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Stages of making do-it-yourself children's furniture

Stages of making do-it-yourself children's furniture

Many parents always have difficulties in arranging a children's room. Especially often they cannot choose the right furniture, it is important that it is of high quality, comfortable. The main thing is that the furniture elements should correspond to the tastes of children, they should like. Of course, in furniture stores there is a lot of furniture for children, but often parents want to create for their child not just a nursery, but his own corner. Therefore, you can try to make these products. This process is quite laborious, but made children's furniture with your own hands will be much better and better than the one that many manufacturers offer.

Material requirements

Before proceeding to the manufacture of furniture for a children's room, it is worth choosing the necessary material. If you want a child to have quality, safe furniture for health, then choose the basis for it more carefully. Do not use cheap material that is of poor quality. The fact is that the children's body is quite vulnerable, weak, and if the structures are made of low quality material, then there will be a high probability that harmful substances will be released into the air. As a result, this can adversely affect the health of children and adults.

Another factor that you need to consider when arranging a room with your own hands is that children often play outdoor games, run around, so during games they can damage or knock down furniture. It is important that it is safe, durable. It will have to be used for more than one year.

Not is worth use for making child of furniture their hands Chipboard. This material highlights in air formaldehydes, provocative allergic reactions. But on the toddlers these substance are having the strongest impact. If not opportunities to get other material, then is worth to acquire slabs class E0. This the class Chipboard applies in Europe for production of furniture, applied in many medical institutions. But is worth consider, what this material is worth enough expensive.

Children's furniture is recommended to be made of natural solid wood. This material is absolutely environmentally friendly, it does not emit harmful substances into the air, so it is completely safe for children's health. It has a high degree of strength. Furniture made of natural wood will calmly withstand the increased loads that will be exerted on it during children's games.

You can select the most suitable materials for the manufacture of children's furniture designs:

  • solid wood;
  • MDF boards;
  • plywood with the highest quality class;
  • for stuffing upholstered furniture, it is worth using natural fabric and fillers that have appropriate quality certificates.

In the manufacture of furniture for children, it is worth abandoning the use of varnishes, paints with a pungent odor, toxic composition. For upholstery, it is worth using a cloth that can later be cleaned with liquid cleansers. Additionally, for upholstered furniture, it is worth sewing removable covers, they will provide increased protection of furniture from damage, breakage.

Be sure to pre-draw the drawings, they will help you in advance to purchase the right material. In addition, they will greatly facilitate the entire process of manufacturing furniture.

Children's stand

Corner in the nursery

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Beautiful children's furniture

Children's furniture in the room

Manufacturing instruction

How to make children's furniture quickly and correctly? This question interests many parents who plan to equip the nursery with their own products. But if you have to do this for the first time, then many professionals recommend that you carefully read the manufacturing process - see photos, videos on the Internet. You can try to make a simple start, for example, a small chest of drawers or a bookcase. This will allow you to more closely get acquainted with the process of manufacturing furniture elements for children.

Various videos with a detailed manufacturing process help a lot. On the video you can see the assembly diagrams, decoupage and furniture design. The children's kitchen from old furniture is in high demand. In this case, you can not only save on materials, but also restore old furniture that is not used for a long period.

A mandatory step in the manufacture is the determination of the types of necessary furniture. Usually, children require a bed and a children's table. In the future, it will be possible to make a cabinet or already purchase finished products. Do-it-yourself frameless furniture is a good option. These types of products are much easier to manufacture, but they will be the most suitable for children.

Bed

So how do you make furniture for children with your own hands? First you need to make a bed. This product is of great importance for the full growth, development of the child.

If the bed is made correctly in accordance with the requirements, standards, then it will have a beneficial effect on the state of posture, overall well-being. To get started, it is better to make a drawing with dimensions. A schematic drawing will facilitate the manufacturing process of a berth. Each element must be manufactured separately. Components in the future will simply need to be interconnected.

Features of the manufacture of furniture elements for sleep:

  • often for the manufacture of beds using MDF sheets. The thickness of each sheet should be at least 2 cm;
  • elements of a moving form should be made from a base with a fine structure. For border strips, a thickness of 1.2 cm will be most suitable;
  • constituent elements are glued with glue with a strong base. For fastening, you can use durable joints - screws or metal corners;
  • if the product needs to be fixed on the wall, it is better to use dowels made of plastic material or screws.

The furniture element for a berth should be made in accordance with the necessary requirements. The assembly drawing, of course, will facilitate the whole process, but in this case, detailed instructions will also be required:

  • on the region top border fixed home strap of natural wood;
  • end panel necessary fix at grounds wall partitions, her fixing not must to be strong dense;
  • from points fastenings end panels required screw up squares of MDF from big the size thickness;
  • butt grounds should pull back from wall surface on the small distance, which equally thickness squares of MDF. IN received openings will be mount the walls corps box;
  • as end wall will be completely mounted to angular zone, to her attached in perpendicular regarding special partition for fencing off branches. At production of these constituents elements can use corners of metal the basics;
  • in point completion separation the walls necessary fix sidewall. At making this parts necessarily necessary follow small distance from walls. IN this region will be placed wall corps;
  • after graduation separating slats, her continuation must to be following base.

In time self mounting child of furniture in home conditions, necessarily taken into account then, what she must be like under sizes growth children. If doing decoupage old of furniture, important remember, what in the first turn furniture obliged to be comfortable, suit under sizes child.

The main level of the future bed is fixed
The main bar is fixed
Mounting the end panel of the bed
End panel mounting
We fix the side of the bed
We fix the sidewalls

Children's table

A children's table is a necessary item in a children's room. Children often engage in various developmental activities - drawing, reading, sculpting, carving. And for their implementation requires a table.

Of course, if the house already has an old table, then it can be updated, adjusted to the growth of children and perform a beautiful decoupage. But it can be made independently.

The process of executing the table is as follows:

  • first, legs are cut according to the height of the future design;
  • end mills legs are attached to the components of the frame with the power structure. When installing the legs, you need to outline the places for the grooves and combine the paired components. A hole is drilled in the marked area, but it should not be through;
  • the workpieces of the legs need to be clamped in turn in a clamp. Next, wood is selected with an end mill as carefully as possible until a smooth groove with the required size is obtained;
  • with the hacksaw and knife, the ends of the parts of the power frame are corrected, spikes are created, which in the future will firmly fit into the grooves of the legs;
  • all components are oiled with glue and assembled into a single whole;
  • at the end, after drying of the entire structure, a countertop is inserted into special grooves in the legs, its fixation is carried out on glue.
Legs for a table are cut out
Legs are cut out
We fix the legs to the frame
Fasten to the frame
Correct the ends of the table parts
Correct the ends of the parts
All components are coated with glue.
Coat with glue
A table top is inserted into special grooves in the legs
Mount the countertop

Dressing

In addition to the main elements, you can make other elements in the nursery - do-it-yourself furniture for dolls, you can design a small house out of the boxes yourself, carved cars or small ships will look beautiful.

The main thing is to properly make decoupage of furniture for your baby with your own hands at home. In order to make a decoupage of the table, you can use the components:

  • pictures, photographs. A photograph from the family archive or vivid drawings depicting cartoon characters will look beautiful;
  • drawings can replace patterns of various blanks from the material. Patterns with flowers, drawings will look beautiful;
  • PVA glue;
  • primer;
  • brush.

How to make decoupage yourself:

  • the table top or other furniture items need to be cleaned with sandpaper and coated with a primer;
  • paint the surface in the desired color;
  • Patterns or drawings are glued to furniture with PVA glue. If the patterns are made of dense material, then they can be slightly moistened in water;
  • after drying, everything is varnished.

In the same way doll furniture for girls can be designed. You can also make carved elements, but this is of course with experience in this matter. You can make children's furniture with your own hands, but this process will require a lot of effort. In general, everything can be made independently, but you should carefully study the process of manufacturing furniture. The main thing is to do everything correctly, comply with the dimensions and make only from high-quality material. At the same time, a children's kitchen can be made with your own hands from old furniture.

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