An armchair is one of the most comfortable, cozy, and therefore popular interior items. All chairs are usually divided into 2 categories: with or without a frame. The finished product is often not cheap. But for home craftsmen, nothing is impossible. A DIY chair is a completely solvable issue. In the article we will consider detailed master classes on production soft goods, as well as the original wooden product for the dacha.
Types of upholstery
Upholstery for upholstered furniture- one of them important points. The presentable appearance of the product largely depends on it. Before you make a chair, decide on the look upholstery fabric. Here are the most popular options:
- Velours. Noble fleecy fabric reminiscent of short fur.
- Chenille. fleecy durable fabric from a mixture of natural and synthetic fibers. Doesn't roll off and lasts a long time beautiful view.
- Flock. Externally, the material resembles velor, but is even more practical. Flock is easy to clean from dirt, so it is recommended to use it for upholstered furniture in children's rooms.
- Jacquard. Durable dense patterned fabric, which is distinguished by increased durability. Disadvantage - due to careless handling, puffs may appear.
- Faux suede. High durable material, which is great for making a DIY chair. Faux suede with embossing looks especially beautiful.
- Tapestry. Good quality fabric made from natural fiber, with visible weaving. Threads of different shades form a pattern.
Set of necessary materials
If we are talking about frame structure, the simplest option for the frame is plywood cut according to a template. The best option– birch plywood. From Supplies- screws and nails.
You will also need a set of carpentry tools:
- Metal ruler, compass, protractor - for marking.
- Vise: manual and table.
- File.
- Hacksaw.
- Hand scissors.
- Hammer.
- A set of adjustable wrenches.
- Soldering iron.
- Pliers.
- Drill.
- Kerner.
- Chisel.
- Punch.
Important! If you want to make a fashionable and custom bean bag chair with your own hands, then the set of necessary equipment will be significantly reduced. All you need is sewing machine and stuffing material.
Work planning
The beginning of any business is drawing up a clear action plan. Think over the design of future furniture. Making frame chairs is more difficult and expensive, but they have a more respectable appearance than frameless structures.
Success in making a bean bag chair depends on how accurately and correctly the patterns are drawn up. It's not so much anymore furniture manufacturing as much as the art of tailoring. Don't forget to calculate the budget for the event.
Important! It’s not bad if you have an old, but quite decent and durable chair. In this case, a lot is simplified, since you can restore it and get an interesting vintage item.
Classic soft product
Such a thing as a DIY soft chair requires a long preparatory stage. Materials you will need:
- Plywood 20 mm thick.
- Sandpaper.
- Electric drill.
- Sets of screws and thin nails.
- Electric jigsaw.
- Metal rims.
- Foam rubber.
- Joinery adhesive.
- Painting tape.
- Ruler, tape measure.
- Stain, glossy black dye.
- Pencil.
Now you can get started:
- Download the drawing of the chair you like, calculate the consumption of materials.
- Make cardboard templates to scale, transfer the outlines onto plywood, then cut out the pieces using a jigsaw.
- Clean and sand the surface wooden parts. Please pay attention Special attention end areas, soaking them well with drying oil.
- Paint or stain the sides. Reinforce the end parts of the sidewalls with metal rims. Secure the rims with screws.
- The next stage is covering the product. Start from the back of the back, using faux leather. Next, proceed to covering the remaining parts of the product. Secure the fabric with wallpaper nails.
Important! It is advisable to treat the fastening points with wood glue. The chair will turn out better.
Bag chair
This product is also known as a pear chair. To make it you will need:
- Calico or satin fabric - 3.0 m.
- Fabric for making the outer cover - 3.5 m.
- Zipper - 1.0 m.
- Filler.
- Pieces of contrasting fabric for decoration.
The procedure for making this model of chair is as follows:
- Download the bean bag chair patterns that you liked the most.
- Make cardboard patterns to scale.
- Transfer the contours of the chair onto the fabric. You will need to sew the inner and outer covers separately. As a result, you will have 2 bottoms (top and bottom) and 6 fabric wedges.
- Sew the wedges together. Leave in the received bag small area unsewn. Sew the top and bottom bottom. After you have finished sewing the top cover, sew the inner cover in the same order.
- Cut out decorative elements appliqués and sew onto the outer part.
- Insert the zipper into one of the wedges. If it gets dirty, you can remove the outer part and wash it.
- Fill the inner bag about ⅔ full with synthetic filling. Now all that remains is to put the inner bag on the outer bag. Zip up.
The DIY chair is ready! As you can see, there is nothing particularly complicated here.
How to make a soft chair with your own hands for a children's room?
Making a frameless soft chair for a children's room is no more difficult than a regular bean bag chair. The only difference is in color.
Important! It is better to choose a bright fabric that encourages positivity and cheerfulness. Shades should not be too “screaming” and annoying.
Here is one of the options for upholstered furniture in a child’s room:
- The frame chair can be made in the form of a semicircular sandwich. Hardboard is used for the back wall, plywood is used for the front wall.
- Carefully glue onto the base furniture foam rubber, on top of which the upholstery will lie.
Important! Best options The upholstery material is flock or eco-leather. Even if a young artist paints the upholstery with felt-tip pens or paints, you can remove the marks completely.
- The maximum height of a baby seat should not exceed 600 mm.
Wooden chair for a summer house
Here's another interesting option: DIY wooden chair. Wood is a practical, beautiful and durable material, which, moreover, can be easily processed. In addition, wood self-production home or country furniture has the following advantages:
- Availability of a variety of lumber, their relatively low cost.
- Naturalness, environmental friendliness.
- Pleasant smell of wood. Coniferous wood smells especially pleasant.
- Unique wood texture.
Important! It must be taken into account that the conditions in which country furniture, if not extreme, then close to them. Therefore, you need to pay special attention to treating parts with an antiseptic. In this case, the furniture will serve you much longer.
Pine, spruce, ash, oak, larch or beech are best suited for home furniture production. Parts that are not subject to heavy loads can be made from linden or alder.
So, let's make garden chair with your own hands. Choose simpler drawings to begin with. When choosing a design, follow two “golden rules”:
- Choose the design that is completely clear to you. Mentally work through the entire procedure. Prepare in advance the tools that are convenient for you.
- Consider the place where the furniture will be used and the design of the room into which this furniture will fit. For example, the best option for a summer house is a folding product or an antique rocking chair.
Manufacturing procedure
Let's consider a simple model, which consists of the following components:
- Sidewalls – 2 pcs.
- Drawers – 3 pcs.
- Cross slats – 35 pcs.
It is these 35 slats that will form the surface of the seat.
The most difficult part of the work is cutting out the side parts:
- First, make a pattern on cardboard and only then, after making sure that the actions are correct, transfer the outline to the material. The best option for making sidewalls is plywood with a thickness of 3 cm. Use an electric jigsaw to cut out parts.
- Sand the end parts of the sidewalls. With help hand router or grinders, remove the chamfers.
- Now cut out 3 drawers from plywood. The length of each is 120 cm, width - 10 cm. Sand these parts; there is no need to chamfer.
- From a 50x25 mm block, cut 35 sections, the length of each of which is 120 cm. Next, as usual, comes sanding and chamfering. For fastening, prepare 12 confirmations 5x120 mm and wood screws 4x45 mm (40 pieces).
- Mark the places for attaching the drawers. There are 3 of them in total: in the foot, head and in the middle of the outer arcs of the sidewalls. Drill through 8 mm holes for the drawers.
- Pull the side parts of the product together with three drawers. For holes in the end parts of the frames, use a 5 mm drill.
- Now fasten the pre-prepared pieces of bars to the seat using self-tapping screws.
- The final stage is covering the holes and cracks with wood putty. After this, sand the product, prime the surfaces and paint with varnish or acrylic paint.
Video material
As you can see, making a chair with your own hands is quite possible. In the independent production of chairs different types there is nothing particularly complicated. Good luck to you!
Soft cozy armchairs for home for relaxation and communication
You can’t do without an armchair, just like without a sofa. We love to relax after a busy day working day, sitting in it with a cup of coffee or watching your favorite show, movie, series. Besides ordinary furniture There is also a frameless one. It went on sale not long ago, but is already becoming widespread; this type of furniture is especially popular among children. The price for this innovation is increased.
Frameless bright beanbag chair “Shapito”
If you want to please your children and give them such a thing, you don’t have to run to the store. If you know how to sew, show your skill and imagination, try to make an upholstered chair yourself. On the Internet you can now find many patterns with step by step description work.
Handmade polka dot bean bag chair
Handmade frameless furniture
Making an upholstered chair has many advantages.
- This thing is light in weight, can be easily moved, and is completely harmless, since it is intended for children who will not only sit there, but also use it in play.
- To create it you don’t need any specific knowledge; you just need to have sewing skills. A bean bag chair is simply a cover filled with a synthetic filler - polystyrene foam, so it is comfortable to sit on.
- It will take a little time to make the chair, and the children will be happy to help make it.
- You will create an exceptional thing, turning dreams and ideas into reality.
- By creating a chair with your own hands, you will significantly save your family budget.
- Inexperienced needlewomen can easily handle the work.
- Part necessary materials you can find it at home, choose according to your taste color scheme and decide on a design.
Unusual frameless chair-bed
We decide on the design and construction (what types of products are there, what to choose, what is easier and what is more difficult to make)
DIY rocking chair with soft seat and backrest
The chair is a comfortable piece of furniture with a back and armrests. But not all chairs have them; the upholstery can be leather or fabric. The shape of the back and armrests can be straight or round. They also differ in type, it all depends on what the chair is intended for, for what room - in a nursery, in a living room or bedroom, in an office.
Soft and fluffy chair for a child, made by yourself
The choice of chairs intended for children must be approached with particular care. It is important that the design is equipped with a system that allows you to change the height of the back and seat, which affects the child’s posture. If this is not taken into account, the child may develop scoliosis. Living room furniture is placed not only in the bedroom, but also in other rooms. We usually relax on it. Office chair suitable for work, it is comfortable, but does not allow you to relax.
Soft ottomans in bright colors in the interior of a modern living room
The chairs also differ in structure. An ordinary chair with a back and armrests, you can simply sit in it, sit comfortably in front of the TV or read. For small rooms it is convenient to use chair-beds. Transformable chairs are popular; they do not convert into a bed, but by reclining the back, you can fully relax. Bean bag chairs are more common in children's rooms. Children simply love to sit on them and play with them. This chair is easy to make at home. Rocking chairs are rare.
Unusual soft transformable chairs for relaxing in the room or on the balcony
A cute plush chair for a nursery - your baby will definitely like it
Once you have decided and decided which chair you would like, it is important to consider some points. When making furniture with a frame, you need to pay attention to its property - it must be strong. Suitable materials are metal, natural wood, MDF, chipboard, you can use bamboo or rattan.
Wooden frame for a chair-bed, perfect for small spaces
The materials for the bean bag chair - the cover and the filling - must be wear-resistant and natural. Nowadays there are a lot of chairs, before you choose or make one, you need to know what model you want, its purpose and that it fits. general interior premises.
Leather bean bag chair in the living room by the fireplace
Necessary materials
Inner and outer parts for making a bean bag chair with your own hands
To make a bean bag chair, you will need materials: approximately 3 meters of satin or calico for the inner cover, 3.5 meters of furniture fabric for the outer cover, a zipper - a meter, polystyrene foam (about 300 liters - one and a half kilograms), reinforced threads, graph paper make patterns.
Expanded polystyrene - special granules for internal filling armchairs
Required Tools
Sewing supplies and necessary tools
Tools you will need:
- pencil,
- scissors,
- ruler,
- pins,
- needles,
- sewing machine,
- overlock for finishing edges.
Workplace for sewing products - sewing machine and overlocker
Manufacturing process: step-by-step instructions
Drawings for making an adult and children's bean bag chair
Before you start making an upholstered chair with your own hands, you need to make a drawing, look for the pattern on the Internet and copy it from there. Choose any model for the product, at your discretion - just a bag, a pear, a drop, a square, get creative and make a funny animal. Now we select the fabric.
DIY budget armchair made from old jeans
For the inner cover, it is enough to choose a dense fabric so that after time the balls do not come out - fabric for bedspreads, satin or calico. For the outer cover, choose a fabric for upholstery, denim or leatherette will do, the main thing is that you like it and fit in with the overall decor.
A special filler, polystyrene foam, is used as padding. Order online or buy from a store that sells furniture repair and restoration products. It must be remembered that the material is voluminous and practically weightless. When purchasing it, you need to look at the size of the package, and not the weight. For a bean bag chair you need 250-300 liters.
The chair bag consists of a removable outer cover, a durable inner cover and a filling
If you don't want to bother with polystyrene foam, replace it with ceiling tiles– grind it and use it as a filler. You can use plant components as filling, but it is better to change them every six months, since this is a moisture-absorbing material and mold may appear.
Before making a soft fabric chair, we make patterns, lay them out on the fabric, do not forget about the seam allowances - 2-3 cm, then you need to outline them with chalk. The model consists of a bottom and “petals”. First we start sewing the inner cover: all the wedges are sewn to the bottom, then they are sewn on the sides. Don't forget about the hole for the filler. Now let's move on to external cover. It is made in the same way; we sew a zipper on the side.
Patterns for a beanbag chair on fabric
When the covers are ready, you need to stuff the inner bag.
Attention! If you are crafting with children, make sure that the granules do not get into the respiratory tract, since they are volatile and can easily get into the nose and mouth. Fill 2/3 of the volume, sew up the hole. Then we put on the top cover and fasten it with a zipper.
Newsprint jacquard bean bag chair
The final stage is decoration
Cozy handmade knitted chairs
You can leave the finished chair in its original form, or you can make it an exceptional element of the interior by decorating it. For needlewomen there are endless possibilities.
Pear chair in the corner of a children's room for a girl
In general, there are many options. Be guided by taste and imagination.
Fluffy fur chair for a cozy living room
Video: Making a bean bag chair – Everything will be fine – Issue 507 – 12/03/2014 – Everything will be fine
Not only craftsmen know how to make an exclusive product from scrap materials comfortable furniture. The advantage of such an activity is obvious - it is the opportunity to translate into reality the most daring ideas for diversifying the living space. An additional bonus one can note the low cost of making homemade soft chairs with your own hands. Following the advice of designers, you can make a soft chair for a pleasant time in own home. At home, you can exactly repeat all the stages of factory production of this modern and convenient attribute for decorating a children's or living room. On the Internet you can find both the simplest and most complex schemes.
The first step in the manufacture of home upholstered furniture is the choice of fabric for external design soft parts of the structure. Each master selects upholstery depending on physical properties and price aspects and features that different drawings have. Let's look at the most common fabrics for decorating chairs in our time:
- velor – velvety to the touch, gives the furniture a certain charm;
Velor upholstery
- flog is a distant analogue of velor, easy to clean, so designers use it to decorate children's upholstered furniture;
Upholstered flog
- chenille - a fabric based on a combination of natural and synthetic fibers, has particular wear resistance (a well-thought-out structure prevents the formation of pilling);
Chinille in upholstery
- jacquard - the upholstery is considered durable, but over time the loops turn into puffs;
- natural tapestry is the most expensive and beautiful type of fabric for upholstery;
Upholstered jacquard
- artificial suede is a universal option for chairs in a sunny room, resistant to UV rays and easy to clean;
Faux suede upholstery
- leatherette is a durable material that allows you to play with decorative embossing.
Leatherette upholstery
Material, fittings, tools for frame attributes
Creation frame chair starting from scratch presents some difficulties. But the finished product will have a more respectable appearance. You can verify this by looking at the photo. finished products home craftsmen. You can also use an old Soviet “grandmother’s” chair for the base.
For the manufacture of simple frame Under the soft chair you need to choose durable sheets of 20 mm plywood for cutting out parts yourself. Also useful standard kit repair tools with an electric drill, jigsaw, steel ruler, emery cloth, metal rims, masking tape, pencil, tape measure, thin nails, self-tapping screws, wood glue, stain, glossy paint. For upholstery you need: artificial leather or fabric, foam rubber (filler).
Step-by-step creation of upholstered furniture with a wooden base
- If you don't know how to make a drawing for the base, then look ready-made options schemes on the network. As a rule, they are transferred to a cardboard template with a pencil. Only after this they begin to perform the operations of the described algorithm. This will help you save on excess material, or vice versa – avoid purchasing missing parts.
- Using a cardboard template, future constituent elements are cut out from plywood sheets:
- banana-shaped sidewalls;
- cross bars.
It is important to determine the required angles of inclination, bending and dimensions of the future frame. A photo of the finished chair, created according to your design, will help with this.
- The next stage is surface treatment of wooden parts by stripping and grinding. The ends are worked with special care to improve the quality of the work done. These parts are first impregnated with heated drying oil and only then bends are formed with a hammer, if they are provided for in the sketch. Each component element is cut out with an electric jigsaw.
- The sidewalls are painted or treated with varnish-stain. The ends of the side parts are reinforced with metal rims.
- The further course of action is related to the covering of the frame. Using an electric drill, make the required holes. The rims are fixed with screws.
- First, the back part of the back is covered with artificial leather or fabric, then the remaining fragments of the structure, incl. and seats.
- The upholstery material is secured with wallpaper nails, which are characterized by large heads. In the back of the frame chair, the upholstery is fixed along the edge, along the transverse parts, to better cover the slats.
Pattern round chair
Wooden frame We cover the frame with fiberboard cardboard
Experienced furniture makers recommend additionally treating the fastening points with wood glue. This move is needed to increase the durability of the furniture you create yourself.
Secrets of reliable upholstery: how to sew
The process of stretching the upholstery of soft chairs has its own nuances:
- Foam rubber is cut to the size of the seat (average thickness - 5 cm). The part is glued to the surface of the plywood sheet.
- Horizontal and vertical fabric straps are secured to the back with a construction stapler. Similar belts are added to the armrests and sides from the inside along the shape.
- A piece is cut from a piece of foam rubber 0.1 cm thick, which will be larger in size than the area of the seat (the difference is 4-5 cm). Take a piece of synthetic padding fabric of a similar size with an elongated front part and fasten it with your own hands.
- After the manipulations have been completed, the upholstery is covered with furniture fabric. Using a stapler, the textiles are secured to all corners of the cover and the synthetic foam layer to the frame of the chair seat.
- The sides and armrests are also covered with padding polyester, secured with aerosol glue over the entire surface. Only after this the parts are sheathed with fabric, securing the flap along the staples.
We cover the chair with foam rubber. Additionally we put padding polyester
You can buy any thing in modern stores. A little imagination, a mouse and keyboard with Internet access, and a huge number of offers from social networks and online stores. It also happens that financial position not the most prosperous, and purchases in online stores are considered elements of luxury. And sometimes you just want to do something with my own hands, they really itch. Here we have a small selection of examples of how you can make some furniture with your own hands.
DIY bean bag chair
In the first example we will look at the production frameless furniture, the most popular item in stores today is a beanbag chair. A photo of the DIY chair is presented below.
The materials cost for one bean bag chair is $40. This includes: polystyrene balls (filler), inner cover, outer cover.
First, the inner cover is sewn and filled with foam balls, then the outer one. Then we simply insert the inner cover into the outer one and we get a finished chair bag.
The hardest thing is to collect the balls in the bag, they keep trying to jump out of it, I had to use a vacuum cleaner. This brief instructions how to make a bean bag chair with your own hands.
DIY home chair
Now let's look at making a regular home chair with our own hands. Unfortunately, there were quite a few photographs; there was no time to take photographs. The main stages were recorded in a timely manner, switching from a tedious workflow.
I wanted to get an ordinary chair, and not just some incomprehensible rookery. So that it is strong and stable, like store-bought options. I had to look on the Internet for views and drawings of chairs in order to correctly assemble my design. I suggest you immediately look at the photographs of the chair assembly process itself.
At the first stage, a base-frame for the future chair in the form of a semicircle is made. Chipboard with timber is used. The base of the chair was 10 centimeters thick. This will be just enough to secure the walls. And vertical racks same final function.
Hardboard was perfect for the back, and plywood for the front wall. I drew out all the curves and outlines of the future chair by eye from the remaining wallpaper. Children's wooden cubes were used for the base.
On next stage I started gluing cardboard to fill it inner space. During the work, we even had to change the glue; the initially chosen PVA did not work. The walls swelled and became like a wafer, the glue was replaced with ordinary wood glue. Turned out to be the most best choice from everything offered. There was even an idea for a rocking chair with my own hands, but I will implement the idea a little later.
After looking at the photo, you can immediately easily understand how the finished walls were obtained. For leveling I used a regular knife; the material is easy to cut and can be deformed.
At the next stage, work with instant adhesive and foam rubber, seal the entire surface with a layer of foam rubber, leaving no bald spots or uncovered areas. A cover must be sewn onto a monotonous surface.
Well, we've come to this final stage when we pull on the cover and get a beautiful finished chair. The product turned out to be quite heavy, but it will be completely safe for children, which can be considered a plus. As for the fabric used, nothing was bought anywhere. We used scraps and sewing scraps available at home.
We wanted temporary furniture; no one planned to make a chair that would last forever. The fabric on the armrests, despite being well tacked with glue, will peel off over time. If we say a little about the design of the chair, it turned out to be simply indestructible.
Chair made from plastic bottles
What don't people do? plastic bottles. And rafts in their youth, and bird feeders in kindergarten. This material has excellent potential for creativity.
Plastic bottles are a real find, in ordinary life Brooches, scoops, curtains and buckets are made from them. They are used to decorate flower beds, laid out instead of pipes, and made into a hanging chair.
We wanted to try making a chair out of bottles, why not? At first it all started with great enthusiasm for collecting bottles, and then everyone unanimously realized that there was simply nowhere to store them in such quantities in a small home area of the room.
Even at the initial stage of storage, it immediately became clear that the necks of the bottles were not needed, or rather half of the bottles did. We decided to stack them in blocks of two bottles, carefully cutting off the neck and fastening 2 pieces to each other. The neck of one was cut off, turned over and inserted into the second bottle. Of course, a wooden chair looks much more attractive and solid.
For complete production the chairs needed to collect about 90 bottles, they were fastened together with tape, and covered with stretch film on top. It will not be possible to talk about the entire process of assembling the chair; at the time of writing the article, the chair was in finished form.
In short, we can say that you should not skimp on securing the bottles with tape, because... during assembly, they may simply diverge from each other; you will have to spend a lot of time to redo the design later. In this regard, I had to resort to stretch film and modify the chair to the final stage.
Photos of armchairs with your own hands
It’s true what they say: the Internet is a treasure trove useful information. People share valuable knowledge here and original ideas, opening up more and more new perspectives for each other.
A person without experience and skills receives unique opportunity organize furniture production for yourself at home. There are many detailed master classes with ready-made diagrams that will help you make any furniture, whether you have the necessary tools for this and a penchant for the craft.
Of course, you should start with simple projects, like the one presented in this master class. Anna White, a well-known craftswoman in narrow circles, has prepared for everyone detailed instructions, which talks about how to make a simple chair from boards for your home or terrace with your own hands.
When finished, it comes complete with stylish pillows. You can also make them yourself. Anna will briefly tell us about this too.
In this project you can use the most plain lumber, which do not require processing milling machine and production of complex groove joints.
Gather your materials and prepare everything you need before you begin. You will need:
Materials:
1. pine board 50 mm thick:
- 4 pcs x 50 x 100 x 550 mm - leg parts;
- 2 pcs x 50 x 100 x 810 mm - armrest parts;
- 6 pcs x 50 x 150 x 710 mm - side trim parts;
- 2 pcs x 30 x 30 x 710 mm - slats for seat parts;
- 4 pcs x 50 x 150 x 620 mm - back parts and lower part of the front panel;
- 2 pcs x 50 x 100 x 620 mm - upper part of the back and upper part of the front panel;
- 5 pcs x 50 x 100 x 620 mm - seat parts.
2. glue for woodworking;
3. furniture screws;
4. stain or protective and decorative oil for wood processing and tinting;
5. furniture varnish with a transparent coating or varnish toner.
Tools:
- a circular saw or a miter saw for cutting boards;
- sander;
- electric drill;
- screwdriver;
- paint brushes;
- soft fabric lint free for oil;
- construction tape and square;
- pencil.
Step one: detailing and marking parts
When deciding on the final dimensions of the chair, the author proceeded from the dimensions of the seat and pillows for it. The seat is an even square with sides of 620 mm. If you want to change the dimensions of the chair, all the dimensions indicated in the master class will have to be recalculated.
Otherwise, take advantage of these great detailed diagrams and write down on paper all the details that you will need for the job. Specify Exact size every detail. You can find a list of them in the list of materials for this master class.
Before you start, make sure that all your boards are planed to the same thickness, otherwise the finished chair will look like a typical sample handicraft. This processing of boards is carried out using a surface planer. As a last resort, you can order it from a workshop, but it is better to initially select properly processed lumber.
Mark the parts of the chair using a pencil and a square. Square - especially useful tool, if you plan to cut the boards by hand using a hacksaw.
Step two: making parts from boards
You will need thick boards 50mm thick, but different widths: 100 and 150 mm. In addition, prepare a rail no narrower than 30 mm for making parts of the base for the seat.
Cut the board into pieces of the required length using miter saw or manual circular saw. Both of these tools allow you to make perfectly straight cuts, which is very important when making furniture.
If you are using hand saw on wood, be prepared for the fact that the cuts will have to be adjusted by hand for neat tight joints.
Sand all the parts in any way convenient for you. For example, an electric sander. For sanding pine, a piece of block with sandpaper attached to it will do. True, such work will take much more time.
Step three: assembling the wooden chair
Attach the trim pieces to the legs at intervals of approximately 20 mm. Pre-drill holes in the places where the screws will be screwed in to prevent the boards from splitting.
If you want the chair to serve you for a long time, use glue. In this case, apply a little wood glue to the joint, press the parts together and tighten the screw or self-tapping screw.
Fix the armrest on each of the side panels and connect the side panels to each other with the upper part of the backrest. Please note that along the inside of the chair all the upholstery parts are located flush with the frame, and along the outer contour they are somewhat recessed inward.
Insert your working strip into the gap between the side panels, place the upper part of the backrest in its proper place and secure it with screws. Screw the remaining back elements.
On the front panel, secure at the bottom wide board, and at the top - narrow by 100 mm. Sew up the seat and to complete the assembly, secure the top back piece, placing it flat.
Try to screw in the screws in the same vertical line to make the job look neater.
After some time has passed, when the chairs have already been tested in everyday life, the author advises fastening the seat parts in such a way that the seat itself is positioned at a slight angle. This will make sitting much more comfortable. The same can be said about the back of the chair.
Step four: wood processing
It is convenient because it allows you to easily apply the composition and repeat this procedure at any time in order to refresh the product. In this case, all preparation of the surface for re-painting comes down to light sanding by hand with sandpaper.
You can also use alcohol stain in combination with several layers of furniture varnish or, say, natural drying oil.
Apply the stain with a brush along the grain and try not to touch already painted areas again, otherwise the tone will be uneven.
A good alternative is also a decorative toner oil, which not only imitates valuable wood species, but also protects the wood from rot, mold and fungi, as well as from exposure to moisture.
You can varnish the chair with matte furniture varnish in order to extend its service life. Do not use varnishes on water based, since they do not have a sufficient level of strength and wear out quickly.
Apply the varnish in several layers, sanding each previous layer as soon as it hardens. Use fine grain for this sandpaper, and do the grinding itself carefully, without much pressure. Finishing layer There is no need to sand the varnish.
Step five: finishing touch
Such simple furniture, like this wooden chair, needs beautiful textiles. The author used ready-made furniture pillows with floral patterns.
However, you can make pillows with your own hands. To do this, you will need foam rubber (preferably furniture grade, high-strength), batting or thin foam rubber to give the pillows shape and additional volume, as well as strong threads, suitable fabric and a sewing machine.
Cut the thick foam into pieces of the size you need. IN in this case into squares with sides 600 mm. Wrap them in one or two layers of thin foam or batting. Attach the fabric and determine on the spot how much you will need to sew the covers.
You can also make the covers in advance according to the pattern and, based on their size and shape, prepare the filler.
If you plan to wash the covers and always keep the pillows clean, sew the covers from simple thick fabric and make a removable set with zippers that you can always remove and wash in the machine.