Do you want to upholster your wall, repair your coffee maker or make a lamp? There are tutorials for this. Blogs and YouTube channels contain these illustrated practical solutions that guide you step by step through your project. 85% of the French would now be familiar.
For Hortense Sauvard, 34, the rise of this phenomenon stamped DIY (for Do It Yourself, ie "Do it yourself") is based on "the pleasure of inventing and" learning by doing ". As a child, this engineer designed her jewelery and toys. This year, she co-founded Ouiaremakers.com, which gathers more than 1,000 tutorials: cooking, fashion and beauty, decoration, electronics ...
An economic and ecological dimension
Created in 2016, Wikifab.org testifies to the social dimension of the phenomenon. On this site, where 300 tutorials are classified by level of difficulty and budget, we share his creations, comments, proposes improvements - maintaining a kind of collective intelligence.
The success of the "Do It Yourself" involves an economic and ecological dimension. "I am very happy to give a second life to objects," explains Anne, 29, who "thinks before throwing or buying".
"The DIY introduces a freer and happier relationship to the object," analyzes Céline Lebrun, a 27-year-old Auxerre designer who invented kits to create lamps, coat racks and coffee tables from recovered materials. "Today we can buy and get delivered instantly; To make oneself requires patience, one appropriates the object, which one will prefer to adapt rather than throw away. It will match us much better than a finished product sold to reinforce ads "- often for a lower price. Céline Duhamel, 30, proposes every Wednesday to her three children to create together "something they like."
3D printers have democratized the realization of objects
Technically, 3D printers and numerically controlled machine tools have democratized the realization of objects. And some sites offer major projects, such as lairdubois.fr, a network of wood enthusiasts, which offers advice and royalty-free plans.
