Easy chair do it yourself
Without a chair, as well as without a sofa, not enough. We love to relax after a busy day of work, sitting in it with a cup of coffee or watching your favorite show, film, series. In addition to conventional furniture, there is also frameless. It appeared on sale not so long ago, but it is already becoming widespread, this type of furniture is especially popular with children. The price for this innovation is increased.
If you want to please the children and give them such a thing, do not necessarily run to the store. If you can sew, show skill, imagination, try to make an easy chair by yourself. On the Internet now you can find a lot of patterns with a phased description of the work.
Content
- 1 The advantages of creating your own hands
- 2 Necessary materials
- 3 Required Tools
- 4 Manufacturing process: step by step instructions
- 5 The final stage - decorating
- 6 Video: Making a bean bag - Everything will be good - Issue 507 - 12/03/2014 - Everything will be fine
- 7 50 useful ideas for making a soft armchair with your own hands
The advantages of creating your own hands
Making a soft chair has many advantages.
- This thing has a light weight, it can easily be moved, completely harmless, as it is intended for children who not only will sit there, but also use in the game.
- To create it will not need any specific knowledge, it is worth having sewing skills. The chair bag is just a cover filled with synthetic filler - polystyrene foam, so it is comfortable to sit on.
- It will take a little time to make a chair, and children will be happy to help make it.
- You will create an exceptional thing, making dreams and ideas a reality.
- Creating a chair with your own hands, you will significantly save the family budget.
- Inexperienced needlewomen will easily cope with the work.
- Some of the necessary materials can be found at home, choose the color scheme to taste and decide on the design.
We determine the design and construction (what types of products are, what to choose, what is simpler and what is more difficult to manufacture)
Armchair - comfortable furniture with a back and armrests. But not all seats have them, the upholstery can be leather and fabric. The shape of the back and armrests can be straight and rounded. The type also has a difference, it all depends on what the chair is intended for, what kind of room - in the nursery, in the living room or bedroom, in the office.
By the choice of seats designed for children, you need to be particularly careful. It is important that the design is equipped with a system that allows you to change the height of the backrest and seat, which affects the child's posture. If this is not taken into account, the child may have scoliosis. Furniture for the living room is placed not only in the bedroom, but also in other rooms. We usually rest on it. Office chair is suitable for work, it is comfortable, but does not allow to relax.
Also, the chairs vary in structure.A regular chair with a backrest and armrests, you can simply sit in it, sitting comfortably in front of the TV or reading. For small rooms it is convenient to use the chair-beds. Popular transforming chairs, they are not converted into a bed, but, having thrown back, you can fully relax. In children's rooms are more often bean bags. Children just love to sit on them and play with them. Such a chair is easy to do at home. Rocking chairs are rare.
You have decided and decided what chair you would like, it is important to take into account some points. In the manufacture of furniture with a frame you need to pay attention to its property - it must be strong. The material is suitable metal, natural wood, MDF, chipboard, you can use bamboo or rattan.
Materials for the bean bag - cover and filler - must be durable and natural. Now the chairs are many, before you choose it or make it, you need to know what model you want, its purpose and that it fits the overall interior of the room.
Necessary materials
To make a chair bag, you will need materials: about 3 meters of sateen or calico for the inner cover, 3.5 meters of furniture fabric for the outer cover, zipper - meter, polystyrene foam (about 300 liters - one and a half kilograms), reinforced thread, millimeter paper make patterns
Required Tools
From the tools you will need:
- pencil,
- scissors,
- a piece of chalk,
- ruler,
- pins,
- needles
- sewing machine,
- overlock for processing edges.
Manufacturing process: step by step instructions
Before you start tinkering a soft armchair with your own hands, you need to make a drawing, look for a pattern on the Internet and copy from there. Select any model for the product, at your discretion - just a bag, a pear, a drop, a square, fantasize and make a funny animal. Now we select the fabric.
For the inner cover, it is enough to choose a dense fabric so that after the time the balls do not come out of it - the fabric for bedticks, satin or calico. For the outer cover, choose a fabric for furniture upholstery, suitable jeans, leatherette, as long as you like and blend with the overall decor.
As stuffing use a special filler - polystyrene foam. Order online or buy at a store that sells products for the repair and restoration of furniture. It must be remembered that the material is volumetric and almost weightless. When purchasing it, you need to look at the size of the package, and not on the mass. For the bag-chair you need 250-300 liters.
Do not want to mess with styrofoam, replace it with a ceiling tile - grind it and use as a filler. It is possible to use vegetable components as stuffing, but it is better to change them every six months, since this is a moisture-absorbing material, mold may appear.
Before you make a soft fabric chair, make patterns, lay them on the fabric, do not forget about the seam allowances - 2-3 cm, then you need to circle with chalk. The model consists of a bottom and "petals". First we begin to sew the inner case: all wedges are sewn to the bottom, then sewn on the sides.Do not forget about the hole for the filler. Now go to the outer cover. It is made the same way, sew side zipper.
When the covers are ready, you need to fill the inner bag.
Attention! If you work with children, make sure that the pellets do not get into the respiratory tract, as they are volatile, you can easily get into the nose and mouth. Fill in 2/3 of the volume, sew up the hole. Then we put on the top cover and fasten it with a zipper.
The final stage - decorating
You can leave the finished chair in its original form, or you can make it an exclusive element of the interior by decorating it. For needlewomen - these are endless possibilities.
Decor option | Description |
Decoration | You can sheathe a ribbon, decorate with appliqué, apply embroidery, sew crocheted decorative elements. |
Knitting | The outer cover can not sew, and tie. For greater convenience, sew a small pad to match the chair. If the second case is knitted, then the pillow can also be tied around. |
Small blanket or bedspread (simple, plush or nap) | You can throw on the chair |
In general, there are many options. Focus on taste and fantasy.
Video: Making a bean bag - Everything will be good - Issue 507 - 12/03/2014 - Everything will be fine
50 useful ideas for making a soft armchair with your own hands