Armchair bed - perfect option for small spaces. This type of furniture is designed for one person. Thus, you can free up space in the apartment, while not spending additional money on the purchase of a new chair. Your guests will be surprised when they come for tea and do not find in the apartment bed. It is possible to build an attractive and comfortable chair-bed on your own. Assembly requires a minimum of time, while you do not have to spend your own budget.
Armchair bed with own hands
Today, in furniture stores for chairs, prices are quite high. Therefore, many are now thinking about how to assemble a chair-bed with their own hands. The design of such a bed can be very diverse. you can use ordinary furniture from chipboard, upholstered with fabric and filled with padding polyester. You can also make a kind of frameless soft pillow, which at night will unfold into a soft bed. If there is a needlewoman in the house who loves to embroider, the model can be decorated with various patterns, colors, etc. You just need to arm yourself with your own imagination. How to make a chair bed with your own hands, spending a minimum of money and effort?
Shapeless chair-bed
It is very easy to make this type of chair-bed with your own hands. You can not only save money on the purchase of such furniture, but also acquire a comfortable and soft corner in your home.
To create a frameless chair-bed, you need to prepare:
- upholstery fabric for furniture - 4 m;
- PVA glue;
- foam sheets 10 cm wide;
- threads of a suitable color;
- sewing machine.
Now you need to make 5 parts from foam rubber:
- 2 rectangles 80 x 20 cm;
- 2 squares 80 x 80 cm;
- rectangle 80 x 30 cm.
Carefully cut out all the details. It is better to use a metal ruler and sharp scissors. Now we need to prepare the fabric. When cutting out the appropriate details, you should remember about the seam allowances (1.5-2 cm). Two rectangles must be folded in half and sewn together. We impose lightning in such a way that they are located opposite each other, and their action is opposite.
So, we have almost prepared a cover for the future chair. Now we repeat this procedure with square parts. Handles can be sewn on the sides for more convenient operation. So you can easily move the chair not only around the room, but also around the house.
Upholstery
Foam rubber should be laid only when all the details are ready. Zippers are designed to make it easy to change the filler. After all, over time, it sags, and sitting on it will no longer be so comfortable. For internal seams, a fabric edging is used, which must first be stitched on a typewriter. It is also necessary to protect the future chair from dust and dirt. To do this, you need to make an additional external cover for the chair-bed with your own hands with a zipper. If necessary, it can be quickly removed and washed.
What are the advantages of this design? First of all, it is a variety of shapes and colors. For example, for a child, you can make several multi-colored beds in the shape of various animals. In addition, frameless design round shape in white colors will add aesthetics to your room. After all, it all depends on your imagination. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment, and you will succeed.
Classic armchair-bed
It is quite easy to make a chair-bed with your own hands. The main thing is to first understand the sequence of work. The classic frame construction is designed for use for its intended purpose. In other words, you can sit in a chair during the day and sleep at night. This is ideal for a person who lives alone in a small apartment. This model can be described as "three in one". This is not only a chair and a bed, but also a chest of drawers. After all, the bottom of the structure can be used to store bed linen, blankets, etc.
Before doing the work, it is necessary to prepare an assembly scheme for the future chair-bed with your own hands. Drawings will help to immediately assemble the structure according to a well-thought-out plan. The base of the structure will be a simple bench with pillows, and behind such furniture there will be shelves with doors. Do-it-yourself drawings and diagrams of a chair-bed are done quickly. They should include not only a schematic representation of the future product, but also a list of materials.
For the manufacture of the structure should be prepared:
- PVA glue;
- Chipboard 20 mm thick;
- self-tapping screws, nails, wooden spikes;
- hardboard sheet for the bottom;
- foam for soft upholstery;
- building brackets;
- the cloth.
The scheme is ready, now you can start making patterns for future upholstery. You can use ready-made foam pillows and sew them together. To fix the upholstery fabric, it is better to use or furniture nails.
Optionally, you can also make armrests. Experienced craftsmen know that soft armrests are not practical. It is better to make them yourself from wooden bars or a metal pipe.
Construction assembly
To assemble a chair-bed with your own hands, they begin with the side plywood walls, to which the base is attached. The result is a rectangular box. Now you need to assemble the folding part. To do this, we use 3 sheets of chipboard, which need to be fastened together with loops. It turns out a design in the form of a book, which is located between the armrests. We make the bed in such a way that foam rubber can be laid on it and upholstered with fabric. Now you need to attach legs to the far end of the bed. The design can be checked for folding. At this stage, it is necessary to upholster the back with fabric using a furniture stapler. Again, we check the design for reliability.
Chair repair
Often the house already has such furniture, but its condition leaves much to be desired. In this case, you should repair the chair-bed with your own hands. This process is quite easy. It is necessary to remove the old upholstery, replace the foam rubber. If necessary, you should pay attention to the working condition of the legs. If they do not perform their function, they should be replaced.
It is better to fit the chair with a new fabric. So you can update appearance not only furniture, but also premises. The sequence of work is indicated above. Thus, you can get a new, more convenient and comfortable chair from an old chair.
Conclusion
With a little time, effort and a minimum of funds, you can build a comfortable chair bed yourself. It will not only increase the space in the room, but also become a full-fledged chest of drawers for bed linen. Do not forget about the decorative component of this design. After all, the choice of upholstery depends on your preferences and imagination. One such product will replace as many as three. It is not only cheap, practical and attractive. So you can diversify your everyday life, do creativity.
It is not difficult to make a bed chair with your own hands, if there is a need for it, and there are many benefits from this furniture, as it helps to free up space during the day and provides a sleeping place at night. This is an indispensable piece of furniture if the room is small and guests often stay overnight.
Armchair in the "bed" position (A-without pillows, B - with pillows laid): 1 - first pull-out section, 2 - chair reinforcement bar, 3 - sidewall of the chair, 4 - guide bar, 5 - transverse panel, 6 - pillows ( on the chair - ordinary down), 7 - chair seat, 8 - second pull-out section, 9 - furniture corner, 10 - overhead shield.
The structure that creates folding chair, if desired, can be significantly improved, but for a beginner it is enough to make the simplest functioning folding chair bed. Tools and materials are standard for creating any upholstered furniture with minor differences. In order to make a chair, you will need:
Tools necessary for work: tape measure, level, pencil, electric jigsaw, drill or screwdriver, scissors.
- drill or screwdriver;
- electric jigsaw;
- grinder with several nozzles;
- pencil;
- square;
- level;
- roulette;
- furniture stapler;
- furniture hinges;
- screws;
- self-tapping screws;
- sewing machine;
- furniture board;
- edged board;
- beam;
- foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, batting;
- upholstery fabric;
- spunbond;
- wood glue;
- scissors.
How to make a chair: preparatory work
When all the drawings are made and considered and materials are selected, you can proceed to preparatory work to make a bed with your own hands. A support system supporting the entire structure is made from a bar. Her presence does not betray itself, but the drawings are made with her in mind. 6 bars need to be cut right size, which indicate the required length of the bed. They are placed 3 on each side, overlapping the previous one by about 5 cm. After that, 5 more bars must be fixed at control points on each pair of longitudinally located timber. Fixation should be carried out in such a way that each pair has a tie bar, thanks to which the system folds and unfolds without obstacles. Provides mobility hinges.
4 more bars serve as legs for a retractable structure and are attached to furniture hinges, as they should go inside when folded. So that this operation can go smoothly, the loops are fixed to the bars not from below, but from inside, this reduces the possibility of scrapping several times.
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Further Assembly
Longitudinal elements are formed from chipboard, the number of which may vary depending on the drawing. Most often for furniture, the average thickness of the plate and its maximum density are used. For open areas that may be present on the diagram, you need to take chipboard, i.e. laminated version, the appearance of which is more presentable. For the price, this material for the manufacture of furniture is in the first place, and its disadvantages include fragility and environmental friendliness. Instead of and together with chipboard, a furniture board is used, the characteristics of these materials are similar, but the furniture board is stronger and has an attractive appearance. However, its price is much higher, so it is used exclusively in open places.
Armrests can be made from chipboard or furniture board. Fastening is carried out using a washer, this is required so that structural elements do not suffer with minor damage. Both from below and from above, special expansions are made on the side shields, directed outward, so that during sleep on the unfolded structure, such a step does not interfere with the sleeper. 4 identical pieces are cut with an electric jigsaw, 3 of which make up the bed, and 1 - the back of the chair. A movable mechanism with latches is attached to the back, as it should be able to tilt back if necessary. Holes for fastening are prepared with a drill, and then expanded with furniture fastening screws.
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Folding chair upholstery
As a filler for the upholstery of the chair-bed, both foam rubber and batting or synthetic winterizer are used. Masters with experience recommend using batting as the most convenient to use. The filler that covers the bed frame is covered with spunbond on top to fix it in the right place. This material also helps when pulling the outer upholstery on the chair, as it glides well.
Upholstery material is better to choose strong and durable, so that the bed, which for many years will not need to be reupholstered. Before fitting and fixing the padding, the chair should be disassembled again into its component parts and each part individually fitted. First, a soft part of the required height is formed from the batting.
In order for upholstered furniture to serve for many years, you should not save on the quantity and quality of the material. This rule is true for all chair parts with upholstery present. The filler is fixed with wood glue, and on top it is given any desired shape.
Spunbond is used to put ready-made sewn covers on chairs, since without it all the filler will bunch up. If, however, parts of the fabric on top are fixed without connecting seams with a furniture stapler on the frame, this material can be dispensed with. Do the same with the side shields. A stapler for final and additional fixation is used in any case, since the loads on the furniture are large and the seams may not withstand them without support. When all the details are covered, you can assemble the chair again, this time for permanent use. All screws and screws in the hardware must be tightened sufficiently.
V small apartments The lack of free space is always felt very acutely. Owners have to resort to various tricks to save precious space. The best solution becomes the use of multifunctional furniture, for example, the installation of an armchair bed. As a result, the owner gets a spacious lounge chair during the day and a full bed at night.
The chair-bed serves as a place to relax during the day and a full-fledged sleeping place at night.
Design diversity
A folding chair can have the most different design. As a rule, it is made of chipboard or plywood, foam rubber and furniture fabric. A frameless model can also be made, which is a large pillow of the different shapes stuffed with foam. During the day it turns into a comfortable easy chair, and at night unfolds into bed. It will be located on the floor, but it will still remain comfortable and cozy. Such a model will look interesting in a children's room, especially if it is made in the form of a fairy-tale character or animal.
An armchair bed in an apartment allows you to solve several problems at once, so its manufacture must be treated very responsibly. Do not forget that the one who will sleep on it should be comfortable. Before you make a chair, you need to decide on the model and draw up detailed drawings. When drawing up a diagram of a future design, it is necessary to take into account which largest size it will have where the attachment points will be, what type of upholstery will be used.
The width of the bed should be at least 60 cm. If you reduce this size, then using it as a bed will become extremely inconvenient. The chair may have different sizes, but when drawing up a drawing, its unfolded size should be taken into account. You can make a design in which there are two seats and the front part extends. The lower part of the seat must be installed on the drawers. The reclining part will be laid on top of it. A pattern for upholstery should also be drawn up.
When choosing a fabric for this purpose, it is better to give preference to a material that is easy to clean. It can be natural or artificial fabric. Natural will not disturb air exchange, but will not last as long as artificial. These are important questions that must be addressed at the drawing stage. After all, the chair bed should not only be comfortable, but also harmoniously fit into the overall interior of the apartment.
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Preparation for work
Before you make a similar bed with your own hands, you need to understand its design features.
The base of the structure is a bench and folding pillows that transform into a couch.
Tools needed for work: tape measure, building level, screwdriver, pencil, screwdriver, screwdriver, sandpaper.
The back of the back can be equipped with shelves for storing bed linen. A convenient box for these purposes can also be arranged under the seat. To do this, additional hinges are mounted in the lower corners. In order to make a chair bed, the following materials and tools will be needed:
- A sheet of plywood 10-12 mm thick or chipboard 18-20 mm thick.
- Sheet fiberboard (hardboard) for the manufacture of the bottom.
- Wooden bar.
- PVA glue.
- Fasteners (self-tapping screws, nails, spikes).
- Roulette, pencil.
- Upholstery fabric.
- Foam rubber.
- Construction stapler and staples.
- Loops.
- Screwdriver or screwdriver.
- Sandpaper.
The chair bed can be made with armrests. They can be made from metal pipes or wood. They can be in the form of a shield or a frame. Bolts are used to attach them to the base. It is better to use the same fabric for covering the bench and pillows, and for the seat you can take burlap, cover it with foam rubber and fix it with furniture nails.
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Chair assembly steps
It is necessary to assemble in accordance with the drawn up drawing. This will help to avoid mistakes in the process. You need to start with the manufacture of the case. Side walls are cut out of a sheet of plywood and attached to the base. In appearance, the design will resemble a box. The next step is to assemble the folding part. 3 separate parts are cut out of plywood. Each part is a frame made of timber, sheathed with plywood. Their size should be equal to the distance between the armrests, taking into account future upholstery. Loops are used to fasten the segments together.
When installing them, it is necessary to provide for small gaps so that when folding, nothing interferes anywhere. When folded, they should look like a flat book. Everything wooden details must be sanded or grinder so that their surface is even and smooth. The resulting design can be upholstered with fabric, having previously laid foam rubber inside.
Then the legs are screwed to the far end. At this stage, it is necessary to check how the structure will unfold and fold. If everything goes smoothly, you can proceed with the installation of the back. After the chair is assembled, you need to unfold it and check for stability, reliability and safety of use.
For an apartment, the size of which is not so large, today designs of easily assembled and transformable furniture are used. A striking example is a hand-made bed chair. It is not only compact and attractive in appearance, but also easy to manufacture, it requires minimal materials.
The design of a folding chair can be very different. Usually this is furniture made of chipboard or plywood, which is simply upholstered with furniture fabric and filled with foam rubber. You can also use an unusual, but no less attractive form in the form of a soft frameless chair. This is a large pillow of any shape that is stuffed with foam rubber. During the day, it can be a comfortable and soft chair, in which it will be so pleasant to relax, and at night it unfolds in the form of a bed, located directly on the floor, but distinguished by comfort and warmth. For children's rooms, such beds can be sewn in the form of funny animals, decorated with fabrics of various colors.
Making a frameless model
To assemble a chair, you can use various design options. One of the unusual, but very comfortable is a chair-bed without a frame. Such a model can be a decoration of any interior. It is comfortable, has a soft, attractive shape and increased comfort. To make such a chair with your own hands, easily transforming into a bed, you need to prepare the simplest materials:
- sheets of foam rubber with a width of 10 cm. You can take the standard strips that are on sale today;
- furniture upholstery fabric - 3 m;
- zippers with a length of 80 cm - 7 pcs;
- threads to match the color of the upholstery;
- building PVA;
- sewing machine and a set of materials for working with it.
The future soft construction will consist of separate 4 parts. From foam rubber blanks are made in the following sizes:
- rectangle with dimensions 80 * 30 cm;
- 2 rectangles with dimensions of 80 * 20 cm;
- 2 square blanks with dimensions of 80 * 80 cm.
The foam is very easy to cut. To ensure that all blanks are even, you must use m, a metal ruler and ordinary scissors.
Before cutting the foam rubber, it is necessary to glue it in two layers with PVA glue, i.e., the total height for all blanks will be: 10 cm * 2 = 20 cm.
If the foam rubber is cut, you can start cutting the fabric. In this case, an indent of 1.5 cm is additionally observed for the seams. A pair of rectangular parts with dimensions of 80 * 20 cm must be folded in half, and then sewn together. Two zippers are sewn in such a way that they go towards each other. This will make it possible to get an even cover-blank for the future chair. After that, a square is sewn in the same way, it is recommended to sew strong and comfortable handles on the sides so that the finished chair can be moved from place to place. The weight of the structure will be small, so the transfer will not cause any difficulties.
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It's upholstery
The foam rubber is laid only after the entire structure has already been assembled, and the snakes are sewn in. Thus, a packing is obtained, which, if necessary, can be easily changed. Foam rubber sags over time, it needs to be changed, since it will be uncomfortable to sleep on such a chair.
For internal seams, it is best to use a special fabric edging, it is carefully sewn on a typewriter. To protect the fabric of the chair from dirt, you can sew another outer cover separately, which will also be zippered. If you need to clean it, just take it off and wash it, then put it back on.
How to make a chair comfortable and practical? You can choose a different convenient shape, today round floor chair-beds are popular, after use they are easily rolled up and put away in the pantry. If the chair is sewn for a children's room, then it can be made in the form of any animal.
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Classic design
For small apartments folding chair-bed design is great option because it doesn't take up much space. During the day it can be used as a small, but very comfortable chair. Often, such designs, when folded, have a convenient compartment where you can fold bedding and pillows.
The instruction on how to make such a chair, easily transformable into a bed, is extremely simple. First you need to draw up a diagram according to which the assembly will be performed. The base will be an ordinary bench with folding pillows as a couch. Behind the back of the structure, you can put shelves with a folding door. If possible, additional hinges can be mounted for the lower corners. Such a chair under the seat will have a voluminous and convenient drawer in which you can store pillows, bed linen, bedspreads and more. The assembly diagram is shown in Figure 1.
For work, you need to prepare the following materials:
Figure 1. Scheme of assembling the frame of the chair-bed.
- plywood with a thickness of 10-12 mm. It can be replaced with chipboard, but its thickness should be 18-20 mm;
- hardboard sheet, which is suitable for the bottom of the structure;
- building glue PVA;
- self-tapping screws, wooden spikes, nails;
- fabric and foam for soft upholstery, you can use cotton wool, but it easily gathers into a ball;
- furniture studs for attaching upholstery or building staples.
You need to start by drawing up a drawing, it indicates the dimensions of the future chair, the attachment points. Then a pattern for upholstery is drawn up, but usually it is extremely simple, you can take ready-made pillows stuffed with foam rubber and dock with each other. First, they must be turned over, covered with a durable upholstery fabric of the selected shade. The upholstery fabric is sewn on or fastened with staples and furniture studs. Sometimes armrests are used for the chair, they are assembled from metal pipes of the required size or wooden elements that are very easy to cut yourself.
Not every person wants to buy furniture that everyone has, because. to allocate one's place of residence is one of the natural needs. Anyone can make a bed chair with their own hands, and the drawings can be completely different.
An armchair bed is a very convenient fixture, especially if you often have guests and the apartment is small.
Development complex structures- this is an idea for professionals, and for beginners it is quite enough to be able to make a solid impressive bed.
Tools and materials
For the manufacture of upholstered furniture, 1 set of tools and accessories is almost always used, and the differences are only formal:
- Electric jigsaw.
- Screwdriver (drill).
- Sander.
- Milling machine (extremely rare).
- Roulette.
- Square.
- Simple pencil.
- Sewing machine.
- Scissors.
- stapler.
The set of materials is more modest, but it needs to be taken more carefully:
Upholstery will need foam rubber.
- Chipboard is used to form longitudinal elements of any width that can only be made. For furniture, a plate of medium thickness, but maximum density, is usually used. If there are open areas, then you need to take a laminated version (chipboard), which also allows you to avoid negative toxic effects. The disadvantages include fragility, non-environmental friendliness and limited design development, while the price puts the material on demand in 1st place, so this material will be given.
- The furniture board is used in exactly the same way as chipboard, but it has increased strength characteristics, and at the same time a wonderful appearance. The only disadvantage of the material is the high price, which is why it is used only in open places.
- Edged board - strength depends directly on the type of wood used, but working with it is quite difficult due to physical parameters. Processing is easy, especially in cases with a tangential cut. Usually used as additional material, although sometimes (at low loads) it serves as a replacement for chipboard and furniture panels.
- The bar is a supporting and supporting system. Usually, its presence is almost imperceptible, but without it, little design will be reliable.
- Foam rubber and batting - fillers for upholstery. It is more convenient to use batting for a chair.
- Spunbond - covers the filler, so that the latter is clearly fixed. Also, spunbond is convenient when pulling the outer upholstery, because. excellent glide.
- Upholstery materials can be extremely excellent, but all have high strength and wear resistance, so that even after 10 years they maintain an appearance that is as close to the original as possible.
- Small technical and seam fittings.
Preparatory work
After the drawings for the folding chair bed are ready, and at the same time the materials are selected, you can begin to manufacture a wooden system:
Drawing of a bed chair (A-without pillows, B - with pillows laid): 1 - first pull-out section; 2 - armchair reinforcement bar; 3 - sidewall of the chair; 4 - guide bar; m5 - transverse panel; 6 - pillows (on an armchair - ordinary downy); 7 - chair seat; 8 - the second sliding section; 9 - furniture corner; 10 - overhead shield.
- At the very beginning, 6 bars of 55 cm are cut out in order to designate the bed in length. They will be located in such a way that the last 5 cm overlap.
- Then 5 more bars of 45 cm and 2 of 40 cm are cut out, which are safely fixed at 3 control points of each pair of longitudinal bars. Fixing takes place in such a way that there is always 1 tie bar, thanks to which the system can be folded and unfolded back. In order to ensure mobility, you will have to resort to hinges.
- 4 bars of 20 cm each, which will serve as legs for retractable structural elements, are attached to furniture hinges so that they go inside when folded. The loops themselves are attached not from below to the bars, but from the inside, due to which the probability of breaking is reduced significantly.
- For the main element, armrests are made of chipboard 50 * 50 cm. Fastening is carried out with the mediation of a washer so that not a single element suffers with small deformations of the structure. From below and above on the side shields, extensions are made (a strip of 50 * 3 cm), which are directed towards outside, so that later such a step does not interfere with the vacationer.
- With the help of an electric jigsaw, 4 plates of 50 * 50 cm are cut, 3 of which will be located as a bed, and the last one will become a back. The last plate, if necessary, should be able to lean back, so you will have to install a movable mechanism with latches.
Fixation is carried out using furniture screws. But before screwing them in, you need to prepare a narrower hole with a drill.
Completion and summing up
At the very end, the folding chair bed is disassembled into its main elements, and upholstery is formed on it. Upholstery technology is identical for each element:
- With the help of batting, a soft part is formed. Do not feel sorry for the material, because. in the future, it should serve faithfully for more than one decade. Any shape can be given, and glue is used for fixing.
- If you plan to wear sewn covers on top, you will have to use spunbond. If just a fabric goes over the filler, then this step is skipped.
- Covers are sewn for the side shields, and the fabric is simply stretched over the main part of the bed. For final fixation, in any case, a stapler is used. Staples are driven into focus to ensure maximum fixation.
At the very end, everything is put together again, and you can begin to operate. Anyone can do this work, but for this you need to clearly follow the instructions.
There is no particular difficulty in this process, but there is one point - if desired, the beam can be replaced with an edged board.
