In this article I want to tell you how to make a built-in wardrobe with your own hands. The procedure is quite laborious so that read everything carefully and strictly follow the instructions.
If in your apartment all the existing cabinets and chests of drawers are already occupied, but there are things that need to be placed somewhere, the best way to solve this problem will be the manufacture of the built-in closet by yourself. Moreover, independent manufacture of furniture will cost much less than buying it in a store or performing an individual order.
Determine the location of the cabinet
Initially, determine the location in which the built-in closet will be located. In modern interiors, a niche is often provided from plasterboard for a built-in wardrobe. It's also possible to make a cabinet in the whole wall, it will also be built-in.
If you do not have a built-in closet cabinet, then you do not need to cut anything in the walls.
Drawings and schemes
Then, based on the dimensions of the niche, its length, width and depth, draw a sketch( drawing) of the future closet. This document should take into account such issues as the number of sections, the number of shelves, the distance between shelves, the width and height of sections, and also provide for additional options, such as a mini-bar or a niche for a TV.See some drawings of the cabinets of the compartment, made by yourself.
Photo 1. Drawing of the middle cabinet of the compartment 
Photo 2. Drawing of the narrow cabinet of the compartment 
Photo 3. Drawing of the cabinet of the coupe 
Photo 4. Drawing of the cabinet of the coupe 
Photo 5. Drawing of the cabinet of the coupe 
Photo 6. Drawing of the cabinet of the coupe Necessary materials
After thatas the drawing of the cabinet is ready, it is necessary to calculate the amount of necessary material and furniture accessories and purchase everything necessary in specialized stores. By the way, many points selling chipboard( material for making doors, walls) can cut a whole sheet of chipboard at the size specified by the customer. In this way, you will receive the door, wall and shelves of the future built-in closet.
If you want mirrored or glass doors for the future of the closet cabinet, then you will have to order them in advance, it is unlikely that there will be stockpiles in your store with your sizes.
Among other things, you will need a roller system and accessories( handles, fasteners, rivets, corners).Benefit in the construction market of their huge number.
Preparatory work for
Before starting work related to the assembly of the compartment cabinet, the niche space should be prepared in the most careful way. The preparation consists in leveling all the walls, floor and ceiling of the niche.
Alignment is carried out with the appropriate building mixtures intended for puttying. They are prepared according to the instructions of the manufacturers' factories, and then by means of a spatula they are applied on the surfaces that require alignment.
After drying the putty, the aligned surfaces should be treated with antiseptic compounds, if desired, the walls of the niche can be painted with water-based paint, which has the same color as the chipboard of the future closet.
Assembling the compartment of the compartment
It's quite easy to assemble a compartment cupboard with your own hands. Installation begins with the installation of a sheet of chipboard, which performs the function of the floor structure. Its installation requires careful alignment, since the appearance of the entire future structure depends on the accuracy of its horizontal position. Horizontality is verified through the building level, if necessary, wooden stands of appropriate dimensions are inserted in the required places.
After the bottom sheet has been installed, it is necessary to proceed with the installation of the side walls and partitions of the various sections. All these structural elements are attached to the bottom sheet by means of corners and screws. Corners are better to choose metal as they are stronger than plastic ones.
The stage of assembling the base of the structure ends with the installation of a top sheet of chipboard, which is fixed to the end of the side walls and partitions of sections with the same corners and screws. After collecting the box of the future cabinet, it should be inserted into the niche and secured to its walls. This will require the effort of several people who will place the base of the cabinet in a pre-prepared place with a perfectly horizontal bottom plane.
The fixing of the structure to the side walls is performed by drilling holes in the side walls of the cabinet and part of the wall of the niche and then fixing it with dowels of the appropriate size.
The next step is to place the horizontal shelves in accordance with the previously developed sketch of the compartment cabinet. In general, the installation of horizontal elements can be done in two ways.
- The first way is more time consuming and time consuming, it provides for the installation of shelves in the body of the structure after it is already fixed in the opening of the niche. In this case, to the side walls and vertical partitions, the furniture corners intended to support the shelves are fixed in the desired location and the shelves are mounted on them.
- The second method involves making the necessary number of holes in the side walls and vertical partitions, as well as the holes in the ends of the side elements, before starting the assembly of the base. Shelves are installed in their places by means of a groove-spike connection, the operation is performed at the stage of the base assembly. This method guarantees a higher accuracy of the installation of the shelves, however in this case the overall weight of the structure is significantly increased and, accordingly, when placing the base in the opening of the niche, more people will need to work than when installing the base without shelves.
Which method is more preferable is the matter of your choice.
Next, the installation of mirrored moving doors on the guides. Guidance and moving rollers should be purchased from a store selling furniture accessories. From the solid guide strip purchased in the store, two strips of the necessary length should be cut out for subsequent fastening at the bottom and at the top of the cabinet base. Fastening is carried out taking into account the parallelism of these elements, by means of self-tapping screws.
Now about the doors of the .Doors, like all other elements, can be cut from a single sheet to the appropriate size at the stage of acquisition of raw materials. Mirror of the necessary size on the surface of the door is fixed by means of a device called "liquid nails for the surface of mirrors".I think, it's not worth talking about that the mirror was fixed exactly.
Movable rollers designed to move the door along the guide are fixed in certain places of the door - in its lower and upper part with self-tapping screws. After all the doors are prepared, they have mirrors and rollers, you should install them on the base.
Thus, in the process of manufacturing a wardrobe with your own hands, there is nothing complicated. All that is needed is imagination, the availability of skills in carpentry and a great desire.
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