DIY car bed

At the mention of DIY furniture, accessibility and simplicity come to the fore. This is a great solution for beginners who decide to please their family with new furniture. But this is not all crafts. In production, interior items are created in large quantities, which implies the use of special technologies or the simplicity of models. It is easier for home masters - you can completely concentrate on one particular product, put all your love, care, strength into it. A great option is a do-it-yourself bed-car. Today you will learn how to make it so that it performs not only a user-defined function, but also an additional game function.

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Design features of the bed machine

Children's furniture is subjected to even greater stress than adult, despite the large difference in weight. Children are constantly actively, diligently moving, so both ordinary and play beds are used not only for rest and sleep, but also somersaults, jumps, climbing, various games. That's why:

• Completed do-it-yourself bed machine, first of all, should be as durable as possible, and this applies not only to materials, but also to fixtures.
• It is also important that it matches the specified size.
• Since it is impossible to make such a design extendable, it is better to choose the parameters for growth. On average, such furniture serves several years.
• Everything should be safe in it - paints, materials, lights, stickers.

Bed frame

The choice of basis, as a rule, depends on the experience with the tree, your own wishes, the upcoming load, which is due to the weight of the child.

Let's look at how to make a do-it-yourself bed in two of the most popular variations:

• These parts are assembled from a bar with a cross section of 50 by 70 mm. Joints reinforce with metal corners. If it is assumed that there are drawers in the bed, then the transverse beams are replaced with boards or jumpers made of plywood. The frame is assembled on a frame, it consists of a back, sides, headboard. The bottom of the children's bed-cars can be made solid from thin plywood or slatted. The frame is mounted directly on the floor, on rollers or on legs.

Important! This design can be called simple, but reliable. At the same time, the dimensions of the frame coincide with the dimensions of the mattress.

• Here, the main load of the bed is distributed between the foot, the head, the sidewalls. The mattress in this design is held on a frame of beams fixed to the inside of the back and sides. Strengthen the base due to the frame in the form of bedside tables. The head and foot act as facades of bedside tables, while the sidewalls are attached directly to them.

Side panels, foot, headboard

They play the role of the main design details, because thanks to them the bed acquires the contours of the car. They are made of particleboard, plywood, MDF or wood - it all depends on the financial capabilities and features of the selected model of a children's bed-car.

There can be many assembly options:

• Installation of flat, simple panels when a resemblance to a real machine is achieved by drawing headlights.
• Dismantling the entire structure into small parts to simulate a bumper.

Do-it-yourself baby car bed is done in two ways:

1. If all the component parts are mounted on a frame, then they need not be too strong.In this case, they are made of chipboard or plywood 1 cm thick.
2. If the frame plays the role of a bed box, then you need MDF, particleboard or a tree with a thickness of at least 1.8 cm.

Important! In both cases, all the details of the bed are cut with an electric jigsaw, they are thoroughly cleaned, the edges are processed with a mill. Slices without fail are sealed with a plastic edge or heat-resistant tape.

Additional bed details

It is impossible to imagine a car without the necessary accessories such as wheels and steering wheel. Unfortunately, they are not available in most car beds, which certainly disappoints the little ones. Therefore, collecting a car bed with your own hands, take note of such ideas:

• Wheels are usually glued or painted. But it is possible to make wheels for a car bed, cut disks from plywood, strengthen the contours with plywood overlays that simulate the convexity of tires, tighten the ends with an edge. Mount them motionless or they rotate freely. The backs and sides of a children's bed-car are painted in bright colors to achieve maximum resemblance to a real car.
• If you have experience in the development of electrical circuits, then you can equip the car bed with headlights from spotlights. Or it’s even easier to do this - attach an LED strip along the wheel contours and the sidewall contour. No additional knowledge is needed here - just collect the tape of the required length, then attach the adapter.

Important! Paste or paint the bed should be before its assembly.

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Necessary tools and materials

The assortment of materials today is quite large, but special attention should be paid to the class during the purchase process. To make a reliable and safe do-it-yourself bed car, you need to purchase the following:

• Fiberboard class E1 and E0.
• Wooden beam treated with antiseptic.
• Sheets of MDF, particleboard, plywood, wooden furniture panel. Just a few sheets are enough to assemble a baby bed.
• Allen key, confirmations.
• Drill for a furniture coupler.
• Rollers for moving the bed or its individual parts.
• Nails, wood screws.

Important! To rent or borrow from friends you will also have to use an electric jigsaw, a hacksaw for wood, an electric drill, a screwdriver. Useful in the assembly of the typewriter-bed is a ruler, pencil, brushes, tape measure, spray paint, sandpaper.

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DIY children's furniture

A car-bed for a boy with his own hands is collected using a simple technology that does not require special knowledge, skills, or the help of specialists:

• At the first stage, assemble the frame in the form of a box or frame, with crossbars or partitions. All parts are fastened with nails or self-tapping screws.
• Cut out the back and sides of the bed. It is better to cut out the second part not according to the pattern - use the first blank for this to get full symmetry. Then all the details must be sanded with sandpaper, glued over with an edge.

Important! Remember that no protrusions or sharp edges are allowed here.

• Make an approximate assembly of a children's bed-car in order to identify and eliminate possible shortcomings. If all is well, you can disassemble the bed, arrange it further according to the project, paint, paste.
• Once the bed is dry, reassemble it. Then fix with a self-tapping screw on the frame all the parts, and between them connect them with confirmations. The heads of the screws are painted in the desired color. Next, you can attach the rollers to the bottom of the frame.

Important! The last step in assembling the car bed with your own hands is to decorate and install the overhead wheels, the backlight is mounted under the machine, stickers are glued. Lastly, a rack bottom is laid.

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Stock footage

As we have already found out, it is better to make a car bed with your own hands, because only under such a condition you can reproduce exactly the smallest details.To really surprise a child, it is still better to use a steering wheel, motorcycle wheels, and real headlights to make a bed. This toy will appeal to the baby much more than store cars, and he will go to sleep with pleasure with it, rather than inventing new excuses.