Who would want at least once to sleep on the royal bed, occupying half the room? Invented in ancient times, the catwalk beds look unusual, but they always have a demand. Especially they like the owners of a spacious separate bedroom, where there is a place for such experiments. Sometimes there is a desire to have non-standard furniture, but not always in the store there is a product of the desired form. We offer you the instruction how to step-by-step make a round bed podium with your own hands. We are sure that its design will appeal to many people who want to radically and tastefully change the interior of their bedroom.
How to make a podium with your own hands?
- For work we buy thick plywood. Our bed is spacious and one sheet was not enough, it took two sheets for cutting.
- With the help of a thread and a pencil we make self-made compasses to draw an ideal circle.
- Cut figured details from plywood is better than an electric jigsaw.
- We saw the sheets in a circle.
- We connect the two semicircles together and get the perfect round top of our podium.
- Now we are looking for two bars and sawing them to size to make a cross.
- The fortress of the podium bed made by oneself is the most important thing, so do not skimp on self-tapping screws and metal corners. We make a frame assembly using a screwdriver.
- We fix the cross on the floor, we put the circle on top and screw it with screws.
- We turn the product over and fasten the bars along the edges of our cross-shaped frame. Their length will correspond to the height of the podium bed.
- Then we connect them from below with another "floor" made of timber.
- Again, we use corners and screws, making the construction as strong as possible.
- For the fortress in a circle, we fix the stiffeners.
- After we finish the work from the bottom of the bed, it will be possible to turn it over.
- In fact, the draft version of the podium is ready.
- The edge of the bed is lined with hardboard.
- On top of the hardboard, foam is beaten.
- The last layer we will have a beautiful artificial skin.
- All this "pie" is nailed to the frame with furniture nails.
- We try to distribute the nails evenly in staggered order, so that they look beautiful on the surface of the skin.
- The podium bed is ready.
Still, in the decomposed form such huge structures require around themselves a lot of space, and they somewhat visually restrict the area of the room. In Khrushchev, the podium bed in the classical version, made by you with your own hands, will limit the movement around the room. It is more appropriate to use the built-in beds, which can be rolled out if necessary and hide them in the daytime inside the structure. But this is a real furniture transformer, which is a little harder to make, because you will need the skills of the joiner and the ability to work with special tools.
We in the article have resulted practically the elementary decision of arrangement of such bed. Fittings and fasteners are easy to find in the store. If you have a problem with the cutting of plywood, then perform these works in specialized enterprises, where it will be cut qualitatively and without defects. Upholstery can be bought, both leather, and fabric, depending on preferences. If you are sure that you can make your own sliding podium with your own hands, you will have to make more complex drawings and make the most accurate fitting of the parts. Good luck in producing quality and beautiful homemade furniture!