Easy chair do it yourself

Soft comfortable chairs for home

Soft cozy chairs for home for relaxing and socializing

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.

Frameless bean bag top

Frameless bright bean bag “Capitol”

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.

Polka-dot bean bag

Handmade Polka Dot Bean Bag

The advantages of creating your own hands

Beskarkasnaya furniture do it yourself

DIY frameless furniture

Making a soft chair has many advantages.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. It will take a little time to make a chair, and children will be happy to help make it.
  4. You will create an exceptional thing, making dreams and ideas a reality.
  5. Creating a chair with your own hands, you will significantly save the family budget.
  6. Inexperienced needlewomen will easily cope with the work.
  7. Some of the necessary materials can be found at home, choose the color scheme to taste and decide on the design.
Chair bed with an unusual ornament

Unusual frameless chair bed

We determine the design and construction (what types of products are, what to choose, what is simpler and what is more difficult to manufacture)

Hand made rocking chair

Hand made rocking chair with upholstered seat and backrest

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.

Easy chair for a child

Soft and fluffy chair for a child, made by yourself

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.

Soft ottomans of catchy colors

Soft ottoman flashy colors in the interior of a modern living room

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.

Unusual upholstered transforming chairs

Unusual upholstered transforming chairs for relaxing in a room or on a balcony

Cute plush chair

A cute plush chair for a nursery - your baby will surely like it

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.

Wooden frame for a chair-bed

Wooden frame for a chair-bed, perfect for small rooms

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.

Leather bean bag

Leather bag chair in the living room by the fireplace

Necessary materials

Inner and outer part for the chair bag

Internal and external part for the manufacture of bean bags with their own hands

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

Styrofoam for the internal filling of the chair

Expanded polystyrene - special granules for the internal filling of the chair

Required Tools

sewing supplies

Sewing supplies and necessary tools

From the tools you will need:

  • pencil,
  • scissors,
  • a piece of chalk,
  • ruler,
  • pins,
  • needles
  • sewing machine,
  • overlock for processing edges.
Table for sewing machine and overlock

Workplace for tailoring products - sewing machine and overlock

Manufacturing process: step by step instructions

Drawing for adult and child seat bag

Drawings for the manufacture of adult and baby bean bag

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.

Armchair bag of old jeans

Budget chair bag of old jeans do it yourself

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.

Cut out details

Cut out details

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.

What is the chair bag?

The chair bag consists of an external removable cover, durable internal and filler

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.

Patterns for bag chair

Patterns for the chair bag on the fabric

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.

Jacquard bean bag

Jacquard seat bag newspaper colors

The final stage - decorating

Cozy knitted chairs

Cozy knitted handmade chairs

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.

Armchair pear in the corner in the nursery

Armchair pear in the corner in the children's room for the girl

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.

Fluffy fur chair

Fluffy fur chair for a cozy living room

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