In any dwelling there is always some kind of furniture. The kitchen most often uses the table, of different types of attachments and floor cabinets, simple stools. These seats have a fairly simple design, do not differ in particular beauty and high-cost materials, but their cost is quite considerable. But it is quite possible to make a decent stool with your own hands from the simplest materials. The product will get very cheap, but it will not look worse than the furniture store. How to make a stool with your own hands?
Image 1. For the manufacture of the toaster, you can use new chipboard sheets, and you can use the remains of the old furniture.
Preparation for work
For the manufacture of stools (Image No. 1) you need to find a couple of pieces of chipboard. These can be new sheets, you can use separate parts from the disassembled old furniture. For a test instance, it is enough to cook:- Chipboard 40x30 cm - 2 pieces;
- Chipboard 30x30 cm - 1 piece;
- Chipboard 20x12 cm - 1 piece;
- pencil;
- line;
- drill;
- drill with a diameter of 5 mm;
- Lobzik electric;
- screwdriver;
- Confirmates 6.4x50 mm - 4 pieces;
- Furniture tie of any form;
- Corners of furniture - 4 pieces;
- Several small screws;
- grinding skin;
- edge processing tape;
- Electric iron;
- sharp knife;
- Porolon and a piece of fabric or dermatine 41x41 cm;
- Stapler furniture.
Making stools
Image 2. Herb drawing with sizes.
To make a stool, you need to perform several stages of work:
- On the blanks from the chipboard, it is necessary to draw the side racks, jumpers and seat of stools (Image No. 2) in full swing.
- Drop the parts and round the corners.
- Drill the necessary holes in detail.
- Treat the edges of the parts.
- Collect stool.
- Mount the upholstery (optional).
If stools are planned to do a few pieces, it is better to make templates of each part from cardboard. Putting the template to put on the chipboard and put the pencil. This will speed up the work process, and all the details will be performed qualitatively. Rounding lines on the details or on the template can be applied by hand, but it is better to use a circus or a round item of a suitable diameter.
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They cut the placed parts by electric jigsaw (Image No. 3). The pink must have small teeth. Speed need to choose the most maximum. The edges in this case will turn flat and clean. Small irregularities are treated with a skin.
A special finishing tape is pasted on the edges of the parts. It needs to be chosen in color and width. A layer of special glue is applied on the tape.
Image 3. Placed Taberet parts need to be filled with electric jigsaw.
This layer of the tape is applied to the edge and is not allowed by a hot iron, then a soft pure cloth. Do it need it pretty quickly. The warming glue mass cools and firmly connects the ribbon with wood literally after a few tens of seconds. Surplus are cut with a knife.
To the design consisting of lateral racks and jumpers between them, the seat is screwed. It is done with the help of corners and screws. Stool with your own hands is ready.
The seat can be softer. To do this, with the help of the "moment" glue, the foam rubber is glued to its billet, the excess of which is neatly trimmed with a sharp knife. All this construction is covered with dermatin or cloth. Bashed fabric is better using a construction stapler.
Ends the assembly of installing bums of any type, so as not to scratch the floor covering with a stool. If you wish, you can use a slightly different sizes of the stool (Image No. 4). Just need to remember that its lower part should not be the seats. Otherwise, the product will be very unstable.
In the same way, you can make a stool of multilayer plywood with a thickness of 18-20 mm. Only the finished product will have to additionally grind, priming and painting, covering it with varnish. In all other way, manufacturing technology does not differ from working with chipboard. If you wish, you can come up with your own models. You can make your own hands from chipboard and plywood is not only a stool. If you add a back to it, it turns out a chair.
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Notes of experienced masters
Image 4. Schemes of various sizes of stools.
- When the seat is upholstered, it should be remembered that dermatin is quite dense material. If you get up from stools, it will take a long form for a long time. To avoid this, you need to drill 4-5 through holes for free air. You can drill them both to the assembly and after assembling the product.
- So that the dermatin looks more aesthetically looked at the corners of the seat, laid in the fold material, you need to warm the hot iron through a wet fabric. In such a state, it stacked much better and after cooling retains his shape bold.
- Furniture of this kind is of great practicality and durability. It can serve not only in direct appointment, but also as a stand for various items, as a replacement of the stepladder.
Make a kitchen stool from chipboard can be at home from ordinary trimming.
This material can be found in many garages and sheds after disassembling the old home furniture. You can purchase a non-condational material in stores in woodworking enterprises. It will work out excellent furniture that satisfies your requests. Very often, after making the simplest stool, a desire to make a stool, wardrobe and more complex things.