Wooden bed with his hands

New wooden beds are quite expensive.Craft wooden bed, is not difficult.Your bed, made with his own hands, will be tailored to your taste and the only one of its kind.Wood is much stronger and better than chipboard or MDF is made from which most modern beds.Wooden bed, pictured, fashioned with his own hands the ordinary people.

frame calculation is done based on the size of the mattress.It is better not to save money and buy a good mattress in the store.Its estimated price is floating in the range of 200 - 250 USDStuffing the mattress should be at least 135 mm on a two-layer, each layer and can withstand at least 45 kg / m cube.Conventionally, the bed will do calculations with the parameters 2000H1500 mm.

materials and tools required for the manufacture of wooden bed

can use the board planed pine for the frame, beech, walnut, larch or other timber species.Depending on the type of wood shaped wooden bed price.Wooden beds of pine - combine low price and good textural characteristics of the wood.

1. Board 2500h300h20 mm - 2 pcs.to the sides of the base.
2. Board 2000h300h20 mm - 3 pieces.on the head and toward the end.
3. Bar 2000h40h40 mm - 5 pcs.for 4-bearing and 1 piece.on the support legs and
4. Rake 1500h40h20 mm - 27 pcs.(25 + 2 slatted cover on the head mount boards)
5. Screws for wood and metal mounting bracket.
6. Joiner's glue, acrylic or alcohol stain and varnish.

of the tools you will need a small set:

1. Plane and sandpaper, for editing flaws and defects carpenters.
2. Tape measure, pencil, carpenter's area.
3. Jigsaw.
4. Hacksaw on wood, a chisel, a hammer.
5. drill or screwdriver with a set of drills and bits.

Building wooden bed frame

1. Measure again the size of his mattress.Positioned in the frame frame he should be free, but without the big gaps.
2. The size cut two long boards for the sides and two end.Make of them a rectangle.Proper mounting is W - shaped compound with wooden spikes and eyelets.Slots of such compounds can be hollow chisel or cut the jigsaw.
3. grooves made 2 - 3 cm wide and 5 cm deep.Joiner's glue smeared eyes connected, aligned at right angles and fixed clamps until dry.
4. This design - a classic example of joinery connections.If you are hard to do proushnoe the middle of the compound, it is possible to fix the part of the stud affixing wooden frame.
5. for such compounds in the end and sides of the board at its edges nasverlivayutsya mating holes the diameter of a wooden spike.Holes and studs are lubricated with joiner's glue and collected in a box.
6. The easiest way to collect wooden bed base - with screws for wood and metal fix hand corner.

Installation and mounting legs on the frame

1. Referring to the drawing - pattern, cut the size of the bars intended for the legs.They are mounted on the corners of the bed outside, inside, or inserted into the frame.
2. In the latter case, it is better to apply for the construction of the profiled mounting assembly.This method is more reliable for such compounds and are not prone to loosening.
3. for a king-size mattress provides additional fifth leg, which is located in the middle of the frame.To this is attached another longitudinal board, which carries a fifth leg.

Finned frame under the mattress

1. season mesh or grid, is intended to mattress is not forced into and sank to the floor.
2. On the inner side of the carcass, on sidewalls and end boards stuffed fastener locking rake.At the height of the layout do not less than 10 cm from the top edge.On the perimeter, rail mounted solid or dotted line.Instead, you can tie a metal rack area.
3. of timber, enough to take a section of 3x3, the internal wooden bed frame size of the array is done under the frame slats.
4. on frame stuffed bar (rail) with dimensions 1500h40h20 mm.The rail is mounted across the length and increments of 5 to 7 cm.
5. If we stick to pre-drawn drawings, then make a wooden bed with his hands is not difficult.The next stage - sanding frame and covering it with lacquer.

The final finishing work

1. order that would have looked nice bed in the interior, consider the color and tone of coverage, blending in with the surroundings.
2. oshkurenny and thoroughly stripped carcass impregnated and coated with varnish or oil paint pentaphthalic.
3. Before varnishing, the surface is given the right tone stain.Stain is applied uniformly with a brush.After drying, the varnish is applied by roller, brush or foam pad.It is desirable to apply at least two layers of lacquer.Dried surface is polished with felt or felt-sponzhikom.
4. for headboard and footboard can be purchased in the store paneled decorative plate.Carved wooden plate according to your drawings for wooden beds, can be ordered in a carpentry workshop.
5. lateral horizontal boards, you can decorate the finished carved bar.Decorative elements, do not carry a special load and mounted on adhesive, small screws or studs.