Sofa kitchen with his hands

Comfortable small sofa, decorate and create comfort in your kitchen.You can not always pick up the taste or size suitable for the kitchen sofa in furniture store.But out there - make the appropriate couch with his hands.

little skill, imagination and a minimum of cost - all you need to create your own personal intimate corner of the kitchen.This is especially true for a small kitchen, which do not fit the standard sofas.

Benefits kitchen couch

1. advantage of this solution is that you can get the kitchen sofa relevant dimensions corresponding to the interior upholstery and much cheaper than ready-made sofa in furniture store.
2. Moreover, we can show the creative imagination and his own kitchen made sofa will differ originality and individual details of the design.Ideas acceptable option for the kitchen sofa, you can peek at the photos on the Internet.
3. By design, the sofa to the kitchen is not complicated.The two side walls of laminated chipboard and robust frame made of planks, lumber and fiberboard.For upholstery foam required, Barkan or imitation leather.The great advantage of the kitchen sofa made with their own hands that it will last a lot longer than store bought.
4. Pay special attention to the upholstery.In the kitchen, especially on a small sofa deposited vapors released during cooking.Pick up as an external coating - easy to clean material.

Preparations

Materials and tools

to work on manufacturing and assembly of small sofa to the kitchen, you will need:

1. laminated chipboard on the sidewall, back and seat.The dimensions are selected according to the dimensions of the sofa.
2. beam cross section 4x4 for framing basics couch.Plywood
3. 8 - 10 mm thick.
4. Foam of 5 cm thick.
5. Upholstery (leather, or Barkan et al.)
6. screws and SCREW (evrovinty) bolts with nuts and washers 8 mm in diameter.
7. Piano hinges for folding seats.

Of the tools necessary to have -

1. jigsaw, drill, hacksaw on wood screwdriver.
2. staple gun.
3. rasp, sandpaper, tape measure.

Drawing - diagram and cutting blanks

1. First you need to sketch a drawing with all dimensions.If you plan to make the sidewalls of solid chipboard, you can draw them on a large sheet of paper, a full-size patterns and move to cut out the surface of particleboard.
2. Options drawings and schemes of small sofas for the kitchen can be found in the photo on the Internet.Dimensions length and height adjustments to accommodate your kitchen.Practical provide jump seat, which is under the box for cooking utensils.

Step by Step Instructions small couch assembly kitchen

1. From 4x4 lumber going to the main frame.Conventionally, one can take a length of 1200 mm, height 480 mm and width 400 mm seat.Front and rear side sutured plywood.The floor is also made of plywood, but for its mounting grooves are selected in advance or provide mounting on the corners.
2. frame is held together with screws, add stiffening ribs and in the corners of the construction is fixed with screws.
3. upper seat cover- jigsaw cut out of a sheet of chipboard at least 20 mm and is mounted on a piano loop and back grounds.
4. on the patterns are cut sidewall.They may be solid or a combination.Does this work jigsaw.All processed end surfaces are ground rasp and sandpaper.Decorating a face of special tape.There is a large selection of tortsovok different widths and colors.As a rule, they are self-adhesive, but can also be used PVA glue.
5. Sides securely fastened to the frame by bolts or SCREW.In the space provided for the back, the design is pulled together by two bars.
6. back is also cut from a sheet of chipboard at least 20 mm thick and is mounted on the bars.The kitchen area consists of three parts.Two straight sofas - long and short, and small corner connecting banquettes.The principle of the manufacture is similar to the above.

Upholstery sofa surface for kitchen

1. Foam is cut for each part separately on the set sizes.Treated surfaces for better grip handle with sandpaper and foam glued to them.
2. for backrest and seat is overlap overlapping end portion is about 20 mm and is fixed by a stapler.
3. From selected upholstery pattern cut along the contour of the surface being treated.various coatings are applied to kitchen corners.Barkan, suede, leather or a substitute for, etc.But it is necessary to provide the ability to easily and efficiently clean the sofa.So in terms of hygiene, it is better to use a cover made of artificial leather.
4. Ready pattern stapler mounted in increments of 20 mm.
5. the corners of the bottom or at the bottom of the sidewall, are placed legs.It is better to buy ready-made in-store furniture accessories.For a small sofa in the kitchen, the price of these legs is very low.
6. finishing touch for a narrow couch for the kitchen will be the installation of armrests.For this cutting section bars 4x4 cm sample of the longitudinal groove is a width of 20 mm and a depth of 25 - 30 mm.So that would sit on the armrest bar sidewall tightly.The sample can be a chisel or a chisel, but it is better to pierce in a carpentry workshop.
7. armrests can obbit foam and leatherette obtyanut or cover the stain and varnish.Sit down armrests on the adhesive and additionally fixed with screws.
8. All visible screw heads and konfirmat decorated with special plastic plugs in upholstery.