DIY PVC pipe crafts

At the end of the repair, scraps of building materials and components remain, which are a pity to throw away. Pipe residues and unclaimed fasteners are a fertile material to make excellent crafts from PVC pipes. Pieces of plastic pipes do not make sense to someone to give or throw away, it’s stupid to store them with dead weight on a balcony or mezzanine. Already have experience in joining the details of the water supply, and it is time to use it to create new objects, using imagination and someone else's ideas for inspiration.

From unnecessary sections of PVC pipes, you can build a lot of useful items for the home

New uses for PVC pipe scrap

When installing a water supply system, it becomes clear how easy it is to connect plastic pipe segments, from which it is easy to make useful things for your home with your own hands. Everything that has a frame structure is easy to rethink, making useful objects of modern design.

Such a lesson is suitable for fantasy masters who have no experience and woodworking machines. A simple tool for cutting plastic, glue and accessories for joining PVC pipes - all that is needed for an exciting process. Prefabricated frame structures complement other materials or fixtures to make furniture from PVC pipes. For example, mattress fabric is needed for deckchairs, brackets are for shelves, but the cost of such products is incomparably more economical than purchased.

DIY PVC pipe crafts are of two types:

• one-piece - with assembly not glue or bolts;
• collapsible - for multiple installation (resembles a children's designer).

The second type of product is interesting for those who use seasonal items. For example, you can always take a precast stool with you for summer fishing or a picnic, and make a garden gazebo for the summer and clean it by winter. The same applies to the prefabricated garden furniture made of PVC and other country decor, built every season with their own hands.

To create crafts from plastic pipes, the simplest tools are enough

Using examples, it is easy to repeat useful crafts from plastic pipes. The aesthetic advantages of neat snow-white designs are not in doubt. Plastic of the latest generation is environmentally friendly, durable and safe.

Among the other advantages of crafts from PVC pipes is the quick replacement of a cracked fragment. If something is broken during operation, you can always buy pipes of the same diameter and components for articulation. It is easier to replace a single part or an entire unit in home-made furniture than to buy a new one.

Durable material for country and home crafts and decorations of a summer cottage has a lot of advantages:

• does not require painting (if desired, you can paint);
• collapsible structures do not take up much space (a cot for a summer residence or a frame for an awning for a car will be placed on the mezzanine or in the pantry until next season);
• does not emit toxic substances when heated in the sun (excellent property for summer cottages in warm climates);
• possesses sufficient durability;
• pipes of different diameters are convenient for crafts and designs of various types (fittings and couplings for them are always on sale);
• gives you the opportunity to be creative, to do exclusive things not only for home and your family, but also for sale or as a gift to friends.

Comfortable and original stools, highchairs and other furniture made of PVC pipes will decorate both the summer cottage and the ordinary apartment in a modern style. Teenagers love such products; they persistently pull homemade PVC chairs to their room. For the general surroundings of plastic pipes, you can make them a hanger for clothes or a corner shelf for books with a bookcase for books and indoor plants.

If you do not consider pipes only as building consumables for the installation of water supply and sewerage, but as a way of showing talent, it is easy to realize ideas. By combining the scraps with each other and connecting to them a cartridge and an electric cord, even unique lamps are made of white plastic pipes:

• wall sconces;
• a chandelier with a lampshade;
• table lamp;
• floor lamp.

The original lamp made of plastic pipes will complement the interior

Advice! PVC pipes are willingly given away by friends, neighbors and relatives, and couplings will have to be purchased. For work, you will also need glue, screws and a drill, tape measure and pencil. Sometimes you need to bend the pipes, think about how this is best done. For some crafts, other types of pipes are also suitable.

Practical DIY crafts from PVC pipes for an apartment

In a city apartment, pipe residues can be useful, from which it is easy to make the necessary items.

Shelves for shoes made of plastic pipes. This is a practical craft for an apartment or a country house. Determine the dimensions yourself, under the existing space in the hallway, and in width they are made of 2 types:

• the width of the foot of the shoe;
• short rungs with sagging heels.

The mount has options:

• bolts;
• self-tapping screws;
• couplings on glue.

For wide crossbars use:

• plywood (can be painted);
• plastic;
• the remains of the laminate.

Vertical clothes hanger. It must be stable, so choose a medium-sized pipe. To prevent the central axis from bending under the weight of winter clothing on one side, the PVC pipe can be filled with an old shaft from a garden tool or with a metal pin. The most important thing is to make it stable, so it is better to make a reliable cross or wide legs with a triangle. The upper hooks are best used ready-made, long enough, bolted in pairs on both sides of the pipe.

Advice! Do-it-yourself wall-mounted hanger has a different configuration, but if several people live in the house, use both options in the hallway.

Floral whatnots and flower pots. These are also practical crafts from PVC pipes. The bookcase is removable or wall mounted. To make the construction light, use thin natural plywood or glass shelves. But make sure that the water from the flower pots does not spill out, leaving stains.

From small pipe sections you can easily assemble a practical rack for drying things

Tabletop vases and organizers for small items and stationery. They are made from short pieces of PVC pipe. Wall-mounted flower vases can be made from the halves of a wide plastic pipe. Add exclusive with varnish or acrylic paint, and golden or silver spraying with spray paint. The vase must be airtight, so it is imperative to treat the inset of the bottom of the plastic well with silicone and check for leaks.

Aviary for parrots. It is very simple to build it yourself from plastic pipes, you can also make labyrinths and funny toys for cats, a lounger for a dog and other crafts for pets. All these products have a frame shape. The enclosure is surrounded by a net, but it is important to consider where the door will be. It is convenient to position it:

• under the stairs in the house;
• in any niche;
• in the hall;
• at the dead end of the corridor.

Cats need to climb trees - so they keep the abdominal muscles in good shape.A labyrinth that replaces trees with thoroughbred cats who never walk on the street is wrapped in twine - over plastic pipes smeared with glue. The dog bed with short legs is complemented by a canvas tent made of thick fabric.

High chair and low table - simple furniture, a laminate worktop and upholstered seating are required. The solid base can be trimmed with foam and fitted with practical dermantine. Fastening to the seat legs should be reliable. Plan the height of the chair so that it is convenient to fit on the baby.

Crib and playpen made of PVC pipes - environmentally friendly, therefore, can be recommended as an alternative to children's furniture. Dimensions and model can vary, but it is better to focus on standard wood products manufactured by factories.

Advice! The white plastic frame is beautiful and practical, but children tend to grab and lick everything - do not forget to disinfect the handrails!

Pipes can have straight and oblique cutting, which gives new opportunities for creativity. Combining short pieces of pipes of different diameters, you can come up with dozens of decor options in a city apartment:

• partitions for zoning space;
• multi-level clothes dryers;
• niches on the balcony wall for small tools, screws and bolts;
• the base of the basket for dirty laundry or food waste under the trash bag;
• stand for books, laptop, tablet or desk mirror;
• holiday crafts and gifts;
• scabbard for kitchen knives and other sharp objects.

Children's furniture made of PVC pipes is light and durable

Practical PVC crafts for DIY

Do not think that it is possible to make only products for an apartment from PVC pipes. At the cottage - canopies, gazebos, a sofa-swing and other garden decor, it looks very organic. Nothing decorates the garden like white collapsible furniture, including do-it-yourself manufacturing options.

1. A greenhouse or a greenhouse made of plastic pipes is a welcome object in any household, but not everyone takes on their labor-intensive construction. Knowing how easy it is to make them yourself from PVC components and fit the resulting frame with film, many craftsmen are inspired and willingly take on the job.

Cutting the same PVC pipes is simpler, more difficult to shape the structure of consecutive arches and fix on a selected area. For such a greenhouse fit:

• dense plastic film;
• translucent polymer building materials;
• transparent rolled slate.

At the end of a greenhouse or greenhouse, an entrance is made, usually with a door, but sometimes limited to stripes of silicone curtains. Note that it will not be a major construction, such a greenhouse is installed in early spring and dismantled for the winter. This has its “plus”, when the soil is depleted, the arched structure is put in a new place, preferably near the garden path.

The foundation is not needed, low weight allows you to do the installation / dismantling yourself on an annual basis. The disassembled kit will be stored in the barn or garage in the winter.

2. Summer carport for cars in the country - a popular product from PVC pipes. For this purpose, any pipes, but the white plastic looks aesthetically pleasing and easily assembled into a lightweight construction. Complete the canopy with a flexible slate or camouflage net.

3. Do-it-yourself grape arches and trellises for climbing garden plants are another opportunity to correctly attach the remnants of PVC pipes.

You can save on the purchase of a bike rack by building it from short polymer pipes

4. A gazebo made of PVC pipes for giving under climbing plants and flowers - an excellent garden option. The plants themselves will fill the frame structure, creating a shadow. Plastic is no worse than metal or wood, of which a gazebo is most often made. It is malleable for heating and bending, it is easy to saw and connect it with couplings. With a good design of the gazebo, this will be the best decoration of the garden.

5.Shelving for seedlings is a solution to the problem of free space for low boxes, which are everywhere in the country house in early spring. They can be made on any number of tiers, even to the ceiling, but do not forget that growing seeds need lighting. Lamps and spotlights for artificial lighting can be fixed directly on the whatnot, at the same interval, then change position.

This design can be taken out to the garden in summer and made an excellent decoration - a cascading vertical flowerbed for hanging flowers.

6. All kinds of garden furniture and a sofa swing under an awning made of white plastic - not just crafts from PVC pipes, but practical objects for landscape design. A convenient addition will be a white trolley on wheels, on which products are brought to the barbecue area or barbecue. All these products and furniture with your own hands are best done in one key, supplementing with common material:

• for seats;
• countertops;
• tents.

7. Popular designs for the vertical planting of strawberries and other plants are also made of plastic pipes, but of large diameter. The holes for seedlings are drilled at the same distance to look aesthetically pleasing.

Original crafts for vertical gardening, do-it-yourself hedges on a frame basis also complement other structures. For example, horizontal tanks made of wide pipes for hydroponic cultivation of plants when there is little space or free land on the site.

Advice! Devices for hydroponics for the winter can be picked up on a glazed balcony or loggia to equip a winter garden.

PVC pipes can be used for growing garden and ornamental plants and decorate the garden plot in an original way

8. A frame-type outdoor shower is also made of tubular materials. It is easy to assemble and dismantle for the winter. It remains to fix the tank heated from the sun from above, and to tighten the gaps from any opaque film material. In addition, a tubular grid for drying towels can be made on the back of the shower.

9. Children in the country will be pleased with a summer house with awnings - an additional shadow for exciting games. This design can be made stationary type or portable, so that the kids are in front of parents. The list of crafts made of plastic for the summer cottage can be supplemented:

• “Parking” for bicycles;
• A "wall" for storing garden tools;
• a fence or fence that does not need to be painted;
• portable summer coop;
• aviary for a dog;
• a framework for a bulk pool from a dense film with a chaise lounge.

Instead of the conclusion, we recall that products made of PVC pipes have a lot of advantages - they do not need to be painted, they are easy to assemble and dismantle. Only fittings, couplings, glue, bolts or self-tapping screws are needed for the connection, depending on the type of construction. This creative activity is somewhat reminiscent of the LEGO constructors, only for adults.