Step-by-step instructions: how to make an easy chair with your own hands

Not only craftsmen know how to make exclusive comfortable furniture from improvised materials. The advantage of such an occupation is obvious - it is the possibility of translating into reality the most daring ideas for a variety of living space. An additional bonus is the low cost of making homemade soft chairs with your own hands. Following the advice of designers, you can make an easy chair for a pleasant pastime in your own home. At home, you can exactly repeat all the stages of factory production of this modern and convenient attribute for decorating a nursery or living room. On the Internet, you can find both the simplest and most complex schemes.

The first step in the manufacture of home upholstered furniture is the choice of fabric for the external design of the soft parts of the structure. Each master selects upholstery depending on the physical properties and price aspects and features that different drawings have. Consider the most common fabrics for decorating chairs in our time:

• velor - velvety to the touch, gives the furniture a certain charm;

Velor upholstered

• flog - a distant analogue of velor, easy to clean, so designers use it to decorate children's upholstered furniture;

Flog in upholstery

• chenille - a fabric based on a combination of natural and synthetic fibers, has a special wear resistance (a well-thought-out structure prevents the formation of pellets);

Chinille in upholstery

• jacquard - the upholstery is considered durable, but over time, the loops turn into puffs;
• natural tapestry - the most expensive and beautiful type of fabric for upholstery;

Jacquard in upholstery

• artificial suede - a universal option for armchairs in a sunny room, resistant to UV rays and easy to clean;

Upholstered faux suede

• leatherette is a durable material that allows you to play with decorative embossing.

Leatherette in upholstery

Material, fittings, tools for frame attribute

Creating a frame chair from scratch presents some difficulties. But the finished product will have a more respectable appearance. You can verify this by looking at the photos of finished products by home craftsmen. You can also use the old Soviet "grandmother's" chair for the base.

To make a simple frame for a soft chair, you need to pick up strong sheets of 20 mm plywood for cutting out parts with your own hands. Also useful is a standard repair tool kit with an electric drill, jigsaw, steel ruler, emery cloth, metal rims, masking tape, pencil, tape measure, thin nails, self-tapping screws, wood glue, stain, glossy paint. For upholstery you need: artificial leather or fabric, foam rubber (filler).

Step-by-step creation of upholstered furniture with a wooden base

1. If you do not know how to make a drawing for the base, then look for ready-made schemes on the net. As a rule, they are transferred to a cardboard template with a pencil. Only after that proceed to perform the operations of the described algorithm. This will help save on excess material, or vice versa - do not buy the missing parts.
2. According to the cardboard template, future constituent elements are cut out of plywood sheets:

• banana-shaped sidewalls;
• cross bars.

It is important to determine the desired angles of inclination, bending and dimensions of the future frame. This will help the photo of the finished chair, created according to your scheme.

1. The next stage is the surface treatment of wooden parts by cleaning and grinding. With special care, the ends are worked out to improve the quality of the work done. Previously, these parts are impregnated with heated drying oil and only then bends are formed with a hammer, if they are provided for in the sketch. Each component is cut with an electric jigsaw.
2. Stained or treated with varnish-stained sidewalls. The ends of the side parts are reinforced with metal rims.
3. The next course of action is connected with the close-fitting of the frame. Using an electric drill, make the necessary holes. The rims are fixed with screws.
4. First, the back of the back is covered with artificial leather or fabric, then the remaining fragments of the structure, incl. and seats.
5. The upholstery is fixed with wallpaper nails, which are characterized by large hats. In the back of the frame chair, the upholstery is fixed along the edge, along the transverse parts to better cover the slats.

Pattern of a round chair Wooden frame We sheathe the frame with fiberboard cardboard

Experienced furniture makers advise the attachment points to be additionally treated with wood glue. Such a move is needed to increase the durability of the created furniture with your own hands.

Secrets of reliable upholstery: how to sew

The process of stretching the upholstery of soft chairs has its own nuances:

1. Foam rubber is cut to the size of the seat (average thickness - 5 cm). The part is glued to the surface of the plywood sheet.
2. Horizontal and vertical fabric straps are fixed to the back with a construction stapler. Similar belts are added to the armrests and sidewalls from the inside along the form.
3. From a piece of foam rubber 0.1 cm thick, a part is cut off, which will be larger in size than the area of ​​​​the seat (difference by 4-5 cm). They take a flap of synthetic winterizer fabric of the same size with an elongated front part and fix it with their own hands.
4. After the done manipulations, the upholstery is covered with furniture fabric. With the help of a stapler, textiles are fixed in all corners of the cover, the synthetic winterizer-foam layer to the seat frame of the chair.
5. The sidewalls and armrests are also covered with synthetic winterizer, fixed with aerosol glue over the entire surface. Only after that, the parts are sheathed with a cloth, securing the flap along the staples.

We sheathe the chair with foam rubber. In addition, we put a synthetic winterizer