Before & After: Box Spring Turned into Table and Chair Furniture. A box spring turned into a chair and a table: this is not quite your regular before and after post where the before resembles the after in any way, shape or form.
No, this is much more awesome! Once the bed was made the need of a boxspring was eliminated. So, we suddenly had a queen sized box spring sitting in the house that we needed to get rid of. First off we tried to list it free on craigslist, but after a couple of days of no takers we just figured we would have to take it to the landfill. There is a lot of wood in a boxspring, did you know that? So, here we start a little game called: "what we can turn an old box spring into. " With a maul and a hammer we dismantled the boxspring so that the only thing we threw away was the fabric cover, which is stapled to the frame, and a layer of cardboard. The challenge we set for ourselves was to not use any other wood at all, except for dowels we already had.
Another part of the idea was design. The Table Rounding the edges with a palm sander. Less is the New More: Making the Most of Small Spaces. Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot.
This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. This one looks a bit clinical, but has two single beds plus a pull-out double bed in between. When you read in the New York Times that professional couples with children are moving into small one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan and sleeping in closets, perhaps this stuff could be useful. None of this stuff is cheap, nor, as far as I can tell is it available in North America, but there are ideas here that demonstrate how people can share a space and still get a little privacy, a good place to work and a lot of storage in a very small envelope. Like this? What can you do with an old pallet? So many things!
If you ever come across the opportunity to pick up a few pallets take a look at some of the ideas I have come across for recycling old pallets into furniture and other practical and decorative pieces. I would like to mention that the designs below were found at various sources on the Internet. Where possible I have mentioned the original source, but unfortunately too many do not. If you are the original designer for any of the furniture below, please let me know so that I can add your details. Make furniture for your home ABOVE: Mobius Living take pallets to a new level, offering clients the opportunity to buy ready-made coffee tables. ABOVE and BELOW: Who would have thought that a humble pallet could be transformed into so many practical pieces. ABOVE: All it takes is a few reclaimed timber pallets to make up your own living room furniture In the kitchen ABOVE and BELOW: Don't stop there... In the bedroom In the garden Pallets for pets Find and prepare your pallet.
Stacked End Table Shelf — Infarrantly Creative.