Furniture from cars and their parts. How to make a sofa car for your own apartment or office with your own hands. How to fit into the interior

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 involved 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 the 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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Bar stools from crankshafts, tables from motors, ashtrays from gearboxes, sofas from spare parts - this is not a complete list of EngineTable products. Its creator and owner is Anton Batin (19 years old).

Designer furniture "with character" is in demand among wealthy men who are fond of cars: such an acquisition is treated as a luxury item. During the year of operation, the company sold 30 unique items, seven of them were bought for decoration of men's hairdressers.

Tables, ashtrays and clocks

Anton assembled his first table from a motor together with a friend in the garage in mid-2014 - for himself, solely for the sake of interest. The table is still in his house. “I didn’t know how to drill or use a grinder,” the young man recalls. “But the idea seemed very interesting to me, and I decided to try it. We got tools from our fathers and every day came to the garage after school.” He got the idea in the Top Gear studio - the presenters of the popular British TV show dedicated to cars were sitting at a table made of an engine.

In May 2014 the first table was ready. A friend soon lost interest in the idea, and Anton decided to try to profit from his new hobby and continued to make furniture. As a result, in September of the same year, the first table was sold. The buyer turned out to be a Finn who saw Anton's ad on the Internet and was not too lazy to come for a table from Finland.

A popular business training helped put production on stream. “There I believed that everything is possible, became more sociable and realized that success depends on the number of attempts made - it sounds pathetic, but it means a lot to me,” says the young man. During his training, he sold two more tables with motors instead of legs. Tables still bring Anton's main income - up to 70% of profit. The second most popular product is ashtrays made from gearboxes, the third is wall clocks made from brake discs.

Now the production of a table with assembly takes Anton 5-6 hours, but it happens that one table takes 150 hours. But the profitability of such a business, according to Anton, is more than 60%.

Most often, furniture is made on request, with an eye on a specific buyer. “A girl calls: she wants a gift for her husband - a table from a Nissan GT–R. There are no more than 100 such cars in Russia. So, you have to look for a motor or order it from abroad,” says Anton.

The most expensive order in the history of the company today is a table from a whole Porsche engine (usually EngineTable furniture is made not from a whole mechanism, but from several cylinders).

"The total weight of the table was about 170 kg, the minimum budget was 300 thousand rubles," says the master entrepreneur. The longest time - 2 months - was to make a sofa from Mercedes-Benz W201.

Anton creates his collections, inspired by the creations of the Romanian and English furniture makers, who also experiment with auto parts. He monitors their work via the Internet. The EngineTable workshop is located in the SEC "".

Custom is coming

The company's turnover in the first year of operation amounted to about 2 million rubles, after 2 years, according to the plan, it can reach 40 million a year. Since March 2016, Anton began to cooperate with one of the Porshe salons in St. Petersburg. “There is a workshop at the salon. They give me engines that are becoming unusable, gearboxes and other spare parts. I tell what design items I can make from them, I make and sell them to the salon,” says Anton. The salon then sells furniture to customers on its own. By the way, representatives of the salon contacted Anton through Instagram.

"The most difficult thing in this business is to find the material," Anton admits. "Sometimes very unusual orders come in, for example, furniture made from an aircraft engine." To find and buy an engine from the workshop, Anton always takes a prepayment of 70% from customers.

Anton has no competitors in St. Petersburg, the nearest ones are in Moscow: since 2015, the RollingStol project has also been developed by novice businessmen.

The volume of the furniture market in St. Petersburg is estimated at about 30 billion rubles a year. “There are few manufacturers of non-standard furniture in the city, usually they are piece production or design studios,” says Alexander Kanygin, designer and architect, owner of the design studio. “It cannot be said that it is very popular among St. Petersburg residents, but the crisis has not affected the market in any way : such furniture continues to be bought, most often for the home.

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