Make a folding chair made of plywood with their hands: the production, decoration

Furniture stores offer a wide selection of chairs of different stylistic directions. Also order such a thing possible from a professional master. He will fulfill the order, given the slightest claim. In the manufacture of the master will use any materials (components), the client selected. It is such a pleasure not cheap. If the master service is too expensive, it is better to make yourself comfortable chair made of plywood with minimal cash outlay. This furniture will be original decoration of the room. It is much more valuable than store counterparts.

The advantages of self-study

Manufacture of furniture with his own hands - an exciting experience that has a lot of undeniable advantages.

• Ability to create a unique design of the chair. Stores offer a limited selection of models of chairs. Easily create their own unique design, which is unique among your neighbors and friends.
• Savings. To make the chair made of plywood, require minimal costs. You will need to pay only for the raw materials.
• Obtaining invaluable experience. Patterned furniture has long gone out of fashion. Today prized product of the original design. Make them yourself not everyone can. A good work-out in the production of chairs, easy to learn a more complex craft.
• ease of operation. Independent production of chairs for many seems to be something complicated, burdensome. In fact, the work will not take even a few hours, and do not need any expensive tools and materials for the process. The main rule - to adhere to the instructions clearly. This article gives very clear recommendations. They will help to quickly cope with the task.
• Opportunity to surprise their loved ones. Chairs, hand made, will be an excellent gift option for any celebration. Such a present doubly enjoyable.

Preliminary work: define a view structure size

Making plywood chairs need to deliberately, so as not to spoil the material. The first step in the preparation of acts. It is necessary to determine the key aspects: size, height, kind of construction.

The first step is to decide why you need a chair? It may be necessary in the garage, children's room, in the country. For household needs a chair can have a simple design. For living rooms is better to choose the original drawings of the product. Children's chair should be soft, safe, secure.

Having defined the purpose, it is necessary to choose stylistic direction. Style chair must be intertwined with the style of the room. If the room is decorated in a classical direction, folding chairs made of plywood should be really graceful. They need to be painted and then varnished. For the country style suitable product without much decoration, and the room needed a chair decorated with Provencal fabrics.

Further defined with the complexity of manufacture. It all depends on your starting skills. Newcomers better to take only simple designs. Work on them will gain invaluable experience, which is sure to come in handy in the future. If experience is available - feel free to experiment with complex shapes!

The most important aspect - the size of the product. Create diagrams and drawings - a task not for beginners. Experts recommend people to use standard sizes without experience. Chair height can always be adjusted. Compliance with human growth and the desired height of the product is shown in Table.

Height	The height of the chair
Up to 130 cm	30 cm
From 130 to 145 cm	34 cm
From 145 to 165 cm	42 cm
From 160 to 175 cm	46 cm
Above 175 cm	48 cm

Prepare materials

Make a chair with his hands to help these materials and tools:

• plywood sheet (thickness 2 cm, size - 600h900 mm);
• foam (70 mm thickness);
• furniture fabric;
• cardboard sheet (dimensions 600h900);
• pencil;
• line;
• Sander;
• staple gun;
• PVA glue;
• electric jigsaw;
• screws;
• template for the assembly of furniture;
• hammer;
• Bolts with sleeves.

A few tips

1. Plywood is cheap. It will last longer if it is made of birch. Birch wood is durable, easy to handle, easy to tolerate painting, a different finish. Apply too thin plywood sheets impossible. Necessarily follow a specified thickness. Thin sheet not hold a person's weight, break, may even lead to injury.
2. The conductor for the assembly - not homemade tool. It really only found in humans, which has long been an independent manufacturer of furniture designs. If this tool is not present, it is better to purchase it. It helps to collect as much as possible the design of the chair professionally.
3. Apply the foam to the furniture fabric is not necessary to form a comfortable seat. Sidushka may be a solid, especially when the chair is essential for economic purposes.

Step-by-step instruction

Step 1 - Create templates. To do this, prepare the cardboard, a ruler, a pencil. Transfer the first chair drawing on cardboard, cut out all the details, and then transfer them to the plywood itself.

Step 2 - cutting out parts. To make a chair with your hands, you need to prepare all of its component parts. They can be cut out of plywood using an electric jigsaw. Parts are cut precisely on the planned lines.

Step 3 - polishing details. The chair should come out neat, so all parts must be thoroughly sanded to trim. If the special grinding machine is not available, you can use ordinary sandpaper.

Step 4 - creating holes for the hinges. The locations of the holes you need to agree with the drawing. As hinges better to use screws with sleeves. To improve the fixing strength of the sleeves, they must be secured in the holes by an adhesive.

Step 5 - the formation of the holes for studs. Folding Chair is held open by a wooden spikes. For them, should make Forstner drill holes.

Step 6 - Build constructions. Now assemble the chair according to the drawing. Then, to manufacture the seat. To this foam in cut form sidushki, cushioning it with a cloth to fix the seat stapler.

decoration

Today, the interior space and the appearance of its content is given much more attention than twenty years ago. This is not surprising, because in vogue original design solutions. Simple chair of ordinary plywood - this is definitely not the ultimate dream. It can (should) be improved by using a small decor.

To decorate the chair can be used lacquer. The product is covered with varnish, it will be look much more attractive. If you want to add some color, you'll need a good paint for wood. Color can choose: red, blue, white, brown. Better pick up the coloring based on the colors of the room interior. After painting the product also varnished.

Application ornament - another interesting way to decorate furniture. To do this, use a thin brush and paint in different colors. drawing ideas you can look at photos from the Internet, or come up with your own. Paint is better to use water-resistant.

The fabric can also be a decoration products. Soft sidushka accentuate the interior of the premises, will make the process of using the chair more comfortable. It is an ideal when used to decorate a chair fabric furniture identical tissue located in the room.

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