A comfortable chair is the most important part of a comfortable rest, after hard working days, both at work and in the country. Good furniture in the store is not cheap, and the option of making your own models, scares many by the lack of instructions and the fear that it will not work.
Making furniture with your own hands, will significantly save the family budget.
Moreover, the process of designing and creating a chair is in itself fascinating and interesting, first of all, by its creativity and novelty of work performance. But for quality performance you need a minimum experience with plywood products and wood.
Experience can be gained by performing step-by-step instructions.
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The most important advantage of the chair made of plywood, created do it yourself is its price, which is much lower than the store. In addition, personally made chairs are not inferior to expensive factory, and sometimes even better - more original and safer.
In the world of furniture design, the names of designers who have made a name for themselves in the manufacture of plywood furniture are known.
Such designs are mainly made for country cottages, as objects of rest. The average cost of a single product does not exceed 6 thousand rubles. Making plywood chairYou can not only create a high-quality piece of furniture, save money, but also get great pleasure from work.
The main task of the author's furniture is to delight consumers with their informal forms.
Design solutions can be hundreds or even thousands, but they all boil down to different variations of the 2 most popular models:
A rocking chair made of plywood with your own hands is an excellent option for recreation in the country, in a country house or just in nature.
Do not be afraid to experiment, as a result you will get a comfortable, beautiful and original item for decorating a garden or suburban area.
Having the necessary projects and minimal experience with plywood sheet, both options will be easy to manufacture. True, a rocking chair can make you suffer when cutting out a template, plus the veneering step will be difficult and time consuming. Below are two detailed instructions for the production of a rocking chair made of plywood and the original three-legged model.
Before production, it is better to treat the sheets with special non-toxic protective agents.
First you need to prepare all the necessary materials and tools, namely:
Tools for work.
It is better to start making plywood seats with careful study and calculation of the drawing, which you can sketch on your own or find on the Internet.
Overall dimensions of the chair.
For example, a drawing of a round chair made of spherical plywood is taken. The model has an original design and ease of execution. Leaf is better to take birch. For high-quality cutting, you need to prepare a template.
Drawing of the front legs of the chair.
The drawing is redrawn on millimeter paper, then applied and outlined around the contour.
Drawing details of the chair with the size.
After a high-quality redrawing of the drawing, you need to cut out the elements with careful movements, while at the same time saving material.
If you cut plywood rarely - practice on an unnecessary piece, so you will not only get used to the jigsaw, but also determine the cutting speed.
After cutting it is necessary to carefully cut out with a jigsaw all the elements without damaging their structure.
During cutting, the jigsaw movement should be as smooth as possible - without accelerations and settings. Each jerk or stop will certainly leave a mark, then it will have to sweat with it during the grinding of the cut.
Cut-off areas must be treated with sandpaper to remove extra roughness and prevent chipping and delamination during assembly.
Use different numbers of grinding skins depending on the size of the defects.
First, special means with antiseptic effect. Then there is the processing of wood glue. This item is needed to prevent spilling of parts during assembly.
Pre-clean the surface from dust and dirt. Check the humidity of the plywood, it should be completely dry.
Drill holes for screws and fixing points, according to the drawing scheme. Self-tapping screws should not be less or more products, the protrusion of any parts is unacceptable.
In order not to waste time on embedding "ugly" heads, use self-tapping screws with decorative heads.
After the assembly stage, the protruding screws should be filled. Frame varnish and let dry.
The number of varnish layers should be at least two.
To give a brown shade plywood sheet should be treated with stain. After you can do upholstery and armrests.
For example, in the form of a soft pillow.
In this case, as in the previous one, the stages of creation begin with a drawing. You can draw it yourself, if you have knowledge of product design, or take it ready from the Internet, the main thing is that it contains all the necessary calculations.
An example of a future product drawing.
As in the previous case, the details of the future rocking chair made of plywood are drawn from the finished drawing with the help of “graph paper”, in our case these are the side parts (runners).
Drawings on the chair of plywood are processed on special graph paper.
Cut with a jigsaw on the previously contoured contours of the part and process the edges with linseed oil, then wipe with emery paper. Treat parts of the product with special antiseptic agents.
Sidewalls of future garden furniture are sawn with a jigsaw.
Fasten the finished side rails with each other using three transverse crossbars, pre-cut in the same manner.
Connect the frame with the base using euro-screws.
Lateral runners on the outside are reinforced with iron rims, which in size should fit the overall dimensions of the product. The rims are fixed with screws with a drill. The diameter of the hole is equal to the size of the screw.
Sticking caps can be covered with plugs that are sold in building or furniture stores.
At the final stage are cut slats and planks for the back of the rocking chair out of plywood. Attach them with ordinary screws.
To avoid distortions mark segments on the side faces that will correspond to the spacing of the bars.
The caps of the self-tapping screws should be plastered and the chair coated with varnish and paint.
The holes for the screws carefully cover with a putty.
Cover the finished product with an antiseptic solution and a varnish resistant to water.
To increase the comfort of the product for it you need to make a foam rubber seat and sheathe it with leatherette or any other dense fabric.If the chair will be used outside the home, then at the stage of cutting out the parts they need to be treated with antiseptic. So it will last longer.
In order to increase comfort, the rocking chair can be upholstered in soft artificial leather or velor. At first the back back is upholstered, then the fabric is nailed to the product frame with small carnations. The back is sheathed at the edges of the transverse parts, in front - the upper and lower bars. This is done to increase the strength of the product.
As a simpler option, you can make a soft back and seat for the chair.
If you do not want to engage in complex upholstery or sewing pillows, then you can do even easier - to make a removable cover. Inside there will be foam rubber (10 mm), and on top there will be some nice furniture fabric.
In this case, the cover can be worn when it is needed.
On the outer side of the back can be applied mosaic or some beautiful pattern. the main thing — comply with the overall interior design, do not overdo it with bright colors and patterns. The analogue of this design will be a sofa.
Its width is greater, but the production mechanism itself is the same.
In this article, only two types of plywood seats are considered, which are the easiest to manufacture for beginners. To make do it yourself for the first time, you need to exert maximum effort, endurance and patience. After a bit of training, you can proceed to heavier models.
A do-it-yourself plywood chair is a stylish, original solution that is not inferior in quality to expensive store counterparts!
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