After familiarizing yourself with how to make a chest with your own hands, you can make it out of wood or cardboard. You can make a pirate to put it in the boy's room.
This is a handy thing that has been undeservedly forgotten. You can make a chest exactly according to what you need, we disassemble and decorate it to your taste. In such a durable container, various things can be stored, and it will be comfortable to sit on top. You can place it even in a small corridor, store shoes inside, and it is convenient to sit on top to put on your shoes. If desired, place a small cushion on top so that the sit is soft.
How to make a chest for a hallway?
Take:
- furniture panels made of soft wood;
- self-tapping screws;
- pieces of skin;
- loops;
- eyelets;
- pens;
- water-based stain;
- acrylic paints;
- brushes;
- Matt lacquer;
- sandpaper;
- cotton fabric;
- punch;
- screwdriver;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- jigsaw.
In this case, the chest is decorative, so its height is 24, length 28 cm, depth 20 cm. If you have it for the hallway, then increase these dimensions. Cut out furniture boards based on them. There are legs with a depth and length of 3, and a height of 2 cm. Now you need to sand all the wooden parts with sandpaper. Then collect them, but do not attach the lid yet. Secure the parts with self-tapping screws.
To prevent the wood from cracking when screwing in the screws, first make a hole in a pair of parts to be connected with a drill having a slightly smaller diameter than the screw.
Then you will need to cover the caps of the screws using wood putty. But to make it fit well, use a primer first. And here's what happens at this stage.
Now brush the outside surfaces with a metal brush. Guide it along the grain to create the texture of the wood.
Take a colorless construction primer and treat the wooden surfaces of the elements with it. Remove the nap with fine sandpaper. Then remove the dust by taking a damp cotton cloth. When the surface is dry from water, cover it with acrylic impregnation. To remove excess of this compound, wipe off the excess immediately with a cloth. This will give you a better texture of the wood. In this case, a walnut-colored stain was used.
When you look at how to make a chest with your own hands to make it look like an old one, pay attention to the following effect. Here, as it were, green moss breaks through. This will be achieved with acrylic paint. Take one so that its color is chromium oxide. Add some water here, then cover the chest with this solution. Wipe it off immediately with a cloth to distribute the paint evenly.
This is the color this product has so far. But the shade is intermediate. After all, very soon the surface of the chest will also shine. To do this, cover it with a matte parquet lacquer. Such varnish is durable, it will help the chest and its coating to be more durable.
To secure the hardware, drill a hole in the middle of the chest and screw a handle here, by which, if necessary, you can grab it to move the chest.
Screw on the hinges so that your item opens and closes. Paint them green or brown beforehand or later to match the color of the garment.
Then you need to install a lock that will help close the lid.
If you wish, make holes on the sides so that you can then attach handles here to carry the chest.
Also make belts out of leather, attach rivets here. See how to do it.
Cut the leather into strips 2 cm wide. Use a punch to attach the rivets here, then secure the plaques to open and close the chest. Attach the straps in place using studs with decorative caps. Those will just need to be hammered into the straps, capturing the wood.
But when you use them, pay attention that they have small legs, then the point will not pass through the wood to the back side.
Then, using the same decorative nails, attach the straps to the cover and back. This will make the restraints.
Here's how to make a chest with your own hands. Then you can put it in the hallway or make such a decorative corner where such a thing comes in handy.
Such a bag is rectangular, so it is quite simple to make it. When you manage to master this technology, see how to make a chest so that it resembles an old one in shape.
How to make a decorative chest with your own hands?
Such a thing will not only come in handy in the household, but will also become a source of pride. Not everyone has such wonderful chests. To do something like this, take:
- plywood or treated board;
- foam rubber;
- red velvet;
- skin stripes;
- decorative nails;
- self-tapping screws;
- fittings;
- wood stain;
- instruments.
First, draw the details of the future chest on boards or plywood. It consists of two round and two rectangular sides. You will also need a bottom, and then the lid is already attached. First connect the two rounded sidewalls with the bottom using self-tapping screws.
To simplify the task, simply sheathe the rectangular sidewalls with boards, nailing them here.
See how fun it is to craft the lid. When you wrap the sides of the chest with planks, do not stop, but continue to fix these elements further, on the semicircular part of the top. At this stage, you will get such a one-cut chest.
Using a ruler and a pencil, draw a straight line from one side and the other, so that you can then cut the sides evenly and get the lid.
Do this with a jigsaw. So that then the lid opens and closes well, it will be necessary to attach hinges on one side, and on the other - a lock. You can move the chest if you attach handles to the side of it. To make it all in the same style, try to choose accessories of the same color. Here it is made in bronze.
Here's how to make a chest with your own hands next. Now you will need to decorate it. Place strips of leather on the surface and nail them in with decorative nails.
To neatly do this work and the nails went straight, you can hold them at this time with round nose pliers.
Glue a soft cloth inside, such as red velvet or fleece. Attach the cover stopper to one side. Paint the chest with wood stain, after which the item is done.
If you need a large chest, watch a master class to help you make it. In such a piece of furniture, you can store a lot of things and get a large antique wooden suitcase.
How to make a large wood chest step by step?
Take four bars and place them in the corners of the future structure. Outside, stuff the boards about 2/3 the height of the future item.
To make the chest with your own hands further, turn it over on its side and stuff the boards on the back side, which will become the bottom.
Now attach the boards from one and the second small half. Saw off the excess block height. Draw semicircles on these small sides with a pencil and cut them out with a jigsaw.
Then you will need to fill the boards on this base to get a semicircular lid.
Now you need to cover the product with a stain to make it more durable and have a beautiful color. Then attach the hardware to open and close the chest.
Using self-tapping screws, fix the four legs at the bottom. Since this chest is made to look like an old one, the legs will be carved.
In the center of the lid, fix the fasteners so that you can hang a lock on the chest, as was done in ancient times.
But it is also interesting to make a modern thing. If you have a boy, give him a pirate chest. You can make such a piece of furniture especially for a pirate party. It will be useful not only for a child, but also for an adult if you arrange a themed birthday and hide gifts or arrange a quest.
How to make a pirate chest?
Such a chest will also come in handy when you need to equip a child's room in a nautical style.
Here's what it takes to craft this thing:
- furniture boards;
- glue;
- acrylic paint;
- putty for working with wood;
- gold powder;
- decorative beeswax;
- gold leaf;
- some milk and flour;
- skin stripes;
- stencils;
- jigsaw;
- putty knife;
- furniture casters;
- rope;
- drill;
- door hinges;
- brush.
First, cut out blanks from the furniture board. Pre-draw on them using a stencil or freehand the shape on which you will rely.
Fold in 2 pieces and glue them together in the corners. Thus, collect the base. Here's how to make a chest with your own hands next. Attach the bottom to it and start primer on the wood.
Now you can create an interesting structure. Mix well flour, milk, brown paint. The composition should be the consistency of sour cream. Apply it in large strokes to the outside of the chest.
While this mortar is still wet, add the texture of the wood to it with a spatula.
Now let the chest dry out. Only then, using a stencil, apply a pattern to the surface. Since the thing itself is dark, make the image with white paint. When it's dry, cover the outside of this piece of furniture with decorative wax and gold powder. Sand the chest with a soft cloth. Then you will need to apply varnish.
When it's dry, attach the hardware.
So that then the chest can be easily moved to a new place, attach the roller wheels from below.
And the door hinges will help the lid open well. Attach straps to decorate the chest and close it. Inside, you can cover it with fabric or paint it, for example, with gold paint.
Place this travel bag in a room that is decorated in a nautical style. As you can see, in this style of furnishings there can be a map, this is a wallpaper of this kind. Also, photographs on this topic, ropes, rope ladder will be appropriate here. Divide the areas of the room with wooden borders. Then, on the one hand, the child will have an office where he will study and do homework, and on the other hand, there will be a room for games.
If a chest with a curved lid is difficult, then you can make it straight on top. But it will also be seen what kind of thing it is. You will also put it in the child's room, since this piece of furniture is very similar to a pirate chest. See how to do such a thing.
How to make a bedside table with your own hands?
It is comfortable to sit on such a bedside table. So if you have a small apartment, then such a box will simultaneously serve as a roomy piece of furniture and a bench. First you need to assemble the box. To do this, take a rectangle of thick plywood, stuff the boards on it with nails first from the bottom, and then fill in the walls in this way, moving up.
Additionally, fasten them on the outside with bars. You can also glue the wooden parts to keep them tighter.
Measure the dimensions of the top of the chest to make the lid fit. Pull it off from the planks. After that, make holes with a drill, thread a rope rope here in order to attach the cover with it. Remember to tie knots at the ends of the strings to secure the material. You will also craft the handles on the sides of the chest in the same way.
Cover your product with wood-colored stain or varnish. Then you can use it for its intended purpose.
If you need a decorative item for your home, then it is not necessary to use wood. You can take a regular box. It is convenient to store various trinkets in such a thing, you can give it as a gift or decorate the room in this way. Also, the chest will be an excellent container for drinks, which are conveniently located here.
How to make a chest out of a box - a master class and a photo
For such a product, a box with a lid from household appliances is perfect. First, you will need to bend its top.
To do this, place the lid on a flat surface and forcefully slide the edge of your hand over it several times, so that then this part is bent. And you will make the sides of the lid from semicircles, the upper edges of which are cut out with such teeth. Make 2 similar details.
Then glue the sides in place. To make the chest more dense, you can insert this blank into another similar shape. Then you glue them together, securing them for a while with clothespins.
Cover the outside and inside of the resulting product with paper or wallpaper. Attach the outside of the chest handles.
You can decorate it with dark paper, cutting out jewelry and the like of fastening belts from it.
You can also decorate a cardboard chest with threads, make various curls out of them. Glue these decor items in place. Use matching beads as rivets.
If you wish, attach the legs that you will cut out of plastic here. They are fixed with a hot glue gun to the back of the chest.
It will turn out to be a wonderful gift that you have made from almost nothing.
See how you can create another present from this material.
How to make a paper chest step by step?
Here's how beautiful it will turn out. And making it is not difficult at all. Also take a cardboard box, but you need to draw 2 semicircles on it from the small sides, in order to then cut out and get just such a detail.
Outside, decorate the product with paper, bending it 5 cm inward. Twist the straws out of two colors of consumer paper. Now you will decorate the outside of the box with them. But first you need to flatten them, and then first attach the strips of the same color, fixing their edges with pins. Then weave other paper tubes perpendicularly here like a basket.
Here's how to make a paper chest next. When you arrange the large sidewalls, go to the small semicircular ones. Bend the ends of the paper tubes inward and glue them here.
To make a lid, take a bottle that is the same width as the chest. Cut a piece of cardboard, dampen it with water and tape it to the bottle. When the paper blank is dry, grease it with PVA glue and glue the newspaper here.
Then glue the resulting lid with the same paper as the chest.
Now you will need to glue the strips along the edges along, and in the center - across. You can attach a handle on top to carry this beautiful chest.
If you wish, you can decorate the cardboard chest not with paper strips, but paste over it with leather or use the decoupage technique. The video will tell you exactly how to make the chest.
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