The furniture market offers a large selection of beds, but you can make this element of the interior yourself.
The article describes how to make a double bed from the available materials, components. Solid wood furniture can be inexpensive.
If you are a fan of the old fashion and at the same time have welding skills, you can make a bed in a country cottage, in a private house or in a city apartment from a shaped pipe, and decorate the headboard with decorative forging elements. We will consider a more affordable and simple option for creating bedroom furniture, and we suggest that you make a wooden bed from materials completely safe for health. Below are drawings of the simplest options that even a novice master can easily handle.
Materials and tools
You will need:
- assembly diagram;
- sheet plywood;
- MDF;
- PVA glue;
- wooden beam;
- Reiki
- they are insolent;
- self-tapping screws (70 pieces).
It will require glued pine timber with a smooth, flawless surface, 4 x 5 x 200 cm in size (14 pcs.). The size of planed battens is 2 x 10 x 200 cm (20 pcs.). Before making a bed, you need to buy a sleeping mattress 160 x 200 cm, already make a base for it.
Double bed assembly
The rectangular frame is assembled from beams. It is necessary to take three bars on each side, fasten them together in height. The result is an equilateral rectangle. If there is concern that the mattress will not enter, it is recommended to assemble the frame with an allowance of 1 cm on each side.
2 bars with a cross section of 4 x 5 cm, 162 cm long (ends) and the same parts 201 cm long (sides) are laid out on the floor, smeared with PVA glue. Immediately after this, a second row of bars is laid on top. Then all the details are fixed with screws. You can not allow the warping of the bed's crowns, they should turn out to be perfectly even.
For accuracy, it is recommended to measure the length diagonally with a tape measure.
At the corners, the parts are connected using metal ties. When tightening the screws, the glue that did not have time to seize will come out through the holes, so the wood should be cleaned of its excess.
The assembled frame can be set aside, proceed with the creation of an orthopedic rack base from treated boards 2 cm thick. The slats must be reinforced with a stiffener, it should extend along the center of the bed along its entire length. There must be a minimum of 2-3 legs. It is also necessary to make 4 legs for the frame. Subsequently, they are installed in the corners, securely fixed with fasteners.
For a bed of boards, you need a base of slats or lamellas. The supports are made of wooden beams. The beam is cut into segments corresponding in length to each side of the bed. The support bars are mounted at the level of the second row of the frame along the entire inner perimeter. The thickness of the support element is sufficient so that a thin rack base is located on it firmly and reliably.
It is recommended to plan the length of the rails with the expectation that a deformation gap should be formed between them and the frame, preventing cracking of the natural material, eliminating its creaking. Reiki is best fixed at a distance of 20-30 cm from each other. The step between them should be the same, a template may come in handy. The rails are fixed using self-tapping screws that twist along the edges to the base and in the center to the stiffener. After that, a homemade bed should settle for several days until the glue completely dries.
The following is a decorative treatment. First, all the details are sanded with a grinder or grinder, including a nozzle with large grain. Then, using fine-grained emery, fine grinding is carried out along the wood fibers.
After grinding and polishing get rid of dust generated during processing. In the room in which work with paints and varnishes will be carried out, it is necessary to do wet cleaning.
The furniture is primed to protect the wood. On top in stages in 2-3 layers with a spray gun, providing uniform coverage, varnish is applied.
You can use a brush with a thin pile.
In the process of varnishing, the bed must be turned over, let each layer dry.
Head assembly
To work, you need a sheet of dense plywood. The result is a plywood element that does not have a special mechanical load. Its durability is quite enough. Also need a dense upholstery fabric, foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, furniture stapler with staples.
The required size rectangle is cut from the plywood sheet with a jigsaw. A layer of foam rubber of any thickness similar in size is laid on top of it. Foam rubber can be laid with synthetic winterizer. Then the headboard is pulled by furniture upholstery.
A piece of fabric should go at least 15–20 cm onto the back wall.
When fixing the upholstery with a stapler, it is necessary to ensure uniform tension of the fabric, without creases, ugly folds on the front surface. The headboard is attached to the wall or body of the bed. In the first case, the part is equipped with special ears-loops. They are hung on self-tapping screws installed in the wall. If the headboard is fixed to the back of the bed, holes are made in its lower part, as in the base of the furniture. They tighten the screws, clamped with nuts.
The same scheme can be equipped with a headboard and a single bed. Curly headboards decorated using the carriage screed technique will look good. In this case, a stencil, furniture buttons, decorative nails are required.
There are many types of carriage screeds, if you wish, you can choose the one that will decorate the bed, emphasize the style of the room, make it more expressive.