DIY Cardboard Shelf That Looks Like Wood: Simple, Easy Home Decor Idea #2

[@dopapier]

It is better to alternate the boards, having the ‘grain’ of one sheet at right angles to the one below. This increases the strength enormously.

[@williampennjr.4448]

you could also reenforce it with a straight bracket or the straight part of a plastic hanger between the cardboard layers. This is especially good if you dont want the shelf to be so thick.

[@18missmm]

This is an absolute PERFECT solution for what I need on my budget! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙌❤️

[@AmonNouse]

cheaper to buy one from ikea!

[@wolraadwoltemade3275]

@@AmonNouse can't beat mass production I learned this the hard way making stuff from stone and granite I'd have to charge 3x the market price on amazon for the same item I make can't compete at all.

[@stan.rarick8556]

I've been using Elmer's glue with cardboard for years - works great!

[@cassiecarmichael]

Very nice work, forget the people who can't appreciate your work. The finishing touch of the veneer was excellent!

[@badawy3380]

همرران

[@clanravencub]

It's worth alternating the directions of the corrugation. It should vast increase the strength

[@AdamFraserKruck]

I would only add one sheet in the other direction. The majority should be the way they show. This is similar to OSB oriented strand board.

[@AdamFraserKruck]

@Robert Flask OSB has some flakes in every direction, but the majority are oriented a certain way to increase the strength. The "strength axis" is stamped on the bottom of every sheet.

[@questioner113]

It would depend on which way the shelf is going to span, ie, if it is transferring loads along both axes. I since the supports are on the two sides of the shelf and not at the back, it makes sense to have all the corrugations span between the supports. If the back of the shelf had some supports below it, then alternating the direction of the corrugations might serve some purpose.

[@erincallison7391]

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[@annblachly8068]

Thank you for the details to pay attention to for making sturdy furniture, smaller projects.

[@jaspermartin7444]

Ingenius! I have a fancy armoire which is used as a dresser and it needs another shelf but matching the wood grain isn't possible, so it feels silly spending money for something which is never going to look quite right. But this free -- free is GREAT for "almost matches"! Thanks!

[@patriciaconstantinososa7298]

I love how neat your work is!!!

[@kikomoda]

Thank you!

[@floppydisk4500]

kikomoda it's good but it would be stronger if you alternate the grain of the cardboard, like making plyboard. 😊

[@kashifghafoor7177]

Patricia Constantino Sosa to

[@kashifghafoor7177]

Kashif.

[@verascapiniandradedetudou8262]

Boa tarde e saudações daqui do Brasil. Sensacional seu trabalho e obrigada por compartilhar modo como você fez. Ficou incrível.

[@TSD0416]

Wow this is a great way to recycle and reuse cardboard. You've done an excellent job. I swear your shelf is much sturdier that those at IKEA.

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

It's not. Ikea has the cardboard stripes vertically and in a honeycomb shape to hold the weight and distribute it (almost) equally across the whole piece of wood.

[@WsFood]

It's as good as wood to make a cabinet out of a box.💜👍👍

[@lyteyearz5810]

Definitely worth a new follower! 😊

[@pierreandre6120]

Friend Kikomoda, your work to me is lovely art, brilliance, and simplicity. Thank you for showing us this video. Blessings from New Mexcio. pierre

[@deenszxking6818]

When you stack it together, you should cross them piece by piece to make it strong. If you don't know what I mean by that, I will try to explain it as detail as possible. Let say you have 5 pieces of cardboard that you want to stack it together. You will notice that a cardboard has many straw hole. When you stack and glue them together, 1st pieces of cardboard hole will facing the different direction from 2nd pieces of cardboard when glued together like a cross. The same goes between 2nd to 3rd, 3rd to 4th, and 4th ro 5th.

[@juneribbons5196]

Good job. Recycle every time you can.

[@Белогоръ]

При грамотном подходе лишние затраты не нужны! Молодец.

[@mysticarts8787]

Wowww superb very smart nobody will know the difference

[@ebubeonyeka4747]

I'm only searching this up cause idk what to do with all my leftover moving boxes and I'm tryna make the biggest DIY room makeover ever lmao

[@jelenabakajic2211]

And? How was it?

[@andrewkh3710]

Omg. Same. This feels like I'll be making more waste than earlier with all the paper and glue.

[@sujadutta]

Bless you my friend. Perfection, neatness, creativity.... I love all of this in your work. Hats off.🙌👏

[@matthewdancz9152]

That looks beautiful.

[@HadalBlue]

This is a wonderful video, very nice work!! Thank you so much, Kikomoda! ❤️

[@AzaMercado]

Thank you so much for this ideaaaa! Will be living in a compound apartment and building some pf my wardrobe shelving and this is such a good help! Thank youuu!

[@lyteyearz5810]

Did you end up doing it? If so, how did it turn out?

[@reaseysart3227]

Good idea 👍 thanks you for sharing

[@SaveSoilSaveSoil]

Blown away!

[@RubabJaffery_CuteSagittarius]

Oh, bleSs you...👼 I desperately needed this!!!

[@bluecatblu76]

If you alternate the direction of the grain it makes the shelf even stronger.

[@Dailynews_hai]

boom

[@jakubc6230]

paper plywood? :D

[@karoma7898]

@haveaniceday care to explain?

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

@haveaniceday it is true. If you alternate the direction of the grain of each cardboard layer it will be stronger. It's just how physics work.

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

@haveaniceday and if you want an actual explanation: it will be way harder to bend in half since the other layers are the opposite way so they don't let you bend it in half.

[@d.t.b3223]

Excellent job,well done 👏👏👏

[@RavenVargas27]

It's not only beautiful a perfect match to. I did this same trick, had a piece of particle board to thin to support weight I wood glued 3 pcs of heavy cardboard to it next day covered it with wood grain contact paper, it marched the other shelves so well my friend couldn't tell

[@DubSidhe]

pretty slick boss. If you made a whole shelving unit out of it it would weight a helluva lot less than that particle board and be just as structurally sound.

[@foodies7868]

You made very nice finished carbord shalf gud work 👌

[@syedhasan6548]

Very Very Nice 👍

[@RicardoPicena]

Amazing! Thank you for the inspiration

[@Shankar14477]

Superrrr

[@berryglee]

Excellent thanks for sharing

[@18despues]

why aren't we all doing this????? there is SO MUCH cardboard out there. I'm embaressed by how much cardboard I have.

[@obiagerinwosu3160]

Great job. Thank you.

[@asmrdrawing8220]

Wow This gave me a tons of ideas THAAAAAANK YOU

[@LyricLockerEntertain]

THE MUSIC HAD ME JAMMING WHEN IT BROKE DOWN STARTING AT 1:30. I WAS LIKE YALL BETTA PLAY THEM INSTRUMENTS? 😄😄😄😄

[@kishamack2970]

Great job

[@Markofitch]

do you think you could make a floating cardboard shelve tutorial ? that would be cool

[@anasoliscaballero6896]

Me encantan sus trabajos, son hermosos, prolijos y es una manera excelente de reciclar. Me gustaría que pusieran subtitulos en español para poder aprender bien la técnica. Felicitaciones por todo lo que hacen, saludos desde Chiapas, México.

[@babygrl1365]

Nice idea when your missing shelves. Would be easy to do with little effort as well.

[@sajanraghavan]

Fantastic!

[@drisbenamrane8317]

Bravo , c'est génial

[@hansanichethana2773]

OMG! OMG! 😲👀😲💯

[@SalihArtAndTech]

Beautiful and neat. Great work 👏👏👏

[@MuchLove2ya]

Pretty ingenious for what he used it for!

[@kenzorrilla71]

Cuantas maravillas se pueden hacer con cartón increíble felicidades

[@anyacara9538]

Thank you for your clean hands!!!

[@اٍدريسبامهاودمسرحيوزجالمغربي]

Very Good👍

[@MariaGarcia-yo2xm]

Excelente 👍👍👍

[@098believe]

Great job, very neat work.

[@dilipjuneja6914]

Wow it was really amazing great talent....

[@ИрэнГорлица]

Отличная подсказка! 👍

[@QUADBOYification]

Exellent, you can basically create any bookshelf or cupboard yourself. You only need the right size cardboard. I guess these shelves have good insulating properties. You could also buy a big pack of styrofoam sheets from Home Depot and do the same thing, did you try that? I am thinking of doing just that and laminate it with some sturdy mahony plastic and alu-foil, to be used as insulating panels that fit right into windows so a cold night has little or no impact on room temperature. Thanks for this tip.

[@12sisters1bride7]

This guy just told on an entire industry! I think I know what's between lamanent now

[@صلاةالليل-ق4ت]

Amazing you are a very good carpenter

[@virginiachumacerolopez1380]

Me encantó tanto la demostración que me voy a suscribir 😍😄🌷

[@اخبارالاساتذةاليوم]

Very nice ! 👍 Thank you a lot

[@algrell1]

Great Idea !!!!

[@sophatcreative9206]

Hi friend , I like your videos 😍💚

[@kikomoda]

Thank you

[@danyelswei]

Ty im gonna need this to my room For my baby dolls

[@hildahernandezgomez7702]

Excelentes ideas!!! Me sacaste de un apuro!!! muchísimas gracias!

[@SATYALOKA07]

Good idea

[@hiramyawicks1287]

So useful. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@567891100]

This would be a great way to keep weight to a minimum in a camper van build.

[@gloriacardoza5078]

100

[@tuankiet9602]

Great idea!

[@dianemarks2270]

Super nice

[@rosagonzalez15]

Lo felicito muy buena idea y muy buen trabajo, sobretodo tiene mucha creatividad, ........felicidades

[@HTGameplayTV]

wow look it for sure

[@aditibhardwaj8790]

Brilliant, excellent, wonderful

[@dwandascott3947]

smart work thank you you just saved me a bunch of money

[@musicismylove92]

It's a neat substitute, but I feel like it's way easier (and not at all expensive) to get a piece of wood at Lowe's/Home Depot/etc and they will cut it to the exact dimensions you need for free.

[@imwhatim7259]

musicismylove92 yes i agree with your words, but he did a waste management program. he converted waste things to useful things i think so

[@sugarbooty]

musicismylove92 This is cheaper and uses garage that would go into a landfill otherwise

[@Kroumph]

If you don't have the proper tools on hand it makes things complicated, too.

[@noonynoonynoo]

We don't have a Lowes where I live tho 😛

[@margieadams4622]

musicismylove92 but boxes are free. Not everyone can afford to just go out n buy wood or saws etc. Everyone can afford boxes. And most of everything else is cheap at the dollar tree.

[@genildaamarodasilva4310]

Perfeito parece ser madeira,amei, lindo.

[@xiara1058]

I like this! I was looking for easy diy shelves for my school locker (because ya girl can't get to a store because parents are rats sometimes ok ok) and I can easily make this in my open period (robotics teacher has lots of cardboard), Good way to recycle!

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

How old are you that your parents don't let you go to a store? Wtf? I bet they don't let you use scalpels either

[@ritabuback8142]

Encantada com seu capricho.

[@ЗаграМуртузова]

Какделатмебельсвоимируками

[@deepakfinearts-drawingpain5676]

Your craft video as beautiful as my craft videos

[@scatterkatjatzen1655]

Nice work. Never would of thought of using cardboard. Thanks!

[@ideasdeadri7283]

Super buen proyecto gracias

[@Kitty-JuneOhSixJanTwentyFour]

Nice :)

[@constancehutt6525]

Flawless work, bravo.!

[@JustChillMyDog]

WOW BIG LIKE 👍👍👍

[@mohum2460]

how to stick shelf in wardrobe....which hook u are used???? where i ll get????

[@TranTheClever]

Love this so much; thank you!! 3:53

[@ЕленаТезиева-е1к]

Шикарно!

[@bcfriardoyle7697]

Wow!

[@garvsingh1457]

Excellent. Very neat work

[@vladmiratito7610]

GOSTO MUITO DAS TUAS IDEIAS, BOM MESMO.

[@kikomoda]

Thanks!

[@danandam7100]

Wish I'd seen these videos before my friend got rid of all her moving boxes and my cardboard. I was going to get some plywood cut for shelving but this would have been cheaper!

[@civismesecret]

Amazing

[@teddypaul6125]

good job i will try it

[@MrSooom]

Wow😍

[@MariaLucia-ul9dk]

Muito lindo 👏

[@barbarabalaam5241]

That's brilliant 👍

[@TranTheClever]

If you are going to cut and plane your wood. Buy rough cut wood and save a bomb, it's a couple dollar in a saw mill. Ps badass video. O and if you made the shelves 3 ft 3 instead of the randomly selected 3 foot, to allow for the rope to be set in a little from the edges of the shelves. You would have had two studs to fix to as they are spaced 18 inches apart 😘 1:34

[@dc9646]

O H YEAH YEAH nice shelf bois

[@lenkarajlaxmi2585]

Loved your work. I'm planning to make one. Share the measurements please.

[@smurfman691]

Surely you need to measure for your shelves... Not the person's in the video!

[@loubnak.191]

great job as always! And just in time for a project of mine. Your work is awesome

[@kikomoda]

Thank you :)

[@АртёмПономаренко-я5р]

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