Check out this DIY tire ottoman tutorial that gives you step-by-step instructions on how to build an ottoman at home for almost free of cost!
DIY Tire Ottoman
Grab an old tire from any free source and then visit the nearby store to get 2 wooden round boards having sizes a little smaller than the tire sides and also get some rope strands that may be simple and textured! Here the basis of the entire construction is that you have to close both sides of the tire with wooden round boards and then cover the entire tire with rope! Use a screw gun for drilling screws and glue-gun to layer glue where necessary! After seeing this entire tutorial you will feel no more an ottoman deficient!
Here half of the project is all about the precise and neat coiling of rope over the tire and around the sides of the tire! This may be a pretty tough and time taking task but if you go with a little patience, you will surely do it brilliantly! In finishing, you can simply coat the completed ottoman with a sealer! Now the ottoman would be ready to go into any of your decided rooms after it gets dried!
What’ll you need
- An Old Tire
- 2 Pieces of Round Wood
- Screws
- Textured Rope
- Hot Glue
- Glue Gun
- Sealer
- Old Tires
Instructions
First of all grab an old tire, you may visit an auto shop to get an old tire for free or just paying a little from your pocket!
Clean your tire
Clean your tire by giving it a nice soapy wash!!! This will remove all the gunk layers from the surface of the tire!
Fixing a round piece of wood to close the tire opening
Now take out your pieces of round wood which you have selected in size a little bit bigger than the side openings of a tire!
Go for some dry fittings before you screw the wooden boards in place on the tire! After you mark the exact points for wood-tire junction, just drill holes in marked points on the wood!
Drill the holes straight through the wood to the surface of the tire as shown in the preview!
Adding steel screws to secure the wood in place on the tire
Now secure the wood in place to tire by adding steel screws straight in the wood to tire!
Drilling holes in the wood to tire
Use a screw gun to drill screws straight in binding wood and tire together!
Do the same with another side of the tire!
When both sides are done, make sure that if there is any loosely bound screw, if you find one, just make it tight again in place!
Now make your glue gun and hold it in your hand to start the most important step of the project!
Textured rope strand
At the same time, bring also your textured rope strands to your work surface or space! You can go with any nautical, rustic, or vintage style rope but this textured one is really going to make the ottoman look modern!
Now layer the glue in the center of the wooden board using a glue gun and start mounting the rope on the wood in a spiral manner!
Fold-down the very beginning end of your rope and just make it well settled down on the central glued area! Now start adding the glue around it to add further rounds of rope!
Keep on adding the glue and keep on coiling the rope round and round!
Make each round perfect and keep on coiling the rope in the same spiral manner!
After adding a single round or loop of the wood, push it toward the center for tight and neat filling of an entire tire!
Continue wrapping the rope around the tire until you see no more tire surface!
Here neatness and accuracy would be everything!
Keep on wrapping the sides of the tire until you reach the bottom of the tire!
Keep it continue……….!
Now end coiling around the rope when you reach the center of the other wooden surfaces of the tire!
Now you can give a sealer finish to your finally completed tire ottoman and can let it dry for some hours to a couple of days!
Finally, it would be ready to add to your modern living room as a part-time DIY coffee table, as a footrest, and as a brilliant ottoman!
