DIY furniture

Most parents, because of their great love for children, try to give them all the best, interesting, high-quality. This also applies to the design of the room in which they live. Basically, such work rests on the shoulders of caring dads. They arrange furniture in such a way as to protect their child as much as possible, to create an ideal environment for games and sleep. You can buy everything you need at any children's store, but furniture made by yourself is distinguished by its uniqueness, convenience, and warmth. Today we will find out how easy it is to make children's furniture.

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What should be the interior of children's rooms?

To figure out how to make children's furniture with your own hands, you first need to determine what features such rooms should have. The main requirements that apply to children's rooms include:

• Convenience.
• Compactness.
• Beauty.
• Compliance with the anatomical requirements of the child's body.

Important! There are also a number of additional requirements, but more often they are presented to the interior items by the parents themselves, more experienced. Therefore, choosing a specific project, it should be taken into account that the child is growing, respectively - tables, wardrobes, a bed should “grow” with him. If the furniture is equipped with special devices for resizing, then it will have to be changed less often.

Hand-made furnishings must also meet the requirements of the child, take into account his wishes. As a rule, children do not attach much importance to color or varnishing, but they highly appreciate such moments:

• Practicality.
• Multifunctionality.
• Theme.
• The original appearance.

Modern kids perceive furniture more as toys, but do not at all consider its functional purpose. Often, boys turn their beds into pirate ships, so they must be designed accordingly.

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What materials are better to make children's furniture?

Do-it-yourself children's furniture should be made from carefully selected, safe materials, because the child’s body is quite vulnerable, and the release of harmful substances by interior items can negatively affect their health. It should also be noted that children are pretty careless about almost all things, so the furniture should be as durable as possible, able to withstand any load during games.

Follow these guidelines when choosing the right material:

• Particleboard is not suitable for the manufacture of such products, because it emits hazardous formaldehydes that often cause allergies in babies. They affect them much more strongly than adults.

Important! If you don’t have much choice, then at least choose E0 class boards used in Europe for the production of furniture for medical and rehabilitation institutions. Such material is not cheap.

• Furniture for kindergartens is made only from solid wood, as it provides a high level of environmental friendliness. In addition, it is durable, can withstand any load.Let us make a small conclusion that it is better to choose MDF boards and solid wood as the main material.
• It is recommended to perform soft interior items from materials that can be processed with all kinds of liquid cleaners, for example, premium plywood, natural packing and fabric that has the necessary quality certificates.

Important! It is recommended to refuse the use of varnishes because of their toxicity. It is better to polish the products.

When making furniture for children with your own hands, always keep nearby drawings to understand what it will ultimately turn out to be.

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How to make an ottoman for a children's room?

Getting started is best with the simplest varieties of children's furniture, for example, you can build a pouf on wheels. The scheme of its manufacture is understandable and simple, it is necessary to perform the following actions:

1. Take a sheet of high-quality chipboard, on it draw in turn six circles of equal diameter. Their radius should be equal to 30 cm.
2. Cut the drawn circles with an electric jigsaw.
3. Using a screwdriver, fasten together three parts of the parts obtained, placing them one below the other.
4. Glue two wooden slats of the desired configuration with glue to the finished base. Due to them, the chair will become higher and outwardly original.
5. Using a construction stapler, apply soft foam on the sides of the seat.
6. Take a soft, dense cloth, and pull it over the finished base. The stapler will help you with this.
7. At the last stage, attach the wheels to the seat, and do-it-yourself children's furniture for your baby’s room is ready!

It's so simple to make an original ottoman for a children's room, which will certainly delight your baby.

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How to make a baby bed with your own hands?

Perhaps you are already ready to make more sophisticated furniture for the children's room with your own hands. The most important subject for the development and growth of the child, of course, is the bed. If done correctly, it will help the baby grow healthy, have a good posture, excellent health.

First you have to make a drawing on which you fix all the sizes of children's furniture. Then prepare a more detailed diagram, because each of its elements is made separately, then only attached to the base.

The installation process includes several stages and is as follows:

1. Prepare the required number of MDF sheets from 2 cm thick for the manufacture of the main parts of the bed. Moving parts can be made from thinner sheets. 12 mm plywood border strips. Since all the elements will be fixed with glue, prepare it too. You will also need aluminum corners or screws to connect. Plastic dowels are useful for fixing the structure to the wall.
2. Attach the main plank of wood to the upper curb, install the guide board with a special gutter from below, then install a drawer on it. Fix the end panel at the base of the wall loosely. At the attachment points, install the squares of durable MDF.
3. After fixing the end wall in the corner zone in a perpendicular position, attach a partition to it to fence off the compartments. Then you can store the mattress. You can use metal corners at this stage.
4. Fasten the sidewall to the end point of our dividing structure. Keep away from the wall during installation. Then the wall of the case will fit here.

It is important that children's furniture matches the baby’s growth, is comfortable, and performs several important functions at the same time. The main thing is practicality, safety, originality of external performance.

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Dressing furniture for kids

Largely on what furnishings you buy or make, it depends on how successful the design of the children's room will turn out.With your own hands, you can paint them in the most interesting shades that have a beneficial effect on the children's psyche. It can be white or blue, green, beige.

Important! Black and red shades are best avoided, because they act as pathogens.

Designers and psychologists advise allowing the child to independently decorate his bed, wardrobe, table, chairs. To do this, you can purchase special safe paints or decorative stickers.

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As you can see, nothing is impossible. And if you responsibly, with love, approach the implementation of your idea, then children's furniture with your own hands will become not only a simple, but also an interesting task for you. And the result will rejoice not only you, but also your beloved child, who will feel your care and respond with gratitude to her.