How to make a baby bed with your own hands

Factory cribs are quite expensive, and are purchased for the short period, while the child is growing. It is possible that the furniture that descended from the assembly line is beautiful and high-quality, but it is mass-produced and there are many such models. The original and strong children's bed with their own hands is not very difficult to make. First, determine the size, and purchase a children's orthopedic mattress.

Create a model and sketch out the scheme before starting to make a baby bed with your own hands, photo options and schemes, you can peek on the Internet. Correctly selected materials and competent assembly will allow you to make a baby bed better and more interesting factory. A unique atmosphere of peace and comfort will be appreciated by your child and wife. How to make a baby bed for yourself, we will consider in this article.

Details of the baby bed

1. Mattress - good, orthopedic buy in the store. Remember that in the period of growth in the child, the spine and skeleton are formed and strengthened. You should not save on the child's health. From the size of the mattress, all future work is planned.
2. The frame is the base of the bed, calculated based on the size of the mattress. For its production, a planed dry board is suitable. Its thickness should be at least 2.5 cm, and the width is not already the thickness of the mattress.
3. The lamellas are a lattice made of slats enclosed in a frame or sheet of thick plywood( 20 mm) with ventilation holes of 40 - 50 mm in diameter, mounted in the bed frame and supporting the mattress from below.
4. Sidewalls - perform the role of safety fencing. Varieties of sidewalls very much. From trellised from a beam and racks, to continuous from plywood or chipboard.
5. Byltza - traditionally lower in the foothills than in the headboard. For them, you can also use chipboard, plywood or wood.
6. Feet - sometimes they are spliced ​​and are in the monolithic plane of the sidewalls, and are often attached separately. They can be bought in a furniture accessories shop or made independently of a wooden beam.

Cradle for a crib

1. Frame frame for a mattress, in fact - a wooden rectangular box made of boards or boards made of laminated chipboard. The width of the board is calculated depending on the thickness of the mattress. Given the fastenings for the lamellae, the mattress can protrude over the top edge no more than 5 cm.
2. If the crib is folded, then the two longitudinal sidewalls of the box can be attached to the tenants. They are hung on special furniture hooks for beds. You can buy them in the furniture accessories store.

Children's mattress mattress

1. The lamellas are designed to support the children's mattress in the carcass base of the bed. The frame is measured along the inner perimeter of the frame and is assembled from a bar of 3x3 cm. The frame is sewn with a 5 cm wide slab, 0.5 cm thick and with a step of 5 cm.
2. The second option is to pile a plywood with a thickness of 1.5 - 2 cm on the frame.", 10-20 ventilation holes are made, 4-5 cm in diameter and uniformly distributed along the plane.
3. On the inner side of the frame box, a fixing bar 3x3 cm or a metal corner is sewn.

Legs for a child's bed

1. Legs for a baby crib can be purchased in a store of furniture fittings or made of a wooden beam. The bar will fit 5x5 cm, it can be slightly pierced by a trapezoid. The legs are fastened to the corners of the frame box, and fixed by through fastening bolts with a diameter of 8 mm.

Razor and sidewall for a baby bed

1. Figures are used in the past and side walls, made of solid laminated chipboard or cohesive board. According to the drawing of a child's bed - the sketch is transferred to a sheet of chipboard and cut out with electric jigsaw. If desired, you can cut out curly details for the baby's bed of the machine.
2. Sidewalls and counterparts from chipboard, fastened to a wooden frame with the help of eurocompanies. Angle joints are not joined by a wooden stud. For this, holes are drilled in the end face and the mating side of the sidewall and the bargain, the stud is greased with the PVA glue and the planes are joined. For tight jointing, the joint is pinched by a wooden kyanik.

Baby bed with drawers

1. Practical and convenient to make a baby bed with drawers. In accordance with the drawing, a child's bed with drawers make a frame. Choose for drawers suitable for size and color facades with handles. They can be cut from the chipboard or bought ready.
2. On the sidewalls and the rear wall a board about 1 cm thick with a slotted cut for the bottom of the box is suitable. The bottom is made of fiberboard or thin plywood. The pull-out drawer, assembled on the confirmations and wooden studs, is equipped with guiding rails on the side panels.
3. There are several types of guides for drawers. Depending on your desire, you can choose roller or sliding guides. You can make primitive guides from racks or corners, but they are not very comfortable.
4. In the furniture fittings store, it is better to choose the guides for the complete drawout of the drawer. Equip them drawer for a child's bed is not difficult. The guides are divided into two parts. A wide bar is attached to the sidewall of the frame box, and the narrow strap is screwed with small screws to the sidewall of the drawer. Boxes are inserted in their places.

Visually see how to make a drawing of a baby's bed of a car and collect it can be seen on the video.