just some notes..

Yet another DIY project. The task is to create a neat piece of furniture out of other furniture’s packaging.

The challenge: hold more than 10kg in the height of 150cm using only cardboard.

In detail: as the input there is cardboard packaging and a hanging clothes organizer. The intended output is a structure capable of holding the organizer with over 10kg of clothes high enough for it to be hanging freely (theoretically 120cm + some base of the frame). The design shall be stable, somewhat nice looking and available for further improvements.

There is limited amount of cardboard (two long boxes of cardboard and two bigger squared sheets from old pallets). There will be no other material! No glue! No duct tape (at the end I reused a bit of old duct tape within the process of construction, but it’s still not part of the final product and is to be reused again =) The whole structure shall be based on cutting and bending the cardboard. All joints must hold on their own, just as they are left after assembly.

Let’s the origami begin…

 First plans

Yes.. it does look like a di*k. Everybody said that ;) And I’m gonna make two of them and hang my clothes on them. Funny enough. I actually did follow the original drawings practically without change all the way to the end.

Pillars

The pillars are made of four pieces of card on the picture above. Each piece is bended along it’s (almost) whole length to make a corner of the pillar. At the bottom they’re scissoring, each one with it’s two neighboring sides.

The top is tied together. This pillars are, on their own, strong enough to hold the clothes, but the bottoms are ugly, susceptible to damage, and tend to fold under the weight. Thus the necessity of covering boxes.

Boxes

in order to make it more fancy as well as somewhat easier to walk and manipulate around it the cut off corners were taken into the design. they also supports the stability as they limit the bottom parts of the pillars.. at least a bit

making the locking of cut off corners.. it’s trivial but holds strong enough.

carbon-copy-cutting the second box, penetration, assembling the box…

you can assembly boxes outside and then just slide them onto pillars.. make sure there is some spare card that makes up the “bottom”. also see the comparison with and without the box

pure and staffed final product ;)