Make an anatomical chair. DIY easy chair. What kind of chairs can you make with your own hands?

You can buy any thing in modern stores. A little imagination, a mouse and keyboard with Internet access, and a huge number of offers from social networks and online stores. It also happens that the financial situation is not the best, and purchases in online stores are considered elements of luxury. And sometimes you just want to do something with my own hands, they really itch. Here we have a small selection of examples of how you can make some furniture with your own hands.

DIY bean bag chair

In the first example, we will look at the production of frameless furniture; the most popular item in stores today is a beanbag chair. A photo of the DIY chair is presented below.

The materials cost for one bean bag chair is $40. This includes: polystyrene balls (filler), inner cover, outer cover.

First, the inner cover is sewn and filled with foam balls, then the outer one. Then we simply insert the inner cover into the outer one and we get a finished chair bag.

The hardest thing is to collect the balls in the bag, they keep trying to jump out of it, I had to use a vacuum cleaner. This brief instructions how to make a bean bag chair with your own hands.

DIY home chair

Now let's look at making a regular home chair with our own hands. Unfortunately, there were quite a few photographs; there was no time to take photographs. The main stages were recorded in a timely manner, switching from a tedious workflow.

I wanted to get an ordinary chair, and not just some incomprehensible rookery. So that it is strong and stable, like store-bought options. I had to look on the Internet for views and drawings of chairs in order to correctly assemble my design. I suggest you immediately look at the photographs of the chair assembly process itself.

At the first stage, a base-frame for the future chair in the form of a semicircle is made. Chipboard with timber is used. The base of the chair was 10 centimeters thick. This will be just enough to secure the walls. And the uprights have the same ultimate function.

Hardboard was perfect for the back, and plywood for the front wall. I drew out all the curves and outlines of the future chair by eye from the remaining wallpaper. Children's wooden cubes were used for the base.

In the next step, I started gluing cardboard to fill inner space. During the work, we even had to change the glue; the initially chosen PVA did not work. The walls swelled and became like a wafer, the glue was replaced with ordinary wood glue. Turned out to be the most best choice from everything offered. There was even an idea for a rocking chair with my own hands, but I will implement the idea a little later.

After looking at the photo, you can immediately easily understand how the finished walls were obtained. For leveling I used a regular knife; the material is easy to cut and can be deformed.

At the next stage, work with instant adhesive and foam rubber, seal the entire surface with a layer of foam rubber, leaving no bald spots or uncovered areas. A cover must be sewn onto a monotonous surface.

Well, we have reached the final stage, when we pull on the cover and get a beautiful finished chair. The product turned out to be quite heavy, but it will be completely safe for children, which can be considered a plus. As for the fabric used, nothing was bought anywhere. We used scraps and sewing scraps available at home.

We wanted temporary furniture; no one planned to make a chair that would last forever. The fabric on the armrests, despite being well tacked with glue, will peel off over time. If we say a little about the design of the chair, it turned out to be simply indestructible.

Chair made from plastic bottles

What people don't do with plastic bottles. And rafts in their youth, and bird feeders in kindergarten. This material has excellent potential for creativity.

Plastic bottles are a real find; in everyday life, brooches, scoops, curtains and buckets are made from them. They are used to decorate flower beds, they are laid out instead of pipes, they are made hanging chair.

We wanted to try making a chair out of bottles, why not? At first it all started with great enthusiasm for collecting bottles, and then everyone unanimously realized that there was simply nowhere to store them in such quantities in a small home area of ​​the room.

Even at the initial stage of storage, it immediately became clear that the necks of the bottles were not needed, or rather half of the bottles did. We decided to stack them in blocks of two bottles, carefully cutting off the neck and fastening 2 pieces to each other. The neck of one was cut off, turned over and inserted into the second bottle. Of course, a wooden chair looks much more attractive and solid.

For complete production the chairs needed to collect about 90 bottles, they were fastened together with tape, and covered with stretch film on top. It will not be possible to talk about the entire process of assembling the chair; at the time of writing, the chair was in finished form.

In short, we can say that you should not skimp on securing the bottles with tape, because... during assembly, they may simply diverge from each other; you will have to spend a lot of time to redo the design later. In this regard, I had to resort to stretch film and modify the chair to the final stage.

Photos of armchairs with your own hands

Soft cozy chairs for home for relaxation and communication

You can’t do without an armchair, just like without a sofa. We love to relax after a hard day at work, sitting in it with a cup of coffee or watching our favorite show, movie, series. In addition to ordinary furniture, there is also frameless furniture. It went on sale not long ago, but is already becoming widespread; this type of furniture is especially popular among children. The price for this innovation is increased.

Frameless bright beanbag chair “Shapito”

If you want to please your children and give them such a thing, you don’t have to run to the store. If you know how to sew, show your skill and imagination, try to make easy chair on one's own. On the Internet you can now find many patterns with step by step description work.

Handmade polka dot bean bag chair

Handmade frameless furniture

Making an upholstered chair has many advantages.

1. This thing is light in weight, can be easily moved, and is completely harmless, since it is intended for children who will not only sit there, but also use it in play.
2. To create it you don’t need any specific knowledge; you just need to have sewing skills. A bean bag chair is simply a cover filled with synthetic filler– polystyrene foam, so it’s comfortable to sit on.
3. It will take a little time to make the chair, and the children will be happy to help make it.
4. You will create an exceptional thing, turning dreams and ideas into reality.
5. By creating a chair with your own hands, you will significantly save your family budget.
6. Inexperienced needlewomen can easily handle the work.
7. Part necessary materials you can find it at home, choose according to your taste color scheme and decide on a design.

Unusual frameless chair-bed

We decide on the design and construction (what types of products are there, what to choose, what is easier and what is more difficult to make)

Rocking chair with soft seat and back, made by hand

The chair is a comfortable piece of furniture with a back and armrests. But not all chairs have them; the upholstery can be leather or fabric. The shape of the back and armrests can be straight or round. They also differ in type, it all depends on what the chair is intended for, for what room - in a nursery, in a living room or bedroom, in an office.

Soft and fluffy chair for a child, made by yourself

The choice of chairs intended for children must be approached with particular care. It is important that the design is equipped with a system that allows you to change the height of the back and seat, which affects the child’s posture. If this is not taken into account, the child may develop scoliosis. Living room furniture is placed not only in the bedroom, but also in other rooms. We usually relax on it. Office chair suitable for work, it is comfortable, but does not allow you to relax.

Soft ottomans in bright colors in the interior of a modern living room

The chairs also differ in structure. An ordinary chair with a back and armrests, you can simply sit in it, sit comfortably in front of the TV or read. For small rooms it is convenient to use chair-beds. Transformable chairs are popular; they do not convert into a bed, but by reclining the back, you can fully relax. Bean bag chairs are more common in children's rooms. Children simply love to sit on them and play with them. This chair is easy to make at home. Rocking chairs are rare.

Unusual soft transformable chairs for relaxing in the room or on the balcony

A cute plush chair for a nursery - your baby will definitely like it

Once you have decided and decided which chair you would like, it is important to consider some points. When making furniture with a frame, you need to pay attention to its property - it must be strong. Suitable materials are metal, natural wood, MDF, chipboard, you can use bamboo or rattan.

Wooden frame for a chair-bed, perfect for small spaces

The materials for the bean bag chair - the cover and the filling - must be wear-resistant and natural. Nowadays there are a lot of chairs, before you choose or make one, you need to know what model you want, its purpose and that it fits. general interior premises.

Leather bean bag chair in the living room by the fireplace

Necessary materials

Internal and outer part for making a bean bag chair with your own hands

To make a bean bag chair, you will need materials: approximately 3 meters of satin or calico for the inner cover, 3.5 meters of furniture fabric for the outer cover, a zipper - a meter, polystyrene foam (about 300 liters - one and a half kilograms), reinforced threads, graph paper make patterns.

Expanded polystyrene - special granules for the internal filling of the chair

Required Tools

Sewing supplies and necessary tools

Tools you will need:

• pencil,
• scissors,
• ruler,
• pins,
• needles,
• sewing machine,
• overlock for finishing edges.

Workplace for sewing products – sewing machine and overlock

Manufacturing process: step-by-step instructions

Drawings for making an adult and children's bean bag chair

Before you start making an upholstered chair with your own hands, you need to make a drawing, look for the pattern on the Internet and copy it from there. Choose any model for the product, at your discretion - just a bag, a pear, a drop, a square, get creative and make a funny animal. Now we select the fabric.

DIY budget armchair made from old jeans

For the inner cover, it is enough to choose a dense fabric so that after time the balls do not come out - fabric for bedspreads, satin or calico. For the outer cover, choose a fabric for upholstery, denim or leatherette will do, the main thing is that you like it and fit in with the overall decor.

A special filler, polystyrene foam, is used as padding. Order online or buy from a store that sells furniture repair and restoration products. It must be remembered that the material is voluminous and practically weightless. When purchasing it, you need to look at the size of the package, and not the weight. For a bean bag chair you need 250-300 liters.

The chair bag consists of a removable outer cover, a durable inner cover and a filling

If you don't want to bother with polystyrene foam, replace it with ceiling tiles– grind it and use it as a filler. You can use plant components as filling, but it is better to change them every six months, since this is a moisture-absorbing material and mold may appear.

Before making soft fabric chair, we make patterns, lay them out on the fabric, do not forget about the seam allowances - 2-3 cm, then you need to outline them with chalk. The model consists of a bottom and “petals”. First we start sewing the inner cover: all the wedges are sewn to the bottom, then they are sewn on the sides. Don't forget about the hole for the filler. Now let's move on to the outer case. It is made in the same way; we sew a zipper on the side.

Patterns for a beanbag chair on fabric

When the covers are ready, you need to stuff the inner bag.

Attention! If you are crafting with children, make sure that the granules do not get into the respiratory tract, since they are volatile and can easily get into the nose and mouth. Fill 2/3 of the volume, sew up the hole. Then we put on the top cover and fasten it with a zipper.

Newsprint jacquard bean bag chair

The final stage is decoration

Cozy handmade knitted chairs

You can leave the finished chair in its original form, or you can make it an exceptional element of the interior by decorating it. For needlewomen there are endless possibilities.

Pear chair in the corner of a children's room for a girl

In general, there are many options. Be guided by taste and imagination.

Fluffy fur chair for a cozy living room

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The production of which has a number of technological differences. The question arises: is it necessary to pay a lot of money for a finished product if you can make something similar with your own hands?

We will tell you about the process of making upholstered chairs, provide drawings, photographs and videos that will allow you to successfully complete the task. You will also find a list of necessary materials and tools.

First of all, you need to decide on the upholstery material. There are significant differences in both the cost of upholstery and its physical properties Oh. Let's look at the most popular options:

• Velours. Velvety and fleecy fabric. Externally it resembles faux fur.
• Chenille. Natural material, “diluted” with synthetic fibers. Thanks to this, the surface does not roll off and is practical and durable.
• Flock. The fabric vaguely resembles velor, but experts recommend using flock to make child seats. The fabric is easy to clean and wash, has water-repellent and wear-resistant qualities, and does not fade.
• Jacquard. The fabric is easy to clean and highly durable, but the structure includes synthetic fibers. Therefore, loose loops can lead to tightness.
• Faux suede. The material is fleecy and durable, does not fade and can “breathe”. Ease of care is an added bonus.
• Faux leather. The material is characterized by high wear resistance. In this case, the leather is distinguished by the presence of embossing.
• Tapestry. This is a natural and very expensive fabric, which can be distinguished by its visible weaving. Multi-colored threads, woven into the overall structure, form beautiful patterns.

At the heart of the most primitive frame structures there is a plywood template. Therefore, you will need sheets of birch plywood, screws, nails and a standard set of tools:

• protractor;
• steel ruler;
• compass;
• bench and hand vices;
• scriber;
• files;
• hand scissors;
• hammer;
• hacksaw;
• adjustable wrenches;
• soldering iron;
• pliers;
• table anvil;
• hand drill;
• chisel;
• sharpener;
• punch;
• puncher.

If you make a bean bag chair, your toolkit will be significantly reduced. In addition, there are simplified technologies developed by folk craftsmen that allow you to assemble an upholstered chair quickly and with a minimum set of equipment.

DIY photo of soft chairs

Made of MDF On wheels Folding With knitted element With low seat

How to make an upholstered chair with your own hands?

Any work cannot be started without a clear action plan. Decide on the design of the future piece of furniture. It is more difficult to create a frame chair, but it looks more respectable.

If you decide to sew a bean bag chair, get ready to master the patterns. Your actions will lie not so much in the field of furniture production, but in the field of sewing art. In any case, you will need an approximate budget and an idea of ​​the consumption of materials. For example, a bean bag chair costs 1200-1300 rubles. This includes fabric for the outer (about 300-500) and inner (200-300) covers. Also, 500 rubles are allocated for the purchase of filler.

Perhaps you already have an old “grandfather’s” easy chair that has lost its presentation? Then you can retighten and repair it with your own hands, as shown in the following video:

Traditional soft product

An ordinary chair requires a thorough approach and extensive preparatory stage. Let's look at the list of materials and tools required to make a plywood chair with upholstery:

• 20mm plywood;
• electric drill;
• emery cloth;
• screws;
• jigsaw;
• metal rims;
• thin nails;
• foam;
• wood glue;
• artificial leather;
• stain;
• black glossy paint;
• pencil;
• masking tape;
• roulette.

Let's get started:

1. After downloading one of the drawings below, proceed to large-scale work. Calculate the amount of materials and start making the template. First, cardboard templates are made, and plywood parts are cut out from them.
2. The sides of a standard chair resemble a banana. You will also need cross bars. Decide on the angles of inclination, bending and dimensions of the product.
3. Surface wooden parts cleaned and polished. Special attention pay attention to the ends - soak them in heated drying oil, flatten the fibers with a hammer (if bends are provided). Each frame detail is cut out using a jigsaw.
4. The sides of the chairs are painted or treated with stain. The ends of the sidewalls are reinforced with metal rims. After this, the tightening process begins.
5. The necessary holes are made with an electric drill. The rims are fixed with screws. First, the back part of the backrest is trimmed with artificial leather, then it is the turn of other fragments of the chair.
6. To secure the fabric you will need wallpaper nails with large heads. At the back, the upholstery is fixed along the transverse parts (along the very edge), at the front it should cover the slats. It is better to treat the attachment points with wood glue - this will increase the level of reliability.

Bag chair

The simplest version of the bag is the so-called. You cannot do without the following materials:

• calico or satin (about three meters);
• a piece of fabric for the outer cover (about 3.5 meters);
• meter-long zipper;
• filler;
• fabric for appliqué;
• scissors, pins and thread with needles.

Manufacturing:

1. Copy the pattern you like from the Internet, enlarge it and transfer it to the required parts. For the upper and lower covers, the work must be done separately. The result of your efforts is a small top bottom, a large bottom and six fabric wedges.
2. Sew the wedges and start sewing the bag. Small area must be left unsewn. In addition, both bottoms are sewn together. Having finished with the top cover, proceed to sewing the bottom one - the procedure will be similar.
3. From the fabric you choose, you need to cut out the elements for the applique - they are placed on top of the cover. A zipper is sewn into one of the gussets - this will allow you to remove the cover and wash it if it gets dirty. Two-thirds of the volume of the inner cover is filled with filler, which can be used as polystyrene foam.
4. After compacting the inner cover with filling, insert it into the outer cover, and then fasten the zipper. The bean bag chair is completely ready for use.

Pay attention to the strength of the seams of the inner cover - they should not come apart under the influence of the weight of a sitting person.

We will discuss further how to make a children's soft chair with your own hands.

DIY bean bag chair

Baby chair

Making a frameless soft chair for a baby is as simple as making a regular bean bag chair. The difference lies solely in the dimensions and colors of this piece of furniture. Bright colors are welcome cheerful tones, not irritating to the eyes and setting a positive mood.

• You can make a soft frame chair for a child with your own hands in the shape of a semicircular “sandwich” from wooden blocks and chipboard. The front wall of this design is made of plywood, the back wall is made of hardboard. The internal space of the glue along the bend of the back is filled with glued pieces of cardboard.
• After waiting for the wall to dry, smooth out the unevenness construction knife. A layer of foam rubber is carefully glued on top, on which the upholstery will subsequently lie. As upholstery fabric You can use eco-leather or flock - these options will allow your design to survive the unequal struggle with felt-tip pens and paints.
• Now about the dimensions. A standard adult chair has a meter height (some models reach 120 centimeters) with a bottom diameter of 30 centimeters and a top diameter of 15 centimeters. The height of the child seat should not exceed 60 centimeters (diameters will be 25 and 11 cm, respectively). Take this nuance into account at the pattern design stage.

Frameless Baby chair with your own hands

Drawings and useful video

In this section, we have selected photographs of the most successful homemade chairs that we could find on the RuNet. It is impossible to imagine the process of independent furniture production without drawings, so we post detailed diagrams and patterns for bean bag chairs.

Drawings of chairs for making them yourself

Oblique

You will also enjoy a master class on creating an upholstered chair with your own hands. Watch the video, repeat the steps of the wizard and adhere to the described technological standards.

So, with the help of the presented video, you will learn how to make a bean bag chair with your own hands, which has gained immense popularity in our country:

By the way, if you have Euro pallets available, you can make a chair with your own hands from such material, and then just throw a comfortable one on the seat soft pillow. Don't believe me? Watch the following video:

Many people think that furniture manufacturing- this is magic, the secret of which a mere mortal is not able to comprehend. Believe me, with a minimum set of tools, desire, attentiveness and perseverance, you can easily cope with the task. We have presented everything you need - drawings, photographs and videos, so go ahead and amaze your loved ones with your art!

Lovers of carpentry are always wary of switching to upholstered furniture, and prefer to buy ready-made sets of sofas and armchairs, complementing them in style with tables and cabinets self-made. There is a reason for this: firstly, for this you need to master related disciplines, such as cutting and sewing or knitting, and secondly, take care not only of strength and appearance product, but also about the comfort of sitting or lying on it.

But trying is not torture, for testing you can make a modest carpentry, using simple method upholstery made of foam rubber or ready-made pillows for furniture. Making chairs can become a fun team hobby; friends or family members with different applied skills can combine their talents and connect on different stages creation upholstered furniture. This will open up a lot of scope for design solutions and material selection.

Classic armchair

The production of this small-sized chair consists of two main stages.

Preparing parts and assembling the frame

You need to work especially carefully on the rear legs, to obtain a curved shape you need to use a ready-made pattern and a jigsaw. The vertical part of the backrest and the rear seat support are attached to the rear legs.

The front legs have square section and can be made from glued rectangular bars. Their ends must also be narrowed using electric jigsaw. Fastenings are made with self-tapping screws, for which it is necessary to pre-drill holes with a diameter less than one third.

Before installation, wood glue is applied to the surface of the joints. The seat bars are secured in the corners by additional details, with edges cut at 45 degrees. For seating, you can use plywood or furniture fabric strips.

On last stage Assemblies are attached to the armrests and shaped backrest ears. The dimensions of the parts can be taken from ready-made drawings, or a pattern can be taken from old disassembled chairs.

Upholstery

Back and inner part armrests are covered with textile furniture tape. The seat is covered with layers of foam rubber, padding polyester and fabric, which should be 4-5 cm larger in size, due to which they will be folded in the front part and attached to the bottom of the seat.

Then the armrests and backrest are upholstered. To obtain a rounded shape, special recesses are made; after fastening, excess pieces of foam rubber and padding polyester are carefully trimmed. To master furniture upholstery skills, you will have to be patient and use video lessons.

Lattice chair with reclining seat

To make a lattice structure, you will need a beam with a cross-section of 2.8, which is cut into strips of the same length 50-60 cm, depending on the selected dimensions of the product.

The workpieces must have a perfectly flat surface, and you must also try to mark as accurately as possible the places for attaching them to the rack.

For the manufacture of load-bearing structure– sidewalls, 3 cm thick plywood is used, from which the sides of the chair are cut according to the pattern. These two sanded pieces are then connected to each other by bases called drawers: at the bottom, at the top and at the level of the seat support.

Then the prepared bars must be secured to this structure with self-tapping screws at intervals of 2.5 cm. The edges should be rounded. The photo shows several different models armchairs made from bars, made independently using this technology.

Country chairs

These wooden chairs are a more simplified version of the classic ones. The assembly diagram of a wooden frame is fundamentally the same, but the wooden parts are not rounded; the simplest armrests and even legs are made from the bars according to the principle of a children's construction set.

Special attention is required when processing the end parts of furniture that will be located on outdoors. After thoroughly sanding the surface, it is treated with hot drying oil and coated with 3 layers of varnish. Softness country chairs add removable pillows.

Hanging chair hammock

To make this necessary attribute of relaxation on modern dacha You need to know how to knit using the macrame technique.

Basic materials:

• two hoops, a small one for the seat with a diameter of 70 cm, and a large one for the back - 110 cm, which can be made from water pipes metal-plastic pipes. To secure the connection, you can use plastic or wooden inserts that are placed inside the pipe and secured with screws;
• cord for weaving, possibly made of polyamide with a polypropylene core, the knots of which are easily secured, do not stretch and do not slip.
• fasteners, wooden rods.

At the first stage, the entire circumference of the hoops is covered with uniform turns of cord, then the interior of the seat is knitted with a double cord mesh made using one of the macrame techniques.

The seat and backrest are secured with two wooden rods, which are fixed using cuts; in the front part, the seat and backrest frame are connected using a winding and two thick cords.

To others convenient option For a summer house, you can use a hanging chair, which you can make with your own hands from thick fabric. For the base you will need one hoop with a diameter of 90 cm.

For the cover, a 3-meter piece of fabric is taken, which is divided into two identical squares with a side of one and a half meters. Then the circles are cut out and a double cover is sewn with an allowance. The groove for the hoop is reinforced with padding polyester tape, then holes are cut to secure the scabs.

The following ideas are suitable for sewing and knitting enthusiasts who want to apply their skills to making furniture.

Chair cushion

It is better to sew the first such chair with your own hands, using ready-made patterns in the shape of a pear or a ball, strictly adhering to the given dimensions, and only then can you improvise with the silhouette and dimensions. You will need a bag of foam balls, fabric and zippers for the inner and outer covers, and a sewing machine.

The seams are made double for strength; when filling, plastic or cardboard tube, which helps not to scatter electrified foam chips.

You can improvise with the shapes and colors of such chairs. With this technology, if the work is completed, there can be no defects. Failed instances may become original pillows for children's games.

Bottle chair

This is the simplest know-how that does not require any special skills, just the desire to do something with your own hands.

To collect required quantity material will take some time. It will be necessary to collect identical two-liter plastic bottles, clean them and make blanks by cutting off the top part and inserting them into each other in pairs. Then the blocks are prepared different sizes for seat, armrests and backrest, secured with tape.

The chair is assembled into classic style, rectangular blocks of various sizes for a seat, backrest and two armrests. After assembly, you need to wrap the entire product with polyethylene stretch film, and then decorate it with stylish pillows or sew a cover.

Frameless chair-bed made of foam rubber

In order to make such a chair with your own hands, you need to delve into the instructions, especially in the part that explains how to attach ready-made blocks.

Once you grasp the essence, and it consists in a special method of sewing covers along the edges to each other, you can easily assemble soft folding structures - corners, armchairs and sofas of any size. You will also need to learn correct calculations when cutting out foam rubber and patterning covers.

DIY chair photo

Not only folk craftsmen know how to make exclusive items from scrap materials. comfortable furniture. The advantage of such an activity is obvious - it is the opportunity to translate into reality the most bold ideas for variety of living space. An additional bonus is the low cost of making home soft chairs with your own hands. Following the advice of designers, you can make a soft chair for a pleasant time in own home. At home, you can exactly repeat all the stages of factory production of this modern and convenient attribute for decorating a children's or living room. On the Internet you can find both the simplest and most complex schemes.

The first step in the manufacture of home upholstered furniture is the choice of fabric for external design soft parts of the structure. Each master selects upholstery depending on the physical properties and price aspects and features that different drawings have. Let's look at the most common fabrics for decorating chairs in our time:

• velor – velvety to the touch, gives the furniture a certain charm;

Velor upholstery

• flog is a distant analogue of velor, easy to clean, so designers use it to decorate children's upholstered furniture;

Upholstered flog

• chenille - a fabric based on a combination of natural and synthetic fibers, has particular wear resistance (a well-thought-out structure prevents the formation of pilling);

Chinille in upholstery

• jacquard - the upholstery is considered durable, but over time the loops turn into puffs;
• natural tapestry is the most expensive and beautiful view upholstery fabrics;

Upholstered jacquard

• artificial suede is a universal option for chairs in a sunny room, resistant to UV rays and easy to clean;

Faux suede upholstery

• leatherette is a durable material that allows you to play with decorative embossing.

Leatherette upholstery

Material, fittings, tools for frame attributes

Creating a frame chair from scratch presents some difficulties. But the finished product will have a more respectable appearance. You can verify this by looking at photos of finished homemade products. You can also use an old Soviet “grandmother’s” chair for the base.

To make a simple frame for an upholstered chair, you need to select durable sheets of 20 mm plywood for cutting out parts yourself. A standard set of repair tools with an electric drill, a jigsaw, a steel ruler, emery cloth, metal rims, masking tape, a pencil, a tape measure, thin nails, self-tapping screws, wood glue, stain, and glossy paint will also be useful. For upholstery you need: artificial leather or fabric, foam rubber (filler).

Step-by-step creation of upholstered furniture with a wooden base

1. If you don't know how to make a drawing for the base, then look ready-made options schemes on the network. As a rule, they are transferred to a cardboard template with a pencil. Only after this they begin to perform the operations of the described algorithm. This will help you save on excess material, or vice versa – avoid purchasing missing parts.
2. Using a cardboard template, future constituent elements are cut out from plywood sheets:

• banana-shaped sidewalls;
• cross bars.

It is important to determine required angles tilt, bend and dimensions of the future frame. A photo of the finished chair, created according to your design, will help with this.

1. The next stage is surface treatment of wooden parts by stripping and grinding. The ends are worked with special care to improve the quality of the work done. These parts are first impregnated with heated drying oil and only then bends are formed with a hammer, if they are provided for in the sketch. Each component element is cut out with an electric jigsaw.
2. The sidewalls are painted or treated with varnish-stain. The ends of the side parts are reinforced with metal rims.
3. The further course of action is related to the covering of the frame. Using an electric drill they do required holes. The rims are fixed with screws.
4. First, the back part of the back is covered with artificial leather or fabric, then the remaining fragments of the structure, incl. and seats.
5. The upholstery material is secured with wallpaper nails, which are characterized by large heads. In the back of the frame chair, the upholstery is fixed along the edge, along the transverse parts, to better cover the slats.

Pattern of a round chair Wooden frame We cover the frame with fiberboard cardboard

Experienced furniture makers recommend additionally treating the fastening points with wood glue. This move is needed to improve durability created furniture with your own hands.

Secrets of reliable upholstery: how to sew

The process of stretching the upholstery of soft chairs has its own nuances:

1. Foam rubber is cut to the size of the seat (average thickness - 5 cm). The part is glued to the surface of the plywood sheet.
2. Horizontal and vertical fabric straps are secured to the back with a construction stapler. Similar belts are added to the armrests and sides from the inside along the shape.
3. A piece is cut from a piece of foam rubber 0.1 cm thick, which will be larger in size than the area of ​​the seat (the difference is 4-5 cm). Take a piece of synthetic padding fabric of a similar size with an elongated front part and fasten it with your own hands.
4. After the manipulations have been completed, the upholstery is covered furniture fabric. Using a stapler, the textiles are secured to all corners of the cover and the synthetic foam layer to the frame of the chair seat.
5. The sides and armrests are also covered with synthetic padding, securing spray glue over the entire surface. Only after this the parts are sheathed with fabric, securing the flap along the staples.

We cover the chair with foam rubber. Additionally we put padding polyester