DIY furniture

DIY furniture, for example, for a country house, has become very popular recently. The fact is that such work makes it possible not only to significantly save on the purchase of furniture, but also to adapt as much as possible to the architectural features of a particular room. At the same time, household appliances can be easily integrated into such furniture, which cannot be done when installing a standard headset purchased in a store. The basic principles of manufacturing various interior items we will consider in this article.

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What is cabinet furniture?

In order to understand all the nuances of manufacturing cabinet furniture, you need to find out what it is:

• The main difference between this type of furniture and its other varieties is that it is made of rigid shields. They together form its main part - the case or box. However, she does not have soft parts, such as mattresses or ottomans.
• The case of such furniture is assembled from separate horizontal and vertical elements that can be replaced or moved. As a result, combining the basic elements, you can collect a wide variety of furnishings: cabinets, chests of drawers, kitchens, walls, bedside tables. In addition, modular furniture may also include built-in appliances, such as a microwave or extractor fan.
• Cabinet furniture can be not only rectangular, but also have a completely different appearance. So, for example, an experienced specialist can make the same cabinet in a semicircular shape, and the kitchen can even be wave-like. It all depends entirely on your wishes, as well as the experience and imagination of a design specialist.

Cabinet or, as it is also called, modular furniture has a number of advantages, among which are the following:

• Large selection of models.
• Reasonable cost.
• Unlimited possibilities for using a variety of finishing materials.
• Possibility of modification, depending on the requirements of a particular interior.

Important! If necessary, you can disassemble and assemble cabinet furniture with your own hands several times. This is very useful for you in the process of moving or replacing furniture in another room. In this case, you do not have to invite a master for this, since such furniture is very easy to assemble independently.

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The main stages of manufacturing

In the manufacture of cabinet furniture yourself, you will have to perform several stages of work.

Development of drawings and diagrams

Making cabinet furniture with your own hands begins with the implementation of preparatory actions. So, for starters, you should develop its schemes and sketches taking into account all the sizes of the room, the specific location of the furniture in it, as well as the shape and color of the future product. At the same time, the project can be developed both independently and you can take the finished one, which can be found on the relevant specialized Internet sites.

If you decide to develop the project yourself, you can use pencil and paper for this, or you can resort to using a special design program, for example, such as “PRO100”. In this case, you will have to simultaneously work out the assembly drawings of your future product.They can also be performed independently using programs such as “AutoCAD” or “Compass 3D,” or you can use ready-made ones.

Important! Assembly drawings are a kind of map, according to which you will collect ready-made pieces of furniture, therefore, their preparation or selection should be treated very carefully.

Cut

Since one of the mandatory operations in the manufacturing process of cabinet furniture will be the sawing of chipboards, it will also be necessary to calculate and detail all the constituent elements of a particular piece of furniture. It is for them that you will subsequently cut them in the cutting shop.

Important! Of course, errors here will be fraught with the presence of marriage in the future.

In addition, at this stage, you also need to calculate the cost of the future product. It will be necessary to include the cost of accessories, materials, work on cutting and gluing furniture edges.

Important! Such a detailed calculation will make it possible to plan the work and make the desired adjustments.

Materials purchase

After you complete all calculations, you should proceed with the procurement of the necessary materials and tools for the manufacture of modular furniture. At the same time, do-it-yourself furniture can not be completed entirely on its own. The fact is that some elements may have to be entrusted to masters in the field of furniture production. For example, it can be shelves of an unusual design or some original facade.

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Tool selection

In the process of manufacturing cabinet furniture, you will need the following:

• Roulette.
• Drills for metal and wood.
• A set of magnetic bits for working with screws in hard-to-reach places.
• A set of hex keys.
• Awl for turning holes in a tree.
• Jigsaw.
• Screwdriver Set.

Important! Many manuals, which explain the sequence of manufacturing cabinet furniture, recommend that at the same time as acquiring a tool, purchase furniture accessories. This is due to the fact that many fittings can be installed in their place only using special keys. Therefore, it makes sense to buy such keys in advance.

Furniture accessories include door hinges, handles, rails for drawers, shelf holders and other elements of furniture construction. Their main task is to ensure the operation of the doors. At the same time, the better the fittings used, the more convenient it will subsequently be to use finished furniture.

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Material selection

Do-it-yourself cabinet furniture will be of high quality only if you purchase good material for it. So, most types of modular furniture are made of wood, although there are options for using glass, metal, natural or artificial stone in its design.

Important! The most expensive is furniture, which is made from a solid wood mass of such wood species as ash, beech, walnut, oak.

As for other materials used for the manufacture of cabinet furniture, it is:

• Chipboard.
• MDF.
• Fiberboard.
• Laminates.
• Furniture panels.

Important! For the manufacture of furniture of the middle and lower price segment, as a rule, 1.6 cm thick chipboards are used.

Chipboard

Particleboard is made from fine wood chips, which are mixed with synthetic resins by hot pressing. Since such resins are toxic enough when choosing chipboard to create furniture, very carefully check that this material has all the necessary permits and certificates.

There are several classes of chipboard, while for the manufacture of furniture used plates of class E1. They must be well lined, otherwise - if there are unprotected areas through which formaldehyde can leak, the material will be far from safe for your health. To do this, you need to close all the holes with plugs, and trim the ends of the plates with a furniture edge.

Laminate and its analogues

As a rule, a laminate is used for cladding plates, and there are other finishing methods, such as, for example, caching and vacuum (membrane) pressing. Such cladding methods make it possible to imitate almost any material - metal, stone, granite. Thanks to this, cabinet furniture can successfully fit into the interior of any room.

MDF

Speaking of the facades of this type of furniture, they are often made of MDF boards. The fact is that this material is perfectly processed with the help of mills, so almost any facade can be simply and quickly made from it. At the same time, there are projects for which glass, natural wood and AGT profile are used as facades.

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Manufacturing technology of cabinet furniture:

• The assembly of cabinet furniture with your own hands begins after the material is sawn, and its individual elements from chipboard are glued. At the same time, its assembly should be carried out in a warm room with a low level of humidity. In addition, you will also have to stick the edge yourself in those places where you need it.
• As a rule, the edges are glued, as well as the front sides of the elements. A common household iron is often used for this purpose. Usually the edge already has glue applied on the back side, and in order to melt it, you just need to press the edge in the desired place along the entire surface of the part to be glued and hold it with an iron.

Important! Using an iron, you must try not to overexpose it on the edge so that it does not swell from high temperature.

• After completing the edge sizing procedure, they begin to mark the sidewalls. This operation is necessary so that the necessary elements, for example, corners and shelf holders, can be placed in the marked-up places. From the accuracy of such markup in the future, their performance will depend.
• After the marking is made and all the holes for the accessories are drilled, it is installed in its place, they begin to assemble the box itself.

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Stock footage

Thus, coming up with all responsibility to the process of manufacturing cabinet furniture with your own hands, you will get a solid and high-quality set at a much lower price than the cost of similar products purchased in a specialized store.