet high, with a circular top four feet wide.

Materials needed:
“heavy corrugated cardboard cut to the following dimensions:
4’ X 4’ for tabletop
two 4’ X 3 1/2’ for legs
craft knife
tack
string
pencil”.

Here are the steps how to make it: Link.

Chair
This chair can withstand an adult’s weight quite easily even without using lamination. “The corrugated cardboard construction has a warmth and softness not obtained from wood”.
Here is a brief guide & photographs that describes how to make a chair, & a diagram of how to cut out the parts.

Link.

Kids Furniture
How about kids making some cardboard furniture? Here is this site, which will be of help: foldschool, it has downloadable patterns to get you started. But do remember to help the kids with the cutting of some cardboard & all.

Foldschool: Link.

Coffee table
There is this coffee table “Chubb” coffee table. “The top is four sheets cross-glued, with the bottom two sheets cut out for the legs to slot in. It’s stable enough for me to sit on! I designed it to go with the low sofa/futon we bought, but once put together, it reminds me of those traditional chabu-dai (low, portable dining tables for small meals) I used to see on television dramas in Japan”.

More details: Link.

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