The age-old question of our housewives is where to put dirty linen before washing it? If you, like me, are not satisfied with the option of storing things in basins under the bathroom, I propose to build such a practical thing. How to make a laundry basket with your own hands? It turns out it's very simple. One of the easiest master classes is in front of you!
A laundry basket in the bathroom will consist of just a few details. Here they are: a garden metal mesh (70 cm high), a wooden circle for the bottom, four wheels and attachments with screws to them. Of the tools, only pliers and a screwdriver are useful. Strong fabric and cord are suitable for interior decoration of the basket. 
First you need to lay out the materials in front of you. The mesh must be chosen so long that it can wrap a circle once. Well, for the basis for the basket, you can use a seat from a wooden stool or a large wooden pizza stand. When everything is ready, lay a wooden circle on the floor and wrap it with a net. Excess mesh must be cut with pliers or other tools. 
The mesh is very easy to fasten: metal twigs need to be wrapped with pliers around the twigs on the other side of the mesh. In this case, you should check that the fastening is reliable (that is, the mesh must be tightly fixed). 
Under the bottom, the mesh must be wrapped, bending the ends of the mesh to the center. 
Now you need to fix the grid at the bottom of the basket. The bent edges of the grid form squares, which must be pressed against the wooden bottom with screws. We fasten the screw with the nut, fixing the mesh rod. The same must be done a few more times around the perimeter of the bottom. It turns out 7-8 screws. 
If you want the basket to be rearranged, make it manoeuvrable with small wheels. To do this, four wheels must be evenly placed around the perimeter of the bottom and screwed on. Wheels, of course, are better to choose those that spin not only in two directions, but also around their axis. 
This is how the base of the basket turns out: a mesh with a bottom on wheels. 
A do-it-yourself laundry basket is already quite functional. But in order to create not only a piece of furniture, but also its decoration, you need to make an inner cover for the basket. It is better to sew it from a dense fabric like burlap or mattress fabric. Measure the height of the basket, then the radius of the bottom and cut out a suitable fabric cover. At the top of the cover, you can make a cord fastener that would tighten the basket bag. Also, for beauty, you can unscrew the top edge of the bag so that it covers the ends of the frame rods.
A bathroom basket is a fairly simple and practical craft! Make this and your bathroom will take on new life!
An indispensable laundry basket in the household is a symbol of order in the house. Any self-respecting hostess appreciates these items and, of course, wants to have them at her disposal. Today we will try to make it with our own hands.
For this we need:
- cardboard (any, can be corrugated);
- wallpaper or paper for pasting the bottom of the basket;
- paper tubes (in our case, from a check tape, white and stained with walnut stain);
- PVA glue;
- colorless quick-drying varnish (preferably glossy acrylic);
- fabric for textile insert.
We start by cutting out the bottom of the future basket, we have a cardboard blank measuring 23 x 35 cm. We cut out 2 blanks from cardboard and 2 from finishing paper or wallpaper. We paste the wallpaper on the photo cardboard, and on one of them we begin to glue the tubes.
We glue them with an interval of 1.5 - 2 cm, then we glue the sheets of cardboard together with a photo, be sure to place a load on them so that the tubes are well fixed between the cardboard sheets.
As soon as our future bottom is dry, we begin to form the walls of the basket. All glued tubes are racks and need to be placed perpendicular to the bottom. To do this, we start each tube under the next one from the bottom and bend it up.
Having raised all the racks, we will install a load on the bottom (best of all, a box that imitates the shape of a basket). It is convenient to control the racks on it, it is necessary that they stand straight and do not go to the side.
You can fasten them with clothespins on top of the box with the load. It is better to install this whole structure on a rotating “health disk” (it was produced back in Soviet times), it makes it possible to work freely with each side of the basket.
We start weaving with a regular gray rope. We use 2 colors: gray and white, and the type of weaving is rope. The first 4 rows are one-color. Next, weave with a pigtail rope with tubes of gray and white.
We have a two-color weave 16 cm high, then again weave with a single-color rope to a height that suits.
We make handles on the sides of the basket, raising the wicker rows on the racks to the desired height.
We finish weaving by cutting the racks to the height of the basket.
Now our workpiece must be well smeared with glue diluted in half with water, wait until it dries, but does not harden at all. In this state, you can correct minor flaws and align the walls of the basket.
When our basket dries, we begin to varnish it. It is better to use an aerosol acrylic varnish, it dries quickly and practically does not smell. The basket should be varnished in 2-3 layers.
Now let's start decorating the basket. Cut out the textile lining. The pattern consists of 2 rectangles, the first is the size of the bottom, the dimensions of the second are the height of the basket and its perimeter. Do not forget to make seam allowances in the second rectangle. We sew the liner, process the seams, decorate to your liking. On the sides, you can slightly reduce the height of the liner. And now, our basket is ready.
The bathroom is, undoubtedly, the face of the hostess, so everything in it should be not only neat and clean, but also beautiful. Sometimes it can be difficult to choose a laundry basket so that it matches the overall design of the room, so that things do not peek out of the holes, so that, finally, the basket pleases the eye. The ideal solution to this problem would be a do-it-yourself laundry basket created. The result of such a creative process will be not only a useful thing, but also all the positive emotions that its use will bring.
Braid from newspapers
If collections of newspapers have accumulated at home over a long period, then you can give them a second life by making a basket of newspaper tubes.
So, to make a basket from a newspaper, you will need:
- a stack of newspapers;
- the object to be braided;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- thin needle;
- PVA glue.
To make a wicker basket, you need to prepare newspaper tubes. On a newspaper sheet, mark strips 7 cm wide and cut them out.
Then you need to place a thin knitting needle on the edge of the strip at an angle of 30º and wrap it in newspaper.
The tube should not be too tight or weak. The end of the strip must be fixed with glue.
After the end of the tube is fixed, the needle should be removed. Then repeat the same with the other strips.
Finally, to make long parts, you need to connect the tubes in two, inserting one into the other and glue the junction, as shown in the photo.
Now it's time to weave the bottom of the basket out of newspaper tubes. To do this, you need to take 10 finished parts, put 5 of them in front of you, press with a ruler. Then bend 3 odd tubes up along the ruler, drip glue on the remaining elements. Take 6 tubes and glue it perpendicularly to them from above. After that, you need to lower the raised tubes, do the same, but lifting the even parts up, and glue the 7 tube to the odd ones.
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Continue weaving until the 10th tube is glued. Then you need to take the upper horizontal tube, bend it 90º and pass it between the rest of the parts, as in the photo.
Continue to weave in a circle, pushing the details away from the center. When a circle of the desired diameter is formed, bend the ends of the tubes up.
Now you can put a shape on the bottom of the future basket - it can be any thing of a suitable size, it is on it that the basket will trail.
The bent ends of the tubes from which the bottom was woven should fit snugly into the mold. Now the main part of the work lies ahead: making the walls of the basket! To do this, take the tube and twist it perpendicular to the rest of the details. The end of the tube should be fixed with glue, and then take a new part and continue.
When the desired height of the basket is reached, you need to fix the ends. To do this, you need to twist any axial tube through the adjacent one, bending it inward. Insert a separate tube into the loop. In this way, bend all the ends inward. Trim excess.
Finally, for strength, you can coat the entire product with glue, and then varnish it on top.
On a note! Making a laundry basket opens up endless possibilities for experimentation. For example, you can pre-coat newspaper tubes with acrylic paint and weave a multi-colored basket.
The second life of lids
How to surprise guests and at the same time give a second life to plastic bottle caps? Create a modern laundry basket for the bathroom made from lids! In addition to patience, you will need:
- many covers;
- plastic glue.
First you need to assemble the bottom of the future basket: lay out the lids in the shape of a circle or square, depending on what shape the product will be.
Then, when the bottom is laid out, you need to tightly glue the covers to each other with plastic glue.
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Lay out the walls according to the brickwork principle, gluing the corks together.
Tip: you can pre-separate the lids depending on the color and lay them out in a pattern. And if you create a shelf for the bathroom and a soap dish according to the same principle, you will get a whole set that will add zest to your design.
knitted miracle
Those who love and know how to knit will be interested to know that a laundry basket can be crocheted!
To make a knitted basket you will need:
- ribbon yarn - 500 g;
- hook number 10.
The density of knitting will be 8 tbsp. b / n = 10 cm. To make such a thing, you need to dial 4 air. n. and close the ring with a half-column. Then:
- 1st row - in the center of the ring, knit 8 tbsp. b/n. Next, knit in a spiral with b / n columns.
- 2nd row - knit 2 tbsp. b / n in each loop of the previous row = 16 tbsp.
- 3rd row - knit * 1 tbsp. b / n, next. knit the loop of the previous row 2 tbsp. b / n *, repeat * _ * 7 more times = 32 tbsp.
- Continue to evenly add 8 sts in each row until you get 68 sts (circle diameter - 26 cm).
- * 2 rows, grabbing the loops behind the back wall *.
- Repeat *_* until desired basket height.
Finally, tie the top edge of the basket 1 next to the half-st.
Tip: you can knit the handles for the basket, then it will be convenient to lift it. In addition, you can use multi-colored yarn to make the basket bright and original.
Other ideas
For a needlewoman, there are no things from which nothing can be done. That is why the material for the basket in the bathroom can be anything! Based on the proposed master classes, using other materials, you can create a real masterpiece.
For example, cut out of cardboard and glue the base for the basket. You can use the ready-made scheme or calculate it yourself.
