An item that has served its purpose sadly wanders to be melted down, recycled or to a landfill. But sometimes on this bleak path, full of hopelessness and disappointment, there are masters who are ready to breathe into it new life. In our review about how to create from old auto parts original items interior
1. Table lamp
A funny combination of urbanism and comfort. I wonder what book would be best to read next to this lamp? Apparently, something from the life of cars.
2. Hose shelf
The ideal combination of aesthetic appearance and functionality. Storing a garden hose on an old disk is convenient for the owner (the equipment does not take up much space) and is beneficial for the hose (there are no kinks and drying is ensured).
3. Country canopy
Original version porch solutions. The main thing is not to forget to add a little polyurethane foam under the hood for “silence” in the rain and an exclusive façade design is ensured.
4. Paper holder
This is almost an office paper holder - great option for garages, service stations and companies selling auto parts. Well, if you add the ability to play with size and color license plate number, then you realize that this is just a perfect design element.
5. Organizer
Natural corrosion coated with clear varnish gives the spring a special charm and chic. It is difficult to disagree with the fact that this piece of furniture, after applying minimal effort, will please the eye and is easy to use.
6. Bar
Eight-cylinder cylinder head... It even sounds heavy. A little imagination, hard work and a couple of starting flags. The elegant bar is ready.
7. Garden furniture
Tire recycling and acquisition garden furniture. We are faced with solving two problems at the same time. A unique opportunity to fight for the environment and save money.
8. Wall clock
The gear is brutal, the yellow is cheerful, the clock is informative, and everything together is original and fun.
9. Key holder
The former seat belt buckle is back for safety. Now it's a keychain and a place for keys. No chance of falling or getting lost.
10. Table
Just a table is boring. Shafts, heads, and gears migrated from automobile to mobile to become elegant and monumental, brutal and graceful tables.
If your own car is in excellent condition, then you really want to get creative, you should go to one of them. You can definitely profit from old spare parts there.
Bar stools made from crankshafts, tables made from engines, ashtrays made from gearboxes, sofas made from spare parts - this is far from full list products from EngineTable. Its creator and owner is Anton Batin (19 years old).
Designer furniture “with character” is in demand among wealthy men who are interested in 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 purchased for the decoration of men's hairdressing salons.
Tables, ashtrays and clocks
Anton assembled his first table from a motor together with a friend in the garage in mid-2014 - for himself, purely for fun. The table still stands at his home. “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 collected tools from our fathers and came to the garage every day after school.” He spotted the idea in the Top Gear studio - the hosts of a popular British TV show dedicated to cars were sitting at a table made from an engine.
In May 2014, the first table was ready. The friend soon lost interest in the idea, and Anton decided to try to benefit from his new hobby and continued making 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 from Finland for the table.
Popular business training helped to get production flowing. “There I believed that everything is possible, became more sociable and realized that success depends on the number of attempts made - it sounds pretentious, but it means a lot to me,” says the young man. During his training, he sold two more tables with a motor instead of legs. The tables still bring Anton’s company the main income - up to 70% of the profit. The second most popular product is ashtrays from gearboxes, the third is Wall Clock 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 upon 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 of these cars in Russia. This means that we will have to look for a motor or order it from abroad,” says Anton.
The most expensive order in the company's history today is a table made from an entire Porsche engine (EngineTable usually makes furniture not from a whole mechanism, but from several cylinders).
"The total weight of the table was about 170 kg, minimum budget“300 thousand rubles,” says the master entrepreneur. It took the longest time - 2 months - to make a sofa from a Mercedes-Benz W201.
Anton creates his collections, inspired by the creations of Romanian and English furniture makers, who also experiment with car parts. He monitors their work via the Internet. The EngineTable workshop is located in the shopping center " ".
Non-standard is coming
The company's turnover in the first year of operation was about 2 million rubles; in 2 years, according to the plan, it can reach 40 million per year. Since March 2016, Anton began collaborating with one of the St. Petersburg Porshe showrooms. “There is a workshop at the salon. They give me engines that fall into disrepair, gearboxes and other spare parts. I tell me what design objects I can make from them, I make them and sell them to the salon,” says Anton. Then the salon independently sells furniture to clients. By the way, representatives of the salon contacted Anton through Instagram.
“The most difficult thing in this business is to find material,” admits Anton. “Sometimes we receive very unusual orders, for example, furniture made from an aircraft engine.” To find and buy an engine from a workshop, Anton always takes an advance payment of 70% from clients.
Anton has no competitors in St. Petersburg; the closest ones are in Moscow: the RollingStol project has also been developed by novice businessmen since 2015.
The volume of the furniture market in St. Petersburg is estimated at approximately 30 billion rubles per year. “There are few manufacturers of non-standard furniture in the city; usually these are piece production or design studios,” says Alexander Kanygin, designer and architect, owner of a 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.” : they continue to buy such furniture, most often for the home.”
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True car lovers can not only improve the driving characteristics and tuning of their favorite iron horse, but also find it useful application after active use. An example is furnishings: beds, tables, armchairs, sofas, shelves, and even mini-offices. Such products will make the interior bright, stylish, and give it a real male character. For example, sofas made from a car will fit perfectly into a modern living room, a teenager’s room, an original drive-in cafe, etc.
What can this be made from? The side wings and bumper will serve as an original frame for the furniture. In place of the trunk or hood, a small sofa is most often placed. Some craftsmen decorate the frame with working headlights, which turns the product into a real decoration of the room.
As a rule, the entire structure is attached to a specially made metal base. And by installing furniture roller wheels designed for heavy-weight products, you can make your designer sofa mobile.
Stages of turning an old car into a new sofa
Making a sofa out of a car is easy. The main thing is to divide the process into several stages:
- Evaluate the quality of the source material from which you will construct the sofa. You will need the front or rear of the car, preferably in good condition.
- Then you need to prepare the base of the structure (metal or wooden frame), fasteners, car paint, materials for the sofa itself or preserved car seats and new material to change the upholstery. From the tools, prepare a grinder, a car mechanic's kit, and a spray bottle for applying paint.
- Cut off the front or back using a grinder old car. Free it from mechanical filling.
- Considering the parts used, prepare a metal or wooden frame for the sofa.
- Adjust the shape of the used auto parts so that they fit tightly to the frame.
- Apply a special automotive putty to the car parts to smooth out the deformed areas. After final drying, sand everything thoroughly. Paint the parts.
- Clean and renew as much as possible all the elements that will decorate the sofa.
- Modify a used car seat or build new sofa.
- Cover it with the prepared material. You can use leather, artificial leather, special material with the addition of synthetic threads.
- Think over and prepare an original lighting system for the sofa (headlights, along the bottom or along the perimeter of the product).
- Assemble onto frame metal parts. Install soft seat, backrest, railing of the sofa.
- Take care of the stability of the furniture. If necessary, add additional legs.
Sofa from an old Moskvich
The idea to make a cozy retro sofa from an old car appeared after examining and evaluating the few parts that were preserved from the Moskvich. This:
- wings;
- bumper;
- lattice;
- an old sofa from the salon.
You will also need:
- metal rods for the frame;
- fasteners (screws and screws);
- pieces of plywood or chipboard for the side panels of the sofa;
- sheet of foam rubber;
- technical fabric;
- decorative fabric;
- needles, threads, sewing machine;
- Bulgarian;
- drill;
- automotive putty;
- grinding machine with attachments;
- spray;
- paint of two colors;
- 4 metal legs.
Test put the starting materials together to see where to go next.
- First of all, based on measurements of existing parts, we will build metal carcass. Then you need to try on how to place the details of the future sofa on it. This will help to adjust their parameters and slightly change the shape.
- Let's start remaking the seat. Remove old chairs from damaged layers of upholstery. Adjust the springs a little. Attach a layer of new foam rubber (2-3 cm thick). Cover the top with technical fabric. Take measurements and sew a new cover for the sofa.
- So that the case holds its shape well, and decorative inserts did not move, when making it, you need to attach the ties to the wrong side at the fold points and at the ends of the finishing seams. Having put the cover on the frame, fix its position by pulling them through and tying them with reverse side springs to the frame.
- Level the surface of the wings using putty. Sand the product until its surface is smooth. Apply primer. Paint the wings with the prepared color paint. It is better to use a color combination that is as close to the original as possible.
So that the remedy goes down even layer, be sure to use a spray bottle. Using film and masking tape cover the already painted part of the wings, then apply a companion color.
If you are a true car enthusiast, then you are probably influenced by your favorite car, and everything related to cars. But, you must admit, it would be very difficult to fit the car into home interior. But nothing is impossible, and you can easily be convinced of this by getting acquainted with the original collection of furniture from cars. Car furniture is not only interesting, it is one of a kind.
If there can be car beds for children, then why can’t there be car beds for adults? , bed, made from an old MERCEDES-BENZ 8 coupe. The bed car has under the hood lighting, headlights and turn signal, headlight wiper, desk lamp, soft headboard and many more details. 
It's not just the appearance of a car that can make an impression. 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 table, with a transparent top glass so that you can constantly see the base of the table from any angle. This is perhaps exactly the kind of car furniture that a car enthusiast would like to have in the living room.
Would you like to add dynamism to your home office? How about a car table? 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's 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 sorts of things using auto parts. 
Car furniture - BMW table.
Here's another example of a one-of-a-kind table, it was modeled to look like the front of a BMW. The top has been modified to serve as a flat surface for a table, two steel pipes were 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.
You don’t want to divide a car like a Ford Mustang into parts to make furniture out of the car. I would like to keep the entire car, maybe it would be a good idea to change it, make a pool table. This car, a 1965 Ford Mustang, has become a collector's item.
Harley Davidson chair.
It looks like an ordinary chair, but it is made from Harley Davidson. This is a part that has been adapted for use in celebrity home theaters. The chair has headlights, taillights, and a side mirror. The best part is that when the seat footrest extends, you can experience real driving. 
The Fiat 500 is a very cute car and that is why it has been chosen by designers for various projects, sofa table. 
The table has a transparent top glass and the side wheels are made of flexible polyurethane elastomer in matte black.
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 auto furniture since the early 60s of the 20th century. Each of his products is an example of how you can create real interior decoration from scrap metal.
Vehicle owners who do not want to part with their cars, motorcycles, and other vehicles that are already out of order (due to an accident or old age), can give them a second life by using them as a decorative element. So the Mini Desk company, founded by Glynn Jenkins, is officially engaged in production office desks from the entire 1967 Morris Mini, which made it famous.
Designers and craftsmen involved in the production of car furniture offer ready-made car products to everyone, and also carry out work on special projects. The customer can even agree on decorating an entire room (usually non-residential) in machine style: 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 such products are decorated with the autograph of the master.
What can be made from car parts
There are endless options for using cars (in whole or in parts) indoors, which is due to the variety of styles, 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);
- small motorhome ( game room for children or even real housing).
Car seats are more suitable for creating seating, and a highly polished engine often becomes the basis for a table. Car beds for children have long ceased to be a novelty on the furniture market. It is quite possible to create a similar model for adults in the presence of inactive transport. From the hood of the car you can create a cozy sofa, and use the headlights as lighting fixture. 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 wall or floor decoration.
In addition to real furniture for cars, spare parts and entire cars in various designs their imitations may be used. IN in this case it's not about nostalgia former owner, but about the desire to convey the idea of speed, the transience of what is happening, or simply about an attempt to make the room more original. The materials used to create such car furniture are completely different: wood, metal, plastic. There are even models made entirely from LEGO.
What styles is it suitable for?
Since car parts are not always small in size, such car furniture fits better into rooms with an open plan, a minimum number of partitions, panoramic windows, a complexly organized artificial lighting system.
To create such furniture, vehicles that are out of order are used, but such structures look quite modern. Outdated cars can be used in several applications at once different styles, 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 brick New York factories of the 40s, which the poor bohemia of those times, to the best of their ability, converted them into living quarters. Now a similar design is used for decoration ordinary apartments furnished with car furniture. To give the room the desired type most often cement, brick, wood, metal and materials imitating them are used;
- high tech ( high tech) - this architectural direction 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 did not affect appearance cities, but only on internal view apartments and offices, where the emphasis was on pastel colors, as well as monumentality, combined with complex shapes. To create the image of technological housing, elements made of glass, plastic and of stainless steel. This allowed auto furniture to become ideal option when decorating premises in high-tech style;
- steampunk (steampunk) - initially steampunk was only a literary science-fiction movement, inspired by the ideas of steam energy and applied art of the 19th century. Later he showed himself in architecture. Its main feature is the stylization of the English Victorian era: an abundance of levers, fans, gears, parts of steam mechanisms, engines. Therefore, auto furniture is perfect solution for rooms that need to be decorated in a steampunk style. To decorate such an interior, copper, leather, and wood polished to a shine are used. All appearance the premises should indicate a complete rejection of industrial design, but furniture for cars would be appropriate here.
Although these styles reveal the character of car furniture to the greatest extent, this does not mean that it is inappropriate to use it anywhere else.
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 these simple points into account, then car furniture can easily fit into almost any interior.
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