Sofa for kitchen with their own hands

A comfortable small sofa will decorate and create a comfort in your kitchen. You can not always choose to taste or dimensions a suitable sofa for the kitchen in a furniture store. But there is a way out - make a suitable sofa with your own hands.

A little skill, fantasy and minimum costs - everything you need to create your own individual intimate corner in the kitchen. This is especially true for a small kitchen in which standard sofas are not suitable.

Advantages of kitchen sofa

1. The advantage of such a solution is that you can get a kitchen sofa of the desired dimensions that correspond to the interior of the upholstery and is significantly cheaper than the finished sofa in the furniture store.
2. Moreover, it is possible to show creative fantasy and the personally made kitchen sofa will be the originality and individual details of the design. The ideas of an acceptable sofa version for the kitchen can be spacked on the photo on the Internet.
3. By its design, the sofa for the kitchen is not complicated. Two sidewalls from laminated chipboard and reliable frame from boards, timber and fiberboard. For upholstery, foam rubber or leatherette will be required. The great advantage of the kitchen sofa made by their own hands is that he will serve much longer than bought in the store.
4. Special attention is paid to the upholstery. In the kitchen, evaporations allocated during cooking are deposited especially on the sofa. Choose as an external coating - easily clean material.

Preparatory work

Materials and tools

For work on the manufacture and assembly, a mini sofa for the kitchen will need:

1. Laminated chipboard on the sidewalls, back and seat. Size choose in accordance with the sofa dimensions.
2. A timing segment 4x4 for a sofa frame base.
3. Plywood 8 - 10 mm thick.
4. Porolon from 5 cm thick.
5. Upholstery material (leatherette, brank or other)
6. Screws and confirmities (Eurovints), bolts with nuts and washers with 8 mm diameter.
7. Piano loop for folding seating.

From the tools you need to have -

1. Electrolovka, drill, tree hacksaw, screwdriver.
2. Building stapler.
3. Raspille, sandpaper, roulette.

Drawing - scheme and cutting blanks

1. First you need to draw the drawing with the indication of all sizes. If you are planning to make sidewalls from a solid chipboard, then you can draw them on a large sheet of paper, in full size and on the pattern to transfer to the decorated surface of the chipboard.
2. Options for drawings and schemes of small sofas for the kitchen can be found in the photo on the Internet. Dimensions in length and height are adjusted with the features of your kitchen. It is practical to provide for a hike seat under which the kitchen utensil box will be.

Step-by-step instructions for assembling a small sofa for the kitchen

1. The main framework is going from the 4x4 timber. Conditionally length can be taken 1200 mm, the height of 480 mm and the width of the seat is 400 mm. Facial and back sides are shedding plywood. The bottom is also made from plywood, but for its attachment, the grooves are selected in advance or the mounting on the corners is provided.
2. The frame is fastened with screws, rigidity ribs are added and the design is fixed with bolts in the corners.
3. The upper lid is cut off by an electroll bison of a chipboard of a chipboard of at least 20 mm and is attached to the piano loop and the base of the back.
4. The sidewalls are cut on the lecture. They can be solid or combined. This work is done by an electrolybic. All treated end surfaces are grouped by rasp and sandpaper. Decorated with a special end ribbon. There is a large selection of tracing in different widths and colors. As a rule, they are self-adhesive, but can also be used by PVA.
5. The sidewalls are securely attached to the frame of bolts or confirm. In places stipulated for the back, the design is tightened with two bars.
6. The back is also cut out of a whole chipboard sheet with a thickness of at least 20 mm and is attached to the bars. The kitchen corner consists of three parts. Two direct sofas - a long and short and small corner bakenket. The principle of their manufacture is similar to the above.

Upholstery Sofa Sofa for Kitchen

1. The foam rubber is cut for each part separately by specified sizes. The processed surfaces for better clutch are treated with emery paper and foam rubber plain on them.
2. For the backrest and seating, the overlapping end part is made, approximately 20 mm and is fixed by the stapler.
3. From the selected upholstery material, patterns are cut on the contour of the treated surface. For kitchen corners, different coatings are used. Baratan, velor, skin or its substitute, etc. But you need to envisage the possibility of easily and high qualityly clean the sofa. So in terms of hygiene, it is better to use a coating from the leatherette.
4. The finished patterns are attached to a stapler in a step of 20 mm.
5. At the corners of the bottom or at the bottom of the sidewall, legs are put. They are better to buy ready-made furniture fittings in the store. For a small sofa in the kitchen, the price of such legs is very low.
6. The final stroke for a narrow sofa for the kitchen will be the installation of armrests. To do this, in cutting bars with a cross section of 4x4 cm, a longitudinal selection of a groove of 20 mm wide and a depth of 25 - 30 mm is made. So that the armrest bar drove into the sideline. The sample can be made by a bit or a chisel, but it is better to twist in the joinery workshop.
7. The armrests can be closed into the foam rubber and cover the leatherette or coat with mourn and varnish. Armrests are sitting on glue and are additionally fixed with screws.
8. All visible heads of screws and confirmates are decorated with special plastic furniture plugs.