Every person wants to make the environment of their home or apartment as cozy and comfortable as possible, but at the same time unlike any others.
You can achieve a unique interior with the help of hanging chairs. They can be purchased at furniture stores or make it yourself.
Today on the Internet and in specialized magazines you can find drawings of the chairs of the different designs and shapes.
In our article we will look at how to make such a chair with your own hands.
Types of hanging chairs
Today, manufacturers offer a huge range of hanging chairs, including those that you can make yourself.
Such furnishings can become an unusual accent in the design of a room. Below we will look at several options for chairs that you can create yourself.
Chair in the form of a swing
In the manufacture of original hanging swing chairs, the most different materials. Such models are characterized by elegant appearance, fairly simple design, hard or soft frame. They will perfectly decorate the cottage.
They can also be used as an original piece of furniture for a bedroom or children's room, or terrace.
Chair in the shape of a cocoon
This is one of the most common models of hanging chairs. The difference between this chair is the presence of walls hiding the inside of the chair.
This product was created to enjoy solitude; children also really like it, as it looks like a hanging house. To make a cocoon, only natural materials are used.
Chair in the form of a nest with a frame made of hoop
These chairs are the most popular. They can be equipped with a large amount of decor and perfectly complement modern interiors. For such models, the most different techniques weaving.
What are the chairs made of?
When choosing materials for a chair, it is necessary to take into account its specifics.
If you decide on the swing chair option, then you will need thick fabric, different types artificial ropes and blocks of wood.
To make a cocoon-shaped chair you will need rattan, willow twigs, bast, bird cherry or willow branches.
For a chair in the form of a nest, a hoop made of plastic or steel, durable fabric resistant to wear, synthetic filling, special cords for weaving, and various pieces of wood are suitable.
For the seat itself, the following techniques are used:
- Macrame;
- Patchwork technique;
- Knitting;
- Tatting.
Do not forget about the compliance of the selected materials and fasteners with the planned load.
Note!
Master class on creating a chair
This is the simplest type hanging chair of all the things you can do yourself. To make it you will need:
- dense material – 2 m;
- wooden beam - length 1 m, radius 3 cm;
- several carbines (0.11 m), designed for a weight of up to 0.16 tons;
- cable with a diameter of 1-1.15 cm with a tensile load of up to 3200 kgf;
- paints, brushes, nylon threads.
The tools you will need are a drill, sewing machine, iron, scissors, ruler.
Step by step we create miracles
Step 1. Fold the material in half, measure 0.18 m from the top and cut off the resulting triangle.
Step 2. Fold the edges of the fabric by approximately 1 - 1.5 cm and carefully hem them.
Step 3. Make pockets for the cable. To do this, you need to bend the edges on the long part by 4 cm and stitch them on a typewriter.
Note!
Step 4. On each side wooden beam make 2 holes. There should be a gap of 5 cm between two adjacent holes, and approximately 0.8 m between pairs of holes.
Step 5. We insert the rope into the central holes and secure it with knots. First, we make a knot for the carabiner in the middle of the rope.
Step 6. Pass the ends of the cable through the prepared fabric, insert them into the free holes and secure with knots.
Step 7. We attach a pair of carabiners, which are connected to each other, to the hook previously attached to the ceiling. This will add reliability to the design. We insert the rope into the last carabiner.
You can decorate the swing chair with bright pillows.
Note!
Hanging chairs are a fairly popular piece of furniture. They can easily become the highlight of your interior.
We hope that this article has convinced you that sewing a stylish bean bag chair or a fashionable hammock chair with your own hands is not at all difficult.
Such self-made products have a unique charm. They will definitely amaze your guests with their uniqueness.
DIY chair photo
In modern furniture stores you can find any piece of furniture to suit every taste and style. Occasionally financial situation or too high requirements do not allow you to find a suitable chair in terms of style and comfort.
That is why now you can find instructions on how to make a chair with your own hands step by step.
What kind of chairs can you make with your own hands?
On the Internet you can find a lot of instructions on how to make a chair, which is why everyone can do it, especially if you know how to use standard set tools.
First you need to buy everything you need, the missing tools and materials, and then start creating sketches and drawings of the future piece of furniture.
The peculiarity of a DIY chair is that it makes no difference which sketch you use. There is a certain step-by-step instruction, the points of which everyone adheres to.
Before starting work, you should familiarize yourself with the possible seating options and choose the one that interests you. However, I note that some types are very difficult to make without special equipment, and for some you need great experience. We also recommend that you watch a master class on how to make a chair with your own hands.
Types of chairs
If you have a question about which chair to make with your own hands, then here is a list of all possible options that you can make yourself:
Usually a chair
An ordinary chair, it is also called soft. It consists of three main things: frame, upholstery, and filling. Suitable for installation in the home.
Folding chair
It has a frame that can be folded or unfolded. This option simply cannot be replaced when relaxing outdoors, at sea, or even at home if, for example, you always have a lot of guests and there aren’t enough chairs for everyone.
Kentucky
Chair for the garden or cottage. Looks great in the garden or country house, easy to make.
Ladle
Armchair sports type, on which several belts can be installed, thereby effectively securing the person sitting in place.
Photon
A transformable chair that is both a chair and a mattress. Moreover, this “transformation” is very easy to implement.
Sliding chair
Perfect for small rooms, due to the fact that they simultaneously serve as both a bed and a chair.
Chair on small wheels
It is convenient to ride around the entire apartment or house. Will help elderly and sick people with housework.
However, it is worth remembering that wheels under the weight of the human body can leave scratches on the floor, especially if you have varnished parquet at home.
High back chair
Perfect for people who sit for a long time, for example, at the computer, no matter on personal initiative or for work.
Thanks to the fact that you can fully lean on it, you can sit in it for much longer. It is also very comfortable. By the way, there are soft and hard options.
Rocking chair
Surely, you associate the mention of this piece of furniture with an elderly person. However, this type chairs help many people, for example, with sleep disorders or mothers of babies.
The latter not only rock the baby to sleep, but also relax themselves. For example, after a sleepless night, this great option, you will definitely be sure that you will not accidentally drop your child due to fatigue.
Non-folding chair
Very convenient to use, helps to fully relax and unwind after a hard day working day. Now their choice is huge, so you can not only make it yourself, but also look for the right option in the shop.
Previously, non-folding chairs with so-called ears were very popular, on which it was convenient to lean and they also served as a kind of fence.
Bag chair
Probably the most comfortable armchair from the entire list. It does not have a frame, but inside there is a soft filler that can completely replicate the contours of the human body.
Due to this feature, it is truly the most comfortable and you can relax and unwind in it. Not only is there a huge amount of design for these chairs, but you won’t spend a lot of money and effort to make it.
By the way, if you don’t understand a certain type, then look at the photo of the chair with your own hands of this type. This way you will not only understand what kind of chair we are talking about, but you can also stumble upon step-by-step instructions for the piece of furniture you like.
So today you found out best ideas DIY armchairs, namely their types, which you can make yourself at home. I hope you have no questions left on the topic and have chosen the appropriate type of chair.
Photos of armchairs with your own hands
Much has been written about the beneficial effects of relaxing in a rocking chair. It also helps to concentrate during intellectual work. Finally, it’s just convenient, after pumping, to take books from the rack behind your back or a cup of coffee from coffee table. The prices of ready-made rocking chairs, as it should be in a consumer society, react to such advantages in their own adequate way: a rocking chair for 5,000 rubles. it's still cheap. And people are artisans and also respond adequately in their own way: there are more and more people wanting to make a rocking chair with their own hands. However, the rocking chair differs from other pieces of furniture, firstly, in that the whole thing moves and swings. Secondly, so that it does not turn from a rocking chair into a kicker or tipper, the entire product with the person sitting in it must have an accurate balance, which must be maintained within acceptable limits for riders different weights and complexion. This publication is devoted to consideration of issues of how to achieve the required qualities of a rocking chair.
Types of rocking chairs
You need to comply with your own needs already at the stage of choosing a prototype. There are several types of rocking chairs, aimed at users with different habits and needs. The main types of rocking chairs are shown in the photo. Rocking chairs on simple radius runners (arches, rocker arms, skis) were the first to appear in everyday use. They are in use to this day, both in modern and classic appearance, pos. 1 and 2. Their main advantage is constructive and technological simplicity.
Radius runners provide smoothness and softness of rocking only with relatively small swings, and with strong swings they do not guarantee against tipping over. Therefore, rockers “on radii” are made with a low landing, ensuring a large excess of the center of the generating circle (CO) over the general center of gravity (CG); For more details on the kinematics of rocking chairs, see below. If a seat of normal height is required, then the runners are equipped with bumpers, pos. 3. The shocks of the bump stops on the floor are noticeably felt at the “fifth point”, and in any case, you have to get out of the rocking chair on the radius runners, straining somewhat.
Note: Stability when swinging with a slightly larger amplitude at a normal landing height is provided by rockers on radius runners with a closing horizontal arc, see fig. on right. But, suddenly the limit is reached, the supporting surface instantly reduces to a point and a sharp push follows in the back.
Tipping is excluded in rocking chairs on runners of variable curvature, pos. 4. All of them are comfortable enough for riders of different body types. They themselves gently unseat the rider of a rocking chair of the Nirvana type who has stood up and leaned forward on runners of variable curvature, pos. 5 and 6. It is also possible, by changing the progression indicator in the law of change of the generating radius (also see about kinematics), to design them for any permissible limits, landing height.
Note: mother and baby are given complete rest with complete unity of souls in the rocking cradle. Reliable rockers with a cradle are made only on runners of variable curvature, see fig. on right. Otherwise, suddenly the little one will get worried and the mother will perk up, and we can tumble together. Which is simply dangerous for a baby.
Nirvana rocking chairs on elliptical runners, pos. 7, provide a gentle, truly blissful rocking, but do not prevent capsizing during strong swinging, so they are equipped with bump stops; the front one is often combined with a footrest. Garden rocking chairs with ellipse awnings never tip over, pos. 8.
Nirvana rockers on springs, see fig. on the left, they swing as softly as on ellipses, because mechanical characteristics Progressive springs. But making a spring chair with your own hands is difficult: you need either high-quality boards of special types of wood (teak, boxwood, dogwood) or a rubberized strip of spring steel so that it does not scratch the floor. In addition, dirt gets packed into the gap between the spring and the runner and it can be very painful to pinch your finger. For the latter reasons, spring chairs are now very rare on sale.
Rocking chair 3 in 1
Finally, there are also multifunctional “3 in 1” rockers on runners with smooth bends, see fig. on right. When seated upright, this is a regular chair; by leaning back, it can be switched to rocking mode on radii, and by leaning back even more, it can be turned into a sun lounger. But the dimensions of the 3 in 1 rocking chair are too large for apartments below business class, and transitions from mode to mode are accompanied by rather sensitive shocks. In unsuccessful models, you either have to stand up or twitch, squirm and fidget like a puppet on strings. Therefore, 3 in 1 rocking chairs are a piece of furniture for everyone.
To start
Without any special pretensions, just to relax after work, a rocking chair on radius runners will help. Drawings of a simple sample, made, with the exception of the runners, only from straight parts, are given in Fig. For a dacha, veranda or garden, this chair can be made in half a day, using only a jigsaw, a drill and a couple wrenches(assembly - bolted). And having rocked to your heart’s content, you may already think about a home rocking chair for the more sophisticated; then you will need a more thorough tool and knowledge.
How does it swing?
Most home craftsmen make rocking chairs according to ready-made drawings, but prototypes often turn out to be developed and tailored to a specific person, and an exact replica is not so convenient. Therefore, before making a rocking chair, it is necessary to obtain at least initial information about its kinematics.
CG straight standing man normal build located on the border of the lumbar and sacrum with inside spinal column. In a sitting individual, it will blend somewhat forward and even less downward. In the chair-seat system, the overall CG shifts back almost to its original position and a little further down. The downward shift of the general CG for the design of a rocking chair is not particularly significant and we can assume that the projection of the general CG onto the supporting surface (floor) is approximately the same as that of a standing person. In the future, the resulting error can be easily compensated by final balancing of the chair, see below.
The vertical location of the central center relative to the central center has a much stronger effect on the stability and comfort of the rocking chair; the latter is also a determining factor when designing rocking chairs on runners with variable curvature. If the CG and CO coincide, this is an indifferent equilibrium: for any physically possible tilt of the chair, the projection of the CG on the floor falls on the point of contact of the runners O, pos. 1 and 1a in Fig. The chair does not rock, and if you lean back too much, you will instantly somersault with the risk of breaking your neck. Fortunately, an exact match between the CG and the CO is only theoretically possible.
If the CG is higher than the CO, then its projection, at any inclination, “runs” outward, backward or forward, from the point of contact. At the slightest tilt, a tilting moment Mo occurs (positions 2 and 2a), and the rocking chair turns out to be unstable. To avoid such a situation for a family rocking chair, it is designed and balanced for the tallest, heaviest and pot-bellied rider possible so that its CO is 450 mm or more higher than the CO. Then, when the chair is tilted, the point O will “run away” from the CG projection, the restoring moment Mv will constantly act (positions 3 and 3a) and the chair will not tip over when rocking within acceptable limits. For those who are smaller, the excess of the CO over the CG will be too large, and the swaying will be harsh, but this can be easily compensated for by pillows under the back and seat. In general, the lower the elevation of the CO above the CG, the softer and smoother the swaying, but the likelihood of capsizing, suddenly straightening up and standing up in a chair, is higher. Therefore, it is better for novice carpenters to set the CO exceeding within 600-700 mm.
Note: if it is impossible to determine the position of the CG of the largest of the riders (say, in his absence), the radius of the generating circle R is taken equal to the average height of the users minus 5 cm. Suddenly the rocking turns out to be harsh, this can be corrected by placing a permanent pillow on the seat.
There is no need to drag your own pillows with you into a chair on runners of variable curvature: it will automatically fall into position maximum comfort. At the same time, the big guy will lean back more, and the slender one will sit straighter. When swinging backwards, the point O will run away from the CG projection the further, the greater the angle of inclination, and it will simply not be possible to swing until it capsizes. And if you “pump” forward, which is actually difficult, the chair will smoothly drop the hyperactive person onto the floor: where should you rest? Go do something.
To construct a profile of runners of variable curvature, the radius of the generatrix of the circle (it is determined as in the previous case) will have to, firstly, be rotated several times by a fixed angle α; usually take α = 10 degrees. Secondly, to build the rear branch of the runner, R increases at each turn according to the law geometric progression with k = 1.02-1.03. That is, it will be (see position 4 in Fig.) R1 = kR; R2 = kR1; R3 = kR2; R4 = kR3, etc., if required. Actually, R changes according to some trigonometric function, but for furniture accuracy and the size of the rocking chair, it is more convenient to replace it with a progression, so it’s easier to count.
The construction of the anterior branch is carried out at a constant R, but with each rotation of the generatrix of the circle, the CO is raised vertically (ibid., in position 4 of the figure). The initial elevation Δh1 is taken equal to 2-3% R, i.e. (0.02-0.03)R, and the subsequent ones also follow a geometric progression with the same indicator as for the posterior branch. Δh1 in in this case the value is quite critical; its smaller value should be taken for thin people, and its larger value for fat ones.
Finally, the resulting points are connected using a pattern with a smooth curve. Do not be embarrassed if the tangents to it turn out to be not perpendicular to the radii: in order for the chair to be stable, at each moment of rocking it should be on the opposite slope. When constructing, it is advisable to take the scale no smaller than 1:5.
Note: if a nirvana chair is designed, but the front ascending branch of its runners will be an elliptical arc (green dotted line in position 4), tangent to the constructed profile of the runner in volume I there.
Final balancing
It is unlikely that a novice craftsman will immediately find a rocking chair comfortable enough. Most likely, the product will need to be balanced. If the chair doesn't rock well, and when you get out of it it pushes, you need to make the rear overhang heavier. The easiest way to do this is to connect the ends of the rear branches of the runners with a low U-shaped beam of boards, with the notch facing down. Weights are placed in the recess. The lever arm in this case is long, so there is no need to hang weights. Another option, depending on the design, is a transverse pipe beam with a weight inside. But during the balancing process it will have to be removed and put back several times. If the rocker tends to fall back, you need to make the front overhang heavier. The easiest way to do this is by placing a step and attaching weights to its underside.
About materials
Rocking chairs are made primarily of wood. Metal, for all its manufacturability, low waste and greater resistance to outdoors, too heavy. The influence of the chair on the overall CG turns out to be significant, the moment of inertia of the system is large and, as a result, the rocking is too sharp. Or you have to set an extremely small initial elevation of the CO above the CO, risking that the rocking chair will tip over under someone. However, we will return to metal rockers when we consider individual samples.
Plywood is a completely different matter, especially for novice woodworkers. Firstly, when making the parts of the rocking chair with 3-layer glued ones, you can only use a jigsaw to make accurate and durable tenon-groove joints, on the left in the figure, if you follow the following. rules:
- Plywood for the middle layer is taken twice as thick as for the outer layers. For example, if you need a total thickness of 20 mm, then glue 5-10-5 mm.
- The parts are assembled from blanks using 2-component waterproof glue. If it is on PVA, be sure to reinforce it with small nails.
- The connections are assembled with gluing (wedging in this case is unacceptable) and reinforced with diagonal pairs of self-tapping screws on both sides.
- The supporting surfaces are protected with linings made of thin (6-10 mm) strips of hard, durable wood or dense sheet rubber 4-5 mm thick. Plywood under a concentrated load cracks very well at the end.
Secondly, plywood makes it possible to use non-standard technical solutions, for example. as on the right in Fig. Such a rocking bowl can be made from plywood, again using only a jigsaw. Convenience is high, stability is absolute, and can serve hanging hammock chair or a swing chair. The thickness of the lamella boards is from 12 mm; connecting half-washers on poles – from 24 mm.
Note: in any case, the finished plywood rocking chair must be soaked twice with a water-polymer emulsion or liquid acrylic varnish on water based. This will not only increase the strength of the product and its resistance to external influences, but will also relieve excess residual stresses in joints and bent parts.
How to install overlays
Wear-resistant wooden pads are installed on the rocking chair runners. way:
- Turn the chair over with the runners up;
- We warm the blank plank thoroughly with a construction hairdryer;
- We place the workpiece on the runner and wrap it tightly along the entire length with cotton braid. Don't get burned, the wood is very hot!
- We also grab the second workpiece onto another runner;
- Once the strips have completely cooled, remove the braid bands and glue the pads with PVA on wood or with 2-component glue;
- We attach the ends of the planks with small nails until the overlays fit snugly along the entire length. Place washers or pieces of plywood under the nail heads;
- Once the glue has completely dried (2-3 days), remove the temporary fasteners. We drill blind holes for screws and secure the ends completely;
- We fill the holes with the fastener heads with putty made from sawdust of the same tree, thickly mixed with PVA.
Note: The linings need to be secured with metal hardware only at the ends. Otherwise, when the lining wears out during use, the fastener heads will stick out and begin to scratch the floor.
Examples of rocking chairs
Metal
Let's start our review of rocking chairs with metal ones, because... making rocking chairs out of it is justified in few cases. Forged rockers, imitating classic wicker ones from wicker or rattan, as requiring special equipment, a forge, etc. We don’t touch qualifications. But a metal rocker “like a braid” can be made by welding from profile pipe; preferably elliptical section. In this case, you need to choose the kinematic diagram of the nirvana rocking chair as the least sensitive to the excessive elevation of the CO above the CO; it also corresponds well in design to wicker rocking chairs, see Fig. In order not to increase the moment of inertia, the seat is made of braided cables, belts, etc.
It also makes sense to make garden tumbler rockers from metal, see below, due to its strength and resistance to wear. But a welded frame like the one in pos. 1 pic. on the right – the solution is not optimal, it is too complex, labor- and material-intensive. It is much easier to make a steel frame for a garden rocking chair of the Concept type, pos. 2. Pipe – round from 40x2. The bed itself can be sewn like a hammock; balancing - by changing its tension and, accordingly, sagging. As a result, the work and costs are much less than repeating the established forms of rocking chairs that come “from the tree,” and the comfort is no worse.
Here we can see another interesting option: the frame of the Concept rocking chair from... gymnastic hoops. Just not aluminum or propylene, but carbon fiber (carbon). Strength is monstrous, durability is absolute, weight is negligible. The same cannot be said about the cost, however.
Vanka-Vstanka
IN Lately Garden rocking chairs - tumblers - have gained popularity. If you lean back completely in this one and tuck your legs, it falls back almost 90 degrees without losing stability; the rider will find himself lying on his back with his knees at the zenith. And if you stretch your legs forward, the rocking chair - the vanka-stand-up chair becomes its normal position and then you can rock as always.
The Vanka-Vstanka toy with a spherical bottom sways quite sharply. Comfortable rocking of the tumbler rocker is achieved by profiling its runners according to a complex law. It will not be possible to build their sidewalls “school style”, as described above. You need to be guided by proven samples and draw markings on the grid, see fig. The inset version, with cladding made of planks 30-40 mm thick, is more expensive, but less labor-intensive. It also allows you to increase the length of the rocking chair by installing intermediate supports-runners.
Note: wooden balls are mounted on the protruding ends of longer rods (1050 mm) and form handles for rocking and carrying.
Rocking bench
Rolling your heels into the sky, throwing your hands behind your head and admiring the clouds floating in the blue heights through the fluttering foliage is a heavenly pleasure, but it doesn’t suit everyone. Some people want to look more impressive while relaxing. So more suitable for garden bench - rocking chair, see fig. It is a little difficult to swing on it, its own moment of inertia is large, but it also swings for a long time. The maximum span between supports with runners is 750 mm with cladding made of 40 mm thick slats. The back covering is decorative.
Sun lounger with awning
Both those and other requests will be satisfied by a garden rocking chair on elliptical runners and with an awning. The dimensions of its sidewalls are given in Fig. their material is 24 mm plywood. The width of the bed is up to 900 mm, its covering is made of 50x50 slats. The sidewall areas, indicated by gray circles, are connected by round wooden crossbars with a diameter of 60 mm or more.
Rocking chair
We are not talking about rocking horses here; they are toys, not furniture. But it’s also not harmful for children to rest while rocking, so it makes sense to give your child a rocking chair. Its proportions will be slightly different than for adults, due to the influence of the square-cube law.
The structure of a children's rocking chair, its assembly diagram and specification of parts are shown in Fig. material – wood. More or less experienced home handyman building a rocking chair for a child, guided by these data, will not be difficult, and beginners can first watch a master class on making an almost identical children's rocking chair.
What if you try to make something out of furniture with your own hands? Interesting? Let's start by making furniture that doesn't require a frame, for example: from a bean bag chair (or, as it is also called, a pear chair).How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands at home? The key to an excellent result of your work is to do it right from the start make patterns and find good filler. You select the fabric (color, texture) to your liking, not forgetting the harmony of the future pear-shaped product with the rest of the furniture in the house.
The most important advantage of this bean bags self made
the fact that it itself is light and freely takes the shape of the body of a person who wishes to rest on it. Therefore, it is very comfortable. You can even lie down on it, fluffing it up like a pillow. People who spend a lot of time “on their feet”, or sitting for hours in the office, perfectly relax and rest their back muscles when they sit in bean bag chairs. And what delight this furniture causes in children! Be sure to take your child as an assistant when you start making a bean bag chair with your own hands.
The next important point is filler. The most popular of them now is polystyrene chips, the granules of which are 1.5-5 mm. If you use it as a filler, then you will never sit in a “cold” chair. This applies specifically to crumbs, and not to foam plates.
As an option, order crumbs from an online store (cheap and fast). And with the rest you can fill decorative pillows and soft children's toys.
It will be great fill chair bags not with traditional polystyrene foam, but, for example, with hay soaked in the aroma of hot summer or some fragrant grass. You just need to keep in mind that such fillers love rooms without high humidity. This filling is changed every 6-12 months if products made from it are used a lot and often. Therefore, the bag itself should be easily removable to replace the filler.
One of the covers that makes up a bean bag chair (or pear chair), should be made of raincoat fabric or thick mattress fabric, the second cover should be their beautiful furniture fabric or denim, suede, faux leather and even velvet. You should not take expensive fabric for the outer cover, since with cheaper fabric the cover can be changed as much as you like, and each time you will have a “new” chair. So it’s worth thinking about whether we need to pay in online stores for the super abrasion-resistant fabric they advertise, if we have the option of inexpensive, but different and always “fresh” covers?
On outer case Bag chairs usually have a strong metal zipper 50-60 cm long. The best place its location is at the bottom of the chair, otherwise it may break if there is excessive load on the chair. If you don't like the zipper, sew on a few buttons.
By turning on your imagination, you can vary bag chair from a very large pillow to comfortable mattress; it can be like a chair with a back, if you arrange the pillow in a triangle, and a comfortable mattress.
Before you begin directly working on the manufacture of the product ( upholstered furniture), we recommend doing small pattern on paper to scale to check if everything fits. 
The seams on the covers must be strong, the same as on jeans, using reinforced threads in order to withstand heavy loads.
We sew a chair bag (pear chair, cushion chair) with your own hands . Master class with step by step photo instructions and pattern.
Comfortable frameless upholstered furniture, made by yourself. Master class on making a beanbag chair.
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In the considered option for making an Adirondack chair with your own hands, the design features are preserved, but there are no difficult carpentry joints. It will be easy to repeat the project by making it according to our drawings wooden parts and assembling the product using screws.
The work uses planed 20 mm pine boards, galvanized screws 4.5x40 mm, bolts 10x60 mm with a square headrest and nuts with washers. Jigsaw and Grinder will speed up the process and manual frezer will allow you to carefully round the edges, but all workpieces can be cut with a regular hacksaw, and the burrs can be removed manually with sandpaper.
Adirondack chair structure: 1 — backrest bar; 2 - screws; 3 — upper cross member; 4 - posterior leg; 5 — side support (spar); 6 - bolts; 7 — armrest; 8 — front leg; 9 — seat bar; 10 — armrest support
Manufacturing of parts
The most complex elements of the chair are the two side supports of the seat. Make a full-size template on paper for the spars.
Side support drawing
Draw bottom side parts, lift the first perpendicular segment from the left and two more at the corresponding angles to point A. Mark point C and draw a cutout for the transverse tie as shown in the diagram.
Mark an angle of 75° with vertex C, extend its lower side with a line. Draw an arc with a radius of 116 mm, measure the angle at point D and connect them with a segment.
Draw a curve between points A and B using a square grid or an improvised pattern as in the photo.
Place the cut template on the board, avoiding large knots and leaving small ones away from the edges of the workpieces. Trace the contours and file the parts using a saw on straight sections, and cut out the curly contours with a jigsaw. Guide the tool blade in the direction of the grain so that the wood is less likely to chip.
Parts drawings: 1 — upper backrest guide; 2 — lower cross member of the backrest; 3 — armrest (2 pcs.); 4 — armrest stop (2 pcs.)
Parts drawing: 1 — backrest strip (7 pcs.); 2 — seat bar (8 pcs.); 3 — front leg (2 pcs.) 4 — rear leg (2 pcs.)
Transfer the drawings of the remaining elements of the chair onto the boards, also using a template, or draw directly on the blanks and mark the next identical part according to the first one cut out.
The shape of the curves of the armrests is not structurally important; you can draw them by hand or using a pattern. Mark the second part in a mirror image so that the chips when sawing are at the bottom of the workpiece.
Sand the ends, joining similar pieces together if possible. Route the edges of the top surfaces of the armrests and backrest slats, or simply soften the sharp edges with a sander.
Assembling the chair
Wooden furniture always begins to rot from the joints, the internal surfaces of which cannot be processed on a finished chair. Therefore, cover the parts with 2-3 layers of antiseptic before assembly.
Most of the components of the chair are connected with screws; the guide holes for them are drilled with a combined countersink, selected according to the thickness of the screws. When they want to hide the caps, they are deepened and covered with glue plugs.
Place a scrap board on the table and place the left side support and front leg on top. Align the workpieces according to the drawing, mark the drilling points.
Chair side assembly diagram
Make holes for the bolts and fasten the parts. Install the rear leg, placing it perpendicular to the bevel of the support. Assemble the right side of the frame in the same way. Connect the sides of the chair with the lower backrest crossbar and the first seat rail.
Install supports on the front legs, securing them with clamps for convenience. Screw the armrests with screws.
Secure the top backrest rail, aligning it with the bottom crossbar. Right now it is possible to correct possible millimeter-by-millimeter marking inaccuracies and uneven cuts.
Small errors can be eliminated by shifting the upper cross member and trimming the angle under it. In extreme cases, you will have to unscrew the bottom crossbar and adjust the cutout.
Mark the center lines on the cross boards and on the center backrest strip. Holding the latter at the top with your hand or grabbing it with a clamp, drill a pilot hole and tighten the bottom screw. Check the vertical position and secure the top of the rail.
Screw all the strips one by one at even intervals. Take a piece of string and tie one end to a pencil and the other to a nail secured at the junction of the seat and backrest. Draw a radius of curvature, cut the strips according to the markings and sand the edges.
Having adjusted the width of the last seat rail, put it in place. Inspect assembled chair and sand down markings, chips and other defects. Carefully sand the top surfaces of the backrest and seat parts.
Coat the wood oil impregnation, if you want to maintain a natural shade. Use synthetic resin glaze to create an opaque colored surface.