Plastic pipes – non-standard use in decor and everyday life

Many people know that plastic pipes are impeccably good and practical in building water supply, gas pipelines and other communications, but not everyone will guess that they can be used in other non-standard areas! And we will tell you about how and how you can use plastic pipes for decoration and other hand-made crafts (with your own hands).
So, due to the fact that polyethylene pipes have an ideal set of qualities for ornamental material, such as: low price, you can choose a different diameter and length of pipes, light in weight, environmentally friendly and visually attractive, many designers and creative people saw potential material in them to implement their ideas, which everyone can use at home to decorate their summer cottage, household needs and other things.

What additional materials and tools are needed to make crafts from plastic pipes?

Material such as plastic pipes can be bought in Kharkov, Kyiv, Poltava, and any other city in Ukraine. For small fakes, small remnants of pipes may remain with you after laying the water supply system, irrigation system, sewer work. or representative offices in your city.
For various kinds of crafts, you may need different additional material, such as:

• fittings
• glue
• fabric
• screws, nails and other accessories that will accompany one or another assembled structure.

The tools you will need to work with pipes can be:

• pipe cutter (or pipe cutter)
• if there are no special scissors or a pipe cutter, a hacksaw can replace them,
  roulette
• markers or pencils for marking
• building dryer (if you need to reshape the pipes)
• other tools, if necessary, e.g. pipe welder, file

What can be made from plastic pipes?

As we said earlier, polyethylene pipes are a lightweight material and it is possible to construct from it both handle holders and storage systems, as well as overall structures, such as a greenhouse for a summer residence or a gazebo. Let’s start with small things. These cute storage systems are made with scissors or a hacksaw, with which you will make an oblique cut (or even) and glue with which the cells will be connected:

In the same way, by cutting rings of various diameters and glue, you can create designs for decor – frames for a mirror or photographs, air partitions in a room, holders of household appliances and everything else that your imagination can allow, combining with various accessories that will be at hand 🙂

Using plastic pipes and fittings, you can assemble whatnots, shelves and chairs. If you use fittings for connection without the use of glue, then your structures will be collapsible, like a children’s designer, and you can easily disassemble them if necessary and compactly transport them in vehicles.

For a dacha or a balcony, you can use pipes in a section for such pots

As far as you can see from our short review article, pipes are not only technical material. For a person with creative potential and a desire to create and decorate the world around him, polyethylene pipes are a wide scope for everyday use, both small household items and more voluminous structures made of plastic pipes that will last for several years and will delight you and those around you with its creative practicality!