Cardboard as a solid alternative for home furniture and accessories: ten ideas

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It's been a while. the cardboard is appearing in manufacture of furniture and decoration objects as a firm alternative to wood. It is much cheaper and easier to recycle and although it is obviously not as durable and resistant, its qualities adapt well to many of the needs we have today, both at home and in the office.

Many people do not want for their house a decoration that lasts a lifetime, nor furniture that is eternal, prefer something that lasts some seasons and that is not too expensive to change later, something similar to what has been happening with clothes for a long time. The cardboard is perfect in that sense and today There's a lot of furniture and cardboard plug-ins that we can buy for the house, let's see ten examples.

1. Storage furniture

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Ever since the cardboard has been used to store things, cardboard boxes are a classic to store all kinds of objects and today we can also buy or manufacture by ourselves, recycling, Modular cardboard shelves. A perfect solution for rental flats where we don't want to spend much on furniture, but we do want to have things tidy.

2. Animal-shaped shelving

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If we look for something more original, there is also in the market cardboard shelves with funny shapes, as for example this Sheep-shaped shelf We've talked about before in Decoesphere. When we choose very original forms, many times it is not worth spending a lot of money or opting for a very durable material, because we will get tired soon and want to exchange them for others with another aspect.

3. Decorative animal heads

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The hunting and bringing home an animal head to decorate the wall is something that today is not trending. However objects imitating heads of animals they have been put back in fashion to decorate the living room or office, the cardboard is one of the materials chosen for the manufacture of these fictitious animal heads and the truth is that it looks very good.

4. Children’s playhouses

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And if we think about children, cardboard is always a good choice, it's softer than other materials, it'll be harder to hurt them, they can paint it and it won't be necessary for them to last too long, children grow up soon and need other things. One games house of cardboard It's cheap and will delight as a game scene for the little ones in the house.

5. Uniquely shaped drawer units

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Returning to the issue of storage, not only are shelves what we can find made of cardboard, there is also boxers, some as curious as these egg-shaped ones we see on these lines. If they are small they will help us to organize objects of reduced dimensions, those that are always lost and that in this way we will have located and ordered.

6. Tables and seating

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The theme of tables and seats is somewhat more complicated, the cardboard supports a certain weight and always less than that of other stronger materials. But today with treatments and structures suitable for the material, they have been able to manufacture quite good seats and for auxiliary table the cardboard It's more than enough.

7. Christmas trees and other seasonal decorations

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Also carton is ideal for seasonal decorationAt some times of the year we decorate our house differently for a few days. For example on Halloween or Christmas, for details that we included at home on those dates, on corrugated cardboard It's a perfect materialincluding the famous Christmas tree that in recent years has already been cardboard in many houses.

8. Electronic devices

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And we can think of more amazing things, like carton used in the manufacture of electronic devices, for example in the case of old single-use photo machines or in a radio like the one we see on these lines. Obviously there is not only cardboard in these devices, but it is what you see most and the result is curious and different.

9. Houses for birds and pets

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There's also options in cardboard for pets and animals in generalAlthough I think it may be a little delicate the subject, because maybe a cat or a dog can give them to destroy their booth if it is cardboard, however for cats there are and also for birds. In this case I think it would be necessary to test to see the result, although since the investment is not very large, breaking is a risk that can be assumed.

10. Children's desks

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Finally and back with the children, besides for their games the cardboard can also serve to start them in school tasks and in order. Your first desktoptheir first seats and their first storage furniture, can be cardboard, will bear well their weight, will be more manageable for them and can also be decorated to taste.

In short, It's not like we're going to furnish and decorate the house alone with cardboardBut there are many pieces made of that material that can be perfectly functional and cheaper than others, so it is a serious alternative that we must take into account before buying. Even if we have cardboard boxes at home, some of the objects we can make ourselves.

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