Stool with his hands: how to make a banquette for the kitchen?

Of all types of upholstered furniture for decades, has not undergone a radical design, in fact remains stool. Yes, this is the puff - soft stool, covered with cloth, stylish decorating the hallway or another room. He will always be in fashion, because it is not just a stylish accessory, a practical thing, which can be added, for example, footwear or children's toys. Stools in the kitchen are very common: to sit on them convenient and comfortable. Almost every furniture manufacturer to offer its own version of stools, but it's worth it sometimes does not come cheap. And if there is a desire to economize money, and most importantly, to translate their ideas into real business, why not try to do it yourself?

What makes banquettes and what form they could be?

Any stool - a platform-based, manufacturing mainly from the wooden frame. Puffs like any upholstered furniture manufactured from several types of materials: some carry out a role carcass others serve as a finish stools. One of the goals of self-assembly is a cheapening of production. So, if we consider, among other tree containing all the materials, we can distinguish several types:

• particleboard;
• plywood;
• furniture panels.

The cheapest and most easy-to-material processing can be considered as plywood or chipboard.

Filling and finishing of foam used and the actual fabric, for example, velvet, but go easy and c / b, in principle. Here is where you can express themselves and Designers at the same time, choosing not only the color and type of skin, but also to the future shape of the seat. It all depends on the purpose and use of the premises where the stool will be located. For example, if stool is intended for the kitchen, its shape may be elongated, round or polyhedral. For a child's room is better suited a broad platform on a solid base. A hallway can choose any option, but more practical to use strict proportions.

By design, divided into open banquettes and ottomans with storage compartment options.

In our case, we consider the process of assembling their own square stools made of plywood having a box and covered with a velvet cloth on the foam rubber. All of these further materials are affordable and easy.

What is needed for assembly?

In addition to the material, we need more and Tools: measuring tape, hacksaw, screwdriver (drill), hammer, knife stationery, stapler and paint brush. All work on the cutting material on the frame is better to produce on the bench, at worst, collected his own hands the temporary table will replace it to you. In should be selected as the consumables:

• along the length of the screws 15 and 50 mm;
• piano type hinge;
• Drill for wood or metal, with a diameter of 3 mm;
• bracket 15 -25 mm;
• paint (stain).

Plywood for banquettes you can choose the cheapest, since all defects will be hidden under the cloth covering. But with the thickness should be careful not to choose plywood thinner than 12 mm.

Same with foam, five centimeters is enough, the remaining money is better to put on a beautiful and expensive velvet. Yes, and we need to base a number of boards (bars) cross section 25 x 100 mm.

In order to make the assembly benches in the home, you first need to cut out the plywood templates. This must be done from a cardboard or fiberboard, to the sides and lid (saddle). Based on the purpose banquettes, the size of its dimensions may be different. So, for the kitchen, it is desirable to have a height of 50-60 cm and a low hallway at 40 cm. Based on this parameter, to produce templates to sidewalls 10 centimeter considering cradle (platform). Then you can finally decide on the size of the lid and the bottom.

Steps of manufacturing benches

1. frame assembly with the inner painting.
2. Stand Assembly and its painting outside.
3. Mounting the cover on the frame.
4. Upholstery foam and cloth.
5. Installation of the stand.

All domestic masters when trying to do furniture the hands, Including benches, allowed a number of errors. They are sometimes not so great, but still degrade the quality of products. This, above all, the method of assembly. When it comes to plywood, do not forget to drill holes for the screws, otherwise there is a split of layers of veneer, especially on the edges of the blanks. Another knowledge gap is the lack of understanding of the assembly tolerances and trim cloth.

The lid must be adjusted strictly in size of the perimeter body, otherwise it will interfere with the skin to the level of the walls of the banquettes. All are cut-to-size fabric upholstery should tuck under a centimeter, setting the stage for the opposite edge of the blanks.

frame assembly and Stand

Gather on the bench of the square billets successively connecting them to the screws on the three pieces on each joint. Holding hands harvesting, aiming to collect them immediately flush on the edges. Cut the size of the bottom of the external casing the size of the bottom, without stool is little functional furnishings. Using the same screws fasten the bottom of the housing, whereupon the prepared stain color inside the box and place it upside down to dry.

Evidence to pouf must be less than the dimensions of the housing, approximately 2-3 cm. Sawed blank and connect them with screws, then it should also be dyed and dried for a while.

Mounting the hood

Before producing weighed lid saw off a piano loop size of about 5 cm smaller one of the sides of the housing. When mounted on the cover it with its edges should not be up to the outer walls of 2-3 cm, so as not to tear the fabric and did not hang around sharp corners. First take the cover and distributing the distance to edges of a piano lock loop on one of the edges of the workpiece. After, holding his hands a box and a fine example on the sides of the lid, screw it to any of the parties at the end of the sidewall. Thus stool should be located down to the bottom.

Paneling, foam and cloth

Boca boxes can be left without filling with foam, which is not desirable, but necessary roof sheathing them. If we use the foam to the sides, it can easily be fixed on the duct tape on the sides. The main thing that he was equal to the height of the housing. For covering boxes taken a piece of cloth, leaving their edges Height boxes of 2 cm. In any corner, even hands applying it to the body and with the help of a stapler hammered the folded fabric. Swathes of the carton and folded the back and then hammering staples stapler just on the corner.

Cutting the foam evenly on the size of the lid, put it on any quick-drying glue, and in accordance with the cutting height of the resulting fabric based inversion on the back of the roof of 3-4 cm. Alternately, starting from one end of the cover, obvorachivayte foam and fix it on the back of the plywood roof brackets.

Mounting stand

The time came when we can evaluate your efforts and skills. In general, stool is ready, it remains only to attach the base to the body. This is the last stage where the final assembly of pouf will be made by your hands. Pulling her hands on the box base, spread away from all 4 sides. From inside the drill holes for the screws and fix the stand. Well that's all, now you can easily self-assemble a few of these things and make sure that the production of stools - not such a difficult task. Collected by your hands, the original, with hinged cover, it can be used for any kitchen is not only a comfortable seat, but also an excellent time storage of vegetables or blanks for the winter.