Mini-Trend Alert! Cardboard Furniture

A big theme on eatmywords has always been budget friendliness, as young professionals know how quickly the bills tend to add up. I've heard of many of you who might be sleeping on air mattresses until savings let you get that MALM bed from IKEA, or who enjoy your dinner "geisha style"--which is just fancy talk for "on the floor."

Look, I know that if furniture was free, everyone would have it already. But then, why don't you have it already? You see, this site right here called FoldSchool gives you free instructions on how to make your own furniture out of cardboard. Perplexed? So was I. But it really is exactly what it sounds like--free furniture!


Just by following the free step-by-step instructions on the site, you'll find out how to make your own chairs, stools, and even rockers! And they have 3D-visualizations of the stuff as well as stability ratings so you know what you're getting yourself into. It's a really interesting concept.

But FoldSchool isn't the only one making cardboard furniture. A quick search on "cardboard furniture" yeilds tons of results these days.

In a recent NYTimes article in the On The Cheap section, Joyce Walder interviewed a college student at a design school who had made a bedframe out of stacked honeycomb cardboard. Do I sense a mini-trend in the making?


For more inspiration, look here, and godspeed on your cardboard furniture adventures--wherever they may take you!