A children's room is a small world of your child, in which comfort and a little fairy tale must definitely reign. In addition to toys, a convenient upholstered furniture, a physical education wall and other little things, a compact desk and a children's rack for toys or books should occupy their honorable place in the student’s room. Without this interior item in the baby’s room is practically not.
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Requirements for children's racks
Spacious and functional - children's racks in their design are able to save space in the room or vice versa, expand and decorate it. In this compact cabinet with many shelves and partitions, you can place all kinds of children's crafts, photos, toys and favorite table books.
There are many different models of racks for children's rooms: among them, corner - perfectly filling free corners, playing - for example, in the form of train or multi -colored houses.
When choosing a children's rack, you need to pay attention to its compliance with such requirements as:
- not toxicity. Children's rack should be made of environmentally friendly materials. Experts recommend using natural wood and MDF (stoves made of pressed wood chips);
- ease of use for the child. It is desirable that the height of the rack corresponds to the growth of the baby, the boxes are easily opened, and the color did not irritate children's vision;
- health safety. When choosing a rack to the children's room, it is better to avoid models with sharp corners, glass and poorly polished surfaces. The rack should be strong and stable;
- functionality. It is better to purchase spacious furniture where you can distribute books, toys and things.
Examples of children's racks can be viewed in the photo:
Materials for the manufacture of racks
Owning the elementary skills of using building tools and theoretical knowledge on the assembly of furniture, it is quite possible to make a beautiful, high -quality, strong and practical children's rack with your own hands.
You can make a rack yourself from:
- natural tree;
- plywood;
- mDF sheets;
- Chipboard;
- thick cardboard.
To help in the manufacture will be a standard set of tools:
- screws of different diameters;
- self -tapping screws;
- screwdriver;
- saw;
- building level;
- pVA glue;
- hammer.
Performing a finished rack for a children's room is better than ordinary oil paint.
Children's rack manufacturing technology
To start work, you need to provide yourself with such tools:
- one sheet of wood -fiber material of medium density (MDF) and high density (FEP);
- screwdriver, drill at 12, 5, 8 millimeters;
- electric jigsaw and wood saw;
- construction level, roulette, pencil ruler;
- eskaric paper and rags.
Before starting work, it is necessary to draw a sketch of the future rack. For example, this option:
Stages of manufacture and assembly of a children's rack with your own hands:
- First of all, it is necessary to cut the materials for the frame. For shelves and partitions, it is better to use MDF, and fiberboard - for the frame and rear wall of the rack.
- With a pencil, mark places for holes in the places of attaching boards among themselves. About three holes on each side.
- Two holes are made in the corners of the structure for screw screeds (conformarts) and screw them.
- Fasten the details of the rack frame.
- Choose the diameter of the drill along the diameter of wooden fasteners (doughs). In the ends of the details, make holes 25 mm deep and insert the doughs. In the planes, the depth of the holes is 10 mm.
- In the same way, in other details, drill holes for doughs and combine the first row of parts.
- For fastening the second row of parts, it is necessary to drill holes with a depth of 46 mm.
- To connect three parts, two doughs are used. In the upper plane - a hole of 25 mm depth. Two lower parts must be drilled simultaneously 46 mm (24+22).
- The last row of the rack is made on the principle of the first. Spguses are inserted into the holes and parts are interconnected.
- To give the fortress the entire structure, on the end side of the rack, it is necessary to screw the configurates (two pieces for each shelf).
- The collected rack must be painted. To do this, disassemble it on the details and paint each with white acrylic paint (or any other color).
- When the details dry, collect the rack again and attach the back wall to it with screws.
- A beautiful and strong rack for the children's room is ready. You can move it to a convenient place and fill it with things.
Wooden children's rack for books
Children's rack for natural wood books is, of course, the most environmentally friendly, strong and durable option. You can build it yourself under a single condition - the presence of tools and the ability to own them. Experts recommend installing wooden racks in spacious rooms, since in a small room the wooden structure will look bulky.
For such a rack, the use of red tree is suitable, which meets all quality parameters.
The technology of manufacturing wooden rack should be performed in the following order:
- Design on paper a sketch of the future piece of furniture. Determine the dimensions of each part.
- For a larger capacity of the cabinet, make its shelves higher and wider.
- Transfer the sketch to the tree and cut the parts with an electric jigsaw.
- The assembly must start with the base. Self -tapping screws with a length of 3 cm will help to fix thick grounds. Vertical long partitions of the future rack are attached to the base.
- Fat plywood is better for shelves. Cut it into details, and mark the places for cams (wooden latches) on the sides. It is important to remember that such wooden latches crash on only one side of the board.
- When connecting the boards, use PVA glue with each other, for reliable fastening. Additionally, fix the shelves from the outside of the rack with self -tapping screws.
- After assembling all the parts, it is necessary to attach the platbands so that the rack looks more attractive.
- The rack can be fabbed and varnished, or painted if desired.
DIY CTLLAGE for a children's room
The cardboard rack is less practical than a wooden one, but in this case, such a piece of furniture will serve as a decoration of the child’s room and a convenient stand for not heavy things.
Make pretty children's bedside tables and racks in the form of animals very fashionable recently. Why not experiment and construct a rack in the form of an elephant.
The technology for manufacturing a rack for a children's room made of cardboard consists of the following stages:
- To begin with, on the album sheet, you need to make a sketch of the details of the elephant with all sizes. The dimensions of this model (VHDHSh) - 82x110x52 cm.
- On sheets of three -layer cardboard, draw a conditioned grid consisting of rectangles, A4 sizes.
- To project a sketch of the elephant on the cardboard and cut the parts.
- For the strength of the design of all parts, it is better to cut out each part of two or three copies.
- When all parts are cut out, and all the slots are made, you need to fasten them together.
- First, the legs of the elephant are composed, then the body, horizontal shelves, ears.
- The details are fastened with PVA glue.
Making a rack for the children's room will not be difficult. The main thing is to make a competent sketch, correctly cut out all the details and fasten them, according to your own instructions. You should not invent complex structures, you just need to creatively approach the task and show a little imagination. And at the end of the assembly, a homemade rack for the children's room can be embellished as you like, fill it with various children's things, books and toys.