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- And where, in fact, the bed?
- The main components of the bed design
- Where to start the process
- Some recommendations
The main problem of apartments can be called their small dimensions. You have to save every cm space, arranging furniture in order to be able to free movement around the room. And if you decide on the purchase of a double bed, the rest of the furniture in the bedroom will be accommodated problematic. Owners of one-bedroom apartments can afford only a folding sofa, which in the folded state takes a lot of space.
The manufacture of folding beds with their own hands will cost much cheaper than a ready-made store.
From any situation you can always find an output. And we are not talking about buying more spacious housing, as in most cases you can only dream. But the bed clamshell, made with their own hands, is quite executing the task.
And where, in fact, the bed?
Frame assembly scheme for bed.
It is such a question that are asked friends who first come to visit you. And all because the bed in the daytime is hiding in a niche as unnecessary, freeing the large area for movement. Instead of a niche, you can use a frame in the form of a wooden cabinet, the width of which is many times less than the wretched one. Such a bed clamshell is called vertical, since the mechanism of its addition is provided in a vertical position.
For single folding clams, which can be placed in a nursery or as an extra bed on the balcony, you can apply a horizontal lifting mechanism. Such a clamshell is located along the wall and can be disguised as a narrow long tube.
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The main components of the bed design
Tools required for work: Round Saw, Roulette, Pencil, Corner, Drills, Crosshead screwdrivers.
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You can select four main elements from which the sofa bed will be:
- Mattress. Depending on the needs, it may be single or double. The dimensions of the box cabinet will depend on its sizes.
- Mechanisms for raising and lowering the bed. For these purposes, you can use a mechanical method on the springs.
- The frame is a place where the sleeping place will be for the day.
- The bed on which the mattress will be laid.
Prepare the tools that will be needed during the manufacture and assembly of the bed:
- Roulette.
- Marking pencil.
- Sandpaper.
- Protective glasses.
- Drill.
- Cross screwdrivers.
- Corner.
- Circular saw.
- Grinding corner.
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Where to start the process
It should be started with the manufacture of a common structure, which consists of a carrier box and attached to it the lifting mechanism of the base of the bed. To collect the design, MDF boards 2 cm, plywood 1 cm thick, nails, loops, screws, magnetic clasp, carpentry glue.
Stage 1.
Start from the assembly of the main structure.
Scheme of the transformation mechanism and dimensions.
For this, you will need two bearing boards along the mattress length, to the sizes that need to add the desired height from the floor of the bed in the unfolded form.
- Suppose the mattress has a dimensions of 200 cm for 170 cm, then drink carrier boards 230 cm long and 40 cm wide in the amount of 2 pcs., It will be the side of the box. Transverse crossbars must be longer than the width of the mattress, taking into account the thickness of the walls of the sidewall (plus the gaps needed to enter the side walls of the bed). Cross crossbars Connect with carrying boards by means of screws and joinery glue.
Stage 2. After collecting the main framework, by means of screws, attach the rear wall of plywood.
Stage 3. Make the shelf on which the head from the head of the headboard will be fixed, which supports the bed assembled. After that, fasten the shelf inside the box with three backups with a thickness of 35 mm, and its upper part should be above the floor by 20 cm.
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Stage 4. Make a box for a mattress - the basis for the bed, which consists of a frame with dimensions of 100x1450x1980 mm and recorded in the middle of the plywood, the size of which is 20x1410x1940 mm, it consists of two parts.
For the manufacture, take two side and two-end boards with dimensions of 1980 and 1410 mm. After making a fold with the help of joinery glue and screws, collect the framework, navigating the plywood bottom.
Stage 6. Manufacture of Lodge Supplements. When the bed is spreading it, it is necessary to put on supports, peculiar legs, which are made from a bar with a cross section of 40x100 mm in an amount of 2 pcs.
Attach the supports to the bottom of the bed with a loop.
Stage 7. After the entire design of the bed is well dried, attach it to the box with wide loops.
Stage 8. The mechanism of lowering and folding this bed can be selected at your discretion. You can buy it in a construction store.
Stage 9. In order to decorate the bed in a folded form, you can use furniture sash blinds that will cover the sub-versions from the bar. In another case, the suburbs can be made only in one place and fit. It is necessary to increase the height of the design on the size of the thickness of the legs.
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Some recommendations
For the best and reliable fixation of the bed in the folded form, you can use a decorative shatter attached from above to the bottom. Then you accurately secure yourself from spontaneous bed laying.
In the folded state, linen and the mattress can slip off the bed, the belts of 30 mm wide from two sides of the bed are used for fixing and fastened to the velcro before lift the bed.
Make a bed with your own hands is easy, having all the necessary materials and accurate drawings of the future product. Since each makes a bed for the size of their mattress, the final calculations can differ slightly from these numbers.
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Having learned to make a bed clamshell (sofa), you can make a similar product to the country, replacing it an old folding sofa or sofa or prepare an extra bed for guests.