When choosing a sofa for their apartment, people often face the problem of the lack of models with a color or finish that match their interior, or the required dimensions. One solution to this problem is to make a sofa with your own hands. With this approach, it becomes possible to fully realize your imagination and creative inclinations. In this article, we'll take a look at how you can make a simple sofa with pallets and wood planks for your kitchen, balcony, or even living room.
Stylish and modern furniture does not have to cost a lot of money and be made of expensive materials. For a real owner who has the necessary set of tools and skills to work with it, it will be easy to create a sofa with your own hands at home. This guarantees the build quality and materials used in the work, and will also save a significant amount of money on buying new furniture in the store. Even made from old pallets or ordinary pine boards, this main element of any interior will attract the eyes and delight the owners for many years.
So what do we need to make a sofa? Let's take a look at the lists of tools and materials you need.
Required tools:
At the initial stage of work, it is necessary to complete a drawing or sketch of the sofa, clearly define the layout and overall dimensions. After creating the drawing, the required amount of materials is calculated.
Materials to be used:
When making a sofa with your own hands, you can also use any suitable materials that remained after the repair or construction of the summer cottage. It can be boards, beams, plywood or MDF sheets, necessary to give additional rigidity to the structure. The missing material needs to be purchased.
The basis of any sofa or bed is a frame that bears the entire load. In order for the furniture to serve for a long time, you need to take a responsible attitude to its assembly. The frame of the sofa is made of solid boards (ideally solid wood, or high-quality and thick plywood), which are fastened with self-tapping screws. To give additional strength, metal corners and wood glue can be used to coat the joints of the wooden parts of the frame. After creating a wooden frame, it is sheathed with sheet material. Those parts of the frame that will not be sheathed with fabric should be sanded and covered with wood stain, paint or furniture varnish.
When creating a sofa with your own hands for the kitchen or balcony, you can get by with sewing thick pillows under the back. A distinctive feature of the sofas in the living room is the mandatory presence of a back, which allows you to comfortably spend your free hours on the sofa.
Depending on the chosen design of the sofa, you need to decide on a convenient angle of inclination of the backrest, and then firmly fix it. An interesting idea for creating the back of a sofa is presented to you in the next photo.
When making a sofa with your own hands, the easiest solution is to buy ready-made seats of a suitable size. But if there is a desire and a sewing machine, it will be easy to sew them yourself. For the seats, it is necessary to cut out pieces of the appropriate size from foam rubber, wrap them in a soft material like padding polyester, and then sheathe them with the purchased fabric. A great solution would be to sew zippers into the pillows, which will allow you to conveniently remove the covers for washing in the future.
A more difficult undertaking would be to create a full-fledged upholstery. You can find step-by-step instructions with a photo in our article. .
Making a sofa with your own hands is a great opportunity to show your craftsmanship skills and create a stylish piece of furniture. We invite you to enjoy photos of homemade sofas from different materials for inspiration.
One of the most popular ideas today is to create a do-it-yourself pallet sofa. These pallets are also called pallets. They are inexpensive and easy to get at any home improvement store. Pallets consist of several boards, which are very convenient to disassemble and then can be reassembled into any structure convenient for you. It remains only to paint them in the desired color and. For examples of homemade pallet sofas, see the photo below:
Important: if you decide to make a sofa from pallets, then when buying them you need to pay attention to the condition of the wood - there should be no damage on it, obvious signs of dryness and old age. In any case, to create a high-quality sofa with your own hands, pallets should be sanded and a protective coating should be applied, for example, using a special impregnation for wood or varnish. Euro pallets have standard dimensions 800 × 1200 mm, so you can easily calculate the required frame size.
