If you ever thought about how how to make furniture with your own hands , but did not dare because of fear that it could cost more than buy in a furniture store, then this article will convince you of the opposite. By independently assembling any piece of furniture according to the drawings, which today are fairly easy to find on the Internet, you will save half or even more of the average cost of the product.
How to make furniture with your own hands
Have you ever thought about how furniture is made to order? If in your view this process is related to the direct sawing and fitting of the laminated boards of the EAF by the master who undertook the implementation of your furniture projects, then you are only partially right. Master, to whom you entrusted the order, is engaged only in removing the dimensions and directly assembling the already finished parts. Such a work is possible for anyone who knows how to use a drill, roulette and at the same time is able to think clearly technically.
To interest you even more, I will tell you what the cost of furniture ordered by you is: 50% of the money goes to purchase the material, cut it and trim it( the edge ribbon label), the second half goes to pay for the master's works. As for me, they grab a rather fatty piece at a time. That is why I decided to deal with the issue, , how to make furniture by myself in more detail.
Assembling furniture by yourself - computer table
I decided to start small and try to make a small computer table. I found a suitable model on the Internet, adapted it for the dimensions suitable for me and divided it into constituent parts. Details turned out a little - according to my calculations 12 items. Each of them carefully copied, put all the necessary dimensions and, even as a professional, took into account the thickness of chipboard slab.
With all these drawing drawings, I went to a local organization engaged in the implementation of furniture chipboard and all the necessary accessories, which I was told by acquaintances. What there is not: kitchen countertops, sliding systems for sliding-door wardrobes, and even ready-made doors for any lockers. In general, design, how much your heart desires!
The friendly staff looked at my "Fibkin's letter", drove all the details into the computer and after a couple of minutes I was told the cost of manufacturing all these parts and necessary for the assembly of accessories. In fact, it was 40% lower than the cost of the finished product in the online store. But that's not all, since I get a whole sheet of chipboard, which measures 2800x2070mm, then there is a lot of waste. As the employees of the furniture company told me, they are enough for one more exactly the same computer desk."Well, do not waste the same good - consider making two sets," I said. As a result, the money spent on making two identical computer desks, divided into two, showed that the cost of one of them is only 40% of the declared in the online store. True, not weak!?
Here it should be noted that even if you are not able to design the furniture yourself, but you have at least an idea of how it should look, then specialists of such enterprises will do everything for you, having spread out your furniture by separate components. In most cases, money is not taken for such work.
Assembling furniture by yourself - computer table
Assembling furniture with your own hands according to the drawing
In general, within a week the parts were safely manufactured and forwarded home for final assembly. To be honest, I thought that I would have to suffer, I even wanted to invite my friend, so to speak, with a common collective mind combined with the Russian traditional "tea party", to solve the problem of making furniture with my own hands once and for all. But the week of waiting, while the parts were being manufactured, was not in vain - everything was carefully thought out, and at the time of delivery of parts of computer tables, I was already 100% sure that I would completely master the self-assembly without external interference.
How to make furniture with my own hands
Everything happened as I expected, and after three hours the first piece of furniture came off the assembly line - a computer desk made by myself. The assembly of the second copy of the time took less than exactly half.
Now the question has become a little different - why do I need two identical computer tables? Without a friend it was not done - his younger generation just needed such a product. There and went a duplicate after the evening gatherings with shish kebabs.
How to make furniture with your own hands
There is only one thing that remains unclear - why are the masters who are engaged in not even manufacturing, and ordinary assembly of furniture, get such huge money from us? Personally for myself, I have already decided - the next set of furniture, too, will do it myself. First, I will be 100% confident in quality and, secondly, I will do exactly what I need.
Author of the article Vladimir Belov
