/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I never intended to sell them, my goal was not to make money but to turn them into something that could be useful to myself.

>>534116
That search provided a lot of awesome ideas, I've decided to replace most of the current furniture in my room with new pieces made of barrels. I have 13 barrels (5 as those in the first pic, 3 larger, and 5 smaller), so I'm going to make a table, two armchairs, two or four closets, a chandelier, a bar table, a couple of bar chairs and I'll use one to store drinks.

>>534672
That's exactly what I'm going to do, except I'll cut it in half because I want a low table. Also, since the inside of the barrel is going to be visible through the glass, I'll make a castle or something inside.

>>534102
They're made of black locust which is one of the hardest woods you can find and the planks are at least an inch thick, some even more, so they're very heavy, I doubt anyone would be willing to pay for the shipping alone.

>>534571
Yeah, go to any village and you'll find hundreds. Our villages are underdeveloped even today, until a few decades ago plastic barrels (which are much more practical) were not very common so the folks were using wooden ones. Now not many people use them, but almost everyone still has them. Also, younger people are migrating from villages to towns/cities (and even those who do stay do not work in the fields), so you can find lots of houses in which only very old people live who would be probably willing to sell barrels because once they die no one will be using them anyway. The further you go from cities, the more likely you're to find old hand-crafted stuff. There are villages up in the mountains with only a couple of dozen of people (mostly very old ones) where every house looks like a mini-museum. My village is very close to one of the biggest cities, but if I don't manage to make everything I planned from my own barrels I'm pretty sure I can buy more from my neighbors, maybe even get some for free.