Post boxes are used to receive letters, newspapers and magazines. In the entrances of apartment buildings, every time you pass by, you involuntarily have to admit their unattractive monotony. Anyone can make mailboxes with their own hands. Surprise your neighbors with your creativity!
Mailbox: a bright accent at home
It is possible to select a standard Mailbox from the general mass, making it noticeable, recognizable, distinguished by originality.
The easiest way is to repaint it in a different color than the rest of the boxes. You can go further and apply any pattern or pattern, it depends on artistic abilities. There must be an apartment number on the box. The numbers applied diagonally will also give the box some originality.
The impossibility of making changes to the design of the apartment box somewhat limits the embodiment of creative and design fantasies. You can make a mailbox with your own hands from improvised materials.
Variety of styles and shapes
Another thing is the installation of a mailbox in a country house or in the country. You can make it yourself, and it will look exactly the way you want. Making a box with your own hands, you can stick to a certain style. There are several main styles:
Requirements
It is easy to make a mailbox with your own hands. The photos below will help you decide on the design of the product.
Whatever the style of the mailbox, it must meet certain requirements: durability, convenience and protection from rain and snow on correspondence.
Standard wooden mailbox
The box will require the following set:
- a sheet of plywood with a thickness of at least 5 mm;
- wooden blocks 15 × 15 mm;
- furniture hinges;
- a small tin plate;
- or jigsaw;
- hammer;
- fixing material (screws, nails).
It should be such that a standard A4 sheet fits freely in it. Let's try to make mailboxes with our own hands right now.
Getting Started
Two blanks are cut out of plywood with dimensions of 350 × 250 mm and 350 × 70 mm. These will be the front and back walls and sides. For the lower part, a blank with a size of 250 × 70 mm is cut. It is from this that the wooden mailbox begins to be created. Anyone can make it with their own hands.
At the top of the box there should be a gap of about 20 mm for correspondence. Therefore, the workpiece is made with a size of 250 × 50 mm, in which case the slot will be placed near the edge of the upper part of the box. You can also cut out two blanks with a size of 250 × 25 mm, then the correspondence slot will be located in the middle. The bottom bar should be 250 × 70 mm in size.
Four bars are cut off with a length of 350 mm and 220 mm. They will be located in the corners of the box and give rigidity to the structure.
For durability, it is advisable to treat all parts before assembly with solutions that repel insects and prevent decay.
Drawer Assembly
Using on all workpieces, they remove burrs and smooth out small irregularities. The bars are assembled into a rectangle. The front wall (350 × 250 mm) is laid on them. The sides of the bars are aligned with the ends of the plywood blank, and they are fixed with nails or screws. The use of glue along with nails will increase the strength of the connection and increase the tightness. Glue is applied to the side of the bar and to the edge of the plywood blank. Then they are connected and fixed with nails.
In a similar way, the back wall is connected to the bars. A very important point is not to forget about attaching the box to the fence or wall of the house. To do this, two lugs are screwed to the upper edge of the back wall.
The front and rear walls are placed on the end edges and alternately fastened to the side strips (350 × 70 mm). The upper part of the box consists of two slats (250×25 mm). They are fastened with nails and glue so that there is a gap of about 20 mm between them.
The bottom of the box is hinged so that it is possible to take out correspondence. To do this, two furniture hinges are screwed to the long edge of the plank, and a small corner loop for a mail lock is attached to the opposite side of the plank. Then the furniture hinges are connected to the back wall, the bottom is closed, and a second lug is attached to the front wall at the level of the lock hinge.
To prevent rain and snow from falling into the mailbox slot from above, a protective plate is cut out of the tin and installed. It should be with rounded edges, slightly larger than the top of the box. The plate is made folding, for this it is attached to the back wall on small furniture hinges.
There is a mailbox option with an opening front wall. In this case, the box is assembled in the same way, only the front side is hinged.
After assembly, the box is carefully processed with sandpaper, painting and decorative finishing are carried out.
Recently, the technique of decorative finishing - decoupage has become widespread. These are magazines or postcards of bright colorful pictures. Cut out pictures are glued to the surface and covered with several layers of varnish. The theme of the pictures can be chosen in accordance with the house or the surrounding landscape. This is how original mailboxes are obtained. It is easy to make them with your own hands.
Mailbox with flag
The box will be located on the inside of the fence. An American mailbox is made with a signal flag. We will decorate it with our own hands, in addition, it will require a stand with a bevel. They are made from a profile pipe 50 × 25 mm.
The base of the box is cut out of plywood with a thickness of at least 10 mm and dimensions of 400 × 400 mm, carefully primed and painted over.
When the paint dries, the base is attached to the rack with self-tapping screws. The resulting platform is installed to the fence and fixed.
Creativity process
From the outer side of the fence, opposite the platform, a slot for correspondence is sawn out. Its dimensions are 250 × 20 mm. Plates are fixed on both sides of the slot. From the outside of the fence, on the upper part of the lining, a damper is fixed. The screw with the nut is not fully tightened, allowing the damper to move to the right and left. To ensure that the connection does not loosen during operation and the nut does not come off the screw, a lock nut is tightened over it. Do-it-yourself mailboxes will not only attract attention, but also bring joy to the owners of the house.
The signaling device consists of two plates located at an angle of 90° relative to each other and fixed on a steel rod. The signaling device is located so that the raised plate is opposite the gap in the fence, and the other lies on the platform. The mail inserted into the slot will place the plate, and the signal plate will rise. In the absence of mail, the device must be in the working position; for this, a counterweight in the form of a small load is installed on the upper edge of the signal plate.
A rod with plates is fixed on the platform with the help of carbon loops. The hinges are screwed to the platform with self-tapping screws, being located as close as possible to the plates. This will prevent the rod from falling out of the loops.
The frame for the box is assembled from bars with a section of at least 15 × 15 mm. The parameters are determined by the size of the mail - 350×250×250 mm. On the platform, the box is positioned so that the signal plate is outside of it.
The box is sheathed, depending on what it will be styled under. It can be in a rustic style or in the form of a warehouse sheathed with sheets of iron.
To imitate a village house, trimming boards of lining are well suited. The walls of the dollhouse can be made from fiberboard (hardboard) with glued decoupage napkins. The storage room is sheathed with pieces of galvanized sheet. A signal plate carved in the form of the corresponding character will help to complete the look.
In order to be able to pick up mail, the upper part of the box, which is also the roof of the house, is made folding. For this, small furniture hinges are used, which connect the base of the roof to the back wall of the box. Also in the back wall of the box it is necessary to make a cutout for correspondence.
We fasten the components
All parts are connected with glue and nails. After assembly, we decorate the mailboxes with paints of the appropriate colors with our own hands. The wooden parts of the house are carefully painted over. The paint is selected glossy waterproof. The assembled house is attached to the platform, close to the fence, the cutout in the back wall is combined with the gap in the fence.
Any mailbox can be supplemented with an electric alarm. It consists of two contact plates, two wires, a battery and a bulb. Going simple electrical circuit, in the gap of which there are contact plates. The plates are cut out from a plastic bottle, one ends remain fastened together, contact strips are fixed on the other. A soft spring is installed between the plates. The plates are placed at the bottom of the box. Correspondence placed in the mailbox closes the contacts with its weight, and the control lamp lights up.
When everything is finished, and the structure is installed in place, on the outside of the fence, near the correspondence slot, it is necessary to make an explanatory inscription "MAIL".
Style and prestige
The wrought iron mailbox looks great. With his own hands it can be made by a person who does an excellent job with a welding tool. First comes the layout. It is cut out of metal, the parts are fixed by welding and set in a permanent place. It is important to consider a small foundation for the box. So it will stay for a longer period of time.
Any shape and size can be a street mailbox. With your own hands you can create a real masterpiece.
A mailbox is an essential part of any home. How to make a mailbox yourself, unique in design and having the function of notifying you of the arrival of mail, is described in this article.
If you have a house, then you have your own address, to which you receive postal items- press, letters and other notices. To receive correspondence, you can buy a mailbox in any appropriate store and hang it on the front door. Such a solution, in addition to high cost, and high-quality mailboxes are quite expensive, it is also bad that the ready-made options are faceless and, accordingly, are not able to decorate your home. We will tell you how you can make a unique mailbox with your own hands, which has two undeniable advantages over purchased ones:
- located on the inside of the fence, that is, being on the territory of a personal plot, and having a decorative look, it will serve as a decoration for the garden;
- the mailbox is equipped with an autonomous mechanical signaling of the receipt of mail, that is, the box device will have a simple, reliable and trouble-free mechanism that works at the time the mail arrives, thereby informing the owner that the mail has arrived.
Such a mailbox, in the end, will cost you less than a purchased one, and you can make it yourself in one day.
So let's get started.
Tools and materials
To make a mailbox house, we need:
- Circular saw or hand saw.
- Drill or screwdriver.
- Sheet metal or any other sheet material. A cut tin can is fine.
- Lumber trimmings.
- Wooden skewers. We will use them as dowels.
Manufacturing instructions
1. We start with the manufacture of the base platform. To do this, use a rectangular piece of plywood 20 mm thick. We cut out a rectangle according to the dimensions indicated in the photo, process it with sandpaper and cover it with soil.
2. We cover the edges with decorative facings.
4. After painting the platform to the bottom with the help of self-tapping screws, we fix the stand and the slope, which are made of a profile pipe.
5. We fix the platform at the installation site of the mailbox.
6. From the outside of the fence we make a damper. We cut a vertical hole in the profiled sheet of the fence. From a metal plate with a thickness of 1.5 mm we make linings for the slot and the damper itself. We fix the damper with a self-tapping screw in its upper part to the plates on the slot. The shutter moves to the left or right, thereby opening the entrance to the slot through which the mail enters.
7. Let's start manufacturing the details of the mailbox.
8. We assemble the frame. Details in the places of gluing are additionally fixed with wooden dowels.
9. We fix the left side wall to the frame and start making the signaling device. It consists of two metal plates interconnected by a metal axis and located relative to each other in perpendicular planes. We fix the plates to the axis with metal rivets. On the plate, which will be located outside the mailbox, we apply a thematic drawing (postman), cut it out along the contour of the drawing with metal scissors and paint it with acrylic paints. The second plate should cover the inlet from the inside of the box. Thus, the empty box is made ready by lifting the right plate. When mail is placed in the box, the plate falls down, lifting the left plate with the postman painted on it. It is his appearance that signals the presence of mail.
10. The axis of the signaling device is fixed with the help of corner metal loops to the platform with self-tapping screws.
11. We fix the front wall and insert the thematic drawing into the opening of the future window.
12. We make window frame parts. Before installing the frame, insert glass into the opening.
13. Glue the right side wall. In the center of the wall we make an imitation of a door and decorative cashing from fiberboard. We also make a back wall with a vertical slot from fiberboard, into which mail will enter the mailbox.
14. We decorate the outer corners of the house and the lower part with wooden corners.
15. Let's start making the roof. We glue the frame of the base of the roof.
16. Glue a piece of fiberboard to the bottom. Next, glue two pairs of rafters onto the frame. All connections must be additionally fixed with dowels.
17. We attach the roof frame to the house with the help of small eyelets, since the roof will act as a mailbox cover.
18. We make the gables of the roof from fiberboard and glue the ebb from the front side.
19. On the rafters we attach a rough roof from scraps of boards or lining.
20. On the rough roof, with the help of small nails, we fix the tiles cut out of tin.
21. After fixing the tiles, we make a ridge and wind slats.
22. Making a porch.
23. We install the structure in place. The unique mailbox is ready.
Evgeny Dubinin, rmnt.ru (based on material from Valley user)
A mailbox is an essential part of any home. How to make a mailbox yourself, unique in design and having the function of notifying you of the arrival of mail, is described in this article.
If you have a house, then you have your own address, to which you receive mail - press, letters and other notices. To receive correspondence, you can buy a mailbox in any appropriate store and hang it on the front door. Such a solution, in addition to high cost, and high-quality mailboxes are quite expensive, it is also bad that the ready-made options are faceless and, accordingly, are not able to decorate your home. We will tell you how you can make a unique mailbox with your own hands, which has two undeniable advantages over purchased ones:
- located on the inside of the fence, that is, being on the territory of a personal plot, and having a decorative look, it will serve as a decoration for the garden;
- the mailbox is equipped with an autonomous mechanical signaling of the receipt of mail, that is, the box device will have a simple, reliable and trouble-free mechanism that works at the time the mail arrives, thereby informing the owner that the mail has arrived.
Such a mailbox, in the end, will cost you less than a purchased one, and you can make it yourself in one day.
So let's get started.
Tools and materials
To make a mailbox house, we need:
- Circular saw or hand saw.
- Drill or screwdriver.
- Sheet metal or any other sheet material. A cut tin can is fine.
- Lumber trimmings.
- Wooden skewers. We will use them as dowels.
Manufacturing instructions
1. We start with the manufacture of the base platform. To do this, use a rectangular piece of plywood 20 mm thick. We cut out a rectangle according to the dimensions indicated in the photo, process it with sandpaper and cover it with soil.
2. We cover the edges with decorative facings.
4. After painting the platform to the bottom with the help of self-tapping screws, we fix the stand and the slope, which are made of a profile pipe.
5. We fix the platform at the installation site of the mailbox.
6. From the outside of the fence we make a damper. We cut a vertical hole in the profiled sheet of the fence. From a metal plate with a thickness of 1.5 mm we make linings for the slot and the damper itself. We fix the damper with a self-tapping screw in its upper part to the plates on the slot. The shutter moves to the left or right, thereby opening the entrance to the slot through which the mail enters.
7. Let's start manufacturing the details of the mailbox.
8. We assemble the frame. Details in the places of gluing are additionally fixed with wooden dowels.
9. We fix the left side wall to the frame and start making the signaling device. It consists of two metal plates interconnected by a metal axis and located relative to each other in perpendicular planes. We fix the plates to the axis with metal rivets. On the plate, which will be located outside the mailbox, we apply a thematic drawing (postman), cut it out along the contour of the drawing with metal scissors and paint it with acrylic paints. The second plate should cover the inlet from the inside of the box. Thus, the empty box is made ready by lifting the right plate. When mail is placed in the box, the plate falls down, lifting the left plate with the postman painted on it. It is his appearance that signals the presence of mail.
10. The axis of the signaling device is fixed with the help of corner metal loops to the platform with self-tapping screws.
11. We fix the front wall and insert the thematic drawing into the opening of the future window.
12. We make window frame parts. Before installing the frame, insert glass into the opening.
13. Glue the right side wall. In the center of the wall we make an imitation of a door and decorative cashing from fiberboard. We also make a back wall with a vertical slot from fiberboard, into which mail will enter the mailbox.
14. We decorate the outer corners of the house and the lower part with wooden corners.
15. Let's start making the roof. We glue the frame of the base of the roof.
16. Glue a piece of fiberboard to the bottom. Next, glue two pairs of rafters onto the frame. All connections must be additionally fixed with dowels.
17. We attach the roof frame to the house with the help of small eyelets, since the roof will act as a mailbox cover.
18. We make the gables of the roof from fiberboard and glue the ebb from the front side.
19. On the rafters we attach a rough roof from scraps of boards or lining.
20. On the rough roof, with the help of small nails, we fix the tiles cut out of tin.
21. After fixing the tiles, we make a ridge and wind slats.
22. Making a porch.
23. We install the structure in place. The unique mailbox is ready.
Evgeny Dubinin, rmnt.ru (based on material from Valley user)
Country real estate or a private house may have its own address. Therefore, people living here can receive letters, newspapers and other necessary correspondence. So that it does not scatter all over the site, is not spoiled by snow or rain, you need to equip a mailbox. There are many options for such structures today.
Creating mailboxes with your own hands, you can show creativity. In this case, such a product will be original and interesting. There are many simple and more complex options for mailboxes. Even without much experience in the use of hand tools, you can create such designs yourself.
Design process
To create a functional and beautiful mailbox with your own hands, you must first design the design itself. First of all, you should consider its dimensions. The correspondence that the owner of a private house will receive can be of different sizes. It doesn't have to be just letters. You may need to place magazines, newspapers, or even books in the mailbox. In this case, the internal space of the product should provide such an opportunity.
Next, you should decide on the type of material and style of the box itself. In this case, you can show imagination. There are many options that allow you to create an original and beautiful product. The design style should be selected in accordance with the appearance of the cottage or house itself, as well as with the landscape design of the site.
When learning how to make a mailbox, you should also consider your abilities and skills. Some materials will be easier to work with, while others will require the use of a special tool.
Style
Mailboxes for a private house can be made in different styles. Today, the most popular are traditional, American, English varieties of design. There are also original developments.
Traditional mailboxes look like an oblong box, which has a slot for correspondence. They are made from various materials. This is a simple, convenient option. Such a box can be installed on a gate or fence. To give an aesthetic appearance, such products are decorated with various additional details, decorated in accordance with the taste preferences of the owners.
The American design style involves applying the same design to all drawers. They differ only in color. Correspondence is inside such a box in a horizontal position. Similar products are installed on a special support.
The English mailbox has the form of a pedestal-table. It is made of steel and is installed in front of the entrance to the site directly on the ground. It is a strong, durable construction.
Original developments involve the use of materials such as plastic or other polymers. In this direction, creative imagination has no limits.
Material
There are a huge number of options for creating a mailbox. For this, a variety of materials are used. Metal mailboxes are considered the most reliable. However, not every master has experience working with such material. In order for the design to be reliable, it is necessary to be able to work with a welding machine. If you wish, you can do without it. In this case, metal sheets are pulled together with rivets or even bolts with nuts.
Wood is another popular option. It does not require the use of complex tools. At the same time, various decorative elements for the mailbox can be created from wood. With proper processing of this material, high reliability and durability of the product can be achieved.
One of the simplest options is to create a structure from polymeric materials. For example, it could be a mailbox made from a plastic bottle. This type of mailbox is easy to create. However, these are the most short-lived types of structures.
What needs to be foreseen?
In addition to the fact that the box must be durable, beautiful and in harmony with the overall design of the house and yard, it must be reliable. To do this, several recommendations must be taken into account. Whatever material is chosen for the manufacture of the box, all the subtleties of working with it should be taken into account. For example, when creating a wooden structure, it is necessary to fasten the boards with the help of corners.
It is important that water or snow cannot get inside. If the letter slot is on top, you need to install a visor above it.
Purchase a secure mailbox lock. It can be hinged or internal. When choosing, it is better to give preference to products from trusted manufacturers.
The drawer door should be located at the bottom of the structure. If it is on its front side, it is necessary to ensure its snug fit to the sashes. Otherwise, water can get inside in heavy rain.
When creating mailboxes with your own hands, you should consider a few tips for the design of such products. In the design process, one should take into account what kind of fence the house has, the style of the facade design, and the features of landscape design.
If a country cottage is located far from a big city, you can give preference to country or Provence style when designing a product. The best material in this case would be wood.
If the fence is made of forged elements, the best option becomes a metal mailbox. It must be in harmony with the fence. When designing a product, you can apply the same motifs as for a fence.
Stone fence involves the use of quality materials. In this case, the plastic will most likely look out of place. It is better to give preference to metal.
Making a wooden box
A wooden mailbox will look beautiful and original. To create it, you will need to prepare sheets of plywood or veneer, the length and width of which is 63 cm. Their thickness must be at least 1 cm. You also need a wooden beam with dimensions of 100 x 7.5 x 5 cm. It is necessary to prepare a stainless steel loop (12 cm) and a castle.
You will also need sandpaper, screws, staples, wood glue, colloidal silica.
The beam is sawn into 3 identical parts. On one of them, draw 3 lines. One of them will run in the center, and the other 2 - across. The distance between them should be at least 30 cm. A smooth curve is drawn. It is cut and cleaned. On the remaining segments of the beam, the same procedure is performed. All elements are glued.
8 pieces of 32 x 16 cm are cut out of veneer. The blanks are inserted into the concave section of the block and processed with epoxy glue. The first layer is laid on the beam paper, and then sheets of veneer. The glue will dry, after which the cover is polished.
A slot for letters and newspapers is cut out in the front wall, as well as an opening for the door. It is fixed with screws. The lock is installed. The lid is fixed to the box with silica glue. The finished structure must be varnished and, if desired, paint.
cardboard box
To create an original mailbox, you can give preference to cardboard. It can be decorated in the style of a dollhouse. You will need to prepare cardboard (4 mm thick), a mailbox lock, glue, adhesive tape and a clerical knife. For decoration, decoupage napkins and acrylic paints are purchased.
According to a pre-designed scheme, all the details of the box are cut out with a clerical knife. The part with the window must not be cut completely. All places of bends are fixed with adhesive tape. The structure is assembled together and fastened with glue.
American mailbox
To create an American street mailbox with your own hands, you will need sheets of metal. From them blanks are cut in accordance with the standard dimensions and shape of the product. The bottom of the product will be made in the form of a rectangle. A semicircular roof is attached to it. The side sheets will be the same size.
All elements can be fastened using a welding machine. If not, you can use bolts and nuts. Finally, you need to attach a door with a handle. If desired, such a design can be made of wood. It all depends on the preferences and skills of the master.
It is necessary to cover such a design with paint. When the checkbox is checked, it means that the mailbox needs to be checked. Various coloring techniques are used in the design.
English post box
The approach to creating a structure in each case should be individual. The mailbox will look original if it is decorated in the English style. In this case, a variety of materials are used. Even plastic bottles or pipes can be used.
When creating an English mailbox, the author's imagination is practically unlimited. Such designs are created from old grandfather clocks, system block, school bag, speakers, etc. You might think what things have long gone out of use and lie idle. They can be used to create such a creation.
You can take a log of medium size. The core is taken out of it. Then the door is screwed to the workpiece. The mailbox must not be directly exposed to rain or snow.
Plastic boxes
When creating mailboxes for a private house, you can choose a design option made of plastic or plexiglass. Almost everyone can work with such materials. In order for all elements to fit snugly against each other, it should be given Special attention choice of glue. It must fully comply with the selected type of material.
Plexiglas looks beautiful, but fastening elements from it can sometimes be quite difficult. This will take quite a long time. However, after creating the box, it can be decorated with special paints.
Plastic is ubiquitous in the modern world. There are many finished products from it. You can choose a ready-made box from this material, modify it and decorate it as you wish.
Metal work
When studying how to make a mailbox, it is the metal varieties of products that should be distinguished. When properly processed, they are the most durable and strong. To be able to create a metal mailbox, you will need to prepare special equipment.
In addition to the welding machine, the master will have to use a grinder or a hacksaw for metal, a drill. These tools need to be handled properly. Also, in the manufacture of such a product, forging elements are actively used. If the owner of a country house is not familiar with blacksmithing, he will be able to purchase such decorative items in specialized stores.
The finished box should be primed and painted. In this case, you need to use your imagination.
Installation
When creating mailboxes with your own hands, you should consider where such a product will be installed. It can be a fence, a wall of a house or a gate. In the first case, cuts are made on the back of the box. They are threaded with metal clamps or wire. So you can simply fix the structure on the fence.
If the owners want to fix the mailbox on the gate, 2 holes are also made on the back of the structure. Fixation is carried out with bolts and nuts.
To install a mailbox on the facade of the house, you will need to use anchors or dowels. In this case, take into account the material from which the wall of the house is made.
American mailboxes are mounted on a support. It is taken out to a separate area, most often behind the gate. This also applies to the English style of design design.
Having considered how mailboxes are created with their own hands, each owner of his own home will be able to create an original, beautiful product. This will emphasize the individuality of the owners. A well-chosen design will allow the mailbox to harmoniously fit into the overall exterior of the cottage or country house.
Anyone can make a mailbox with their own hands. And the advantages of such a design will be much greater than that of standard blue boxes, which abound in private sectors in cities and suburban villages. Firstly, they will stylistically fit the overall design of the site. Secondly, it is also a way of self-expression, a manifestation of the owner's individuality. And thirdly, they are more practical, since the volume is calculated based on the amount of correspondence received by the owners.
How to make a mailbox with your own hands
The mailbox can be located both at the front door and near your gateTo begin with, they determine the location, the required capacity and realistically assess their capabilities - the costly part for materials and handicraft skills.
Depending on these parameters, choose the type of product. Mailboxes for a private house are: 
- standardized;
- European;
- American;
- exclusive.
If it is not possible to completely make a mail box on your own, they purchase it and, having fantasized about the decor, remake it into an exclusive masterpiece. The classic is a rectangular box that you can make yourself. You will need a sheet of metal or wooden bars, fasteners or a welding machine. The opening for correspondence is usually made from above and covered with a visor. Take out the mail from the lower tier or the front or back wall.
Europeans give this element of the exterior a significant role. They have beautiful mailboxes, they are usually painted in the most colorful shades - from strict to bright. Sometimes the boxes look like a smaller copy of a private house and are built of brick.
American mailboxes are well recognizable, placed horizontally on a wooden or metal post. Americans are constantly trying to diversify the look of their mailbox with the help of various decorative figures. The peculiarity of their design is in the semicircular lid, side doors and a checkbox indicating the presence of mail.
A do-it-yourself mailbox from improvised materials can amaze with its originality. When choosing a material, the main thing is practicality and stylization. Correspondence should not get wet, but external form- fit into the overall design.
Wooden mailboxes
Cardboard allows you to practice craftsmanship, which is determined by low cost. But a mailbox made of wood is stronger and more durable. You will need a bar (100 * 7.5 * 5 cm), thick plywood (65 * 45 cm), a thin plywood cut (65 * 65 cm), a piano hinge (13 cm) made of stainless steel for the door, a lock. And in the arsenal of any owner there will always be screws or nails for fasteners, but you may have to buy sandpaper for cleaning the edge, a jigsaw and wood glue that improves the sealing of the seams. Experienced craftsmen advise using additional corners for fastening, so that it is easier to repair the product during multi-season operation.
Getting started, it is desirable to perform a layout drawing. This will eliminate the possibility of error in the dimensions of the walls. The roof of the box can be made even, slightly raised, with a bend in the center - it all depends on the skills of the owner.
Mailbox drawing example Wood is susceptible to moisture causing rot. Therefore, before fastening together the entire structure, it is necessary to process each element with special means.
You can decorate with decoupage napkins with coating (varnish). This will give the spirit of antiquity. And if the prevailing note in the design is a gentle feminine style, then the design should be supplemented with all sorts of ruffles, images of animals and people, creating the impression of aristocratic pretentiousness.
Tin mailbox
This is a rather complex design, which can only be completed by someone who has the skills to work with metal (welding). A set of tools (grinder, drill) is required. Sheets of metal and rivet fasteners will be required directly. But this design will last much longer and looks very presentable.
As in the previous model, you need to equip the front wall with a handle and a lock. Additionally, before decorating, it is advisable to walk with a primer in several layers along the outer perimeter.
Such a homemade mailbox can be made in both classic and American style. It is mounted both as a free-standing structure and on a fence.
plastic pipe mailbox
Waste leftovers from repairs can also be used to create an original mailbox. Sewer plastic pipes, half a meter long and at least 20 cm in diameter, will be an excellent alternative to labor-intensive options with wood and metal. In general, the box is almost ready. It remains to cut out suitable circles for the front and back walls. To do this, a horizontal blank is made from shorter residues, cutting one side of the work. This makes it easier to measure.
The fasteners of the front wall-door can be bolts or ropes. The back is fixed with glue or heat treatment. Give neat appearance decoration will help. How to decorate a mailbox will be prompted by the general stylistic atmosphere of the site. If natural colors and textures predominate, then you can paint it under a tree. Divorces in this case will resemble the natural coloring of wooden decks. Paint with further coating of the surface with varnish can also imitate stone, brick. 
Without a suitable piece of pipe, use any other plastic object of a suitable volume. When wondering how to make a mailbox out of a plastic bottle, they are guided by a model with a sewer pipe. It should be noted that such a design will not withstand a large amount of correspondence.
advantage alternative options plastic is the cheapness of the material and ease of installation. You can fix the box both on the column at the main entrance, and on the fences of the site.
Do-it-yourself mailbox is easy to do. And the process of its creation is fascinating in its essence. And as a result, the owner will acquire another important element of decor, which performs the function of the final chord in the design.
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