Doing the couch with your own hands

Cosmetology couch

Comfortable couch for a beauty parlor

Often couches are found in the emergency rooms of hospitals and treatment rooms. But this is a universal piece of furniture that can be used at the dacha - supplement it with side racks, put a canopy on top - it will turn out to be a beautiful, cozy place for outdoor recreation.

Outdoor couch in the country

Outdoor couch in the country of pallets with their own hands

In the kitchen, the couch will create additional seating places, and if you equip it with shelves, it will be where to store various kitchen utensils.

Daybed in the kitchen

Kitchen couch with upholstered seat and extra storage space

In the hall, such furniture will be especially useful for people with back diseases, because it is not for nothing that doctors recommend them to rest on a hard surface.

Red couch in the living room

Fashionable and stylish red couch in the living room

Showing imagination, such a nondescript accessory can be turned into a real masterpiece. The couch with the hands will ideally fit into your interior and it is possible to make it.

Wooden couch do it yourself

Comfortable and practical wooden couch do it yourself

Depending on individual needs, location and availability of space, couches can be of different sizes: large, small, medium, straight and angular. They can be equipped with additional shelves or drawers, made with or without a back, sheathed with fabric or imitation leather - such a piece of furniture will not go unnoticed and will be your pride.

Couch with pillows

A small sofa-couch, do it yourself for the living room

The main types of models of couches:

Special massage couch

Special mobile massage bed for height adjustment

  • with or without armrest;
  • with and without back;
  • on thin and thick legs;
  • soft couches;
  • fully lined with fabric or leather.
Couch without back

Couch without back with decorative rollers

The main types of models of couches:

Types of medical couches

Varieties of medical beds with metal frame

  • with metal frame;
  • with drawers;
  • with additional shelves;
  • folding (can be transformed to a berth).
Transforming couch

The couch transformer, easily allows to transform a bed into a sofa, sofa or chair

Choose a model of couch, which not only fits perfectly into the interior, but will also be available to you in the manufacture. If you have some carpentry skills, you can take on more complex product options. If you master this type of activity for the first time, first make a simple model.

Simple couch in the kitchen

Simple couch in the kitchen with an extra bed, made by yourself

The advantages of the couch, made by hand:

Wooden bench on the balcony with plating

Handmade wooden bench for a comfortable stay on the balcony

  • low cost - will have to spend only on the necessary materials;
  • organization of additional space;
  • structural reliability;
  • production according to the required dimensions;
  • combination with the interior;
  • elegant appearance.
Beautiful children's room

Beautiful children's room with a couch for relaxing

It is not difficult to make a couch with your own hands; it is not necessary to be a professional in carpentry skills.The most important thing is to think carefully about all the details, make a plan, accurate drawings (they can be found on the Internet) and select quality materials.

Drawing for the manufacture of couches

Drawing for the manufacture of the couch do it yourself

For the frame fit the usual wooden bars, it is better to give preference to natural wood. But you can also use chipboard. To make the product more soft, use a mattress or foam rubber. Upholstery fabric will give a beautiful look to this type of furniture.

Hallway stool

Beautiful leather do-it-yourself banquet in the hall

How to make a couch with your own hands?

Wooden couch do it yourself

Wooden couch do it yourself

Please note that all wooden elements must be sanded with emery paper, painted and then varnished. Therefore, immediately determine the desired color of the future product. When the first coat of varnish dries, you can go through the sandpaper on the details again - all the sticking out small pieces will harden, and it will be easy to get rid of them.

Wooden couch for spa salon

Wooden couch with a soft mattress and a rising part for ease of treatment.

If you want to give the product softness, as a filler, use a versatile and cheap material - foam rubber. Choose an average degree of hardness, since too soft will sag, and hard - will bring discomfort. Cut the foam rubber a few centimeters more - it must be fastened to the bottom of the parts to prevent premature upholstery wear.

Foam for soft seat

Foam to give softness

In order to sheathe the product was easier, follow this pattern of action: first fix it in its relaxed state to one long side of the part, then tighten and fasten from the center of the opposite side to the edges. Follow the same sequence with short ends.

Fasten the fabric in the corners

The process of fixing the upholstery fabric in the corners

The best option for the mechanism of lifting the head of the head will be a step fixation, popular in models of old folding beds.

The mechanism of lifting the head of the couch

The mechanism of lifting the head - step fixation

Please note that the device for a sofa or ottoman in this case is not suitable - because of the small size of the lever will have to make great efforts to lower the headboard.

You can choose a two-position headboard, whose work is provided by gas microlifts with a force of 40N-80N.

Bar Feet

Legs from a bar for a future couch

For the legs of the construction, cut the bar into pieces of 50 centimeters, for the remaining parts you need to prepare plywood with the following parameters:

  • for a bed 170cm * 70cm;
  • on the headboard 38cm * 70cm;
  • two long bariums 200cm * 17cm;
  • four short curtains 56cm * 17cm.

Short barrels are fixed between long ones. In the long all do the same, but in a plane with a diameter of 8 mm. Put one short side piece in the interval 40 centimeters from the head.

The legs are attached using screws 4 * 60. To avoid the formation of cracks in the wood, drill holes with a diameter of 5 mm in the tsar, and 2.5 mm in the legs.

How to attach the legs

Fasten the legs with screws

Along the perimeter of the box, except for the headboard, screw the corners to fix the bed. If the couch will be equipped with gas shock absorbers, attach them as well, following the user's guide.

Spin the bed to the corners of the box, departing 5 centimeters from the foot and on the sides. Place the butterfly loops in the headboard, then in the lowered, horizontal position, substitute under the bed and secure. It remains to secure the counterpart of the gas-lift and the couch is ready with your own hands.

Product decoration

Unusual rope couch

Unusual rope couch-bed

For decoration, you can use only paints, various synthetic materials, microfiber, dermantin or velor - it all depends on your taste and budget. Synthetic upholstery keeps its color and shape for a long time, but it tends to electrify and attracts dust.

Massage couch wooden

Massage couch with wooden legs and soft upholstery

An interesting appearance will have a couch, if you drill holes in plywood and drag the filler with a nylon thread. Holes are hidden with the help of beautiful buttons, covered with a fabric to match.

Using the couch

Use of the couch for relaxation, massage and treatments

Video: Couch with bedside table

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