DIY furniture - drawings and diagrams

If you are tired of the standard and tasteless furniture that shops and various factories offer in a huge assortment, try to make original solutions for your home with your own hands. Knowing all the intricacies of such a thing and competently approaching the creation of a table or cabinet yourself, you can get a chic result. It will become an original decoration of any room, will give the interior individuality and uniqueness. In addition, by creating such exclusives with your own hands, you can save a family budget. From this review you will learn how to create furniture with your own hands - drawings and diagrams will help you quickly understand the assembly of specific objects.

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Advantages and Nuances

Do-it-yourself furniture manufacturing, if it is not a simple stool from the school curriculum, is a complex and time-consuming process. At least minimal skills, and not just desire, will come in handy. It is worthwhile to learn in advance about the pitfalls that can be expected by the master, who first took up the manufacture of furniture with his own hands:

• We advise you to buy cheap materials and accessories only if you decide to practice making furniture with your own hands for a summer residence. If you plan to install a cabinet or a table in an apartment, then choose high-quality raw materials.
• Get ready for the fact that physically hard work awaits you, especially if you work with natural wood. Pine doors or even countertops will be far from light.
• It is professional furniture makers making furniture with their own hands takes little time. An amateur novice may need more than one day, and even more than one week to complete the work. Everything will depend on the complexity of your idea.

Important! Being engaged in the manufacture of furniture with your own hands and working with various tools, especially industrial machines, and they may be needed for wood processing, be extremely careful and follow basic safety rules. Otherwise, injuries cannot be avoided.

After reading, do not be scared and put off your furniture projects with your own hands in a long drawer. This process has its advantages:

• Most importantly, you have the opportunity to make your wildest dreams and ideas come true. Everything is in the hands of the designer, that is, you. In flight of fantasy, nothing and no one limits.
• You control the creation of wooden furniture with your own hands at every stage. You know how well the doors are screwed, how strong the cabinet box is. A manufacturer and a consumer in one person - a great combination to get the perfect result.
• You buy the materials and accessories for the manufacture of furniture yourself. As we have said, this is not worth saving. And that is also the advantage of the process. It is no secret that factory furniture, especially standard projects, are made using cheap fittings to reduce costs. Therefore, sometimes the doors of the kitchen set after six months of use begin to fly off the hinges.
• Even at the design stage, you can create not just one piece of furniture, but the complete furnishings of your apartment or house in the same style.
• An incomparable pleasure. When the process of converting sheets of particleboard into a specific piece of furniture is dragging on with the head, a person receives a lot of positive emotions. It’s great when a useful business brings joy.
• Like it or not, you save your family budget - not on materials or hinges, but at work. In addition, having mastered all the nuances of wood processing on various furniture projects with your own hands, you can make your hobby your main job and a source of good income.

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Creating Drawings

When creating wooden furniture with your own hands, drawings and assembly schemes will be required without fail. There is no need to rack their brains, the most important thing is to understand what principles are being worked on. And for starters, it’s worth creating the basis - a good and clear sketch. If you do not find one on the Internet or in the construction magazine, then try to draw it yourself, at least schematically.

Standard equipment manufacturer

Each manufacturer also makes drawings without fail for any set of cabinet furniture with his own hands. They contain:

• General view of the product;
• Assembly drawing;
• The list of accessories;
• Detailed drawings of all furniture panels indicating the location of the holes and their parameters; the panels also have marked surfaces that are subject to edge trim;
• Specification.

Important! In the process of making furniture with your own hands, some points can be excluded, but you need the general drawings of furniture, even the simplest one. The diagrams should indicate the parameters, the distances from one part to another, the connection, otherwise - you can get not furniture, but a set of curves made of wood.

Do it yourself design

When drawing up such a detailed plan, it is necessary to take into account the general principles that are applied by the masters of carpentry. Take, for example, the process of preparing for the manufacture of DIY furniture for the kitchen:

• If you are making a kitchen set or some kind of kitchen furniture, you need to know the length of the walls. Then the height of the walls of the room is measured.
• If the standard dimensions of kitchen cabinets are taken as the basis for the manufacture of furniture, they will be as follows: the height of the floor cabinet is 85 cm, the depth is not more than 50 cm, the width is from 30 to 80 cm.
• Wall cabinets are made either according to the same parameters, or in a reduced version.
• The distance from the wall cabinet to the floor is 65 cm.

These numbers are average. When creating furniture with your own hands, drawings and schemes should be changed for individual requests:

• For example, if the hostess, who will cook food in such a kitchen, is not tall, then the height of the table is best reduced for convenience in future use. A hanging cabinets set just below generally accepted standards.
• The next point is the amount of household appliances that will be installed in the kitchen. It can be a couple of devices that make life easier for the owners, or it can be a set of their dozen household assistants. And they are planned to be built in.

Important! All furniture drawings today can be created not only with a pencil and a piece of paper. On the Internet you can find many special graphic programs, even with a 3D effect, that will help not only to competently draw up furniture projects with your own hands, but also to present in a three-dimensional image how it will look in the end.

We are developing a kit

If you decide to make a furniture wall, a kitchen set or a whole set of children's furniture with your own hands, drawings and assembly schemes should be not only for the whole complex, but also for each item separately. All elements in this case are detailed, signed in component parts. For example, a kitchen cabinet is painted as follows:

• back panel - size;
• side walls - size;
• doors - size;
• shelves - size.

Important! Drawers are detailed separately. The mounting hardware locations are indicated. All dimensions are indicated with strict precision so that the drawings of the furniture are error-free.

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Wood materials

When a sketch is ready, for example, do-it-yourself children's furniture, drawings and assembly schemes are also completed, it's time to choose the right materials. Before you run to a hardware store, find out what raw materials are best suited for what purposes, how difficult it is to work with a particular material.

Types of wood

A variety of colors, textures and patterns of fibers makes this material interesting for some types of furniture.It is not surprising that most joiners love working with a solid wood array:

• The main plus - do-it-yourself wooden furniture is strong and durable. A chest of drawers made of such material can survive not only its owners, but also their grandchildren.
• On wood of any breed it is easier to correct scratches or bumps that inevitably appear during operation.
• This raw material does not release components into the air that could harm human health; wood is rightfully considered the most environmentally friendly material.
• Do-it-yourself wooden furniture makes the interior of any room more attractive and presentable.
• A table, chair, chest of drawers or a wardrobe made of real breeds becomes a comfortable item that has improved characteristics.

For the manufacture of wooden furniture with their own hands, two types of wood panels are usually used:

1. Solid, made from a single piece of forest and processed by a special method.
2. Compressed or glued, obtained by joining and further pressing thin boards. The result is a more durable and reliable material for making furniture with your own hands.

Tree species

Today, more than 40 species of wood are used in the manufacture of furniture, which can be classified as hard and soft wood. The latter - alder, poplar, aspen, is used for decorative elements and original facades that are not designed for high loads. But the first option will be considered more carefully:

• For the manufacture of furniture with their own hands, very often masters choose oak. Its fibers create a beautiful pattern on the surface, which only emphasizes the style of the interior.
• Creamy yellow with a touch of brown is typical for beech. This flexible wood is universal, because you can give it any, including rounded shapes.
• Pine is the cheapest and most affordable material. But, despite these qualities, it is in no way inferior to other breeds. Ideal for the design of any interior. In addition, this breed distinguishes its own unique aroma, which will always create a special atmosphere in the house.
• Another favorite material for craftsmen is cherry. The older this tree, the more beautiful and rich its structure. It is a pleasure, of course, not cheap, but the rich color pays off handsomely.
• If in your interior you see only luxurious brown shades, then choose a walnut. Do-it-yourself wooden furniture made of this material adds the most beautiful accents to the classic and modern space. And such an exclusive will decorate any interior.

We check the quality and correctly procure parts

It is wood because of its environmental friendliness that is most suitable for assembling children's furniture with their own hands. Drawings and assembly diagrams are also prepared at the stage of preliminary preparation. But the finishing part of the work should be given special attention:

• Pay attention to how the surfaces are treated. There should be no roughness and splinter. Sand all surfaces carefully when making your own furniture.
• All parts must be pre-treated with an antiseptic, because they will be in the children's room and create a special microclimate.
• Do it yourself wooden furniture in the nursery should be varnished and painted. Better opt for common colors. Since children often scratch and damage the surface of the same table, a quick repair will not work if the item is made in an exclusive pink and purple color.
• Another caveat - in such furniture it is worth making the corners rounded. So in advance you will avoid many childhood injuries, bruises and bruises.

Important! Too complex and elaborate designs in the manufacture of furniture do-it-yourself is better to avoid, the surfaces should be as accessible as possible for wet cleaning. Otherwise, the child will constantly have to breathe dust.

Work order

The main stages of the manufacture of wooden furniture with their own hands involve the following work:

1. Marking and sawing of wood material.
2. Processing of individual parts.
3. Making holes for a reliable connection of parts.
4. Staining with paints and varnishes.
5. Varnishing.
6. Furniture assembly.

Connection Principles

Do-it-yourself wooden furniture can have 2 types of connection - detachable and one-piece. The structure includes linear, planar and three-dimensional elements:

• Flat elements are special boards made of bars or battens.
• Adhesive structures with integral connections are used for the manufacture of table covers, door leaves and other household attributes.

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Analogs

Many craftsmen are engaged in the manufacture of furniture with their own hands from materials more affordable than wood. Today, several of them can be distinguished:

• Chipboards are the most common material in domestic furniture factories. Its plus is the budget price.

Important! The disadvantages of making furniture with your own hands from particleboard include harmful formaldehyde emissions, which are provided by the resin, which acts as a connecting link between sawdust and chips. But this is subject to low-quality products.

• “Sobrat” chipboard - the same material, only lined with a film with a melamine coating. This makes the sheets resistant to mechanical and thermal effects, allows you to create any color, texture and even imitate a real tree.

Important! Cons - all the same formaldehyde resins in the composition and the impossibility of fine processing due to the high density of the material.

• Another sheet material that is popular in the manufacture of DIY furniture is wood-fiber boards. They are obtained after steaming and grinding wood raw materials, which are also pressed. To give strength to the material, paraffin, ceresin and antiseptics are used. These plates are elastic, so they can often be found in the form of bent glued elements. Fiberboard is inexpensive, quite durable and has good thermal insulation.

Important! The disadvantages include the inability to use in rooms with high humidity - this leads to swelling of the material.

• An analogue of wood-fiber boards - MDF. The same material, but in an improved version. In the manufacture of formaldehyde resins, the content is minimal, therefore, environmental friendliness is high. Fine and uniform texture improves strength, resistance to moisture and fire. To these obvious pluses is added one more - the possibility of fine processing. However, when making furniture with your own hands from MDF, it is worth considering that such plates are quite expensive.

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Instruments

Making furniture with your own hands will require stocking up with a tool. You will need not only electrical, but also manual devices. A sample list of the most necessary is as follows:

• From a hacksaw is better to immediately abandon. Sawing boards or wood with it is long and difficult. In addition, in the end you get a torn edge.
• An electric jigsaw or circular saw will do much more for this job. True, it is worth considering that when working with a jigsaw without chips at the edges, you still can not do.
• To reduce their number, use an electric circulation. It is also useful to you for creating rounded corners of your own wooden furniture.
• The main tool that should be in the kit is a screwdriver. Having such a device in the arsenal, you can easily combine all the elements of future furniture together. It is worth complementing it with a set with various bits.
• Without a ruler, too, can not do. So that all the elements in the manufacture of furniture with your own hands turn out to be perfectly smooth, you need to use a metal meter and corner when cutting a chipboard sheet.

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Hardware

Do-it-yourself furniture projects of various kinds can be easily implemented, collecting elements not only with tools, but also with the help of good, high-quality fittings. Let us dwell on this issue in more detail:

• When connecting furniture into a single design, you can not do without screws. Before screwing them into the wood, drill holes in the place of the future connection.
• When working with furniture screws, it is better to put the screwdriver aside, and take a special hex key in hand.
• Wooden furniture with your own hands will look much more neat, if the upper part of the screws and screws is closed with plastic plugs, do not forget to buy them.
• The ends of the sawn parts are most often closed with a furniture end band. This plastic element is very flexible and is able to close even curved edges when making DIY furniture.

Important! For the same purposes, a melamine edge is also used, which is a laminated surface, on the back of which a thin layer of polyethylene is applied. Such an end strip is glued to the end of the furniture blank with an iron.

• PVC edge is also quite popular, which is more wear-resistant and durable.
• For drawers you will need special metal furniture rails.

Other accessories that are used to create wooden furniture with their own hands are various handles, legs, furniture hinges. The external elements in the shape and color of the furniture can be any, the main thing is that they harmonize with your interior.

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Stock footage

Making furniture with your own hands is a complex and time-consuming process. It is necessary to choose the right materials and tools, do not forget about the preparation of competent drawings. Knowing all the subtleties and nuances, you can safely try yourself in the carpentry. At a minimum - you will be able to independently create an original item for your home, at a maximum - you will find a new, interesting work that will appeal to you.