Furniture is soft with your own hands - quality, originality and uniqueness

It is enough to look around in your home, and you will most likely find broken furniture or decide that it's time to change something. It is not necessary to run around the shops in search of a modern sofa - from old furniture you can create an original, unique, comfortable and high-quality masterpiece. Even if you do not have any experience in repairing furniture, you can not worry - there are a lot of video lessons and books that will help you. The furniture is soft, with its own hands made, no doubt, will surprise your guests if they find out that you made it yourself. If you do not want to, you can not do furniture from scratch, but repair the old one, for example, change its shape. Thus, you can significantly improve comfort and emphasize your personality. But it is necessary to understand that this will not always happen. The reason for this may be a frame that will limit your capabilities. So, homemade furniture can not turn out the way you wanted.

With what it is necessary to begin?

It should be noted that if you do not have experience in working with furniture, then you can not immediately create something incredible and unrepeatable. To begin with, take on the simplest options and develop. It can be various designs of sofas, chair-beds, ordinary chairs, mattresses, kitchen corners, sofas and chairs. Naturally, you have to work and take time, but after that you will enjoy your creation for many more years. Before you begin to work, you still need to stock up a certain set of tools, upholstery fabric, accessories and supplies. All this can be found at home or purchased at the store. Well, if you want to change the design of the sofa in general, then you should look for the drawings of upholstered furniture.

A simple option

If you decide to do something with your own hands, then you should not save on materials. Otherwise, such furniture can not last as long as you would like, and it will not look very good. First of all, you need to choose a strong and high-quality foam rubber and fabric. The project itself should be as original and unique as possible, but if you like something from the store, you can try to create something similar or exactly the same. Choose a foam rubber special attention - it should not be very hard, or very soft. For example, you want to make a sofa that will be folded into a bed when the seats move up to the stop forward on the special guide bars, and the backrest easily rotates 90 °, and then stacks horizontally. Remember that sewing soft furniture can be done with a special machine, which you will definitely need.

How to create the first sofa

To do this you will need the following:

• For the base - a board thickness of 5 cm and a width of 15 cm. With the help of self-tapping screws, a base with a size of 190x65 cm is gathered. Remember that soft furniture with your own hands can not be made without a skeleton.
• The fiberboard is used for the bottom. The pieces of the sheet are attached from both sides by racks, and the legs are mounted on this structure.
• In order for the backrest to be soft enough, it is worth buying a wrapped in holofayber polyurethane foam. With this material and fabric, you can create one or another form of the backrest, which in its assembled state is positioned vertically, with a soft side to the top.
• The unfolding mechanism is the last step. In fact, these are simple loops that self-tap the base and back. It will be good if in addition you make from the chipboard side walls or build a wooden box.

An important role in this matter is played by your imagination. Choosing the upholstery and creating a sofa design, you can create something unique and unique. And when the guests come to you and ask you in which store you bought it, you can proudly answer that this is homemade furniture, and you made it personally. You can be sure, the surprise of your guests will not be the limit, and your home will be incredibly grateful to you.

Action plan

Before you start, make a small plan, in which try to calculate everything that you need, and find a scheme for future furniture. Your plan will include several stages:

• List of parts, materials, components and accessories.
• The first stage is the preparatory work.
• The second stage - the production of armrests.
• The third stage is the assembly of the frame (left and right parts).
• Upholstery (if it is a question of upholstered furniture). Fabrics for upholstered furniture should be hardy and durable.

Quality and economy

Advantages of such furniture is very much. First of all, it should be noted that you can save quite well. The creation of such a sofa you can do about 3-5 times cheaper than buying exactly the same in the store. But remember that you need to save with the mind, without losing quality. Do not forget that the furniture is soft, created by your own hands, maybe even better than the factory one, because you will independently control this issue. You will be completely sure that you use a dry bar, quality foam rubber and the like. So, your sofa will be exactly the way you wanted, created for the dimensions and needs you are interested in. Over time, if necessary, you can already without any problems make a constriction and save again. It is worth noting that such a soft furniture can make every person who has a small set of tools, and who has a minimum level of training behind him.

Conclusion

If you want soft furniture made with your own hands, it was more professional, then you will need to acquire the following mandatory tool: a jig-type machine (although it is possible without it, but undesirable), a stapler (the best option is air, Or manual), electric drill, electric jigsaw, sewing machine and sawmill. But if you do not have the relevant experience, then it is worth to listen to the advice of specialists - start with the overhaul of broken and old furniture. Thus, you can study its structure in detail and understand how and what was done. You do not have to deal only with your sofas, you can go to relatives or friends, and not only to please them, but also gain experience. Well, then you can even make money on it by repairing or creating your own furniture.