A sleeper is an element that a home cannot do without. In ancient times, people slept on a bench, stove, even on a pile of straw, animal skins. Now most people prefer more convenient designs that they buy in furniture stores or choose from online catalogs. Also, if you have certain carpentry skills, a small amount of materials, tools, you can make a comfortable bed with your own hands.
The main material for the manufacture of bedroom furniture is natural wood. It is environmentally friendly, not capable of causing any harm to human health. It can be larch, pine, spruce, oak, wenge, alder, beech, ash, hevea, thuja, birch, walnut, etc. Particleboard, chipboard, plywood, MDF are not less often used. Also, metal is used to create the base, in the form of profiles, pipes, corners. As fasteners, connecting compounds, self-tapping screws, pins, bolts, PVA glue, etc.
To build an iron bed, you will need a welding machine and some other tools. Almost everything that is needed for wood is available in every home.
From timber
The most commonly used glued beams made of pine. Each part is glued from several - knots, other defects are removed from a piece of the array, and then cut into lamellas, connecting to each other with glue. Such furniture is strong, durable, most often decorated with carvings, luxurious upholstery, which looks good in the interiors of classicism, baroque, empire. The details from the timber are thick, voluminous, therefore a lot of space is required to place a bed.
From the boards
A board product is quite simple to assemble, takes up much less space than a timber, almost without inferior to it in strength. Boards should not have cracks, chips, traces of rot, deformation. If so conceived, on the edges of the back and the details of the foot of the left bark, which is treated with the same coating as the entire structure. Decoration with carvings, paintings, overhead elements is also acceptable here.
From array
The design of cylindrical or conventional logs, half-logs is most durable. You can make such a product even in conditions of a limited set of tools, including “without a single nail”, if you develop a suitable fastening scheme. In the best way, the building will fit into the style of rustic, country, environmental.
The details of the bed are usually made even so that the quality of sleep is normal, for the head, foot, decoration, it is allowed to use curved, but thick, durable snags of a bizarre shape. The finished product is coated with stain, varnish.
Step-by-step instructions for making a bed
To begin with, you should draw a sketch, choose what the future bed will be - a single, one and a half, double, euro-size or a small couch on wheels for a short day's sleep. Usually, when choosing, they are guided by the size of the existing mattress, if purchased. In other embodiments, the frame of the sleeping structure is first created, after which a suitable mattress is made from foam rubber, other fillers, and suitable textiles.
Here is an easy way to make a bed step by step:
suitable materials, tools are selected;
a frame is made;
supports of the rack bottom are created, legs are formed;
the bottom itself is carried out, the structure is assembled, the legs are attached;
make out the head, cover the product with bioprotective impregnations from decay, mold, varnish.
The highest quality materials are purchased for the frame, decorative elements, the second grade will go to the legs, for the louvres of the lattice - the cheapest that will be.
Materials
The wood that is best suited for creating a bed has medium or high density - from 560 to 770 kg / m. sq. and higher. The supporting frame is made of birch, larch, pine, decorative elements - of spruce, wenge, bog oak. Coniferous trees fill the room with a peculiar "forest" smell, for a long time healing the atmosphere, creating coziness.
What lumber, compounds, you need to purchase for the manufacture of various parts:
frame - four boards, 20 to 200 by 2400 mm in size .;
supports - three boards 50 to 100 by 2400 mm .;
legs - one bar 100 to 100 by 2400 mm .;
bottom slats - 18 boards, with dimensions of 20 by 75 by 2400 mm .;
decor - three boards 20 by 75 by 2400 mm .;
PVA glue or any carpentry;
stain;
acrylic lacquer;
putty for wood;
self-tapping screws 3, 5, 6 cm.
You should not use spruce to create the legs of the bed - heavy loads will quickly lead to its wear, destruction. Any wood with knots, especially falling knots, also reduces the structural strength.
Instruments
A set of necessary tools:
power saw or jigsaw;
metal roulette;
conductor for drilling at an angle;
hammer drill or drill;
drills of suitable diameter;
square;
pencil;
clamps (at least three to four);
grinder or mini planer;
brushes for varnish, stains;
sandpaper.
Sizes of lumber
In detail, the calculation of the material looks like this:
for the frame - two parts with a size of 200 by 200 by 2050 mm., two 200 by 200 by 1480;
for supports - three boards 50 to 100 by 2020 mm .;
for legs - six bars 100 per 100 per 105 mm .;
for the bottom - 18 parts 20 by 75 by 1480 mm .;
decorative finish - two boards 20 by 50 by 1500 mm., one 20 by 50 by 2090.
Frame manufacturing
Work begins with the manufacture of the frame - self-tapping screws connecting the boards are screwed inside from a certain angle using the Kreg Jig tool. All irregularities are ground, sharp corners are preferably slightly rounded, and the ends are also processed using a grinding machine. Then the joints are lubricated with glue, the boards are fastened with 30 mm self-tapping screws, excess glue is carefully removed with a dry cloth. The corners should be perfectly straight - this is checked by applying a square to each of them.
Now the frame needs to be painted with a light stain or home-made dye containing calcium carbonate, latex or acrylic pigment, a fixative, a little water. Painting is done with a brush, sponge, spray can. The finished structure must be thoroughly dried.
We make the support of the rack bottom
To make supports for the bottom of the bed, guide holes are drilled in the boards - 5 centimeters recede from the edge, then every 20-25 cm. When the frame dries out, it is placed on its side and supporting bars are attached.To do this, with the help of an adjustable square draw a line, departing from the lower edge of the base of 50-55 mm. Joiner's glue is applied in waves, over the entire length of the bars, as well as on the ends. Next, the bars are fixed in the right places with 50 mm screws, the frame is turned over, the parts are pressed with clamps.
The central support beam is mounted exactly in the center - two holes are drilled at its ends at an angle. The part is also fastened in 50-55 mm. from the bottom edge of the frame - for this, under it, put the cubes of the desired height, apply glue to the ends, screw the screws. The recesses remaining after drilling are filled with putty, polished with fine sandpaper.
It is necessary to ensure that no noticeable gaps are formed between the bars and the frame.
Making legs
The legs are made of six almost square bars, 105 mm high., But if desired they can be made taller. In order to give the details a beautiful shape, 30 mm are measured on the short side, 50 mm on the long side, the angle formed is sawn off, sharp edges are ground.
Two legs under the central plank are mounted indented 45-50 cm from the outer edges of the product; these details are not necessary to beveled - they are hardly noticeable. The central strip is pre-marked.
Decorative elements
The simplest way to decorate is to paint pre-sanded surfaces. In this case, a stain of dark color tint decorative slats and legs. When the stain is dry, apply polyacrylic varnish. Further, the details are polished - a piece of a bar or board is wrapped with sandpaper, after which they process everything necessary. The resulting dust is carefully washed with a soft cloth, two more layers of varnish are applied.
Rack bottom
In order to make the process of creating a bottom faster, one small piece is cut, which is later used as a standard - the remaining homogeneous elements are simply marked on it.The lateral edges are slightly rounded, the surfaces are polished, wood dust is completely removed with a cloth. Painting parts is not necessary.
Further, the slats must be fixed in the middle, along the edges, using 30 mm nails, a pneumatic hammer. As an option, ordinary parquet carnations are taken, manually driven in, screws are screwed in, under which suitable holes are pre-drilled. It is also allowed to use glue. To ensure that all elements are located at the same distance from each other, a piece of the bar is inserted between them, which is inserted between the rails, so that it is easier to navigate.
Nails, screws are located a few centimeters from each other diagonally.
Foot fixing
For high-quality fastening of the legs, two 60-mm self-tapping screws for each are used, they are located diagonally from each other. So that the wood does not crack, does not split, before screwing it in, it is required to drill guide holes at an angle.
Next, decorative decoration is performed - on the top of the frame, the bottom and the ends of the planks with which the product will be formed, the adhesive composition is applied “in waves”. The strips are pressed with clamps to the base, and so that they do not leave any traces, they trim the trim of the boards, which increases the area of pressure by several times.
Headboard manufacturing
A very beautiful design option is a carriage screed. To create a soft headboard "antique", you will need
foam rubber, three to five cm thick .;
plywood 150 per 100 cm .;
glue for foam rubber;
pencil;
long ruler;
upholstery fabric;
durable synthetic threads;
stapler;
beautiful buttons for decoration;
drill with a drill;
two big needles.
How it's done:
plywood is drawn in the form of rhombuses, a hole is drilled at each intersection;
to cut holes in the foam rubber, use the nozzle "dial" or a small, pre-sharpened mold for canapes, a metal tube;
foam rubber gently, applying glue with dots, stick to plywood, all holes should match;
after tightening the fabric. Its size is the area of the plywood base plus a margin of 20-35 cm. On each of the four sides so that the textiles are beautifully draped. Pulling begins from any angle, leaving an allowance of 3-4 cm.;
when creating a drapery, a double folded thread is threaded into two needles at once, which pierce the fabric at a distance of five to seven mm. apart
the thread, which is pulled to the "wrong" side, is fixed on plywood with a stapler;
the finished design is decorated with buttons on metal legs. It is advisable that they match the color of the fabric or contrast harmoniously with it without disturbing the overall design of the bed. The number of buttons should match the number of holes in plywood, foam;
the outer edges of the fabric are bent, attached with a stapler to the back of the head.
To decorate the whole room in one style, carriage ties decorate the sides of the bed, chairs, pouffes, bedside benches.
Other projects, drawings
The design of bedroom furniture from improvised materials is always unique. In some cases, a suitable model does not exist for sale, and making it to order is incredibly expensive. For example, a children's two-tier or three-tier, with high sides, a lot of ladders, built-in drawers, provided that the quality of materials, fixtures, protective elements, is comparable in value to the not the oldest car. If you have the right tools at home, you can do it yourself. You will have to purchase only bars, boards, mattresses, fasteners, which will be several times cheaper.
A double or single option, where the backs are fully decorated with volumetric carvings, will create a noble interior, especially if natural or artificial leather, tapestry, velor, and other expensive fabrics are used as upholstery.
For convenience, almost any design is equipped with many drawers for storing bedding, underwear.
Podium bed
The design, located on the platform, can be built into a niche or placed against the wall, in the center of the bedroom, supplemented with retractable drawers, baskets for storing bedding. The podium consists of a frame sheathed with OSB-plates, plywood sheets. The finished upper plane should not slip - otherwise the mattress will slide off it.
The height of the podium is selected at its discretion - the higher the ceiling, the larger the design is acceptable. If you need to arrange extra beds, a pull-out bed is arranged in the podium, the main sleeping plane is on the platform itself.
For some home-made models, the creation of steps is required, each of which runs 15-25 cm high. In each of them, you can organize boxes for storing small items, which is especially true for children's rooms, small-sized apartments. The perimeter of the podium is decorated with LED strip, which allows you to create a "soaring" effect, adding airiness to the room. Tip: the podium, located next to the radiators, is mandatory equipped with ventilation holes.
Bed wardrobe transformer
The bed, which is transformed into a wall cabinet, is equipped with lifting mechanisms. On top of the structure, located at the head of the wall, there are usually closed cabinets, mezzanines, on the side there are shelves, a small folding table used as a bedside table. The product, mounted sideways to the wall, reclines during the day, forming a convenient desktop, on the sides of which numerous storage places are also carried out, a large mirror is placed on the end, and shelves for souvenirs on the other.
The design is suitable for the installation of a bedroom-office, bedroom-wardrobe. For a children's room with a small area, the construction is carried out in two levels.The most important element is a piston or spring lifting mechanism, which makes it easy to fold-unfold the wardrobe-bed, as well as a powerful magnetic clasp mounted on the frame, preventing the bed from falling out of the wardrobe spontaneously. To create such a product, first assemble a frame-cabinet, then a bed box with folding legs.
A wardrobe-bed in a minimalist, Japanese style, is carefully masked, merging with the surrounding design, as if representing a part of the wall.
Hanging
The suspension structure is a wooden box suspended on cables, chains, the details of which are fastened with profile angles. Most often it is performed rectangular, square, less often - round, oval. Mounting is made to the ceiling beams, the wall, for heavy products - combined. For the manufacture you will need strong cables, chains, a wooden board of the right size, ceiling rings, four hooks, an electric drill with drills, sandpaper, paint, varnish, glue. The board is carefully sanded, wiped off from dust, painted, covered with a layer of varnish. 15 cm from the corners are drilled holes for the ropes, which are tied with a knot, nodules for greater strength are treated with varnish, glue. Hooks are fixed on the ceiling, a mat of a suitable size is laid on the base. Wall mount increases stability when trying to swing.
The simplest hanging berth will be an ordinary hammock, a round wooden structure will suit the modernist style, futuristic, romantic.
From pallet
Pallets are made of natural wood, in order to assemble any furniture from them at home, you will need only the simplest tools. The base of a single bed is made of three to six Euro pallets, the headboard is made of one, less often - two. For a double podium bed made of pallets, you will need 15-18 elements, it is easy to make a nursery out of two or three.
It is important to choose only whole pallets, without cracks, chips, knots, all roughness, burrs carefully sanded. The finished design is made out by decorative profile, overhead elements, covered with stain, painted with colored paints, equipped with a thick orthopedic mattress, furniture wheels. LED lights are mounted inside the building, sections for compact storage of things are equipped.
From Euro pallets it is easy to create a unique hanging bed for one, two, beautifully fitting it into the style of a loft, industrial, art-believe.
Canopy, canopy
The canopy above the bed creates a luxurious, spectacular design. Around you will need to build a frame for a canopy or extend up the legs, connect them to the square of the upper trims. Supports are made of round, square section, are chiseled, less often - asymmetric in shape. The fabric, a thread curtain, is suspended on the upper beams with the help of loops, hooks. As an option - textile material is tied on one central hook located above the bed, free ends are fixed at four points at the corners of the bed.
When creating an ecological interior, a light canopy is attached to real thick branches covered with varnish, fixed around the perimeter of the bed.
Conclusion
Making a bed is, at first glance, a difficult but interesting task. Not all standard store options are suitable, and designer models of decent quality cost a lot. The original design will be made according to an individual scheme, in accordance with the weight, height of those who will sleep on it. Detailed workshops on the creation of furniture by hand appear daily on the Internet, on the pages of popular print media. Home-made furniture can be created for any style of design of an apartment, a private mansion.
A sleeper is an element that a home cannot do without. In ancient times, people slept on a bench, stove, even on a pile of straw, animal skins. Now most people prefer more convenient designs that they buy in furniture stores or choose from online catalogs. Also, if you have certain carpentry skills, a small amount of materials, tools, you can make a comfortable bed with your own hands.
Content
Materials
The main material for the manufacture of bedroom furniture is natural wood. It is environmentally friendly, not capable of causing any harm to human health. It can be larch, pine, spruce, oak, wenge, alder, beech, ash, hevea, thuja, birch, walnut, etc. Particleboard, chipboard, plywood, MDF are not less often used. Also, metal is used to create the base, in the form of profiles, pipes, corners. As fasteners, connecting compounds, self-tapping screws, pins, bolts, PVA glue, etc.
From timber
The most commonly used glued beams made of pine. Each part is glued from several - knots, other defects are removed from a piece of the array, and then cut into lamellas, connecting to each other with glue. Such furniture is strong, durable, most often decorated with carvings, luxurious upholstery, which looks good in the interiors of classicism, baroque, empire. The details from the timber are thick, voluminous, therefore a lot of space is required to place a bed.
From the boards
A board product is quite simple to assemble, takes up much less space than a timber, almost without inferior to it in strength. Boards should not have cracks, chips, traces of rot, deformation. If so conceived, on the edges of the back and the details of the foot of the left bark, which is treated with the same coating as the entire structure. Decoration with carvings, paintings, overhead elements is also acceptable here.
From array
The design of cylindrical or conventional logs, half-logs is most durable. You can make such a product even in conditions of a limited set of tools, including “without a single nail”, if you develop a suitable fastening scheme. In the best way, the building will fit into the style of rustic, country, environmental.
Step-by-step instructions for making a bed
To begin with, you should draw a sketch, choose what the future bed will be - a single, one and a half, double, euro-size or a small couch on wheels for a short day's sleep. Usually, when choosing, they are guided by the size of the existing mattress, if purchased. In other embodiments, the frame of the sleeping structure is first created, after which a suitable mattress is made from foam rubber, other fillers, and suitable textiles.
Here is an easy way to make a bed step by step:
Materials
The wood that is best suited for creating a bed has medium or high density - from 560 to 770 kg / m. sq. and higher. The supporting frame is made of birch, larch, pine, decorative elements - of spruce, wenge, bog oak. Coniferous trees fill the room with a peculiar "forest" smell, for a long time healing the atmosphere, creating coziness.
What lumber, compounds, you need to purchase for the manufacture of various parts:
Instruments
A set of necessary tools:
Sizes of lumber
In detail, the calculation of the material looks like this:
Frame manufacturing
Work begins with the manufacture of the frame - self-tapping screws connecting the boards are screwed inside from a certain angle using the Kreg Jig tool. All irregularities are ground, sharp corners are preferably slightly rounded, and the ends are also processed using a grinding machine. Then the joints are lubricated with glue, the boards are fastened with 30 mm self-tapping screws, excess glue is carefully removed with a dry cloth. The corners should be perfectly straight - this is checked by applying a square to each of them.
Now the frame needs to be painted with a light stain or home-made dye containing calcium carbonate, latex or acrylic pigment, a fixative, a little water. Painting is done with a brush, sponge, spray can. The finished structure must be thoroughly dried.
We make the support of the rack bottom
To make supports for the bottom of the bed, guide holes are drilled in the boards - 5 centimeters recede from the edge, then every 20-25 cm. When the frame dries out, it is placed on its side and supporting bars are attached.To do this, with the help of an adjustable square draw a line, departing from the lower edge of the base of 50-55 mm. Joiner's glue is applied in waves, over the entire length of the bars, as well as on the ends. Next, the bars are fixed in the right places with 50 mm screws, the frame is turned over, the parts are pressed with clamps.
The central support beam is mounted exactly in the center - two holes are drilled at its ends at an angle. The part is also fastened in 50-55 mm. from the bottom edge of the frame - for this, under it, put the cubes of the desired height, apply glue to the ends, screw the screws. The recesses remaining after drilling are filled with putty, polished with fine sandpaper.
Making legs
The legs are made of six almost square bars, 105 mm high., But if desired they can be made taller. In order to give the details a beautiful shape, 30 mm are measured on the short side, 50 mm on the long side, the angle formed is sawn off, sharp edges are ground.
Two legs under the central plank are mounted indented 45-50 cm from the outer edges of the product; these details are not necessary to beveled - they are hardly noticeable. The central strip is pre-marked.
Decorative elements
The simplest way to decorate is to paint pre-sanded surfaces. In this case, a stain of dark color tint decorative slats and legs. When the stain is dry, apply polyacrylic varnish. Further, the details are polished - a piece of a bar or board is wrapped with sandpaper, after which they process everything necessary. The resulting dust is carefully washed with a soft cloth, two more layers of varnish are applied.
Rack bottom
In order to make the process of creating a bottom faster, one small piece is cut, which is later used as a standard - the remaining homogeneous elements are simply marked on it.The lateral edges are slightly rounded, the surfaces are polished, wood dust is completely removed with a cloth. Painting parts is not necessary.
Further, the slats must be fixed in the middle, along the edges, using 30 mm nails, a pneumatic hammer. As an option, ordinary parquet carnations are taken, manually driven in, screws are screwed in, under which suitable holes are pre-drilled. It is also allowed to use glue. To ensure that all elements are located at the same distance from each other, a piece of the bar is inserted between them, which is inserted between the rails, so that it is easier to navigate.
Foot fixing
For high-quality fastening of the legs, two 60-mm self-tapping screws for each are used, they are located diagonally from each other. So that the wood does not crack, does not split, before screwing it in, it is required to drill guide holes at an angle.
Next, decorative decoration is performed - on the top of the frame, the bottom and the ends of the planks with which the product will be formed, the adhesive composition is applied “in waves”. The strips are pressed with clamps to the base, and so that they do not leave any traces, they trim the trim of the boards, which increases the area of pressure by several times.
Headboard manufacturing
A very beautiful design option is a carriage screed. To create a soft headboard "antique", you will need
How it's done:
Other projects, drawings
The design of bedroom furniture from improvised materials is always unique. In some cases, a suitable model does not exist for sale, and making it to order is incredibly expensive. For example, a children's two-tier or three-tier, with high sides, a lot of ladders, built-in drawers, provided that the quality of materials, fixtures, protective elements, is comparable in value to the not the oldest car. If you have the right tools at home, you can do it yourself. You will have to purchase only bars, boards, mattresses, fasteners, which will be several times cheaper.
A double or single option, where the backs are fully decorated with volumetric carvings, will create a noble interior, especially if natural or artificial leather, tapestry, velor, and other expensive fabrics are used as upholstery.
Podium bed
The design, located on the platform, can be built into a niche or placed against the wall, in the center of the bedroom, supplemented with retractable drawers, baskets for storing bedding. The podium consists of a frame sheathed with OSB-plates, plywood sheets. The finished upper plane should not slip - otherwise the mattress will slide off it.
The height of the podium is selected at its discretion - the higher the ceiling, the larger the design is acceptable. If you need to arrange extra beds, a pull-out bed is arranged in the podium, the main sleeping plane is on the platform itself.
For some home-made models, the creation of steps is required, each of which runs 15-25 cm high. In each of them, you can organize boxes for storing small items, which is especially true for children's rooms, small-sized apartments. The perimeter of the podium is decorated with LED strip, which allows you to create a "soaring" effect, adding airiness to the room.
Tip: the podium, located next to the radiators, is mandatory equipped with ventilation holes.
Bed wardrobe transformer
The bed, which is transformed into a wall cabinet, is equipped with lifting mechanisms. On top of the structure, located at the head of the wall, there are usually closed cabinets, mezzanines, on the side there are shelves, a small folding table used as a bedside table. The product, mounted sideways to the wall, reclines during the day, forming a convenient desktop, on the sides of which numerous storage places are also carried out, a large mirror is placed on the end, and shelves for souvenirs on the other.
The design is suitable for the installation of a bedroom-office, bedroom-wardrobe. For a children's room with a small area, the construction is carried out in two levels.The most important element is a piston or spring lifting mechanism, which makes it easy to fold-unfold the wardrobe-bed, as well as a powerful magnetic clasp mounted on the frame, preventing the bed from falling out of the wardrobe spontaneously. To create such a product, first assemble a frame-cabinet, then a bed box with folding legs.
Hanging
The suspension structure is a wooden box suspended on cables, chains, the details of which are fastened with profile angles. Most often it is performed rectangular, square, less often - round, oval. Mounting is made to the ceiling beams, the wall, for heavy products - combined. For the manufacture you will need strong cables, chains, a wooden board of the right size, ceiling rings, four hooks, an electric drill with drills, sandpaper, paint, varnish, glue. The board is carefully sanded, wiped off from dust, painted, covered with a layer of varnish. 15 cm from the corners are drilled holes for the ropes, which are tied with a knot, nodules for greater strength are treated with varnish, glue. Hooks are fixed on the ceiling, a mat of a suitable size is laid on the base. Wall mount increases stability when trying to swing.
From pallet
Pallets are made of natural wood, in order to assemble any furniture from them at home, you will need only the simplest tools. The base of a single bed is made of three to six Euro pallets, the headboard is made of one, less often - two. For a double podium bed made of pallets, you will need 15-18 elements, it is easy to make a nursery out of two or three.
It is important to choose only whole pallets, without cracks, chips, knots, all roughness, burrs carefully sanded. The finished design is made out by decorative profile, overhead elements, covered with stain, painted with colored paints, equipped with a thick orthopedic mattress, furniture wheels. LED lights are mounted inside the building, sections for compact storage of things are equipped.
Canopy, canopy
The canopy above the bed creates a luxurious, spectacular design. Around you will need to build a frame for a canopy or extend up the legs, connect them to the square of the upper trims. Supports are made of round, square section, are chiseled, less often - asymmetric in shape. The fabric, a thread curtain, is suspended on the upper beams with the help of loops, hooks. As an option - textile material is tied on one central hook located above the bed, free ends are fixed at four points at the corners of the bed.
Conclusion
Making a bed is, at first glance, a difficult but interesting task. Not all standard store options are suitable, and designer models of decent quality cost a lot. The original design will be made according to an individual scheme, in accordance with the weight, height of those who will sleep on it. Detailed workshops on the creation of furniture by hand appear daily on the Internet, on the pages of popular print media. Home-made furniture can be created for any style of design of an apartment, a private mansion.