Wooden furniture has always been in great demand among consumers. This is quite understandable. Wooden furniture has an attractive appearance, exclusive design and high environmental friendliness. Many owners of their own homes are interested in the question of how to make furniture with their own hands. A wooden structure can, of course, be ordered. But if you create objects yourself, you can bring to life the most original and daring ideas. Let us further consider how wooden furniture is made by hand.
General information
Making wooden furniture with your own hands may well turn into a creative hobby. The resulting masterpieces will be able to take their rightful place in the apartment or in the country. Created wooden furniture with your own hands can be a wonderful gift. Designing items for yourself is considered more of a creative process than a technological operation.
The benefits of homeproduction
Do-it-yourself wooden furniture is not only the pride of the owner of the home. From simple bars and boards, you can construct a lot of necessary things: from a stool to a bed or wardrobe. The most important thing is that the items made by yourself will fit perfectly into the existing interior. It is also important that the manufactured furniture will be exclusive. After all, its own schemes will be used in its creation. And, among other things, during the manufacturing process, you can practice carpentry.
Preparation of tools
There are various devices with which wooden furniture is assembled with your own hands. Here you can not do with one hammer and chisel. You will need a jigsaw, cutter, screwdriver, drill, planer. A high-quality and easy-to-use tool is needed not only in the process of preparing elements. Special devices are also needed for decorative trimming of legs, frontal parts, drilling for fittings. The final result of the work, namely, the appearance of the furniture, depends on how high-quality the tool used will be. All devices can be divided into 2 groups: manual and electric. With their help, you can not only assemble, but also repair wooden furniture with your own hands. Let's take a look at them briefly.
Electric Tools
Do-it-yourself wooden furniture is assembled using the following tools:
- Circular saw. This tool is used to create cross cuts and clean cuts. Wood is cut with a circular saw, elements and figured blanks are processed and manufactured.
- Planer. This tool is needed for surface treatment.
- Electric hacksaw. With it, you can cut thick and large bars, as well as metal profiles. This tool is needed for rough processing of material.
Hand tools
- The simplest is considered an ax. With its use, you can split a tree, trim, chop. The carpenter's ax must be properly sharpened. If the chamfer of the tool is concave, it will bounce off the material, thus reducing the quality of work.
- The tongue and groove is used when sampling at the edges of the grooves.
- The end planer is needed for processing end elements, respectively.
- Humpback (type of planer) is used when working with curly (oval, cylindrical, convex, concave and other) surfaces.
- The staple is used in the manufacture of gutters of different radii and sizes.
- A jointer is needed for planing and leveling a large surface.
- A set of chisels is used for artistic carving. A straight chisel is used to clean up the background, a “jamb” is used to make geometric patterns. Cranberry is used to create the necessary relief. To make three-dimensional elements and cut through the contours, use knives -joints.
Work plan
First of all, you need to draw up sketches, according to which wooden furniture will be assembled with your own hands. The drawings must contain all the necessary dimensions of future structures. It is advisable to schematically draw the location of objects in the interior. If complex structures are to be assembled, sketches can be drawn up in several projections. After drawing up the scheme, you need to start preparing the material. Wooden furniture, made by hand, should look neat. Therefore, it is necessary to pre-process all the details, the areas of their connection. The joints and dimensions must be accurate and consistent with each other. Elements can be fixed using metal corners. The decorative processing of objects is considered a very crucial moment. Here you need to be extremely careful. Experts recommend first practicing on samples, outlining the boundaries of the intended thread.
Console table
For the manufacture of this item, plywood is needed, the thickness of which is 1 cm. It is advisable to immediately glue the ends of the sheet with a self-adhesive film. You can iron narrow stripes with a flat heavy object (an old iron, for example). Before starting work, plywood should be carefully sanded. Its surface should be smooth and even. The drill then needs to drill holes in the connection areas. Self-tapping screws will be screwed into them. The table will consist of 3 wide parts, made up in the shape of the letter "P". For greater resistance to eachthe element should be screwed on 2 narrow boards. For better docking, two to three centimeters should be retreated from the edges of the plywood. A thin narrow rail is glued on the sides. It will hide the joints. For fixing, PVA or simple wood glue is suitable. On the underside of the tabletop, pre-prepared metal corners should be fixed. They are fixed with screws. After lubricating the joints with glue, attach the countertop to the supports and pull both sides at a right angle. For greater convenience, rollers are screwed to the legs at the bottom. Drill a hole according to the shape of the wheel. The roller is fixed with bolts, which, as a rule, are present in the kit. Here you should try to fix the elements on the same level.
Hanging rack
To make its design light, it is better to use plywood. Shelves are prepared according to the expected number. 4 holes are drilled in each element at a distance of 2-3 cm from the edges. After that, the shelves need to be coated with water-repellent paint. Its color is selected in accordance with the scale of the interior. To fasten the shelves together, you will need two strong and long ropes. They are threaded through the holes, cross at the top. Under the bottom shelf, tightly tighten the knots. Next, you need to prepare small wooden sticks. They are needed to maintain the same distance and fix the shelves at the same level. Sticks are inserted between the threads of the rope. Hanging rack is ready. It can be hung on the wall andstore a variety of items on the shelves: pots of flowers, books, vases, photographs. The design will perfectly fit into almost any interior. This rack can be any size. But at the same time, the design does not take up much space.
Do-it-yourself wooden furniture restoration
Sometimes you need to refresh the items in the house, breathe new life into them. Do-it-yourself wooden furniture restoration is carried out according to a specific plan:
- Elimination and subsequent replacement of old fasteners, hinges and other things, if they have become unreliable.
- Removal of the old coating. You can use special compositions for removing paint. With the help of such a solution, the coating is quickly removed from the surface. If there are metal parts in the structure that have been touched by rust, they should also be treated with special cleaning compounds. If necessary, you can clean the surface with a stiff brush. After removing the coating, all parts must be quickly rinsed under running water. Do not leave wooden elements under the jet for too long. Otherwise, water will be absorbed into the parts and they will be deformed.
- Drying. It should be done as outdoors as possible. In this case, you should not place elements under scorching rays.
- Putty. It is not needed in all cases. For example, when restoring oak structures, putty is not used.
- Painting. Acrylic can be used as a coating. This composition, among other things, will protect parts from destruction. Do-it-yourself painting of wooden furniture can be done with a brush, roller or aerosol can. As a rule, the coating is applied in 2-3 layers, each of which should dry well.
