Wooden bed do it yourself

New wooden beds are quite expensive. Make a wooden bed, not difficult. Your bed, made by your own hands, will be adjusted for your taste and one of a kind. Wood, much stronger and better than chipboard or MDF from which most modern beds are manufactured. Wooden beds, in the photo, made ordinary people with their own hands.

The frame calculation is made on the basis of the sizes of the mattress. It is better not to save and buy a good orthopedic mattress in the store. Its estimated price floats within 200 - 250 cu. The mattress pad must be a minimum of two-layer 135 mm each layer and withstand at least 45 kg / m cubic. Conditionally calculations of the beds will be done with the parameters of 2000x1500 mm.

Materials and tools required for the manufacture of a wooden bed

For a frame, you can use a pine, beech, walnut, larch or other breeds of timber. Depending on the selected breed of wood, the price of a wooden bed is formed. Wooden beds from pine - combine a low price and good textural characteristics of wood.

1. Board 2500x300x20 mm - 2 pcs. For the side of the base.
2. Board 2000h300h20 mm - 3 pieces. on the head and the end face.
3. Bar 2000h40h40 mm - 5 pcs. for 4 carriers and 1 pc. to support and legs
4. Rake 1500h40h20 mm - 27 pcs. (25 + 2 slatted cover on the head mount boards)
5. Screws for wood and metal mounting bracket.
6. Carpenter's glue, acrylic or alcohol stain and varnish.

Of the tools you will need a small set:

1. Plane and sandpaper to edit flaws and defects carpenters.
2. Tape measure, a pencil, a carpenter's area.
3. Electrolovka.
4. Hacksaw on wood, a chisel, a hammer.
5. Drill or screwdriver, with a set of drill bits and bit.

wooden bed frame assembly

1. Measure again the size of his mattress. Located in skeleton frame he should be free, but without large gaps.
2. In size, cut two long boards sidewalls and two end. Make one is correct rectangle. Proper mounting is W - shaped compound with wooden spikes and eyelets. Sockets for such compounds can be hollow chisel or cut jigsaw.
3. Grooves are made of 2 - 3 cm in width and 5 cm in depth. Joiner's glue smeared eyes connected, aligned at right angles and fixed clamps until dry.
4. This design - a classic example of joinery connections. If you are hard to make the middle proushnoe connection can be mounted side wooden frame stud affixing.
5. For such a compound in the end faces of the boards and on its edges nasverlivayutsya mating hole diameter wooden stud. Holes and studs are lubricated with joiner's glue and collected in a box.
6. The easiest way to assemble a wooden bed base - with screws for wood and metal fix hand corner.

Installation and mounting legs on the frame

1. According to the figure - the scheme, cut to size bars are designed for legs. They are mounted on the corners of the bed outside, inside, or inserted into the frame.
2. In the latter case, it is better to apply for the construction of the profiled mounting assembly. This method is more reliable for such compounds and are not prone to loosening.
3. For a wide double mattress provides additional fifth leg, which is located in the middle of the frame. To this is attached another longitudinal board, which carries a fifth leg.

Lamellar frame under the mattress

1. Season mesh or grid, it is designed to not push for a mattress inside and sank to the floor.
2. On the inside of the frame, on the sidewalls and endboards, the mounting stop rail is stuffed. In height, make a markup at least 10 cm from the top edge. Around the perimeter, the rail is attached to a solid or dashed line. Instead of racks, you can fasten a metal corner.
3. From the bar, it is enough to take a cross section of 3x3, according to the inner size of a wooden bed frame from the massif, a frame under the lamella is made.
4. Plank (rake) is stuffed with dimensions of 1500x40x20 mm. The rail is attached across length and in increments from 5 to 7 cm.
5. If you stick in advance drawings, it is not difficult to make a wooden bed with your own hands. The next stage is the skeleton of the frame and the coating of it with varnish.

Finishing finishing works

1. In order to look beautifully in the interior, think over the color and tone of the coating, harmonizing with the surrounding environment.
2. Carefully squeezed and the stripped frame is impregnated with oil and covered with oil or pentaphthalic paint.
3. Before coating with varnish, the surface is given the desired tone by the vessel. The veil is applied evenly with a brush. After drying, the varnish is superimposed with a roller, brush or a foam tampon. It is advisable to apply at least two layers of varnish. The dried surface is polished with a felt or felt sponge.
4. For the head of the head and the style can be purchased in the store decorative panel stove. A carved wooden plate on your drawings, for a wooden bed, can be ordered in a joinery workshop.
5. Side horizontal boards, you can decorate the finished carved plate. Decorative elements, do not carry a special load and are attached to glue, small carnations or self-tapping screws.