Do-it-yourself simple furniture - ideas, tips and drawings from a famous architect
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LIGHT AND INEXPOSABLE FURNITURE OWN HANDS? IT'S SIMPLE!
We share with you ideas that can be realized, even if you have not yet had experience in this matter.
MATERIALS
To create original furniture, you can use boards, slats of crates, plywood, raw wood, remnants of boards, glass and much more, which sometimes has been gathering dust for years.
DETAILS
First of all, fasteners are needed - self-tapping screws or bolts. It is also recommended to buy glue or silicone sealant, which needs to process the most problematic areas of products, as well as those places that will be exposed to moisture.
We must not forget about the fittings - it includes different handles, hinges, and more. Self-adhesive films, varnishes, decorative waxes, which are used for finishing finished products, will come in handy.
The durability and excellent appearance of any furniture set depends not only on the material from which it is made, but also on the reliability of fittings. If you are planning to make furniture yourself, this issue should be given special attention.
The accessories happen two types: front and fixing.
The front is the legs, lining, handles and all those elements that are located outside the furniture. The fastener includes mechanisms for maintaining and closing the elements of the lockers: hinges, closers, latches, guides. But why the accessories of some manufacturers serve for years, and others - cease to work in a few months or even weeks?
To increase sales, some companies have focused on design and cheapness, but not on product quality. In pursuit of profit, manufacturers are trying to save on materials, they use thinner metal, cheap springs, rollers and other components.
As a result, having bought beautiful and seemingly reliable furniture accessories, in fact we get not at all what we expected. The plastic handles change their color from golden to green, the hinges begin to creak and close the doors of the lockers tightly, the drawer guides stop moving out.
Hardware Manufacturers
Before you go to the store, you need to figure out which manufacturers can be trusted. If we consider foreign companies, the first places in reliability and quality are occupied by the following companies:
AMIG (Spain). Releases fittings from 1940 year. All items are interchangeable. If necessary, it is possible to replace a specific part, and not the whole mechanism;
Blum (Austria). Founded in 1952, mainly specializes in sliding and lifting mechanisms for cabinets;
GTV (Poland). It produces more than a thousand different items of furniture accessories - from legs to mechanisms;
Hettich International (Germany).
Created in 1888 year, produces more 10 000 furniture accessories.
In BCNUMX, a subsidiary was opened in Russia.
But domestic producers are not inferior in quality of products and, of course, compete with foreign firms in price. Today, the most prominent are such Russian companies:
"Boyard". It takes approximately 30% of the entire Russian market of furniture accessories. Suppliers of this company are located in all major cities of our country; "Valmax". The company began production from 1999 year, specializes in facial fittings and fastening mechanisms;
"Polymerkomplekt". Produces fittings from 1996, the plant is located in the city of Kursk;
"TBM". I started working in 1993 year, the head office is in the city of Mytischi, but the plants and Representative offices of the company can be found in almost all areas of our country.
Rules for the selection of furniture accessories
When choosing accessories in the store, it is important to correctly evaluate its reliability. First we check the strength of the metal. We test the quality of the guides by bending: if a part bends easily, it will not last for a long time. Check how securely the elements are held in the mechanisms (1 photo).
You should also pay attention to what material the rollers are made of and how they are attached. The rollers are plastic or PTFE, are mounted on a sleeve or on a bearing. The best choice is guides with PTFE rollers mounted on a bearing (photo 2).
The reliability of the loops is also easily verified by a slight pressure. We clamp the wide part of the loop in the palms and with the thumb press on the round part that is attached to the wall of the furniture. If the loop bends easily, then, most likely, within the first month of use, it will begin to creak and close the doors loosely (photo 3,4).
© Author: Oleg Klyshko
TOOL
Useful screwdriver, drill with different drills, tape measure, hammer, chisel, square, electric jigsaw, plane, handsaw, pliers and nippers. Other tools may be required in the process, so be prepared for this.
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WHAT FURNITURE CAN BE MAKED - IDEAS IN ITS HANDS
If you are a novice master, it is better to practice on simple objects: make a small stool or RACKING ON THE WHEELS FROM THE RACKS OF A WOODEN BOX (Fig. 1).
Only after successful practice, gradually improving your skills, you can proceed to the design of more complex furniture, such as TABLE ON WOODEN RACKS (Fig. 2).
For the manufacture of TABLE ON METAL SUPPORT metal structures (fig. 3), glass of the desired shape, as well as wire or stainless steel cable for stretching and fixing structures will be required. All these items can be purchased at the building supermarket.
MULTILEVEL table (fig. 4) can be made of metal pipe and furniture panels or chipboard.
Interesting and easy STAND FOR STORAGE OF UMBRELLAS IN HALLS get out of the wire. In fig. 5 presents a variant of this design, which can also be used to store umbrellas in a vertical position. Aluminum wire is quite soft, thanks to which it is easy to give any shape. Then the resulting product can be painted black.
Figure 1 shows FURNITURE FROM MULTILAYERED Plywood. The principle of cubic forms makes it possible to assemble a variety of furniture configurations. A small wall shelf set (fig. 6) to which you can add simple chairs, in the same style. All connections of nodes are carried out using self-tapping screws, which connect the horizontal planes with the vertical ones through the corners. Then the product is coated with varnish.
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FURNITURE IDEAS
It is often necessary to hear that in the world of furniture it is difficult to think of something unusual, but it is useful at the same time. MOL, EVERYTHING ALREADY INVENTED: TAKE A PANEL FROM Laminated chipboard, DISCOVER AND DECORATE
CONFIRMES! I CAN'T AGREE WITH THIS. PRACTICE INDICATES THAT WHEN MANUFACTURING FURNITURE ALWAYS HAS A SPACE FOR CREATIVITY.
KITCHEN FOR LONG
When a Russian comes to Thailand, he will most likely go to the beach, and not to a furniture store. Meanwhile, in the stores from the series “everything for the home” there are also many interesting things.
Here, for example, the kitchen (photo 1, 2) is very original. Instead of a row of curbstones from chipboard, the base is folded from blocks and decorated with tiles. On top, as expected, the countertop is usually made of stone. Finished frames with facades are inserted into the doorways. These frames are sold nearby, in the same place - wall-mounted cabinets (photo 3), all made of solid teak. Teak wood is resistant to moisture - such that it makes decking on expensive yachts! In Russia, too, a tree of increased resistance grows - larch.
If you look at the cabinet, you can estimate how few blocks and tiles were used to make it. Usually, so much remains after repair and is thrown away. Yes, and teak products are affordable there (in Russia, for such a fully wooden ready-made wardrobe, we will give about 6000 rubles.) Such a kitchen will last for ages!
NOT ONLY FOR KITCHEN
Kitchen wall cabinets are now fashionable to provide elevator facades. Especially good, though not cheap, products from Blum under the general name Aventos. They smoothly open and silently close the doors.
The pleasure of using these accessories can be obtained not only in the kitchen, but also at the desk. How convenient, without getting up from the table, to get everything you need and remove the excess from the wall-mounted closet (photo 4)!
IN WARDROBE EVERYTHING IS SUITABLE
When arranging a new apartment, inexpensive furniture is often purchased for the first time. Of the well-known IKEA, for example. Then it gradually becomes clear where to place what furniture. Or even remove large-sized boxes from living rooms - which is even better! But throwing it all away makes no sense. So, for example, a chest of drawers from IKEA fits perfectly into the dressing room (photo 5) and even serves as part of the design.
UNUSUAL SUPPORT
In the arrangement of wardrobes, a revolution has occurred. There is no longer any need for bulky enclosures: it is more convenient to use storage systems — mounted or rack-mounted, with support on the floor. The basis of the rack system - racks made of aluminum profile. They are decorated with standard furniture edges. A typical representative is a system from Grandis.
This rack can be used in ordinary furniture. For example, at the rack, at the entrance to the room, the shelves of the extreme section have curves (photo 6). On one side, these shelves are mounted on a rack made of aluminum. And for fasteners, ordinary metal corners with a plastic cover are used (photo 7). Corners are attached to the aluminum rack using the supplied nuts from the kit. It is very fast and simple, and the location of the shelves can be changed.
If the racks of the dressing room still remain, then it is quite possible to build such a convenient rack in the country (photo 8).
A LITTLE OLD
Modern furniture is no surprise. And it happens that you want something in the style of Provence, although the designers say that there is no such style.
In this case, the “antiqued” accessories will help out: pin (or screw) loops, latches that justify their name because they really click, as well as stylish handles (photo 9).
But to establish such loops will not be easy. You need a jig for a drill or a homemade machine that drills precisely in a given plane (photo 10).
Details of the hull and facades must also match the style. A simple framework will do. In the photo 11 - gluing the frame element in Weima.
Of course, making them longer than taking a finished panel from chipboard.
Here is the wardrobe from the past (photo 12)!
© Author: I. Shkantov, Moscow Region
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Rescued shkanty!
During the reshuffle, one of the cabinet doors was damaged - a lower loop was torn from the wall. The husband tried to fasten it again, but due to the fact that the furniture was made of fiberboard, the holes became larger - and he did not succeed.
Changing the cabinet because of one door was not part of our plans. Rescued shkanty. The husband drilled the holes for the diameter of the chopik and inserted the plugs into them (photo 1) after having smeared it with PVA wood glue. When the glue is dry, screw the door hinge (photo 2). Repair is over.