Kitchen sofa do it yourself

Kitchen furniture should be not only beautiful, but also comfortable. According to the calculations of sociologists, it is in the kitchen who spend the lion's share of their free time. The kitchen rests, prepare, dinner, take guests. Comfortable and functional furniture will make the pastime in this room comfortable and enjoyable.

One of the most common objects of kitchen furniture is a kitchen sofa. Appearing in the kitchens in the second half of the last century, the sofas became quite popular. And this is no wonder. After all, it is much more convenient to sit on a soft seat closing on a comfortable back than a hard stool. On how to make a convenient and practical homemade sofa - further.

Selection of the Design of the Future Sofa

Before proceeding to the beginning of work on the production of the sofa with his hands, you must clearly understand what needs to be done. Shape, color, functional objectives should be defined at the stage of preparation. Of course, not everyone has the ability to design, to choose the right shape and color, but everyone can choose their most favorite model, and do the same, the benefit of various furniture magazines there are many.

The colors of the kitchen sofa should be consistent with the overall color scheme of the entire premises. Design and dimensions are selected depending on the available space and the location of future products in the kitchen. No reason to make a big and seemingly very comfortable sofa for 6 m kitchen ²If because of it in the room will not be too comfortable. In the manufacture of furniture with his hands is necessary to choose a less sophisticated models. So it is possible to save on material and manufacturing time. As a rule, a simple model - the most rugged and durable. If you have no experience, it is not necessary to undertake complex angular or folding design, you should start small.

Preparation of materials and tools

To build a simple couch for the kitchen with his hands need to purchase building material:

1. Wooden beam. The cross section of the beam must be at least 50-50 mm. Only in this case it can withstand additional loads. For the manufacture of the sofa is best hardwoods fit. When choosing a timber is necessary to pay attention to her condition. Bruce does not have knots, cracks, it must be properly dried. Particular attention should be paid to it bitches. In the area of \u200b\u200bfinding a tree has the lowest strength. At high load this timber can simply break.
2. Metal fasteners. To assemble the wooden frame of the sofa for kitchen use screws, SCREW. SCREW different from its screw thread and head shape, which is designed under the Allen key.
3. Plywood. Plywood is used for laying on the seat and backrest frame. Then it will be the basis for the upholstery of the sofa.
4. Foam upholstery seat and back. Simple foam is not very suitable for furniture upholstery. He quickly skomkivaetsya, forming gaps. And since the kitchen sofa is used quite often, with the usual foam rubber, he quickly will become worthless. Used for this purpose polyurethane foam with a density of not less than 32 kg / m ³. He long retains elasticity even with frequent use.
5. Upholstery fabric. It is better to use dermatin as the latter. The kitchen is a place of potential pollution. Stains from food, fat, drinks, etc. Capable in a few moments to turn a new beautiful sofa in perfect unattractive. If most stains can be simply removed from the leatherette surface with a damp cloth, then from other tissues to do it more problematic. You can make a combination of different fabrics, however, it is troublesome and can not get out too beautiful.

To carry out these works, you will need the following tool:

• Electrolovka.
• Electrolake.
• Drill.
• Screwdriver.
• Industrial stapler.
• Screwdrivers, wrenches and hex keys, tape measure, kitchen, pencil.

The process of making a simple sofa into the kitchen with their own hands

After cooking the drawing of a kitchen corner or sofa, as well as all the necessary materials, you can proceed to work.

Conditionally assembling the sofa for the kitchen can be divided into four main stages:

1. Build frame sofa. This is the most responsible step. From how qualitatively it will be made, its strength and durability depends. The main parts of the frame will serve three wooden frames. Two - for the formation of seating, one - for the back. The frames are collected from the bar and fasten with the help of self-tapping screws. To give them additional strength, the ribs of stiffness from the same timber are installed, and the corners are additionally enhanced with furniture steel corners. The size of the frame depends on the size of the sofa itself.
2. After graduating from the frame, they begin to form the seating. For this, the two frames are connected with each other with a bar of a bar up to 200 mm. There are no less than 8 such racks for the length of the seating in 2 m. They are connected using self-samples. When twisting the latter, it is necessary to be neat so as not to split the timber. To do this, make a rough run by a drill with a diameter less than the diameter of the self-press. Then the screw was screwed into the hole. In this case, the bar will not split. A sheet of plywood is laid on the surface of the seating. To the bottom, it is nailed with nails. It is on Phaneur that foam rubber will be laid for the sofa.
3. After the frame of the seating is over, side racks are screwed to it. They will also perform the function of the handrail. The rear racks are interconnected by the bar, which will perform the role of the stop (reference bar) for the back. The front and rear racks with each side of the sofa are connected to each other, forming the handrail.
4. The last step is set back. Her frame is stuffed, like on the seat, plywood sheet and the whole design is put in place. With the help of fasteners and corners, the back is fastened to the seat and the reference bar.

After assembling the entire sofa frame, it needs to be modified. First of all, it is necessary to smooth out all the sharp corners that can cause the tissue gust. It is also worth treating the tree with an antiseptic and varnish so that in conditions of high humidity of the kitchen, it served longer. In addition, the tree treated with varnish or verse looks quite attractive.

Kitchen sofa upholstery do it yourself

After the sofa frame is ready, it must be sewn. This is done using high density foam rubber. You can make upholstery in two ways:

1. Make removable covers on the pillows inside which the segments of the foam rubber are installed. In this case, the soft part of the sofa will be removable. At any time you can remove the pillows if necessary. This option will cost a little more expensive, as it will still have to turn the sofa framework, so the consumption of upholstery fabric will be much larger. It will have to sew covers independently or order in the studio, which will entail additional costs.
2. Do not removable upholstery. For this, the sofa is reassured and take off every detail separately. Initially, the upholstery is made. For this, the foam rubber is placed on its surface. So that it does not slide, it is glued with the help of glue "88". When the adhesive will dry, you can begin the upholstery. For this, a piece of fabric or leatherette is cut. Its size should be sufficient to cover the upper part of the seating, the sides and have a faster to fasten the fabric from the rear side.

The fabric is laid out on a flat surface, in the middle of the segment (so that the size of the adhesion on each side is the same) put the seat face down. Then gently bend one side and attach to a frame with a stapler. Step bracket should be no more than 15-20 mm, in this case the fabric will hold firmly. Since "seam" will be from the wrong side, the paper clips can not save. As soon as the first side is fixed, the second stretches and is also nailed with a stapler. The side of the fabric is then bent. At the same time, it is important to gently form the angle of fabric so that there are no prominent wrinkles on it. Also, as in the case of the main parties, one side is first nailed, then the other is tensioned and the other is nailed. The back is in a similar way.

After the upholstery of all elements, the sofa is collected again.

As a substrate, you can use not only foam rubber. In many cases, foam rubber or holofiber apply. The latter has pretty good elasticity, despite the relatively small thickness. In addition, its operating date is more than in Foroon. However, the cost of holofayber is much higher.

Making a kitchen corner sofa with their own hands

If the area of \u200b\u200bthe room does not allow you to put a straight sofa, which is often found in the houses of the old building, where the kitchen barely exceeds 7 m ², it is better to make an angular model. As mentioned above, such sofas are more complex in manufacturing and require experience in such work. The angular construction of upholstered furniture for the kitchen consists of three main details:

• Short sofa.
• Long sofa.
• Angular module.

The manufacture of short and long sofas is not fundamentally different from the process described above. The angular module can be different. One option that is the easiest is the installation of the connecting table. It is made of laminated chipboard and attached to handrails of sofas. True, in this case, the corner sector cannot be used for seating. To make a corner suitable for landing a person, the manufacture of a separate angular section is required.

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