How to make a bed of wood with your own hands?

Choose in the store a strong and comfortable wooden bed is sometimes difficult. Often in such products, half of the details are made of brittle chipboard or incomprehensible Chinese alloy, so the quality of such items does not always correspond to their cost. If you have a simple carpentry machine, a drill, a jigsaw and a couple of modern power tools in your garage, it makes sense to try to make a beautiful bed of natural wood with your own hands. If successful, you will receive a reliable product that can perfectly serve for many decades your entire family.

Making a bed with your own hands made of wood

1. To build a reliable self-made bed made of wood, first of all we need planed quality boards with a thickness of 25-30 mm (length up to 2 m), a bar 50x50 mm or 45x45 mm, self-tapping screws 5-6 mm, good glue for carpentry. The dimensions of the blanks depend on the size of the bed. Usually, standard beds for one person are made up to 2 m in length and about 0.9 m in width. Naturally, a lot of the person's physique or dimensions of the already available mattress decides much.
2. We have a lot of parts - a bar, a board and a whole series of rectangular blanks.
3. Lubricate the surface of the board with glue.
4. Apply the bar to it and tighten the parts with clamps.
5. While the glue dries, you can go on to make the back of the bed.
6. We spread out on the circular machine the boards on the blanks of the desired size.
7. We cut short bars.
8. Next we need to assemble the details of the bed stand into one whole structure.
9. Again we use joinery glue and clamps to ensure a reliable connection.
10. We pass to the head of the bed. Lower wide can have a simple form, and with the top board you need to do additional work.
11. Even the most simple bed made of wood, made by own hands, should look as beautiful as possible. It is best to decorate the head with curly carvings. We apply markup to facilitate this artistic work.
12. First, we use a jigsaw or on the machine tool the cutout we designed, and then we process the surface with a planer, a milling cutter and sandpaper.
13. All parts of the backrest are ready.
14. Assembly will be carried out using dowels.
15. According to the marking under the dowels, drill holes.
16. It is best to do such operations on a self-made or factory machine, such a manual operation is much more difficult to perform.
17. We put the boards to the racks and produce in place markings, so there is less chance of making a mistake. In our business, how to make a quality and reliable bed of wood from your tree, oversights and miscalculations should not be allowed.
18. We insert the dowels into the holes, after having greased the grooves of the workpiece in the places of contact with glue, and slaughter them with a kyanite.
19. We gather the back of the bed.
20. You can start assembling the skeleton of a solid wood bed.
21. We collect the bottom of the slats, and then fasten the short rectangular blocks to the glue and the screws between them.
22. It is possible to remove temporarily racks and in critical places to fix the workpieces together with additional screws.
23. Further we make painting of a skeleton and backs of our bed, made by own hands from a tree, according to the selected design.
24. We transfer all the details to the bedroom and we assemble the finished product.
25. We put a mattress on the top and a soft bed, now you can rest on a new high-quality and stylish bed.

We hope that our guide will help you to learn how quickly and without problems to make a wooden bed in the bedroom with your own hands. So you can save a little money and make furniture on your own drawings, maximally providing for yourself or family members a comfortable stay.