How to assemble a chest of drawers

The commode in the house is a practical and multifunctional piece of furniture. Currently, thanks to the availability of a variety of materials for sale, furniture items can not only be purchased in ready-made form, but also made independently. This will significantly save money, because the furniture made by themselves will cost several times cheaper than purchased in the store. And also in this way you can design products that fully correspond to your preferences and the general interior of the room.

Design features

The chest of drawers is a piece of furniture that can be placed in any room of a dwelling. The forerunner of the chest was an ordinary trunk, but he had some inconvenience of exploitation. This was the reason for the transformation of the chest, the formation of some new elements in it, resulting in the appearance of such a piece of furniture as a chest of drawers. It was a small cabinet with two doors and drawers. With the passage of time, the design was perfected and chests with a mirror or dresser-secreters began to appear. To date, it is a versatile roomy piece of furniture used to store a variety of objects.

It organically looks like in the living room environment, as well as the nursery, bedroom or hallway. At the same time, the chest of drawers is a functional place for storing things where you can conveniently place perfume, books, shoes care products, cosmetics, clothes and other necessary things. This design will ensure the order, wherever you put it.

Materials for the manufacture of chests of drawers are various:

• wood;
• MDF;
• chipboard;
• different metals;
• stone;
• the glass.

Development of the project and drawing

1. Design of the future interior subject should begin with the definition of the place where it will be placed.
2. It is necessary to measure the size of the required space, and in addition take into account the placement of sockets, switches, skirting boards. The chest of drawers should be placed so that these objects do not interfere with its functioning.
3. After this, you should determine the size of the chest. Optimal dimensions of the construction are 800 mm in height and 800-1200 mm in width.
4. At the design stage, choose materials. Thus it is necessary to consider such moments:

• the product made of natural wood, will have considerable weight;
• when using the materials of chipboard and MDF chest is much easier. In addition, the manufacture of furniture from these materials will be much cheaper.

1. The chest will be assembled according to the drawing scheme. You can make a drawing with a ruler and a pencil, and you can do it by means of special programs in electronic form. These are programs like AutoCAD and Compass 3D.The electronic drawing makes it possible to determine the size of each individual element. The front section, the side and top of the chest should be shown in the drawing.
2. At the next stage of the assembly of the chest by the instruction you need to determine the size of the necessary parts and make a list of them. It should be borne in mind that when determining the size of the facades of boxes, it is necessary to provide clearances for indentations between them.

For example, if in accordance with the drawing the facade size of the future chest is 1100 mm x 167 mm, a gap of 3 mm in height should be left. In addition, you need to remember that the edge will add thickness.

After drawing up the scheme of assembling the chest and a list of all the necessary elements, in accordance with this, we prepare the details. You can apply for help in a company that specializes in sawing chipboard and manufacturing facades from MDF.Such services are offered by all enterprises that sell particle boards.

If you have the skills of working with a circular saw, the parts can be made by yourself. For this, in addition to the saw, you will also need a special disk, which is necessary for cutting the edges of the plates of the two planes.

Mounting the case of the

If you have all the parts, you can start assembling them into the finished product.

For work it is necessary to prepare:

• screws;
• screwdriver or screwdriver;
• nails with a big bonnet.

The process of assembling the chest takes place in the following order:

1. First of all, we collect the case of the product. Using nails, attach the back wall.
2. If it is not possible to build a wall from one piece of material, it is possible to use two elements connected by means of polymeric docking parts.
3. For attaching the parts to each other, a furniture screw is used. In the edge of one fragment, in a place that is equally remote from the two edges, it is necessary to drill a blind hole having 4 mm in diameter.
4. Then take the part that we will attach and make in it a through hole of 7 mm in diameter.
5. Screws placed in the material from the front side of the structural elements should be closed with plastic linings.
6. Then attach the top cover with steel corners, for the attachment of which wood screws are used.
7. On this body is assembled, you need to move to the assembly of boxes.

Assembling boxes

As a rule, the installation of boxes is more labor-intensive than the assembly of the case. The drawer consists of the following elements:

• bottom;
• facade;
• side walls.

Since there are several such components in the design, before assembling the chest drawer, it is important not to get confused in the constituent elements and to number them. Then perform the following actions:

1. To set the bottom, you need to make the cuts in the bottom of the walls, the depth of which is 10 mm, and the width will be equal to the thickness of the bottom.
2. To attach the face piece you need pair of screws with an eccentric. As a rule, complete with self-tapping screws, there are turning nuts with a slot on the side wall.
3. To connect the parts to one of them, install the screw and perform the fixation by turning the nut.
4. The lower fragment of the screw will be installed in the panel from the inside. And the upper part, having a head, is inserted into the rotatable nut.
5. To make the movement of the drawers easy, it is necessary to install rollers on the inside of the box walls. Find such details will not be difficult in any retail outlet that sells furniture accessories.
6. For fastening to the strips, you need to apply glue, and then install them on the bottom of the boxes.
7. After the glue has dried, the boxes should be placed in the frame of the product.
8. At the final stage of the assembly process, we set the knobs. To do this, attach them with screws from the inside of the drawers.
9. At the end of the assembly, you need to check whether the boxes do not interfere with each other's use.
10. In case of insufficiently smooth operation, the strips must be ground using sandpaper or a plane.

Original chest of drawers from old suitcases

The manufacture of such a chest begins with the execution of the frame. Its size is determined by the number of suitcases to be used. The material for the frame can be plastic, boards, metal, chipboard or plywood. Finish can be done with a varnish or paint, the color scale of which is suitable for the interior of the room. Features of designing such a chest are as follows:

1. To ensure easy extension of the suitcases that perform the function of the boxes, you need to install the walker bars inside the frame.
2. It is recommended to coat them with varnish - this will make the extension process even easier.
3. Two slats are required for the operation of one box. Before installing, you need to remove the covers from the suitcases. Their bottom should be strengthened with the help of plywood, which must first be cut out according to the size of the walls and bottom of the suitcases.
4. You can make such a chest even more effective by decorating it with the help of the "decoupage" technique.
5. You can also glue the product with a cloth or a self-adhesive film.

Chest in the interior of the premises

In the bedroom, the chest of drawers, as a rule, is used for storing clothes and bed linen. Therefore, for this room, it is advisable to prepare a large chest of drawers. For a children's room, designs with changing tables are used. Also in the child's room you can choose a chest of drawers with various fairytale plots. This piece of furniture will be useful in the kitchen or in the dining room. It is convenient enough to store dishes, and also use it as a cupboard.

In the bathroom, this piece of furniture is good for storing bath accessories. And if you choose it in accordance with the color scheme of sanitary ware, it will help create an exquisite interior. However, one must take into account the fact that for this room it is necessary to make a chest of moisture-resistant materials, for example, MDF or colored plastic. In the chest of drawers you can store not only clothes, bed linen or dishes, but also ornaments. For this purpose, a small chest of drawers with a mirror is suitable.

Conclusion

The chest of drawers is a roomy, practical and versatile piece of furniture. It will find its application in the premises of any destination. A simple design, consisting of available materials, allows you to build it yourself. The assembly process involves several stages. However, before assembling the chest of drawers, you must familiarize yourself with the instructions in order to design a functional and aesthetic piece of furniture.

Instructions on how to assemble a chest of drawers on video can be seen below: