Dressing table for the bedroom with your own hands

Elegant dressing table in the bedroom - a necessary and practical element of furniture. To make an original and authentic table for the vital needs of a woman is not so difficult as it may seem.

Dressing table in the bedroom should be harmoniousCombine in style and color with other furniture and interior. In order for it to become a truly functional and useful item, make a dressing table with a mirror.

Tool and materials for work

1. Drill, and better screwdriver with a 10 mm cartridge and a set of bits for assembling furniture and drills.
2. Electric jigsaw with canvas for chipboard. In many shops there is a paid service for cutting the chipboard.
3. Combination reversing screwdriver with a set of bits, hexagon key for confirmations.
4. Marker and awl for marking, roulette, ruler and carpentry corner.
5. An iron or a construction hair dryer, for welding a flat end band. Silicone adhesive for "P" - shaped profile and the flexible profile itself.

Fittings and fasteners for assembling the dressing table

1. In furniture stores there is a wide range of handles for drawers and front doors.
2. Loops, canopies and roller guides for drawers will be needed.
3. To assemble the cut-out elements of the dressing table from the chipboard, get confirmations( 5x70), wood screws( 4x25 and 4x16).
4. Plastic fasteners or special glue for fixing mirrors, metal corners, PVA glue, plastic decorative plugs for confirmants for the main color of chipboard.

Drawing and marking of dressing table with mirror

1. Choose the appropriate variant of dressing table. It can be with one cabinet or two. In one drawer you can mount drawers, and in the second draw shelves and front door. An important detail is the capacity of the dressing table. There are many options and drawings for the dressing table, photos of which are placed on the Internet.
2. Start working with the schematic drawing. Determine the place where the dressing table and approximate dimensions will stand. Plan the design of the table, better based on the size of the table top. A table top can be purchased ready-made in a store or manufactured independently. The facades for doors and drawers can also be bought or cut from the chipboard.
3. If you decide that the mirror will be fixed monolithic on the dressing table, then for the back wall is used chipboard and it becomes solid, as shown in the drawing. In other versions, the mirror can be fixed separately on the wall.

Marking holes for confirmations

1. A carpentry corner is attached to the flat side of the part. A pencil or marker is placed on the mark at the drilling site. Shilom pokes a point under the drill. Next, a thin perpendicular line is drawn to the edge and strictly vertical along the butt. The workpiece is turned on the back side and with the help of a corner, a notch is made on the opposite side.
2. On the front side, the markup is made easier. Perpendicular to the edge of the pencil notches are made. The center of the plane is measured and the coring is performed with the awl.
3. The hole for the confirmation is made with a 5 mm diameter drill. The chamfer( countersink) is removed with a drill 8 mm in diameter, to a depth of not more than 2 mm. In the end side of the part, the hole is drilled to a depth of no more than 40 mm. Forming and assembling dressing table
   1. You can independently cut the parts for assembly with an electric jigsaw, but you need high accuracy, cut cleanliness and observance of figured cutting. Self-carved face surfaces are subsequently decorated with a "P" -shaped edging or a flat ribbon trim.
   2. The texture and thickness of the chipboard, you will choose. The standard thickness of 1.6 cm, fully meets the technical requirements for furniture, the dressing table is no exception. The prepared parts for assembling the dressing table with their own hands are processed on the sides by sandpaper. Inevitable in such situations are chipped laminated coatings, later decorated with a face edge.
   3. The main frame of the dressing table is folded to the mating surfaces, centered on the holes and is made into pieces by confirmations. Hexagonal key number 6, confirmations are tightened until the gaps disappear between the mating surfaces and to the stable state of the structure of the dressing table frame.
   4. For more sturdy fastening, in the vicinity of the interface of the side walls and the horizontal plane, there are installed yokes and several metal corners.

   Assembly of drawers and mounting of front doors

   

   1. Side plates of boxes are drilled into the plane for confirmations, and the front and back walls are in the end. To the bottom part the bottom of plywood or fiberboard is pinned with small carnations and fixed with screws in steps of 5 - 7 cm.
   2. The side halves of the roller guides are screwed to the sides with self-tapping screws. A similar procedure is performed on the inner sides of the side walls of the thumbs. The guides are divided into right-hand and left-handed. It is important not to confuse them.
   3. For the installation of overhead loops, when making a dressing table with your own hands, you need a special Forstner drill, 35 mm in diameter. The hole under the hinge is drilled to a depth of 12.5 mm. It is important not to drill through the surface. In the cups are inserted overhead loops and fastened with screws.
   4. The holes for the handles are drilled on the facades of doors and drawers. This requires a 5 or 5.5 mm drill bit. Furniture handles are installed and clamped with a screwdriver.
   5. The mirror is attached using special plastic fasteners or glue. Now a special double-sided scotch for mirrors appeared in the building stores. Before final installation, make a careful marking of the mirror on the mounting surface of the dressing table.