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Original question by: @[email protected]

If you buy things to any extent, you've probably got some leftover packaging hanging around. What are some cool ways you've found to make use of all these materials? Special props to ideas that can be replicated!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When renovating our house we bought new room doors. Though they took weeks to be delivered and we already lived in that house without room doors (also no door for the bathroom).

But we had loads of big cardboard pieces from furniture, so I used them and a lot of glue to build temporary doors. I added handles and used screws to fix them in the frame (I mean the big wooden beams, that are holding the actual nice doorframe in the wall).

They mostly worked surprisingly well, holding in the frame by friction from cardboard blocks, that I glued to them. Though they opened everytime, we had an open outside door, that caught some wind

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You freakin' genius! I have been thinking of how to get a door in, cause the place we're at right now is an odd spot and there were about fifty doors in this place at one point and they decided to remove all but the bedroom (which isn't even sized right). Since it's not our place, I told my gal I'm not interested in tossing a sea of cash at it seeing as we'll probably be out the door right after we get everything set-up. I have a couple large boxes and I was thinking of how to integrate them to make a door without making it look like a shanty house or something. I think with those plastic screws I saw on here we could create a faux-door and get it installed in the one area I really would prefer to have one, just for a smidgen of privacy. Thank you!