22 DIY crafts ideas from plastic pipes with your own hands for giving and at home + photo

Either from the desire to save money, or from an overabundance of imagination, our people have learned to benefit from those objects and things that a pedantic European would have sent to a landfill a long time ago. Of plastic bottles build greenhouses and make palm trees from old tires - cute garden figures, and from wooden pallets You can assemble any garden furniture. Plastic pipe scraps left over after repair can also be used to good effect. The simplest decorative things, beds, chairs and even greenhouses are made of them - the scope for imagination is enormous, and we have collected only the most interesting ideas for crafts from plastic pipes, which can serve as a guide to action or a source of inspiration.

Pipe Connection Methods

Plastic pipes are like designer parts. Combining segments of different lengths and connecting them at different angles, can you get anything: the novice will be glad that he has built the simplest hanger, and the professional will easily assemble a bunk bed. The main thing is to be able to correctly connect the pipes, and then it will be possible to do any necessary thing on the farm.

Plastic pipes is a prefabricated name. plumbing, sewer and heating pipesthat are made from polymers. Most in demand PVC pipes and polypropylene. Sections of different lengths and diameters remain after the repair of utility networks in an apartment or in a country house, and, as a rule, are cluttered in pantries, or rather cluttered, until enterprising craftsmen began to use them for their intended purpose. Plastic pipes are characterized by low weight, high strength and durability, they are easy to maintain and safe.

Polypropylene pipes are connected using a special welding machine. It costs a lot - it is more profitable to rent it, and it takes a little time to learn how to work with it. You can use compression fittings to connect. In any case, the assembled product will be non-separable.

When it comes to crafts made from plastic pipes, usually refer to PVC pipeswhich can interconnect in the following ways:

• socket connection with rubber seal. Manufacturers supply bell-shaped pipes with a rubber sealant located at the end, so that pipe connection works are simple and quick, and the joint is tight. At the first stage, the bell of one pipe and the smooth part of the other are cleaned of dust and contaminants. The chamfer is removed from the smooth end of the pipe (angle of 15 degrees, you can use chamfer tools) and a mark is applied that indicates the depth at which the pipe will go into the socket. The o-ring of the socket and the smooth part of the pipe are lubricated with a silicone compound and inserted one part into another, focusing on the mark.For water supply and sewage, this is a good connection, and if you assemble shelves or furniture, then it is not rigid enough. The main advantages: simplicity and the ability to dismantle, so this connection is used for the construction of temporary buildings and things;
• adhesive bond. The ends of the pipes that need to be connected are chamfered (some simply treat the surface with sandpaper), then they mark the depth of the fitting. The ends of the pipes are degreased with methylene chloride, then the adhesive is applied with a brush to the pipe and inside the chamfer or socket. The pipe is inserted into the fitting (or bell), rotated ¼ turn for better glue distribution, then the elements can be pressed for 30-60 seconds. It is advisable to perform all work quickly. The glue residue is immediately removed, and the connection is allowed to dry for several hours. The process is more time-consuming, but the joint is more reliable;
• flange connection. Separate sections are connected using special fittings. Before performing work, the ends of the pipes are cleaned. A flange is put on the cut, then a rubber gasket on which the flange is retracted. The elements are bolted to the counter flange. Then, the bolts are evenly tightened, thereby combining the flanges. The connection is reliable, the design is collapsible.

When the technology of connecting plastic pipes is mastered, we can assume that you can do almost any crafts. It is important only to draw a sketch in advance or make a drawing, and correctly calculate the length of all segments. You can build anything from such parts - we will list only some of the ideas for DIY plastic pipe crafts.

No. 1. Organizer

The most simple way to use the remains of plastic pipes. You can take pipes of small and medium diameter, even segments of small length will fit. The first option is a mobile organizer. It is enough to cut segments of different heights and glue them together in random order or adhering to some pattern (for example, one higher segment in the center, the rest around it). Such a stand is suitable for storing stationery near the desktop or for organizing all kinds of carnations, bolts and other fixtures in the workshop.

The second option is stationary. On the one hand, the pipe must be cut at an angle (the most popular option is 45 degrees, but less if small items are stored). Then the chopped elements are attached to a vertical surface with screws. Organizer elements can be mounted on a wall or a specially installed board.

No. 2. Decorative frame or partition

Thin rings, which are easy to obtain when cutting plastic pipes, are a versatile material for creating decor. You can use pipes of different diameters - this is even more interesting. Plastic rings make a wonderful frame. It is enough to draw a model of the future product on paper in advance and glue individual rings directly on it. From them, you can get both a strict symmetrical pattern, and something chaotic. If you later paint, then such a frame for a mirror or a picture can hardly be called a simple craft - it will be a cool designer thing.

Similarly, you can get a decorative partition. Gluing, of course, will take a little longer, but the efforts are worth it. The partition will look very interesting, weigh a little and come in handy, for example, to distinguish between zones in the bathroom.

No. 3. Shoe shelf and wine bottle holder

Behind hallway shoe it’s not necessary to go to a furniture store if the farm is littered with large plastic pipe scraps. They need to be cut into elements with a length of about 25-30 cm (so that shoes of any size are guaranteed to fit) and joined together using glue or screws.There can be any number of sections in such an improvised shoe rack, but in any case, the shelf will not take up much space, and at the same time it will be very spacious and original. The assembled product can be attached to the wall with self-tapping screws or glued to the plywood sheet first, and already fixed to the wall.

Similarly, you can create a shelf for towels in the bathroom. If you zoom out a little, you’ll get a wonderful bottle holder - wine lovers will appreciate.

If there are remnants of pipes of a very large diameter available, feel free to fasten several of these rings in the bathroom - you will get nice shelves for all bath towels.

Number 4. Vases and flower pots

For transplanting or propagating indoor flowers, trimming sewer pipes of medium diameter are perfect. If you decorate them with stickers or decorate with paints, you will get very nice pots.

The pipes of minimum diameter can be used as long stylish vases for artificial flowers and dried flowers. For decoration, you can use stickers or decoupage technique. On a plywood stand with pre-prepared recesses, you can install a whole composition of such vases, moreover, elements of different heights look better.

No. 5. Shelves and stands

Make a small a shelf or a stand made of plastic pipes is not difficult, but it will be necessary to connect separate segments. First you need to decide on the size and shape of the future shelf. It is necessary to take into account not only the features of the interior, but also the amount of material available. Often bookshelves are made serpentine - they are somewhat reminiscent of traditional heated towel rails. This craft is perfect for storing books and photo albums.

Making a flower stand will require a little more time and effort, because it will be necessary to reliably connect the legs together and figure out what material to make the tabletop from. Usually for this purpose use unnecessary pieces of plywood, particleboard or wood. The material is given a certain shape and attached to a plastic base.

No. 6. Coffee table

Coffee table It is made in the same way as a flower stand, but it’s only bigger in size, so you will need more legs and partitions between them. Carefully consider the size and design of the future interior item, do not forget to depict everything on paper. On top of the plastic frame, as a rule, a glass tabletop is attached.

Turn on fantasy and look for non-trivial approaches. For example, the basis for the table may not be a typical frame with legs and partitions, but many pieces of pipes of different diameters glued together. Even better if the pipes are of different heights. In this case, you don’t even have to learn the nuances of the correct connection of PVC pipes.

Number 7. Clothes rack

From pipe segments you can collect several options hangers:

• the simplest, when the whole structure will rest on legs made from the same pipe. Craft can have any number of hooks and partitions and, with the proper skill, replace a small wardrobe. A great option for installation in a living room;
• the simplest frame of pipes can be put on a metal base with wheels and get a mobile cabinet. The upper partition will play the role of the crossbar in the wardrobe, where we are used to hanging clothes on our shoulders. However, a stable base can be made without wheels (examples in the photo);
• literally from several pipe sections you can make a simple vertical hanger for the hallway, where it will be convenient to broadcast outerwear and hats;
• hanger-clothes dryer and towels are also easy to manufacture.

There are a lot of options to organize the storage of clothes with the help of plastic pipes, and in the implementation all these crafts are quite simple.

Number 8. Shelving for living room, hallway, pantry

By combining several pipe sections in the required order, you can get a practical and inexpensive rack that will fully satisfy your needs in terms of size, shape and configuration. It can be both quite modest sizes, and a real giant. If the rack is located in the living room, then the pipes can be painted, and glass or plywood can be used as countertops. When it comes to pantry or a workshop, there is no special need for decoration.

No. 9. Football goal

If the summer cottage has place for children’s gamesthen you can build a small football goal. It will be necessary to complete only a few compounds, but before that, of course, everything will have to be carefully calculated and measured. When the frame is ready, they put a net on it, and the gate is ready. When the kids grow up, the product can be disassembled, and the pipes can be reused to create other crafts.

Similarly, you can make a small children's house for games. We all once loved to build huts, gather there and play. It was especially cozy and mysterious. The frame for the house of pipes is made elementary. Children will only need to throw dense fabric on it and enjoy their own small castle.

No. 10. Playpen for children

There is nothing complicated in the design of the playpen. However, the finished product in the store is not cheap. A low-cost alternative is available to those who have a decent amount of plastic pipes in stock, time and a desire to learn how to combine individual pieces into a single structure. To make it, you will need a lot of pipes, so home masters advise just to buy them in the store - it will still be cheaper than the finished playpen, and then the pipes can then be reused.

After the scheme of the arena with its dimensions is created, pipes are cut. Vertical partitions are interconnected by short horizontal pipe sections at the top and bottom. However, variations are possible in the design of the arena.

No. 11. Plastic Pipe Chairs

Here you will need already confident skills in connecting individual pipe sections. Depending on your desire and degree of preparation, you can make either a simple children's stool or a comfortable chair for adults, or even a chair. After the frame is ready, a seat is made. It can be woven from threads, rope, or use a dense fabric. Then on top you can put soft pillows. Having mastered the manufacturing technique, it will be possible to build almost all furniture for a summer residence.

No. 12. Bunk bed

Yes, from ordinary plastic pipes it’s quite possible to assemble a frame for bunk baby bed. From pipes not only supporting elements are made, but also a ladder, and, of course, lamellas under mattress. The level of complexity here is increased, it is better to take on the work for those who have already tried their hand at making simpler crafts. Do not neglect drawing up and scrupulous measurements.

A bed made in this way will become a real find for a country house of a small area, because not everyone can afford to buy a finished bunk bed in the country, but somehow you need to solve the problem of accommodation.

No. 13. Garden arch

How beautiful in the garden look arches, twined with plants and flowers. The main difficulty in making a garden arch from plastic pipes is that individual sections will have to be bent. The easiest way to shape the pipes is with a gas burner. A separate section is heated to a state where the material will give in to deformations, then it will be given the necessary shape. Someone decides not to bother and just connect several pipe sections at an angle. Then the upper part of the arch will resemble a trapezoid or polygon in shape. Between the two arched vaults, horizontal elements are fastened so that in the future the arch is covered as much as possible with greenery.Remember to firmly fix the structure in the soil.

No. 14. Gazebo

Construct gazebo made of plastic pipes is much easier than anyone can imagine. If you take sufficiently long segments, then even do not have to connect anything. Two pipes of the required length are arched and attached to the ground. The distance between the elements of the future frame should be such that a dining table or other objects fit garden furniture. It remains only pull up a thick awning fabricand you're done.

The design of the gazebo may be slightly different, resembling a house in shape. In this case, you will have to connect the individual elements.

Number 15. Carport

The design itself is uncomplicated, but difficulties can be associated with a decent size of the canopy, because it must be wide and high enough to safely hide a car under it. The frame is assembled with special care, attached to the ground and to the adjacent wall, if any, is covered with a dense tent fabric on top, which will protect the car from scorching sunlight and rain. Even the language does not dare to call this product a craft - this is already a small architectural form.

No. 16. Greenhouse

A small greenhouse is done in an elementary way. Pipes will be needed a little, there will not be too many joints. After the frame is assembled and fixed in the ground, it remains only to tighten it film or agrofibre. It will be possible to make such a greenhouse in just a couple of hours, and the benefits from it will be huge.

Number 17. Greenhouse made of plastic pipes

Full-fledged greenhouse to build, of course, is more difficult than a greenhouse. It will take a lot more material, and it will take a lot of time. The size of the greenhouse can be almost any. The procedure is as follows:

• marking the place under the greenhouse;
• the floor in the greenhouse can be earthen, but if desired, it can be covered with boards 20 cm wide, previously impregnated with an antiseptic. They are laid on leveled soil, reinforced at the corners to the soil with reinforcement;
• fasten along the long sides in the soil pieces of reinforcementwhich should rise 50-70 cm above the ground;
• a pipe is put on the reinforcement, which, with the help of physical force, is given an arched shape, then the pipe is attached from the opposite side to the same segment of the reinforcement. Step of installation of arcs 70-80 cm;
• when all arcs are installed, mount a central stiffener, which is designed to maintain the structure in equilibrium;
• it is necessary to prepare a place for future installation of doors and windows;
• it is better to use a bolted connection;
• cover the greenhouse with film, agrofibre or polycarbonate;
• doors can also be made of plastic pipes.

From the pipes you can make a frame for a greenhouse of almost any shape, but arched remains the most preferred.

Number 18. Seedling containers

If at the dacha every square meter counts, then it is time to implement the idea of ​​vertical gardens. Thus, it is convenient to grow greens and some berries. Excellent containers will come out of the scraps of plastic sewer pipes, if they are in advance jigsaw cut holes for seedlings and outflow of excess water. It remains only to fill the soil tanks and arrange the vertical beds one above the other. You can attach them again to the stand of plastic pipes. Some connect the beds with ropes and hang them on the wall - there are many options.

Long sections of sewer pipes are useful for growing garden strawberries. They will stand upright, like columns. Holes for plants are prepared in advance, and pipes of smaller diameter are laid inside. Thanks to the small holes in the latter, water will flow freely to the seedlings.

No. 19. Chicken feeder

One who in barn in the country equips a chicken coop, is well acquainted with the problem when birds scatter food from the feeder.If several sewer pipes with a characteristic bend at the end are vertically fixed in the chicken coop, then it will be possible to add grain to the birds without going into the barn. Moreover, chicken will no longer be able to sprinkle food, which means that it will be cleaner in the chicken coop, and the savings on grain will be decent.

No. 20. Drip irrigation system

Such a craft will greatly simplify the care of the lawn, and to do everything is very simple. Several segments of pipes must be connected in the form of a square, lattice or in any other way. In the finished design, it is important to make a sufficient number of small holes, connect a watering hose to the resulting system - and the mobile drip irrigation system is ready.

An open shower is likewise done. A cube or parallelepiped of sufficient height is assembled from pipe sections, many small holes are made in the upper part and water is supplied through the hose. The result is a great place for a summer vacation.

No. 21. Fencing for the site

Just note, a lot of pipes will be needed, but in the end it will come out pretty nice and durable fencing, which will not need to be painted every year, because the plastic does not rot and does not rust. You will have to work on numerous compounds, and a pre-prepared sketch will greatly simplify the process. Of course, such a fence will perform only a delineating function - it will not give protection from intruders and uninvited guests.

Number 22. Fixtures

If your hands grow from the right place, then from the pipes you can make a designer lamp in the techno style. The product can resemble a man, an animal, be outdoor or desktop - there are a lot of options, and they are limited only by your imagination. The difficulty in this case lies not only in the huge number of connections, but also in the need to attach a bulb holder and connect the power, so you can take on the job if you have minimal skills in working with electrical and lighting equipment.

However, it is not necessary to perform a mass of pipe connections. You can take segments of different lengths and diameters, make a nice system of holes in them, install a lamp inside (or even garlands), and as a result you get a very stylish piece of furniture.

Other ideas

To list all the possible options for crafts from plastic pipes can be infinitely long. Here are some more ideas for inspiration:

• stand for fishing rods;
• woodcutter;
• truck;
• parking space for bicycles;
• bar counter;
• cornice;
• children's swing.

Unless the car can be made out of a plastic pipe - everything else is quite possible. The main thing is that the fantasy works and there is a desire to achieve a result.