by Alexey | Crafts Decor Workshop Furniture Cheap | Saturday, November 20, 2021
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Stylish furniture that matches your interior is not only difficult to find, but also the high prices will greatly surprise you. Every middle-income person finds himself feeling his heartbeat with one hand and clutching his pocket with the other after hearing about the exorbitant prices of furniture in the market. If you can't find a way to avoid these harsh truths about inflation, then the only thing that can save you is your passion for making furniture yourself.
Here are collected the coolest ideas and projects for both creating furniture from scratch and restoring and remodeling old interior items. You will be inspired by extremely clever restorations, simple yet stylish designs to create unusual and charming furniture.
In this article we tried to include the most interesting furniture projects that you can make yourself. Over time, the number of projects will only increase. Take a look at 480 furniture examples to inspire you!
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Dinner table
When choosing a simple table, it will not be so easy to choose exactly the option and specific style that you would like to recreate. You can make your dreams come true even on a limited budget! We've rounded up 20 of the best dining table designs you can make yourself.
Bed
The bed is a more complex structure compared to the table and wardrobe, but if you follow the instructions, you can also assemble it yourself. For this:
- prepare a drawing of the bed;
- Assemble a frame from durable pre-polished bars and paint it;
- make slats (cross slats) for the bed;
- fasten the bars along the inside of the frame sides;
- on the fixed bars, place the lamellas at the same distance, not exceeding 6 cm;
- attach the bed supports to the frame;
- Sand the structure with sandpaper and varnish it.
Add under-bed lighting to make your bedroom unique.
Simple sofa
Do you want to relax on the sofa after a hard day at work? But you are not satisfied with the size, color of the wood, quality of materials or price offered in stores. Take a look at 40 simple sofa designs to inspire you and save your family budget. If you want to make a sofa for relaxing in the garden, I suggest you take a look at 10 garden sofa designs.
Bamboo furniture
Bamboo has great endurance in any conditions and retains its appearance for many years. Additionally, it is naturally stronger than other traditional hardwoods available and is very environmentally friendly. Check out 14 cool bamboo furniture ideas and ways to join trunks to get inspired to create a unique piece.
Shelves and racks
The day has come when your books will no longer be on a chaotic journey around the apartment. It's time to make shelving, and our selection of 40 unique shelving and bookshelves that will awaken the urge to make your own will help you with this.
Here are hanging shelves that are perfect for small spaces.
Nightstand
To make a nightstand, follow these steps:
- prepare a drawing;
- cut out the necessary parts;
- drill the necessary holes in the sides to install drawer guides;
- assemble the cabinet frame;
- install the rear wall;
- install drawer guides;
- insert the assembled boxes.
The bedside table is very functional and mobile, it has space for various small items, books and magazines.
Using exactly the same principle, but using larger sizes, you can make a chest of drawers with your own hands from available materials.
Plywood furniture
In the era of minimalism, natural motifs and naturalness, plywood could not have come at a better time. More recently, this material was considered faceless, unsightly and too cheap in appearance. Today, along with exposed brick walls and bare concrete floors, plywood furniture is in fashion. It's worth taking a look at 50 examples of plywood furniture. You might also be interested in this article about a list of projects that can be made from just one sheet of plywood.
Closet
Let's look at how to make a cabinet with your own hands from scrap materials:
- prepare chipboard slabs 18 mm thick;
- decide on the method of opening the doors (hinged or compartment);
- draw a cabinet design and cut out the necessary parts in accordance with it;
- assemble a frame from the side walls, lower and upper base;
- attach the back wall;
- install shelves, assemble drawers, and install them in the cabinet using special guides;
- hang the doors;
- screw the fittings.
If you don’t know how to make a cabinet, you can modernize the old one.
Original furniture designs
Below are interesting furniture designs, some of which cannot be brought to life without drawings and specialized tools. But friends, try, create and you will succeed! Don't spend a lot of money on designer tables. They were also made by people. Why can't you?
Non-standard materials
First, a couple of general tips:
- All wooden surfaces should be sanded and varnished.
- Ready-made decor for every taste is easy to find in stores. However, in some cases additional decoration is inappropriate (for example, if the natural grain of the wood can be emphasized).
Old furniture can be transformed thanks to your ideas.
Do not rush to throw away old broken furniture. In most cases, you can breathe new life into it. And there is no need to rush with other things that have outlived their time.
Use old furniture to bring your original ideas to life.
Some interesting options for using second-hand items:
- Stylish chaos. With a slight movement of the hand, a mountain of broken furniture turns... into an elegant storage system. The algorithm is simple: measure, saw off what is unnecessary, combine the rest, install, starting from the bottom tier, sand, coat with a single-color varnish. Unusual, original, interesting.
- Sofa from an old bathtub. You don't even need to measure anything. Just cut off the excess and put on the mattress.
- Chairs from... magazines. The biggest difficulty is making the bases.
- Did you inherit the complete works of Marx, Engels and Lenin from your grandfather? So this is an almost finished sofa! True, you will have to get a little confused with installing books on the same level. You will need a lot of glue. Finishing is varnish.
- An original mini-table made from a flower stand and... a vinyl record.
You can implement interesting ideas yourself with a little effort.
And a few ideas for DIY furniture made from pallets, SIP panels and plastic pipes.
Pallet furniture
The fashion for furniture made from pallets was introduced by the architectural studio “MOST Architecture” from the Netherlands. In 2010, the designers were commissioned to design a temporary office in the center of Amsterdam... and did it all using only pallets.
The trend in recent years is creating furniture with your own hands from wooden pallets.
Literally everything is made from them, from stairs and tables to podiums, partitions and wall cladding.
Furniture made from pallets can be installed in the country house.
Furniture fantasies made from pallets look unusual, stylish and original. The main thing is not to forget to clean the pallets and coat them with varnish.
SIP panels in the interior
Are there any unused SIP panels left after construction? Let's put them to work and give free rein to our imagination!
Making furniture with your own hands is a fascinating, creative process that brings stunning results.
The resulting original furniture will have all the advantages of the material: environmental friendliness, good insulating properties, resistance to fungi, mold, and ultraviolet radiation.
From plastic pipes
There are no less original ideas for using plastic pipes.
You can make a shoe rack from plastic pipes.
You can use them to make an unusual coffee table (you will need organic or impact-resistant glass for the tabletop), a shelving unit (all you have to do is take care of the shelves) and even a bunk bed.
Wicker furniture
The passion for weaving can easily be satisfied by making home or garden furniture from wicker and rattan.
It is not necessary to weave small interior items and accessories. Designers have learned to create wicker furniture with foam rubber, including sofas.
It is not necessary to make armchairs or a sofa. You can limit yourself to a hammock and a canopy.
How to use wood putty
It happens that chips, dents or deep scratches appear in the wood due to mechanical stress. In this case, you will need wood putty to disguise these imperfections. If you've never worked with this material before, be warned, it may soon become your favorite item in the toolbox. Find out in more detail how to use putty on wood, it will definitely come in handy.
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