From the first days you want to surround the child with all the best, safe, reliable, and most importantly, one that will serve, faithfully, for many years until the baby grows up.To do this, choose, as a rule, natural materials that are not capable of laying a "mine" of future oncological diseases, thereby protecting the child from the first days.
Parents always want their children to grow up in a healthy atmosphere.
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A cot is the first fortress of a baby. It is there that he sleeps, enjoys life, begins to explore the world, studying, everything that surrounds him.But how to be sure that the cover and materials of the children's bed are safe? Only by making it yourself.
It is very important to protect the fragile body from the harmful effects of the external environment.
Smart dads, whose hands are in place, are well aware — You can be sure of something only when it is tried and done independently. This is the main advantage of the product. Why is that? Let's make a little comparison.
| Factory | Homemade | ||
| Benefits | disadvantages | Benefits | disadvantages |
| Do not waste time - go, buy or order | Not always quality material | You know what it's made of | Making laborious takes time |
| No guarantee of reliability | Reliable design - I checked it myself | ||
| Coverage is not always high quality | Quality coverage - he picked | ||
| Often the surface of the product is not treated. | The surface is thoroughly cleaned - after all, the child will “crawl” over it. | ||
With certain skills, you can make a bed with your own hands.
The comfort of the room, the way the child likes it, its convenience and the rational distribution of living space depend on the appearance of the children's bed.
Thus, design and construction are interrelated.
We all want something original and unusual, unusual routine. But let's be realistic. Why complicate the life with the elaborate design of a children's bed in the form of a car, airplane, baby elephant or steamer, if they are difficult to make? In addition, if there is no specialized tool, such as a surface gage, a CNC milling machine, a band saw and another? By choosing this design, you can ruin all the wood without achieving the desired.
Let us dwell on the classic crib without excesses and tricks, which, although it is difficult, but quite realistic to make from a solid wood, with their own hands.
Wood is the most preferred material, has no contraindications, is completely inert. While the particle board, fiberboard, OSB, MDF and plywood include fillers that adversely affect the body, as well as poorly tolerate mechanical action.
Wooden furniture is always a noble, natural and cozy accent in the interior.
Poorly tolerates moisture, releases fumes, quickly collapses.
It also contributes to the transition of the resin to the bedding.
As a connecting material using synthetic resin with the addition of wax and boron.
These include: hardboard, MDF, harbord.
The main feature of all the listed materials that adversely affect the use is the presence of formaldehyde, a chemical compound used in medicine for disinfection.As you can see - we advise you to choose a tree. Prerequisite - well dried. Do not use raw boards, look back, do not have time: the design will disengage, the material will crack and unscrew. It is optimally if the wood has dried on the racks for three to four years, in a shaded, sheltered place from moisture.
But if there is none, then a machine drying tree will do.
In addition to the boards will need:
Before you begin the project of making a baby cot, you need to purchase materials.
The complexity of the work depends not only on the design of the product and materials, but also on the availability of tools. Having, in its arsenal, a real carpentry workshop, you can easily make any product. But what if there is nothing apart from the garage and the workbench? Can I get to work?
No problem! Everything that is necessary is available for any man. And we will need:
The necessary set of tools, without which the entire project work will be impossible.
The presence of a manual milling machine will greatly facilitate the work of assembling a crib, but if it is not there, we will manage the above.
The use of a manual router makes it easier to work.
That the furniture was reliable, at its production apply special joiner's connections. In contrast to the usual nail or self-tapping, such fastenings are more resistant to loosening, they do not “crawl”, they are well resistant to mechanical damage.
The main task of choosing the method of connection is decorativeness, the desire to make it beautiful, imperceptible.
Such a connection consists of a blind or through groove and a shank freely entering the groove. Fasten them with wood glue. The size of each groove and shank is selected individually, based on the thickness of the wooden blank (slats, beams, boards).
When such a connection is made taking into account the location of the wood fibers, its texture, it seems that the product is made from a single piece of wood.
First, mark the borders of the groove or shank with a pencil. Then the hacksaw makes an incision of the required depth for the shank, drill the groove with a drill. Using chisels remove excess wood. The edges of the product line files.If there is a milling cutter - set the cutting depth and mill the necessary details. In addition, using the copy ring that comes with the machine, you can easily make the grooves of the desired size.
The frame of the crib consists of backs and the base itself, on which the mattress will continue to slide.
The scheme of the footboard of the bed.
The basis of the bed will be 4 boards 35 mm thick and 7 mm wide.
The scheme of the head of the crib.
Decorative headboard with legs for a children's bed.
The holes should have the same depth, which is half the length of this piece of wood.
Before assembling the bed you need to check the details for the presence of chips and various defects.
It is not worth saving if they are few, in the future they will quickly break.
After assembly, we clean the surface and varnish it, at least three times.
Note! All studded joints are attached using wood glue. Under its influence, the tree is not only fastened, but also swells, firmly fixing inside the groove.
We all remember the unique sensation and mystery of the huts made from bedspreads. So why not pamper your baby and improve his cot by “building” his own little house for him in which to sleep so comfortably?
To do this, during the manufacture of the back of the bed, make some adjustments.
Namely - having made the railing a little more, previously using a hacksaw or a side saw, having cut off their tops at an angle of 75 °.We fasten the bases of the "roof" of our house to them. It is better to fasten the joint with spikes, but taking into account the complexity of such a product, self-tapping screws are also suitable, — Do not forget to glue.
The final step will be fixing the beam-ridge, which will connect the base of the frame of our "house".
Thus, the baby will receive a personal “fairy tale” made by the caring hands of the father, and a cover covered by the mother will serve as a reliable roof.
Put a maximum of effort, care and love in your product, and such a bed will give the child good dreams, and you - the joy and satisfaction from the work done.
Of course, what we have described does not reflect all the subtleties of the process of making a children's bed with your own hands. While working, you will encounter many obstacles; you will have to think out more than once about the nuances. However, we hope that the instructions for the manufacture of simple furniture that can raise fatherly authority on the new bar will be useful to both the young father and the large family head.
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