Furnishing an apartment is not cheap. And although today the furniture market is quite wide, it happens that it’s not so easy to choose the necessary elements that correspond to an existing design, or that meets all the requirements of headsets.
And here a wide field of activity opens up for home craftsmen. At the same time, as practice shows, it is not necessary to have great skills in a cabinetmaker or carpenter.
It is possible to make interesting objects without special material costs and difficulties: it is enough to pay attention to simple things that surround us and see the possibilities of their transformation or use to create new furniture elements.
Self-made furniture will decorate any apartment
No one will argue that at home you can make high-quality furniture set of a sufficient level of complexity, even without experience of such work. But to make a simple comfortable and inexpensive furniture that will be comfortable and beautiful - it is quite possible.
Its creation with its own hands has a number of advantages that the home artist will definitely take advantage of:
You can order the details of the furniture to cut on the layout, and then assemble it yourself
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The design of cabinet furniture, taking into account the interior of the room allows you to create furniture that is suitable in size and design
Our apartments are furnished with objects that reflect different style preferences and financial capabilities, however, the most appropriate option for the arrangement of residential and office space was the use of cabinet furniture:
The basis of cabinet furniture are drawers (boxes) of different sizes and configurations with or without doors, depending on the purpose, so home craftsmen often produce such furniture elements on their own.
However, this is not a simple matter, and it requires serious preparation of the necessary materials and components. The source for its production will be the shelves, which will be connected fasteners.
Details for the assembly of individual elements of furniture
To make furniture in the home will need:
Components for the creation of furniture are:
Furniture fittings and components to create your own furniture
Lifting mechanisms are presented in several forms.
| Type of lift | Application |
| Folding | For facades made of wood and wide aluminum frames
For high wall cabinets with large facades. |
| Folding | For the movement of decorative panels or facades of the upper cabinets. |
| Vertical | For upper cabinets with a medium or high facade and in recessed cabinets with other facades on top. |
| Turning | For wooden facades and wide and narrow aluminum frames. |
Furniture transformation mechanisms
LDSP panels have a wide color gamut.
Laminate (Laminated chipboard) is considered the most affordable and inexpensive. It is widely used in the manufacture of furniture, and at the expense of its small cost almost completely replaced wood. It is used for decorating designs.
The production of chipboard is based on the use of wood waste, which is hot-pressed into plates. The components of the products are bound by urea-formaldehyde resins.
A set of children's furniture from chipboard
The material is used for the manufacture of various types of furniture and individual parts, in particular, table tops, taking into account the properties that it has:
However, chipboard is not an ideal material and has drawbacks. It is not suitable for creating shaped parts and negatively relates to increased moisture: when water gets in, the non-moisture resistant look swells and deforms.
In addition, it requires careful handling when sawing, otherwise, the lacquer coating is damaged. A certain skill is also required when drilling a laminated surface.
In addition to chipboard, for the manufacture of furniture with their own hands use other materials. It can be:
Furniture making material: chipboard, MDF or fiberboard
Veneer - a traditional material for veneering interior doors and furniture
Softwood
Hardwood
Willow rods for weaving furniture
Artificial and genuine leather for making furniture
Wood-fiber products are made in the form of extruded sheets. DVP is suitable for production:
Fiberboard has elasticity, therefore it is possible to make bending elements from it.
MDF is also made in slabs. In their production used the dry method, which is more modern and efficient.
For the production of veneer will need solid wood; For its manufacturing method of peeling or planing is used. Used for cladding various surfaces or in the production of plywood.
The tools you need to make furniture yourself
Depending on the type of model you choose to be made by yourself, as well as the material, you may need a different set of tools. However, there is a list without which it is impossible to manage, no matter what type of furniture the home craftsman undertakes. It includes:
Any home artist can learn how to make various pieces of furniture. However, you should not expect that this work will be easy, and everything will turn out the first time.There may be failures, but in order to prevent this from happening, you need to know how to make furniture yourself. And you need to start with the simplest: benches, small tables, you can make a wardrobe, the design of which is quite simple.
Hand made table and benches for gazebos
The process begins with a sketch and construction of a drawing, which should be carried out taking into account the place where the home-made furniture will be located, and the parameters of the room and the product itself.
Then you need to decide on the material from which the furniture will be made. Experts say that it is better for these purposes to take LDSP - the cheapest and most affordable.
Open white wardrobe made of chipboard do it yourself
The next step is to prepare the tool that will be needed for the work.
When the preparation is completed, you can proceed directly to the manufacture of:
If there is a desire, you can make a decoration, decorating the product made, in accordance with its aesthetic preferences.
Despite the fact that chipboard is an affordable and cheap material, this does not mean that it does not have its own characteristics that must be considered when using it. If they are ignored, then errors and failures cannot be avoided.
The main difficulty of working with chipboard is sawing sheets. Usually it is made on special machines, access to which home craftsmen, most often, no. It will be a great success if it is possible to agree on a company that has such equipment so that the material is sawn to the required dimensions.
Cutting chipboard and chipboard sheets requires special equipment
But at home, most likely, this work will be performed by an electric jigsaw, which will inevitably lead to chipping and undulating irregularities. The resulting "open wound" is exposed to moisture. And, if it is not eliminated in a timely manner, the material will absorb moisture and very soon will begin to swell and lose its shape.
To avoid these troubles, you need to use a special edge that will cover the place of the cut. Today in the market you can find several types of it:
Paper or melamine edge - the cheapest and most short-lived option to finish the ends of furniture
PVC edge allows you to endow the product with special strength and wear resistance
The ABS edge has a high resistance to mechanical and thermal effects.
PVC T-profile is used to protect furniture and to eliminate gaps and gaps.
Profile U-shaped invoice (edging furniture) - used for finishing the ends of cabinet furniture
The cheapest is the melamine edge. It can be glued with iron without any problems. True, the quality is not different.
Council PVC edge will be the best option, but stick it only on special equipment. Therefore, if there is such an opportunity, it is done immediately when cutting the material into parts.
The ABS edge is very similar to the previous one and has the same technical characteristics, but it is made from the best materials that do not have hazardous to health and toxic components.
Using the T-shaped mortise profile, which is inserted into the groove made by the cutter - a phenomenon quite rare.
Convenient in the work of the home master invoice P-profile. It is easy to stick on liquid nails. The only drawback is that the edges will protrude a few millimeters, so dirt is clogged under it, which means you need to monitor the cleanliness of the edges and clean them in a timely manner. But this profile can hide low-quality cut.
Wooden products from pine do it yourself hands
Wood furniture is durable, reliable, durable, and environmentally friendly. If the preference is given to her, you should remember that when assembling you need to take into account the peculiarities of the material:
Furniture can be made not only from wood or chipboard materials. Strong and beautiful products made by the method of weaving have been known for a long time; for them are used:
Beautiful wicker furniture for the house and the street
Weaving can be used for furniture:
With the help of weaving various items are made: from chairs and stools to cabinets and chest of drawers.
Recently, frameless products have become particularly popular. They are very comfortable and able to provide comfort and coziness. At the same time they are easy to make their own hands, even if there are no skills in the work.
It consists of two bags that are easy to sew, stitching the fabric of the desired size on a typewriter. In one of them the filler is filled up; This is usually expanded polystyrene in granules of a round shape, which easily restores the shape after exposure to a load. The second bag is used as a pouch. It is made of various dense fabrics of different colors, natural or artificial leather, or combined from different materials. To make it easier to fill the bag with the filler, a sturdy zipper is sewn into the side of the case.
Frameless chair from old jeans do it yourself
It is very convenient for children, as it does not have sharp and hard surfaces, and also easily restores shape. It is used during various holidays, parties, if the chairs are clearly not enough.
Attention! For the manufacture of frameless furniture will require special reinforced thread.
Home craftsmen who have even minimal experience in the manufacture of furniture, argue that to make furniture from chipboard is not so difficult.
The simplest option in this case is to order cutting the material to the necessary elements according to the company's drawing, then purchase a finishing edge in the store, then join the parts in a convenient way (using fasteners or special glue) and glue it.
If the professionals cannot cut the blanks, you will have to do it yourself.
The main problems when making furniture with their own hands, arise in the following cases:
To avoid unpleasant surprises, it is important to consider these features.
When the furniture "masterpieces", made with their own hands, are fully prepared, the final touch remains - decoration. And here - full scope of fantasy! Depending on the material from which the furniture is made, it can be decorated:
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