It is impossible to imagine a modern apartment or house without comfortable furniture. The sofa becomes the center of everyone's attention; owners and guests of all ages love it. They relax, have fun, read, and watch television programs on it.
If there is a coffee table next to the sofa, you can use it for eating, board games and other elements of home leisure.
Multifunctional furniture is especially valued, which includes one of the varieties of sofas that folds out into a full-fledged sleeping place. Assembling a sofa bed with your own hands is not difficult if you follow the instructions presented in our article.
DIY sofa bed
Start with the sides
Making a sofa out of wood with your own hands is not an easy task, but it can be done. Let's consider the sidewall production stage.
- Cut out the frame crossbars A - 19x38x775 - 4 pcs. and frame racks B - 19x38x343 - 4 pcs. Then assemble the frame and align the ends. To connect, use wood glue and clamp with clamps. Part connection diagrams are shown below. Check the squareness of the frames and compliance with the overall dimensions of 381x775 mm. Set the assembly aside and let it dry. Next, after drying, make auxiliary holes and screw screws into them, as indicated in the drawing. We recommend using countersunk screws with a length of 35 mm.
Right side of folding sofas
- Make bosses C - 19x76x95 - 8 pcs., which will ensure thorough fastening of the bed ties, they will be discussed further. Install them in the place indicated in the drawing using glue and secure them with clamps.
- Next, make panels D - 19x775x381 - 4 pcs. On the front side of all four parts, make a 3x6 mm chamfer along all edges.
- How to make a folding sofa with your own hands, to do this you need to take 2 panels D, which will be the inner sides of the sides, fasten them, for example, with double-sided tape to each other - with their front sides facing each other. Can be secured with clamps. On the panels, mark where the holes will be made, which will then be connected by slots.
Transformable sofa. Interior side panel Use a Forstner drill bit to drill holes.
- Connect the holes tangentially with lines. Disconnect parts D from each other. Then use a jigsaw to cut the slots along the marked lines. After this, be sure to check the uniformity of the width along the entire length with a ruler, tape measure or dowel with a diameter of 19 mm, in order to further ensure easy unfolding of the entire structure. Finish with a wood file if necessary.
- Remove 3mm bevels along all edges of the slots.
- Paint the folds that were made according to step 3 with a dark stain, for example brown.
Use masking tape to paint carefully.
- Use wood glue to attach the panels to the frames. Check that the edges of the panels match the dimensions of the frame.
- File the side parts of the facings E - 19x76x445(419) - 4 pcs., the upper and lower parts of the facings F - 19x76x840(813) - 4 pcs. The parts must be made with an allowance of approximately 25-30 mm. Then saw off the ends at a 45-degree angle, controlling the final length. The main thing is that the parts fit close to each other without gaps. Glue parts E and F to the sides and secure in this position with clamps. Let the glue dry and sand the entire surface.
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Decorating the product
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For decoration, you can only use paints and varnishes, various synthetic ones, microfiber, dermantin or velor - it all depends on your taste and budget. Synthetic upholstery retains its color and shape for a long time, but it tends to electrify and attract dust.
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The couch will have an interesting appearance if you drill holes in the plywood and tighten the filler with nylon thread. The holes will be hidden with the help of beautiful buttons covered with matching fabric.
Using the couch for relaxation, massage and treatments
Legs and armrests
The design of the sofa, in addition to the sides, seat and back, also consists of legs and armrests. Let's look at the stages of their manufacture.
- Cut out the parts of the legs G - 19x76x57 - 12 pcs., the front parts of the legs H - 19x76x76 - 4 pcs., ties I - 19x76x775 - 2 pcs. and spacers J - 19x64x800 - 4 pcs. Glue parts G and H together as shown in the picture. Then attach the assemblies to parts I - use glue and screws.
- Sand the assemblies G/H/I. If you want to stain, do it at this stage.
- Glue the J pieces to the bottom of the sides, centering them. Then assemble the side panel G/H/I.
- We cut out the armrests K - 19x4x902 - 2 pcs. Secure them with clamps to the sidewalls, after applying a layer of wood glue.
The armrests must be installed independently so that the interior is flush with the interior side panels and extends equally at the front and rear.
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Furniture for children's room
An old crib will make an excellent coffee table or a couple of small chairs that will be useful for growing children. It will also make a convenient and compact rack for books, magazines or other children's accessories.
In my opinion, furniture made with your own hands has good energy, which is very important for comfort in the house. Such products are unique, since the author himself chooses the style, selects the shape and carries out the production
I am very glad that my husband suggested dismantling the attic and carrying out some kind of “revitalization” of the old furniture. Now everything that has been gathering dust in the attic for years can fully function again.
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Back and seat
Let's look at how to make the back and seat of a folding sofa with your own hands.
- Cut out the posts M - 38x64x787 - 2 pcs., the top crossbar of the backrest N - 38x64x1892 - 1 pc. and lower backrest crossbar O - 38x64x1854 - 1 pc., side bars Q - 38x64x657 - 2 pcs., lining R - 38x64x305 - 2 pcs., rear seat crossbar S - 38x64x1813 - 1 pc. and front seat crossbar T - 38x64x1889 - 1 pc.
Note. There are different types of holes and they are used for different types of fasteners.
- Make counterbored holes and plain holes for parts M and Q as shown in the pictures below. Next, attach the lining R to the bars Q using glue.
Wooden backrests
Sofa arrangement. Seat design drawing
- For the next stage of making a sofa bed with your own hands, you need to use a saw machine with a grooved disc. It is necessary to make grooves on the M posts and folds on the N and S parts (study the diagrams), then make 76 mm wide folds on the ends of the T part.
Drawing of the back of a folding sofa
- The drawing shows tongues on parts M, N, O, Q, S and T, let's look at how to make them. Attach a 6mm slotted cutter to the milling machine. Place a piece of 12 mm plywood next to the cutter, from which parts T and U will be made in the next steps. The height of the cutter should be set so that the top of the cutter can be aligned with the top surface of the plywood. Next, make the tongues.
Top and front crossbars
- Using an R12 cutter, make curves on parts N and T, as shown in the picture above.
- Make bevels at an angle of 15 degrees on the N, T crossbars.
- At the ends of parts N, T and S you need to make holes with a counterbore with a diameter of 10 mm and a depth of 8 mm. Drill mounting holes for self-tapping screws in their centers.
- Next you need back panel P - 12x543x1829 - 1 pc. and seat panel U - 12x632x1749 - 1 pc. Make folds on them along the entire perimeter - these will be ridges so that they fit into the grooves of parts M, N, O, Q, S and T.
- Using wood glue, assemble the back and seat. Clamp them with clamps. Screw in the screws as shown in the assembly drawings. Install wooden plugs into the counterbores. You can make the plugs yourself.
- Make stops V - 19x38x152 - 2 pcs. and cut a 45 degree bevel at one end. Secure them with screws.
- You need to make four rods 57 mm long, 19 mm in diameter. Remove the chamfers from the ends, apply glue to them and insert them into the holes of part M according to the drawing.
- Make 4 spacer washers from 6 mm plywood. The outer diameter of the washers is 38, the inner is 19 mm.
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Drawing development
The quality of the manufactured structure directly depends on how well the drawings and diagrams are drawn up. It is extremely important that the sketches are as clear and simple as possible. They are created according to the following principle: the location of each part and its size are indicated (described). After drawing the drawing, they begin to create an assembly diagram, which indicates the location of fasteners, reinforcing parts and partitions.
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The master should adhere to these simple recommendations:
- when choosing the dimensions of furniture, you must first of all decide on its location and take measurements;
- the diagram must necessarily include the length of the two halves of the structure, the height and depth of the back;
- to determine the width of the frame being created, you need to calculate the difference between the sum of the length of a pair of halves and the depth.
When making soft folding or kitchen furniture, you should consider the following nuances when creating a drawing:
- at what angle the back will be tilted;
- what are the dimensions of the structure as a whole and its individual components;
- Is it necessary to install a folding mechanism;
- Are storage boxes necessary?
In order for the diagrams to be deciphered without any difficulties, different colors must be used for each material. For example, a timber base is painted yellow, plywood sheets are painted pink, and foam upholstery is painted gray.
Finishing of parts
- Make drawers L - 38x137x1905 - 2 pcs. Use zip ties to mark the centers of the mounting holes, then drill additional mounting holes. See the figure below for an example.
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- Sand and sand the parts L. Round off the sharp edges.
- Apply stain, varnish, paint, etc. on all necessary surfaces.
- Fasten the ties to the drawers.
Assembly
Examples of simple designs
How to make a transformable sofa bed of a simple design without using complex mechanical connections? And, by the way, we are all accustomed to the fact that if you do make a sofa bed, then it must be a double one. Here are examples of a single bed.
For transformation, only rearrangement of the back cushions is used. And the next day the structure turns from a bed into a sofa.
Review photos of the sofa bed from the article
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What is a sofa bed
The sofa bed is a symbiosis of two separate pieces of furniture. When folded, it functions as a comfortable sofa for relaxing. After transformation, it turns into a comfortable sleeping place that can easily be used by two people.
The shape of sofa beds can be corner, straight, round, modular. Thanks to the installation of a folding mechanism in the sofa, the furniture is transformed into a double bed.
