New furniture from waste material, or How to make your own hands ottomans from a plastic bottle

Plastic empty bottle has long ceased to be just garbage. Inventive craftsmen learned to make from it a variety of useful things for everyday life: vases, pencil stands, watering cans, feeders for animals and birds, even furniture. Ottomans made of plastic bottles - this is what will be discussed in this article. Convenient, easy, and most importantly, a very practical piece of furniture can be made by each of you at home. How to do this, is described in detail in the material presented below. Study it, collect an empty PET container and start the creative process.

Learn how to make puffs from a plastic bottle. What will it take to work?

To make this piece of furniture yourself, prepare the following materials and tools:

• Empty plastic bottles of the same size and configuration - 32 pieces;
• Dense cardboard;
• Sheet foam or sintepon;
• Scotch;
• Large scissors;
• Fabric (cotton, velor, corduroy, drape);
• Needle and thread;
• centimeter;
• Sewing machine.

Master an ottoman from bottles. Master class for beginners

1. Connect four bottles to each other. To this design, attach three more of the same. You will get a square blank consisting of 16 plastic containers.
2. For other bottles of the same type, cut off the top with the lid and put them on those that are already fastened together. Again, carefully wrap the entire structure with scotch tape.
3. Place the construction on the cardboard and circle its boundaries. Cut two identical parts along the outline. These cardboard blanks will become the bottom and lid of the puffin.
4. Glue these two parts with adhesive tape to the plastic blank.
5. Using a centimeter, take measurements from the resulting design, transfer them to foam rubber or any other soft material (sintepon, insulation). Cut out of them two squares and a rectangle equal to the circumference of the walls of the puff.
6. Sew the plastic blank with this material with a seam "over the edge." You will get an almost ready-made soft ottoman.
7. To the measurements that were taken for foam rubber, add a couple of centimeters from all sides, transfer them to the fabric and cut out the details of the cover. Manually or on a machine sew a rectangle and one square. Remove the cover and put it on the ottoman. The detail of the bottom should be sewn directly on the plastic product.

That's so easy and quick to make their own puffs from a plastic bottle.

Useful tips for those who want to make this kind of furniture for the first time

Bottles for making puffin in the nursery can be taken in the amount of 0.5 liters. The kid will be happy to sit on such a small subject. For the living room you can make a large pouf, which sometimes will serve as a coffee table.

Covers on a similar product can not only be made of fabric. You can sew them from the skin, dermantine, oilcloth. Very nice look puffiks from a plastic bottle, the upholstery of which is made of hand-knitted fabric.

Such a piece of furniture can be round, rectangular, and oval in shape. It all depends on how you arrange and connect the containers.

Do not rush to empty the empty PET container. From it you can not just make an ottoman from plastic bottles, but make a real exclusive and convenient piece of furniture. Believe that it is very convenient to sit on it. Successful to you creative endeavors!