Sofa for the kitchen

Comfortable small sofa, will decorate and will create a cosiness in your kitchen. It is not always possible to choose a suitable sofa for the kitchen in the furniture store according to taste or size. But there is a way out - to make a suitable sofa with your own hands.

A little skill, imagination and minimum costs are all you need to createown individual intimate corner in the kitchen. This is especially true for a small kitchen, in which standard sofas do not fit.

Advantages of the kitchen sofa

1. The advantage of this solution is that it is possible to obtain a kitchen sofa of the proper dimensions, which corresponds to the interior of the upholstery and is substantially cheaper than a ready-made sofa in a furniture store.
2. Moreover, you can show creative imagination and the kitchen sofa made by yourself will differ in originality and individual details of the design. Ideas of an acceptable sofa for the kitchen, you can peek at a photo on the Internet.
3. By its design, the sofa for the kitchen is not complicated. Two sidewalls of laminated chipboard and a robust frame made of boards, beams and fiberboard. For upholstery, foam rubber, barracks or imitation leather is required. The big advantage of a kitchen sofa made by own hands is that it will last much longer than bought in a store.
4. Pay special attention to the upholstery. In the kitchen, especially small on the couch, evaporation precipitated during cooking. Choose as an external coating - an easily cleanable material.

Preparatory work

Materials and tools

For the production and assembly of a mini sofa for the kitchen you will need:

1. Laminated chipboard on the sides, backrest and seat. Dimensions choose according to the dimensions of the sofa.
2. A beam with 4x4 cross-section for the frame base of the sofa.
3. Plywood 8 - 10 mm thick.
4. Foam from 5 cm thick.
5. Upholstery material( imitation leather, barracks or other)
6. Screws and Confirmates( Euro screws), bolts with nuts and washers 8 mm in diameter.
7. Pony loops for folding seats.

Tools needed -

1. Electric jigsaw, drill, wood hacksaw, screwdriver.
2. Building stapler.
3. Rasp, sandpaper, tape measure.

Drawing - scheme and cutting of blanks

1. First you need to sketch a drawing indicating all the dimensions. If you plan to make sidewalls from a solid chipboard plate, you can draw them on a large sheet of paper, in full size and on a scale to transfer to the surface of the chipboard.
2. Variants of drawings and schemes of small sofas for the kitchen can be found on the photo on the Internet. Dimensions for length and height are adjusted taking into account the peculiarities of your kitchen. Practically provide a folding seat, under which there will be a drawer for kitchen utensils.

Step-by-step instruction for assembling a small sofa for the kitchen

1. The main frame is assembled from the 4X4 beam. Conditionally the length can be taken 1200 mm, height 480 mm and seat width 400 mm. The front and back sides are sewn with plywood. The bottom is also made of plywood, but to fix it in advance, grooves are chosen or fastening is provided at the corners.
2. The frame is fastened with screws, stiffeners are added and the design is fixed in the corners by bolts.
3. The upper cover-seat is cut by an electric jigsaw from a sheet of chipboard not less than 20 mm and fastened to the piano loop and the backrest bases.
4. Sidewalls are cut out according to the pattern. They can be continuous or combined. This work is done by an electric jigsaw. All treated end faces are ground with a rasp and sandpaper. Decorated with a special face band. There is a large selection of trimmings of different widths and colors. As a rule, they are self-adhesive, but you can also use PVA glue.
5. Sidewalls securely attached to the frame bolts or confirmations. In the places provided for the backrest, the construction is pulled together by two bars.
6. The backrest is also cut out from a whole sheet of chipboard with a thickness of at least 20 mm and is attached to the bars. The kitchen corner consists of three parts. Two straight sofas - a long and short and a small corner connecting banquet. The principle of their manufacture is similar to the above.

Upholstery of the sofa surface for the kitchen

1. Foam is cut out for each part separately according to the specified dimensions. The surfaces to be treated are treated with sandpaper for better adhesion and foam rubber is applied on them.
2. For the backrest and seat, the overlapping end portion is made overlapping, approximately 20 mm and fixed by a stapler.
3. Patterns from the selected upholstery are cut out along the contour of the surface to be treated. For kitchen corners apply different coatings. Barakan, velor, leather or its substitute, etc. But you need to provide for the possibility to clean the couch easily and qualitatively. So in terms of hygiene, it is better to use a leatherette coating.
4. Ready-made patterns are attached with a stapler in 20 mm steps.
5. At the corners of the bottom or in the bottom of the side, put the legs. They are better to buy ready-made furniture accessories in the store. For a small sofa in the kitchen, the price for such legs is very low.
6. The finishing touch for a narrow sofa for the kitchen is the installation of armrests. For this purpose, in the cutting bars with a cross section of 4X4 ​​cm, a longitudinal groove of a groove with a width of 20 mm and a depth of 25-30 mm is made. So, that would be a bar of the armrest would sit on the sidewalk very tightly. The sample can be made a chisel or chisel, but it is better to punch in the carpenter's workshop.
7. Armrests can be beaten with foam rubber and covered with leatherette or covered with stain and varnish. The armrests sit on the glue and are additionally fixed with screws.
8. All visible heads of screws and confirmats are decorated with special plastic furniture caps.