If you are just a beginner in the carpentry business, then you should not create any complicated things, for example a closet or a kitchenette . At first it is better to try to make simple furniture for the house, which does not require much experience and expensive materials, that's why for this example we have taken the idea of creating a strong but very comfortable stool. For this kind of work, it is not necessary to look for expensive boards in building warehouses, often the house is full of good material that was not previously used. For example, in this master class we will show how to make a stool from the door of an old cabinet made of laminated chipboard.
How to make a soft stool with your own hands?
- Tools for work we will use the most common - jig saw, screwdriver, measuring tape with a square, stapler, grinder.
- To make furniture soft and comfortable, you will have to buy foam rubber and a piece of beautiful upholstery (leather, leatherette, dense decorative fabric).
- From the cardboard we cut out patterns, they make it very easy when you deal with several identical blanks.
- We put the marking on the chipboard, draw a marker or pencil outline shapes of our pattern.
- Now you can easily cut the blanks of the desired size of any configuration.
- Manually cutting the chipboard is difficult and long, making your own hands any home furniture is much easier when there is a basic carpenter's electrical tool. At this stage we use a jigsaw.
- The first part is ready, but you need to process the edges on it.
- Roughness is quickly removed using a grinder.
- Similarly, cut out and process the rest of the stool.
- We make marking in the places of drilling holes.
- We drill holes for fasteners.
- Furniture for the house, made by own hands, is ready for assembly. We connect parts of the stool with screws.
- The legs are fixed, then from the top we attach the seat.
- By the size of the seat we cut foam rubber.
- To fix a soft material, a construction stapler is suitable.
- From above we stretch and nail the decorative fabric.
- Master class, how to make a stool yourself, is over, the furniture is ready for use!
You see that in the question of how to make a stool with your own hands, there is nothing complicated. A little time passed, and we received at minimal cost excellent and quite practical furniture.