How can you spice up your dacha by bringing something new to its interior, and at no extra cost? There is an option to update the furniture, create a new exterior, using such an original and environmentally friendly material as wood. Experienced designers believe that wooden garden furniture is practical and functional. We will talk about original ideas for furniture for a summer residence with our own hands in our article.
Wood is a good material
The decision to change something at your dacha in terms of updating furniture periodically visits summer residents. There are some new ideas for arranging a summer cottage and a home. Recently, outdoor sofas and couches have begun to appear in garden plots and dachas, on which it is pleasant to lie down in the shade or sunbathe in the sun. And why not, because they have at their disposal such a wonderful material for country furniture, like wood, from which home craftsmen willingly make furniture for home and summer cottages with their own hands.
Very often the most interesting ideas are embodied from simple items located in the country house in a barn or garage. This, of course, is primarily wooden boards, slats and bars,round blanks (for the legs of tables and chairs) purchased in hardware stores or left after construction or repair. A wonderful help for summer cottage furniture are ordinary wooden boxes in which fruits are stored, wooden cable reels and, of course, pallets, from which furniture made for summer cottages fits perfectly into its exterior. Exclusive furniture is obtained from cutting wood.
Preparing the tree for work
Before you start making your own wooden furniture for a summer residence, the source material should be prepared. To make the product last longer, you should choose wood from trees such as birch or larch. If the boards in the pallet are to be used, you need to disassemble it with a nail puller and a hammer, without violating the integrity of the boards. Next, clean and sand the surfaces of the boards. Grinding is done with a drill with a special nozzle or sandpaper manually (but this process will take a long time).
If you need to fix some minor flaws, such as cracks and chips on the boards, you need to use wood putty or plaster as a putty. Depending on where the manufactured furniture will be located, the boards must be treated with impregnation and antiseptic. This will give the finished product water-repellent properties and protect against harmful insects and fungal diseases. The next step is to coat the boards with an oil or acrylic primer. With such ready-to-work boardsyou can start work on making your own furniture for a summer residence.
Bench for giving
Even making an ordinary country bench is a creative process. You need to understand that this is not only a place where you can sit, but also some part of the country interior. Benches, chairs, tables can be made using boards prepared for work, well-preserved wooden fruit boxes, or logs available in the country. Inside a country house, perhaps such chairs made of logs will look out of place, but as an outdoor option they are perfect.
To make wooden furniture for a summer residence with your own hands, descriptions and diagrams are not needed, you can simply use, for example, a photo that clearly shows the stages of work. Made of logs, the bench will look great somewhere under a spreading tree, and will give a nice personality to this seating area. In order for it to serve for a long time, all sections of wood must be sanded, treated with a primer and varnished for external work.
You can also take an old but strong stump to work, if there is one in the country after cutting down the old tree. From it you can make a leg for a table in the garden or adapt it under a stool. For more comfort, you can sew a small pillow on the stump.
Barrel chairs
If there is an unclaimed old wooden barrel in the country house, you can give it a new life in the form of a table by installing a table top made of wood on it. Having made a cut along the height of one third of the barrel and installed inside itshelves, you can get a great bar or use a barrel in the form of kitchen furniture. With your own hands for a summer residence, you can make two chairs from the same barrel by sawing it in half. The seat can be made in the form of a cover, and a wooden circle can be nailed to the base of the resulting chair.
Sun loungers for summer cottages
This type of furniture, like a deck chair, is a necessary thing for a summer residence. We can say that this is the most comfortable lounge chair in which you can truly relax thanks to the floor lying position of the body. In addition, it is a spectacular exterior element that emphasizes the style of the suburban area. And, of course, the best material for its manufacture is wood.
Undoubtedly, such simple, hand-made furniture for the country house (photo below), like a deck chair, is made folding. In summer, it can be used outdoors in a garden or near a pond located in a country house, and in winter it can be stored assembled, for example, in a pantry.
For the manufacture of a deck chair, rounded wood blanks for the base, and bars, the length of which is equal to the width of the deck chair, are suitable. The number of bars is taken depending on its configuration and the thickness of the bars themselves.
In addition to a stationary deck chair, you can make such furniture for a summer residence with your own hands, like a rocking chair. It must be strong and not loosen when swinging. To properly assemble this chair, you need to work with the drawings, which show the angle of rounding of the platform, the angle of the backrest, and the dimensions of the bars to the smallest detail.
Rocking chair fromcable reel
Old wood cable spools are an inexpensive and versatile material that can be used to create a variety of DIY garden furniture for indoor and outdoor use. If you're lucky and got a big wooden cable spool, you can make a rocking chair out of it as one of the options.
Perfectly round spool shape gives smooth back and forth motion. Its middle is cut off, decorative sidewalls are made of circles, connected by tongue-and-groove boards for the seat and back. The rigidity of the structure is ensured by tightening in several places with metal rods. The boards at the bottom of them are supported by a metal chain. Stoppers on a rocking chair can be made from rope, but the best option is turned wooden blocks nailed to the stops.
Cable reel table and outdoor sofa
Another option for country furniture from a wooden reel is a table that does not need to be made. The coil is stable on its own. But decorating the countertop, you can show originality. It would be nice to install a large beach umbrella in the center that protects from the sun, and complement this ensemble with chairs made from bars, or a round blank and a seat cut from any material.
From such a coil and a grooved board, you can make a street sofa, in which circles cut along the chord will serve as sidewalls. The work on creating a sofa is identical to how the rocking chair was made, only the sides in this casewill be cut off on the floor. The grooved boards should be equal in length to the length of the sofa. An outdoor sofa made from these materials looks creative.
If you have several wooden coils, then you can create an original corner for relaxation in the country from the furniture components listed above.
Table of boxes
Do-it-yourself furniture for the garden and cottages will not require special costs. Even from such a seemingly junk thing as a construction container, with skillful hands you can make original furniture. Having inspiration and a desire to do something unusual, you can safely get to work.
The most ordinary table is obtained from four wooden garden boxes that are used to store fruits in them. First of all, the wooden boards of these boxes must be well sanded inside and out, so that with further use of the finished product, do not damage your hands with splinters. Be sure to treat them with impregnation and primer.
Now you can start creating a coffee table. Its base is a sheet of plywood or chipboard. It has a square shape with a side equal to the length of the box plus its height. The table can be mounted on legs or casters for easy movement. The whole technology of making the table is perfectly visible in the photo. The finished product can be opened with stain and varnish. In this case, the table will fit into any interior of country housing. Can be painted with paint as a design option.
Pallet - material for furniture
In the dachathe house, of course, should have sleeping places. If there is a need to replace an old bed, the best option would be made from wooden pallets. Creating furniture from them is not a new idea. Interior furniture designers have drawn attention to this type of material, because it is a real, environmentally friendly, durable untreated wood.
Recently, there are quite a lot of original compositions of country and garden furniture. And these are not only benches, coffee tables, shelves, beds and couches, but also other interesting furniture for summer cottages made from improvised materials. With their own hands, according to the descriptions with assembly diagrams, any home craftsman can try to create such furniture, even without special skills. Having become acquainted with the video material of the master class on the manufacture of a particular product on social networks, you can safely get to work.
Cottage bed
The ease of execution and the lack of complexity of the process itself in making a bed from pallets and boards allows this idea to be realized. The bed can be child, single or double. If the home craftsman has enough pallets at his disposal, you can make a two-level bed - a good option for summer cottage furniture. To this bed, you can make a headboard from wooden bars. On the opposite side of the bed, a good option for country furniture would be a back in the form of open shelves, the purpose of which can be different.
The frame for a bed made of pallets or bars is made as the basis for a mattress,and has advantages over the factory frame. This base is much cheaper than buying a finished frame. Four pallets are needed for the bed frame, for which you can spend a maximum of 400 rubles or spend nothing at all if they appeared in the country house when it was being built, as an option for building containers. Money will also be needed to purchase varnish, paint, impregnation and primer. Every zealous owner, both at home and in the country, probably has the tool necessary for creating furniture.
The natural colors of the planks and joists allow the made bed to match the rest of the room's décor, as long as it is also done in wood color.
Bedside tables for summer cottages
Bedside tables, made in the form of high stools, serve as a place for a table lamp, book, telephone. And by the way, at the right time they are used exactly as stools. For their manufacture, a lot of material is not required - these are bars for legs and a tabletop made from any material at hand. That is, design options for making furniture for a summer residence with your own hands are enough to stop at the most acceptable one.
New life for old furniture
If you have old furniture that has outlived its useful life in an apartment or in the same dacha, you should not dispose of it. She'll still do great. And it will continue to please the owner in the form of updated wooden furniture for summer cottages. With your own hands, you can, for example, make kitchen cabinets, racks and shelves out of it. If the secondary raw material for processing has becomean outdated wardrobe, its side or front parts can be used to create a dining table for the kitchen. From the bars, a frame is made for the tabletop of the required dimensions, to which the table legs and the tabletop itself are attached.
Summing up
It is hoped that some of the ideas listed in the article will inspire many home craftsmen to create furniture for a summer residence using all kinds of improvised wooden materials. Not only is the manufacturing process interesting, it also allows you to give the tree a new life. And in the country, hand-made furniture will look much more harmonious than factory-made furniture.
