Comfortable seating products are an important element in any ergonomic interior. Most often they are purchased complete with a table, less often - each separately. Some lovers can easily make an original chair with their own hands from various materials. Such a “structure” is in most cases unique, inimitable. It is created for the existing interior, adapts to height, weight, the diverse needs of the owner, whether it is the overall option for a luxurious living room, furniture for a summer residence or high chair.
The independent manufacture of any home furnishings item is not only a complicated process, but also an interesting and fascinating one. The process of creating a particular chair depends on its specific design. It is important to make a tough, strong frame that can withstand the weight of a person’s body, be stable enough, not to tip over spontaneously. The standard design has four legs, a back, armrests. Self-made furniture will not only come out several times cheaper than store analogues, but will also make you feel like a real designer.
Materials for the manufacture
The most commonly used material for making a home-made chair is wood - oak, beech, birch, spruce, larch, ash, acacia, walnut, etc. It is easiest to make chairs from lining, plywood, chipboard, chipboard. Also sometimes used:
the vine
corrugated cardboard,
profile pipes
parts of euro pallets,
tires,
metal buckets, shovels,
surfboards
forest driftwood,
leather belts
twine,
various plastic waste;
"Remnants" of the bike
seat from the car seat.
In the presence of blacksmithing skills, individual details can be forged independently. Glass products look luxurious, as well as combinations of several materials in one piece of furniture - beams with MDF, thick plywood with plastic, etc. Wood cuts, hemp will serve as an excellent option for garden furniture, which will be very difficult to break.
To make a soft chair, you will need stuffing - foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, holofiber, as well as thick fabric. If desired, you can make a chair bag - it does not have a rigid frame, it is made only of textile and printed. Sometimes the soft part is woven using the macrame technique, crocheted or knitted.
Purpose, application
Bath, garden furniture is created from pine, which is not afraid of high humidity, frequent temperature changes, but is easily processed and painted. Oak chairs come out relatively bulky, it is better to put them in spacious rooms, for children - it is difficult to break such a product. Birch is also perfectly cut, cut, with proper painting, the material can be passed off as a more expensive breed, but you should only place a finished chair in rooms with low humidity. If it is planned to make bent parts to create a chair, it is better to take a beech - the wood bends easily, but does not tolerate contacts with water.
There are special designs that can also be made at home. A computer chair, as well as intended for playing the piano, is widely adjustable in height, due to special gas lifts. High bar stools can also be equipped with a similar mechanism, being used simultaneously with the bar counter, as one of the options for the design of the dining area. A rocking chair is usually placed in the living room by the fireplace or on the veranda. For the bedroom, living room, a compact bedside, attached chair is performed.
Children are often made “growing with the child” - their legs are made of metal pipes, and the length is adjusted using a short iron rod inserted into the holes at different heights. In other embodiments, the construction is made of plywood - here the seat, footrest are rearranged.
Popular designs, types
There are many varieties of furniture for seating:
massive with a back;
folding chairs;
children's (including "high");
outboard;
transformers;
office (with wheels, gas lifts);
stools;
soft
chair-chairs;
saddle chair.
If desired, the chairs are selected for any interior style: standard, but upholstered in leather are suitable for classics, hemp with handrails made of snags - for an eco-style.Minimalism will be decorated with a simple light design, completely devoid of decor, modern furniture will have an intricate, including asymmetric, shape.
Massive chairs with backrest
A “classic” chair is usually made of wood. It is strong, durable, stable, but heavy enough. The product is suitable for both adults and children - it is difficult to fall from it, such furniture will not fall apart, even if a person with a large weight sits on it. In the manufacture of it is important to carefully grind the surface, to process all the corners. To reduce the weight of the structure, the lightest tree is taken, such as linden, aspen, poplar, if desired, it can be gently toned with stain, creating an imitation of bog oak, walnut, wenge.
With padded seat
Most often at home they use soft chairs - they are comfortable to sit on even for a long time. The product is made from various materials, it can be very simple, have elegant carved, turned legs, two or three or more crossbars on the back, and the seat is often decorated with a removable cover that is easy to wash in the machine, which is very convenient when used in the kitchen, dining area , children's room, living room, where guests often come.
Upholstered chair
The chair is made completely wooden or is made out of soft fabric made of thick fabric, leather, leatherette. The design is placed in the living room or office, bedroom, veranda - it is most convenient to relax in the chair, it has armrests, sometimes it is equipped with a removable cover-cloak. The product for the home office, office can spin, easily move on four or six small wheels, change the height.
If it is planned to operate the product in the open, its wooden parts are covered with special compounds that prevent rot, warping, mold, damage by insects, rodents. The soft part is best made waterproof, easy to wash.The option with gaps between the seat and the back is welcome - so rainwater will not linger, freely flow down.
“Clamshell” - folding chair
Such a product is used both at home and when going outdoors, it is easy to fold it, removing it on the mezzanine when a chair is not needed, putting a car in the trunk, if you plan to go to the cottage or a forest picnic. When the house, apartment is very cramped, but the owners like to receive guests - this is generally an ideal option. Even four or six of these chairs will take up little space. To make such a thing is quite difficult: you need to clearly think over the design, which will easily be brought into the “working” position, pick up the most durable material that can withstand many folding-unfolding cycles.
Folding options are often made from thick plywood. The finished product has a thickness of about 2.5 cm, it is easy to hang on the wall, shove it under the cabinet.
Baby Feeding Chair
A "high" highchair is used both separately, with a removable tabletop, and as an addition to an "adult" dining table, it is usually made of wood, but equipped with a removable backrest and a "seat", which are easy to remove and wash in the typewriter. You can do an even more interesting thing: when the child is very small, it will be a high chair with a dining surface, but when the baby turns two or three years old, the structure is disconnected, getting a small chair with a table of the appropriate height.
Transformer chair made of plywood
The transformed product is both a highchair and a step-ladder having two, three or more steps. It is especially convenient when used in rooms with high ceilings, where many things are stored on the upper shelves, which cannot be reached simply by standing on the floor. There may be several options, but the chair is most popular, where part of the seat is attached with butterfly loops, which allows you to turn the chair into a ladder with just a few light movements. The design has relatively many parts, so it has a solid weight.
When designing, manufacturing a frame, it is important to make it as stable as possible in any of two positions.
Stool
A stool is a chair without a back, the most simple design to manufacture. The stool is made standard, children's, bar - of the appropriate height, decorated with a soft seat with a cover, which is easily replaced for washing. The product is made folding, used for a bath, with a storage box, and in the presence of certain carpentry skills, you can make a step-stool.
Seating a stool used in the open air is not made whole, but from several plates so that the water does not stagnate during rain.
Master class: self-made chair
Before you create full-fledged chairs yourself, it is better to draw a diagram, think through the drawing of each part separately, make a small layout. Joiner tools, all the necessary materials, it is advisable to purchase in advance - in the future they will be needed to create other furniture, interior items, decor. In professional workshops, work is carried out on high-quality equipment that allows you to give the perfect shape to any part, but at home you can work with simple tools.
Materials, tools
The following tools and materials will be required for work:
electric jigsaw - with it it is easy to cut a part of any, even the most complex form;
clamps - it is better to have several pieces of different lengths, they greatly simplify the process of gluing together any parts;
grinding machine - designed for finishing various surfaces, angles. To it, sandpaper of various degrees of graininess is acquired in advance;
manual milling cutter - used for high-quality processing of product edges, cutting grooves, holes for fasteners;
screwdriver - will replace a whole set of screwdrivers, a drill, a set of drills of various diameters is additionally purchased;
ruler, protractor, tape measure, square, curve, carpentry pencil - will be needed for marking, drawing up drawings;
hammer, pliers;
for the convenience of work, it is better to have a strong workbench;
carpentry glue, bolts, screws, screws, nails.
These tools are necessary when wood, fiberboard, and MDF are used as material. If you plan to manufacture a soft construction, you also need scissors for cutting fabric, a sewing machine, a sharp knife for cutting foam rubber, other stuffing, threads, needles, and a furniture stapler. When the product is decided to partially or completely perform iron, glass, devices for cutting metal, glass will be required. For a folding chair you will need a metal rod.
It is advisable to buy any materials with a margin of about 10-15%.
The device of the chair - drawings, calculations
The most important point here is to accurately calculate all the sizes so that you do not have to redo them in the future. First you need to decide which product you plan to create:
with backrest or stool;
folding or stationary;
regular or turning;
flat or "saddle";
with armrests or footrest;
floor or hanging.
The design of a full-fledged chair-chair sometimes consists of parts of 15-20. This is a lot of bars, boards, all kinds of planks that will have to be assembled together, customized to each other.
A sample list of parts on the diagram looks like this:
seat frame;
lateral abutments of the back;
armrests;
front, rear legs;
back, front, side, transverse sacs;
"Crackers."
The back, including the soft back, is attached to the side abutments, the legs and the seat are connected to the frame drawers. Drivers are needed for structural rigidity, as are crackers installed in the inner, lower part of the frame. Armrests do not have to be made - this is a standard, integral element only for armchairs.
With a chair height of 45-60 cm, the armrests are made about 20 cm, the width of the seat is 40-55 cm, the height of the back is 35-55 cm. The bar stool is taller - 95-105 cm, its back is 15-30 cm, the seat is 30 -40 cm
When drawing up drawings, it is important to note the places for fasteners, to provide for its dimensions.
Manufacturing process
The creation process itself looks like this:
legs are first cut out - in a standard design there are four of them, while the two back ones are often a continuation of the back. They are made of bars with a thickness of about four cm;
the seat is made of three to six boards located at a short distance, the back is made similarly. Both elements are later supplemented with soft parts or left as is;
all parts are carefully adjusted to each other, grooves for fasteners are cut out in them;
Now the construction must be assembled, but so far without glue;
then arched lintels, various inserts, supports for arms and legs are made;
if everything matches, the product sticks together, for strength it is connected with self-tapping screws.
The most beautiful look is the curly parts sawed with a jigsaw, turned legs, back parts, lower crossbars.
Assembly, decoration
When assembling, it is important that the fasteners do not protrude too much above the surface, nor are they dangerous. The product should be carefully sanded, removing any irregularities, burrs, and coated with a protective compound. This is most significant when the furniture is intended for children, whose probability of injury is much higher, due to the high mobility during the game. All angles between perpendicularly arranged parts are made strictly 90 degrees - this is easy to check with a protractor, a square. A soft seat, the back is pulled over the finished frame or simply attached to the ties.
Decoration Methods
The decor of chairs, stools depends only on the imagination of their creator. The design can be painted in any color or even several at the same time, varnished, upholstered with fabric, painted with fantasy patterns, decorated with textured carvings. All work with strongly smelling compounds is carried out outdoors, in a well-ventilated area.To decorate the stool with carvings, you will need a set of special knives - oblique, semicircular, spoon-shaped, various diameters, etc. The decoration of the seat using decoupage technique looks great.
Do-it-yourself plywood transforming chair
To create a transformable plywood highchair, you will need an electric jigsaw, a sheet of plywood with a thickness of at least 2.5 cm, furniture hinges. The finished product is a backless stool, part of which is folded up, creating an additional step, with competent drawing up it is relatively easy to make a product with a back, armrests.
The simplest transformable design consists of two sidewalls, which are all four legs plus side supports of the back. The sides are cut at an angle of 70 degrees, in the middle of the parts with backs a horizontal groove is made where the seat will be inserted. Two recesses are also made in the back of the seat for mounting between the sides of the back. The board for the latter is mounted on spikes or screws. The two halves of the seat are connected with a furniture loop. To prevent the product from “opening” spontaneously, stops are made outside the lower part. The finished product is puttyed, sanded, varnished, painted.
Creative, original ideas.
There are a huge number of options for creating original, one-of-a-kind chairs, for example:
old chairs, from which only the frames remained intact, can be pulled by different fabrics, weaving their seats from ropes, belts, narrow strips of leather, rubber;
from the usual wide hemp, in which a semicircular recess is cut, the strongest chair for the garden will come out;
if you attach legs, soft seats to iron buckets, they can also be placed around the garden table;
from pieces of old skis, boards from a skateboard, if you correctly fasten them, comfortable furniture for seating will also come out;
the backrest, the seat of a makeshift wooden chair is performed in the form of a funny or scary face;
a product from carefully fitted, sanded, varnished snags will decorate the premises of an ecological style;
furniture coloring looks interesting in the form of a two-three-color gradient overflow;
from several pallets, old hardback books you can also build a chair-armchair;
a kind of soft swing-hammock is fixed on the ceiling beam, is weaved from durable, thick twine;
comfortable stools come out of car tires, ropes and pieces of wood.
Conclusion
Creating beautiful chairs at home can significantly save on such furniture, to fully demonstrate their design abilities. With the simplest tools and materials, everyone can do it. Schemes, drawings, detailed workshops on the manufacture of this piece of furniture are available in many "paper" magazines related to hand-made, as well as Internet sites.
Comfortable seating products are an important element in any ergonomic interior. Most often they are purchased complete with a table, less often - each separately. Some lovers can easily make an original chair with their own hands from various materials. Such a “structure” is in most cases unique, inimitable. It is created for the existing interior, adapts to height, weight, the diverse needs of the owner, whether it is the overall option for a luxurious living room, furniture for a summer residence or high chair.
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Manufacturing Features
The independent manufacture of any home furnishings item is not only a complicated process, but also an interesting and fascinating one. The process of creating a particular chair depends on its specific design. It is important to make a tough, strong frame that can withstand the weight of a person’s body, be stable enough, not to tip over spontaneously. The standard design has four legs, a back, armrests. Self-made furniture will not only come out several times cheaper than store analogues, but will also make you feel like a real designer.
Materials for the manufacture
The most commonly used material for making a home-made chair is wood - oak, beech, birch, spruce, larch, ash, acacia, walnut, etc. It is easiest to make chairs from lining, plywood, chipboard, chipboard. Also sometimes used:
In the presence of blacksmithing skills, individual details can be forged independently. Glass products look luxurious, as well as combinations of several materials in one piece of furniture - beams with MDF, thick plywood with plastic, etc. Wood cuts, hemp will serve as an excellent option for garden furniture, which will be very difficult to break.
To make a soft chair, you will need stuffing - foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, holofiber, as well as thick fabric. If desired, you can make a chair bag - it does not have a rigid frame, it is made only of textile and printed. Sometimes the soft part is woven using the macrame technique, crocheted or knitted.
Purpose, application
Bath, garden furniture is created from pine, which is not afraid of high humidity, frequent temperature changes, but is easily processed and painted. Oak chairs come out relatively bulky, it is better to put them in spacious rooms, for children - it is difficult to break such a product. Birch is also perfectly cut, cut, with proper painting, the material can be passed off as a more expensive breed, but you should only place a finished chair in rooms with low humidity. If it is planned to make bent parts to create a chair, it is better to take a beech - the wood bends easily, but does not tolerate contacts with water.
There are special designs that can also be made at home. A computer chair, as well as intended for playing the piano, is widely adjustable in height, due to special gas lifts. High bar stools can also be equipped with a similar mechanism, being used simultaneously with the bar counter, as one of the options for the design of the dining area. A rocking chair is usually placed in the living room by the fireplace or on the veranda. For the bedroom, living room, a compact bedside, attached chair is performed.
Children are often made “growing with the child” - their legs are made of metal pipes, and the length is adjusted using a short iron rod inserted into the holes at different heights. In other embodiments, the construction is made of plywood - here the seat, footrest are rearranged.
Popular designs, types
There are many varieties of furniture for seating:
If desired, the chairs are selected for any interior style: standard, but upholstered in leather are suitable for classics, hemp with handrails made of snags - for an eco-style.Minimalism will be decorated with a simple light design, completely devoid of decor, modern furniture will have an intricate, including asymmetric, shape.
Massive chairs with backrest
A “classic” chair is usually made of wood. It is strong, durable, stable, but heavy enough. The product is suitable for both adults and children - it is difficult to fall from it, such furniture will not fall apart, even if a person with a large weight sits on it. In the manufacture of it is important to carefully grind the surface, to process all the corners. To reduce the weight of the structure, the lightest tree is taken, such as linden, aspen, poplar, if desired, it can be gently toned with stain, creating an imitation of bog oak, walnut, wenge.
With padded seat
Most often at home they use soft chairs - they are comfortable to sit on even for a long time. The product is made from various materials, it can be very simple, have elegant carved, turned legs, two or three or more crossbars on the back, and the seat is often decorated with a removable cover that is easy to wash in the machine, which is very convenient when used in the kitchen, dining area , children's room, living room, where guests often come.
Upholstered chair
The chair is made completely wooden or is made out of soft fabric made of thick fabric, leather, leatherette. The design is placed in the living room or office, bedroom, veranda - it is most convenient to relax in the chair, it has armrests, sometimes it is equipped with a removable cover-cloak. The product for the home office, office can spin, easily move on four or six small wheels, change the height.
If it is planned to operate the product in the open, its wooden parts are covered with special compounds that prevent rot, warping, mold, damage by insects, rodents. The soft part is best made waterproof, easy to wash.The option with gaps between the seat and the back is welcome - so rainwater will not linger, freely flow down.
“Clamshell” - folding chair
Such a product is used both at home and when going outdoors, it is easy to fold it, removing it on the mezzanine when a chair is not needed, putting a car in the trunk, if you plan to go to the cottage or a forest picnic. When the house, apartment is very cramped, but the owners like to receive guests - this is generally an ideal option. Even four or six of these chairs will take up little space. To make such a thing is quite difficult: you need to clearly think over the design, which will easily be brought into the “working” position, pick up the most durable material that can withstand many folding-unfolding cycles.
Baby Feeding Chair
A "high" highchair is used both separately, with a removable tabletop, and as an addition to an "adult" dining table, it is usually made of wood, but equipped with a removable backrest and a "seat", which are easy to remove and wash in the typewriter. You can do an even more interesting thing: when the child is very small, it will be a high chair with a dining surface, but when the baby turns two or three years old, the structure is disconnected, getting a small chair with a table of the appropriate height.
Transformer chair made of plywood
The transformed product is both a highchair and a step-ladder having two, three or more steps. It is especially convenient when used in rooms with high ceilings, where many things are stored on the upper shelves, which cannot be reached simply by standing on the floor. There may be several options, but the chair is most popular, where part of the seat is attached with butterfly loops, which allows you to turn the chair into a ladder with just a few light movements. The design has relatively many parts, so it has a solid weight.
When designing, manufacturing a frame, it is important to make it as stable as possible in any of two positions.
Stool
A stool is a chair without a back, the most simple design to manufacture. The stool is made standard, children's, bar - of the appropriate height, decorated with a soft seat with a cover, which is easily replaced for washing. The product is made folding, used for a bath, with a storage box, and in the presence of certain carpentry skills, you can make a step-stool.
Master class: self-made chair
Before you create full-fledged chairs yourself, it is better to draw a diagram, think through the drawing of each part separately, make a small layout. Joiner tools, all the necessary materials, it is advisable to purchase in advance - in the future they will be needed to create other furniture, interior items, decor. In professional workshops, work is carried out on high-quality equipment that allows you to give the perfect shape to any part, but at home you can work with simple tools.
Materials, tools
The following tools and materials will be required for work:
These tools are necessary when wood, fiberboard, and MDF are used as material. If you plan to manufacture a soft construction, you also need scissors for cutting fabric, a sewing machine, a sharp knife for cutting foam rubber, other stuffing, threads, needles, and a furniture stapler. When the product is decided to partially or completely perform iron, glass, devices for cutting metal, glass will be required. For a folding chair you will need a metal rod.
The device of the chair - drawings, calculations
The most important point here is to accurately calculate all the sizes so that you do not have to redo them in the future. First you need to decide which product you plan to create:
The design of a full-fledged chair-chair sometimes consists of parts of 15-20. This is a lot of bars, boards, all kinds of planks that will have to be assembled together, customized to each other.
A sample list of parts on the diagram looks like this:
The back, including the soft back, is attached to the side abutments, the legs and the seat are connected to the frame drawers. Drivers are needed for structural rigidity, as are crackers installed in the inner, lower part of the frame. Armrests do not have to be made - this is a standard, integral element only for armchairs.
With a chair height of 45-60 cm, the armrests are made about 20 cm, the width of the seat is 40-55 cm, the height of the back is 35-55 cm. The bar stool is taller - 95-105 cm, its back is 15-30 cm, the seat is 30 -40 cm
Manufacturing process
The creation process itself looks like this:
Assembly, decoration
When assembling, it is important that the fasteners do not protrude too much above the surface, nor are they dangerous. The product should be carefully sanded, removing any irregularities, burrs, and coated with a protective compound. This is most significant when the furniture is intended for children, whose probability of injury is much higher, due to the high mobility during the game. All angles between perpendicularly arranged parts are made strictly 90 degrees - this is easy to check with a protractor, a square. A soft seat, the back is pulled over the finished frame or simply attached to the ties.
Decoration Methods
The decor of chairs, stools depends only on the imagination of their creator. The design can be painted in any color or even several at the same time, varnished, upholstered with fabric, painted with fantasy patterns, decorated with textured carvings. All work with strongly smelling compounds is carried out outdoors, in a well-ventilated area.To decorate the stool with carvings, you will need a set of special knives - oblique, semicircular, spoon-shaped, various diameters, etc. The decoration of the seat using decoupage technique looks great.
Do-it-yourself plywood transforming chair
To create a transformable plywood highchair, you will need an electric jigsaw, a sheet of plywood with a thickness of at least 2.5 cm, furniture hinges. The finished product is a backless stool, part of which is folded up, creating an additional step, with competent drawing up it is relatively easy to make a product with a back, armrests.
The simplest transformable design consists of two sidewalls, which are all four legs plus side supports of the back. The sides are cut at an angle of 70 degrees, in the middle of the parts with backs a horizontal groove is made where the seat will be inserted. Two recesses are also made in the back of the seat for mounting between the sides of the back. The board for the latter is mounted on spikes or screws. The two halves of the seat are connected with a furniture loop. To prevent the product from “opening” spontaneously, stops are made outside the lower part. The finished product is puttyed, sanded, varnished, painted.
Creative, original ideas.
There are a huge number of options for creating original, one-of-a-kind chairs, for example:
Conclusion
Creating beautiful chairs at home can significantly save on such furniture, to fully demonstrate their design abilities. With the simplest tools and materials, everyone can do it. Schemes, drawings, detailed workshops on the manufacture of this piece of furniture are available in many "paper" magazines related to hand-made, as well as Internet sites.