Bundling plastic crates together was an inexpensive way to temporarily furnish the living room and children’s bedroom in Juliana Hamacek’s apartment.
As soon as she moved into the rental property, visual reporter Juliana Hamacek was faced with a list of priority expenses that made the carpentry project she wanted for the living room unfeasible. “Needing a place to store books and objects, I ordered the crates from a company that supplies street vendors and then assembled the bookcase and sofa,” she says.
Later, when she had managed to decorate the room the way she imagined, she donated some of the pieces and found another use for the rest: “My children are entering their teenage years, so I wanted to change the look of their room – the boxes helped make the room more fun and beautiful.”
Assembly of reused furniture and objects
To create a bookcase, a shelf, a sofa and a coffee table, Juliana used two models of crates: a smaller one (40 x 60 x 24 cm*), grey, and a larger one (40 x 60 x 31 cm), green or red (Mundial Pack). These colours guided the choice of the rest of the palette.
The pieces were held together with nylon ties. “I attached the shelf modules to the wall with nails that I inserted into the empty spaces at the bottom of the boxes,” he explains.
An existing futon was placed directly on top of the speakers and became the sofa seat.
The coffee table was made from a couple of old suitcases. “I inherited them from my godmother, who used them on her honeymoon,” she recalls.
A modern holiday for children
When it came time to redesign her children’s bedroom, Juliana chose the most colorful boxes to create the base of the beds. The mattresses are the type used in the lower beds of trundle beds: narrower (they are 78 cm wide, 10 cm less than the standard single), they fit perfectly in two rows of boxes.
Gray pieces stacked in the space between the beds serve as nightstands.
The “urban-flavored” furniture desired by the resident is completed by the checked carpet (Imagem, from the Pixel line, by Tapetes São Carlos, 2.50 x 3.50 m, Etna) and the walls with printed self-adhesive fabric, in 100% cotton canvas.
Source: Terra
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