How to make a bed with your own hands from a tree for a summer residence?

Perhaps the most enjoyable thing that everyone does in the country is sleep. Crystal clear, fresh air, birds chirping, a comfortable bed help to fully relax and restore strength after a hard working week. Any summer resident would like to create the most suitable conditions for rest and sleep on their own. Today we will learn how to make a bed with our own hands from wood for a summer house, the design of which is in no way inferior to expensive purchased furniture. Everything from the material, you can choose at your discretion, in addition, you will save a decent amount of money.

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How to make a simple wooden bed for a summer residence with your own hands?

First, you need to prepare all the materials in order to make a high-quality, comfortable, beautiful bed for a wooden house with your own hands. Its dimensions directly depend on the size of the mattress, which then you will buy for her. That is why all calculations should be carried out, guided by this parameter:

• For the manufacture of sidewalls, you need to buy two boards whose length would correspond to the size of the mattress, but with a margin of 5 cm wider than its thickness.
• For the front, rear walls and the headboard, you will need three boards with a width equal to the sidewalls. The main thing is that they match the width of the mattress in length.
• It is better to make legs, supporting and bearing strips from timber. Their size should be equal to the following values: 200 by 4 by 4 cm. Such pieces will need 5 pieces.
• For fastening the headboard and the slat ceiling, you will need from 10 to 30 racks of size 150 by 4 by 2 cm. Their number depends directly on the size of the bed itself and the rails. Of these, approximately 10 to 25 rails will go to overlap.

Also purchase self-tapping screws with corners, varnish, stain, carpentry glue from a hardware store.

The tools you need are:

• A plane with sandpaper.
• Drill with a screwdriver.
• Roulette.
• Hacksaw and electric jigsaw.
• Joiner pencil and square.

The manufacturing technology of the bed is as follows:

1. Saw off the parts for making legs from the beam.
2. Step away from the top 5 cm, attach the legs to the corners of the side walls of the product.
3. Screw the support rail on the inside for overlapping. Do the same on the front and back walls. In this case, take into account the distance that will be required to bond together all the walls of the bed.
4. Use glue and battens to install the backrest.
5. Apply stain and quick-drying varnish to all parts. It is recommended to do this in two layers.
6. Place the floor slats over the entire sleeping area.
7. Equip an additional bed for stability with legs in the middle or along the edges of the rack bottom.
8. Lay the purchased mattress on top.

Important! This bed can be installed not only in the country, but even in the apartment.

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How to make your own catwalk bed?

The bed-podium is a capacious box, on top of which there is a place for sleeping. There are options for placing a pull-out platform or hidden inside the box. In most cases, it is placed on top, boxes are directly inserted into the box to store the necessary things, which are quite a lot in the country.

Such a wooden bed with your own hands for a summer residence is made quite simply, but first you need to prepare such materials:

• Boards for covering the outer part of the bed and the basics, which act as guide boxes.
• A beam for the construction of a frame and supports measuring 50 by 50 cm.
• Lags with slats for arranging floors and horizontal struts.
• Plywood for the bottom of linen boxes.
• Boards for making walls with a box.
• Corners, screws, glue.
• All the necessary tools.

The bed should be assembled directly at the place of its further location. Then follow the instructions:

1. Make all the markings right on the floor.
2. Assemble the bar structure so that it necessarily has intermediate supports that allow the bed to withstand severe loads.
3. Lay spacers and upper logs.
4. Sheathe the outer walls of the future bed.
5. Make walls for attaching the liner drawer guides.
6. Collect the boxes.
7. Paint all the details.
8. Lay the mattress down.

Important! Such beds are used mainly in small cottages, where every centimeter of living space is valuable.

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How to build a convertible bed with your own hands for a summer residence?

Such structures are typically used to reduce horizontal area. In the daytime, they add up to form a closet. Even the workplace can be hidden in such a bed.

For its manufacture, carpentry tools will also be required. But it is recommended to start work with the layout. Standardly it includes three large parts:

• The first part is a fixed base attached to the wall.
• The second part is a movable bed connected by a hinge to the first part.
• The third part is the mattress.

Features of the work:

• To equip the basics, boards are required. The manufacturing technique is simple, everything is done the same way as in the construction of a large cabinet. Here are just no shelves in it, the structure is attached securely to the wall, ceiling and floor.
• The lifting mechanism is easy to make from garage curtains or pins with bearings. You can use any materials at hand.
• A wooden frame is attached directly to the lifting mechanism, onto which a mattress is then placed. It should be well fixed with straps so that it does not move when lifting.
• The frame also needs to be equipped with strong legs so that they withstand the load and can be folded.
• It remains only to close the door to the bed niche.
• Shelves can be glued on the sides to make the structure more functional.

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How to make a bed yourself from chipboard?

The simplest bed for giving with your own hands made of wood is made in the form of a box-shaped structure, which has no legs. To make it, you need to buy two sheets of chipboard with a thickness of not more than 16 mm:

• One of them - laminated, will go to the foot, headboard and sidewalls.
• The second - polished, cheaper is used to make partitions and the bottom of the bed.

Important! Particleboard itself is difficult to process, so it is better for the sheets to be cut to your size on professional equipment.

Features of the manufacturing process:

• It is better to make a screed with the help of confirmations duplicated by metal corners. Thanks to this double fixation, the design will be more reliable.
• Internal partitions are installed evenly across the bed.
• Attaching the parts with your own hands, it is necessary to measure everything clearly so that right angles form between the canvases.
• The same corners should be fixed along the entire perimeter of the structure so that they additionally support the bottom.
• It is also recommended to screw them.

Important! During the operation of such a bed, it is necessary to securely install it so that it does not collapse under heavy weight.

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As you can see, there is nothing complicated in making a bed with your own hands from a tree for a summer residence and not only.And even more - there are many design variations for the manufacture of such furniture, so what kind of bed will be depends entirely on your preferences.