How To Make A Mega Sofa Bed With Your Own Hands Video

2023 Author: Philip Bishop | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 07:54

• General plan of action
• 1. Choosing the furniture you need
• 2. Working with individual parts
• 3. Determine the type of connection of parts
• 4. Selection and creation of furniture upholstery
• Folding sofa bed: step by step creation

Of course, many faced the need to repair upholstered furniture or replace it with a new one. A wide range of stores allows you to choose whatever your heart desires. But, at the same time, the prices for high-quality furniture products make you think how difficult it is to make upholstered furniture with your own hands and how much time will be spent on this process. It turns out that nothing is impossible, and making a sofa or an armchair, although difficult, is quite possible. Moreover, there are undoubted advantages in this. Firstly, such furniture is 100% original. She will be a source of pride. Secondly, it will cost much less than buying in a store, and it is not always possible to find there exactly what you want to see in your apartment.

General plan of action

1. Choosing the furniture you need

So it turns out that making upholstered furniture with your own hands is much more practical and profitable. Having made the decision to do it yourself, do not be afraid of difficulties, and they will certainly arise, draw up an action plan. First of all, decide exactly what you want, what functionality your furniture should have. This is mandatory, since the choice of material that will be used depends on this. The next step is also extremely important: drafting. If you own the skills - do it yourself, if you don't own it - search the Internet. High-quality upholstered furniture with your own hands, the drawings of which are necessary, it will turn out only if the dimensions are respected.

2. Working with individual parts

Naturally, you need to start work with the creation of the frame. Then separate elements are prepared, the connections of which will be discussed a little later. This is where precise dimensional drawings come in handy. The marking of individual parts is applied to the material, everything is carefully and thoroughly checked and only then you can start cutting out the blanks. If everything is done correctly, in accordance with the drawings, the first fitting should show how clearly the parts fit together. In case of discrepancies, mistakes must be corrected immediately, adjusting the elements of upholstered furniture to full compliance.

3. Determine the type of connection of parts

The choice of the type of connection will depend on the purpose and functionality of the furniture. If you make upholstered furniture with your own hands for permanent use in one state, you need to connect the parts with nails, screws, screws or glue. If the furniture is planned to be disassembled or laid out, it is necessary to use the so-called foot fastening method. In any case, the work must be carried out carefully, excluding the possibility of protruding nails, glue stains. At the same stage, it is necessary to process all sharp corners so that they do not show through the upholstery and do not cause discomfort in the future.

Tip: consider the option of attracting additional working hands when connecting parts. It is problematic to do this alone. When using glue, calculate the time for its complete drying and only then work further.

4. Selection and creation of furniture upholstery

At the final stage, do-it-yourself upholstered furniture needs to be sheathed, made corresponding to the name, that is, soft. Most often used foam rubber, medium thickness. You can cover the furniture with any fabric to your taste. The material must be cut according to pre-made blanks and fastened to the product with staples. Moreover, this must be done so that they are not noticeable to others.

Well, perhaps, we figured out the general recommendations, and now let's try to make upholstered furniture with our own hands.

Folding sofa bed: step by step creation

So, consider the question of how to create a popular and multifunctional sofa bed with your own hands. In our product, we will use a transformation in a slightly unusual method: the seat is pushed forward along the guide bars until it stops, and the back of the sofa is folded into a horizontal position by turning it 90 degrees.

We start from the bottom. To create it, we take boards 15x5cm in size. Using self-tapping screws and a screwdriver, we assemble a base from them, the dimensions of which will be 190x65cm. We make the bottom from a sheet of fiberboard, fastening it on both sides with rails. We attach the legs to what we have achieved. By the same principle, we make a back and a seat, stuffing fiberboard on both sides. Bars are cut into the inside of the seat, creating additional reinforcement.

Tip: when creating the back of the sofa, keep in mind that it is in an upright position with its soft part facing outward. Polyurethane foam pillows wrapped in a holofider will help to give more softness and aesthetics.

The most important stage in how to make upholstered furniture yourself is the creation of a transformation mechanism. The backrest is connected to the base using the most common hinges screwed with self-tapping screws. In places of twisting, additional bars can be fixed, which will only increase the quality and reliability. Whether to create side walls from fiberboard or not, this is already the decision of each individual owner.

Well, in this rather simple way, you can get upholstered furniture, the photo of which you see in front of you.

And the video will help you fully understand how upholstered furniture is made with your own hands, which you can watch below.