How to make a sofa car for your own apartment or office with your own hands. How old cars are turned into beautiful furniture

An object that has served its purpose sadly wanders to be melted down, recycled or landfilled. But sometimes on this bleak path, full of hopelessness and disappointments, there are masters who are ready to breathe new life into it. In our review on how to create original interior items from old auto parts.

1. Table lamp

A fun combination of urbanism and comfort. I wonder what book is more appropriate to read by this lamp? Apparently, something from the life of machines.

2. Hose shelf

The perfect combination of aesthetic appearance and functionality. Keeping a garden hose on an old disk is convenient for the owner (the inventory does not take up much space) and useful for the hose (there are no kinks and drying is ensured).

3. Country visor

The original solution for the porch. The main thing is not to forget to add a little mounting foam under the hood for "noiselessness" in the rain and the exclusive design of the facade is provided.

4. Paper holder

This almost office paper holder is a great option for garages, service stations and auto parts companies. Well, if you add the ability to play with the size and color of the license plate, then you understand that this is just an ideal design element.

5. Organizer

A special charm and chic to the spring is given by natural corrosion covered with transparent varnish. It is hard not to agree that this piece of furniture, after applying minimal effort, will delight the eye and is easy to use.

6. Bar

The eight-cylinder head of the block of cylinders... Even sounds heavy. A little imagination, diligence and a couple of starting flags. An elegant bar is ready.

7. Garden furniture

Recycling tires and purchasing garden furniture. We have a solution to two problems at the same time. A unique opportunity to fight for the environment and save the budget.

8. Wall clock

Gear - brutal, yellow - cheerful, clock - informative, but all together original and fun.

9. Key holder

The former seat belt buckle is back on guard. Now it's a keychain and a place for keys. No chance of falling or getting lost.

10. Table

Just a table is boring. From automotive to mobile, shafts, heads, gears migrated to become elegant and monumental, brutal and graceful tables.

If your own car is in excellent condition, then you really want to be creative, you should go to one of. There you can definitely "profit" with old spare parts.

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Cars, motorcycles and planes are not only a way to get from point A to point B, in some cases they become design classics, that embodies your personality.

So it's no surprise that people turn some of the most beautiful cars in the world into part of their home decor.

Designer furniture

See for yourself!

A broken Ferrari, with the skillful presentation of the designer, easily turned into a useful piece of furniture.

Do you have an unusable, broken-down car? Why not turn it into a coffee table?

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And this is nothing more than a personal office-study, built from a part of a real Ikarus bus in a Romanian apartment.

Hunor Magyari loves public transport, so he easily managed to create a home office from an old, rusty and neglected Ikarus cabin.

Let's make a slight digression and look at a car that you can park right in your living room in one of Singapore's houses.

A biometrically controlled elevator will take your car directly to your apartment. Such an apartment costs 9.5 - 24 million dollars.

And in this photo, an old Jaguar has been turned into a bookshelf with the help of a Dutch design studio.

An unusual bookshelf is built into the walls of an underground house.

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An entertainment center made from iconic car parts by VroomDecor.

Created from existing vehicles using completely original parts.

Cars - sofas from Sweet Sofas.

Why not hang your favorite motorcycle on the wall?

Hotel V8, Stuttgart, Germany.

Mini Cooper on the wall.

Coffee table from a car engine.

Engine part from Marlboro McLaren Formula 1 (seasons 1984-1987).

Table Mini Cooper.

Pool table from a 1965 Ford Mustang.

Table from a B-25 Mitchell bomber.

Il-18 building on the second floor of a four-story building, somewhere in Russia.

Unusual transport

The machine is a shoe made by a craftsman from Hyderabad, India.

And this new home for a tree in a car was found by a Canadian living in Vancouver.

This incredible car - pool table moves on three wheels and can reach speeds of up to 45 km / h.

This special, elongated mini-cooper model has 6 passenger seats, the same number of wheels, 4 doors and a jacuzzi so that you can relax during long journeys.

And this work of art is called "unicycle". The hostess uses it to move around the streets of Shanghai.

This work belongs to the hand of a young Chinese farmer Wang Jian (Jian Wang), who recreated a copy of the Lamborghini Reventon from old Nissan and Santana parts. This Batmobile cost the farm worker nearly $10,000 and can travel at 265 km/h.

And this electric car is almost entirely made of bamboo.

This worker from Bangkok turned his motorcycle into an incredibly realistic giant insect.

These people work on the Ford assembly line in Chicago. They recreated an exact copy of the Ford Explorer, entirely consisting of the well-known LEGO constructor.

This Mercedes-Benz SL600 is covered in 300,000 Swarovski crystals. It can be seen at an exhibition in Tokyo.

A tuned taxi-penny is always at your service on the streets ... of Havana, Cuba.

Any tourist who decides to visit the capital of France can ride such a 7-seater bicycle called "velovisit". Responsible for managing, at the same time, only one person, while others, in turn, sitting opposite each other, can enjoy the surrounding views.

And this is nothing but a motorcycle created by a young Indian designer. The designer is an active opponent of smoking, this is how he decided to convey his message to the masses.

This vehicle can be seen on the streets of Venice. There are no cars here, but if you are completely unbearable, then such a "boat" will save you.

This wonder car is powered by solar panels and was built by a Filipino student from Manila.

Viewers of the summer motor rally, which took place in Southern Portugal, had a chance to see firsthand what a mini-motorcycle might look like. Moreover, it is fully functional.

It took a year of hard work to build this super bike. But the 30-year-old Chinese worker does not regret the time spent.

This photo was taken during the testing of the latest model of a scooter manufactured at the plant of the Singaporean company "TUM CREATE".

On the streets of Seattle, you can often see such high-tech bicycles, with the help of which donor sperm is delivered to clinics specializing in artificial insemination.

Everyone knows that India is famous for its love of cricket. It was in chanting the love of this sport that this eight-meter machine in the form of a cricket bat was created.

Messerschmitt KR200 is a Cuban microcar built before the revolution on the island of freedom.

The photo shows a German bicycle designer and his project, realized in Philadelphia, USA.

Cars, motorcycles, airplanes are not only transport, but also raw materials from which you can make car furniture, practical and very unusual in appearance. One of the most famous creators of such structures is Jake Chop. He has been producing car furniture since the early 60s of the XX century. Each of his products is an example of how you can create a real interior decoration from scrap metal.

Vehicle owners who do not want to part with their cars, motorcycles, and other vehicles that have already failed (due to an accident or old age), can give them a second life, using them as a decor element. So the company Mini Desk, founded by Glynn Jenkins, is officially engaged in the production of office tables from whole Morris Mini 1967, which made it famous.

Designers and craftsmen engaged in the production of car furniture offer ready-made products from cars to everyone, and also work on special projects. The customer can even agree on the design in the machine style of an entire room (usually non-residential): a restaurant, bar, cafe, shopping center, car service, tuning studio or car dealership. Within Russia, several furniture workshops also operate in this area, and many of these products are adorned with the autograph of the master.

What can be made from car parts

There are infinitely many options for using cars (in whole or in parts) indoors, which is associated with a variety of styles, an abundance of sizes and shapes of the parts used. For example, they can be converted into furniture such as:

• sconce or floor lamp (shock absorbers are often used for this, or brake discs from motorcycles);
• coffee or coffee table (in this case, you can use a car radiator);
• shelf;
• flower pot;
• office or billiard table;
• bedside table;
• armchair;
• sofa;
• individual office space (this requires a large car);
• a small motorhome (a playroom for children or even real housing).

Car seats are more suitable for creating seating, and a polished engine often becomes the basis for a table. Bed machines for children have long ceased to be a novelty in the furniture market. It is quite possible to create a similar model for adults in the presence of idle vehicles. From the bonnet of the car, you can organize a cozy sofa, and use the headlights as a lighting device. However, few people limit themselves to the most obvious options when creating designer furniture.

In some cases, such objects do not carry any functional load, but are used indoors only as a wall or floor decoration.

In addition to real furniture for cars, spare parts and entire cars, their imitations can be used in various designs. In this case, we are not talking about the nostalgia of the former owner, but about the desire to convey the idea of ​​speed, the transience of what is happening, or simply about trying to make the room more original. The materials used to create such car furniture are completely different: wood, metal, plastic. There are even models completely assembled from the LEGO constructor.

What styles are suitable for

Since car parts are not always small in size, such car furniture fits better into rooms with an open layout, a minimum number of partitions, panoramic windows, and a complex artificial lighting system.

To create such furniture, a transport that has failed is used, but such designs look quite modern. Outdated cars can be used in several different styles at once, where a significant part of the attention is paid to the texture and other features of the objects used:

• the loft style is the brainchild of empty New York brick factories of the 40s, which the poor bohemians of those times transformed into living quarters to the best of their ability. Now a similar design is used in the decoration of ordinary apartments furnished with car furniture. To give the room the desired look, cement, brick, wood, metal and materials imitating them are most often used;
• hi-tech (high technology) - this architectural trend was formed back in the 70s of the last century and at that time was considered as ultra-modern, although real popularity and recognition came to it only in the next decade. This was reflected not in the external appearance of cities, but only in the internal appearance of apartments and offices, where the emphasis was placed on pastel colors, as well as monumentality, combined with complex forms. To create an image of technological housing, elements made of glass, plastic and stainless steel were used. This allowed auto furniture to become an ideal option for decorating high-tech rooms;
• steampunk (steampunk) - initially, steampunk was only a literary science fiction trend inspired by the ideas of steam power and applied art of the 19th century. Later he showed himself in architecture. Its main feature is the stylization of England of the Victorian era: an abundance of levers, fans, gears, parts of steam mechanisms, engines. Therefore, car furniture is an ideal solution for rooms that need to be decorated in a steampunk style. To finish such an interior, copper, leather, wood polished to a shine are used. The whole appearance of the room should speak of a complete rejection of industrial design, but furniture for cars will be appropriate here.

Although these styles most reveal the character of car furniture, this does not mean that it is inappropriate to use it elsewhere.

How to fit into the interior

Regardless of the chosen style, such furniture is sure to attract attention. Therefore, it is more convenient to immediately make such a furniture structure the center of the interior. The easiest way to achieve the desired effect is to highlight the product using lighting (natural or artificial). You will also have to take into account the compatibility of car furniture with the surrounding space in terms of color, texture and style.

Perhaps it will be one large object, or there may be many small elements. In any case, the automotive atmosphere is preserved thanks to the details (this applies mainly to rear-view mirrors, headlights and other recognizable elements). Without them, some objects are difficult to recognize as car furniture. If you take into account these simple moments, then car furniture can easily fit into almost any interior.

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If you are a true car enthusiast, then you are probably influenced by your favorite car, and everything related to cars. But, you see, it would be very difficult to fit a car into a home interior. But nothing is impossible, and you can easily be convinced of this by getting acquainted with the original collection of car furniture. Car furniture is not only interesting, it is one of a kind.

If there can be car beds for kids, then why can't there be car beds for adults? , bed, made from an old MERCEDES-BENZ 8 coupe. The bed-car has lighting under the hood, headlights and turn signal, headlights wiper, table lamp, upholstered headboard and many more details.

It's not just the exterior of the car that can impress. The designers decided to use the engine and some other parts of the car to create unique and intriguing pieces of furniture. This is a V8 side table, with a clear top glass so you can see the base of the table from any angle at all times. This is probably the kind of car furniture a car enthusiast would like to have in their living room.

Would you like to add some dynamism to your home office? How about a table from a car? This is an M6 table that reproduces the exact design of the car. It is made of high quality materials and can be made in any color. Would it be interesting to work in such an office?

Here is another example of how car parts can be used to create unique car furniture. You can make a sofa, bedside table, coffee table and all kinds of things using auto parts.

Car furniture — BMW table.

Here is another example of a one of a kind table that has been modeled to look like the front of a BMW. The top has been modified to serve as a flat tabletop and two steel tubes have been added for stability. The car seat is used instead of a chair.

Car furniture - Fiat sofa.

This original sofa is made from a Fiat 500. The design of the car allowed the designers to use this part and easily transform it. The changes that have been made to the car make the sofa comfortable and functional while maintaining the authenticity and character of the car.

1965 Ford Mustang pool table.

A car like the Ford Mustang does not want to be divided into parts to make furniture out of a car. I would like to keep the whole car completely, maybe it would be a good idea to change it, make a pool table. This car, a 1965 Ford Mustang, became a Collector's Desk.

Armchair Harley Davidson.

It looks like an ordinary chair, but it's made from Harley Davidson. This is the part that has been adapted for celebrity home theater use. The chair has headlights, taillights, and a side mirror. The best part is that when the seat footrest extends, you can feel the real driving.

The Fiat 500 is a very cute car and that is why it was chosen by the designers for various sofa table projects.

The table has a transparent top glass and the side wheels are made of flexible polyurethane elastomer in matte black.