What can be cooked from squid: quick and tasty

Curbstone, i.e. a rigid, durable structure capable of carrying loads as a whole is the main unit of cabinet furniture. Sometimes it transforms and hides, but it is always there. Incl. and as a stand-alone product - a bedside table - suitable for a variety of uses in the home. In this form, it does not stand out in the interior, and in utility rooms its appearance can be whatever it came out of the hands, if only it was strong. Therefore, it is from the bedside table that the novice furniture maker needs to get to the wardrobes, beds, dressers, furniture sets and walls.

The bedside table, with all the variety of design and construction, has a place to be, in general, in the following guises, see fig:

Nightstand-cabinet, pos. 1. Without painstaking finishing, unprepossessing, but durable, tk. going on the frame. On the one hand, it allows you to do without cladding, which is important for balcony bedside tables, or to make it easily removable, which is no less important for a bathroom bedside table. On the other hand, a solid tabletop can be applied to the frame, which will come in handy in a garage, shed or workshop.

Chest of drawers, pos. 2, lives mainly in kitchens, nurseries and dressing rooms: you can put a lot of all sorts of things into it, and when you take out the drawers, it is easy to clean or repair. This is already a product of a panel structure with walls and shelves that make up a single power circuit. The usual dimensions of the chest of drawers are shown in fig. on right.

Volumetric shelving units, pos. 3, and cupboards, pos. 4, more suitable for the living room, bedroom, hallway, study or in the common nursery. The structure is also panel board.

Extremely simplified bedside table, pos. 5, may be bedside, but most often it complements coffee table in the soft corner of the living room.

Combined bedside tables are more common. For example, a product at pos. 6 there is a cabinet below, above it is a chest of drawers from the 1st drawer, and above it is a rack from the 1st half-closed and 1st open shelves. Combined pedestals are most commonly used due to their versatility.

How are the pedestals made?

Factory-made bedside tables are usually assembled on furniture self-tapping screws and / or eccentric connectors. Collect them either in trade organizations before selling, or home buyers on their own. With a different technological cycle, the production of such simple product like a bedside table would be unprofitable. But when making a curbstone for yourself, it is better to use more labor-consuming, but cheap, reliable and durable joints of the class "wood on wood"; at least for the supporting parts.

To make a cabinet with your own hands, you need, firstly, to master 2 types of furniture joints: groove-tongue (groove-comb, tongue-and-groove connection) and on dowels. For example, cabinet frame, see fig. on the right, it is assembled from 4 lower tsars, 4 front (vertical) tsars and also 4 upper tsars. The upper and lower drawers can be front / rear and side, i.e. different.

The drawers forming the frame are connected by tongue-and-groove joints; the shelves are stacked on support bars, also embedded in the front drawers on spikes in the grooves. Correctly made with wedging, tongue-and-groove joints in such a small object as a bedside table do not require the expense of glue.

The curbstones of the panel construction (all except pos. 1) are assembled on dowels with gluing. Supports for the shelves are also made dowel. Only guides for boxes are attached with metal hardware.

To make a drawer for a bedside table or cabinet, you will have to master a type of tongue-and-groove connection - a box one. The general sequence of its working operations is shown in Fig.:

Well, a more complete picture will be given by a selection of videos:

Video: box connection entirely by hand with a conventional jigsaw

Video: box connection with an electrified tool

Video: dovetail connection on a regular circular

The last video can be useful to those who, over time, having improved in carpentry skills, decide to work on order. Furniture assembled for dovetail is highly valued by connoisseurs, but on condition: the tails must be self made, not milled on an automatic machine. And the method shown there gives the tails a neat, but completely artisanal look. In addition, knowing how to connect parts on a dovetail, you can try yourself in an equally profitable area - the restoration of old furniture.

Straight tenon-groove joints are usually assembled with glue, but you can do otherwise. To do this, vertical blind holes (4 at the top and 4 at the bottom, 8 in total) are drilled in the corners of the box from the sidebars, with a depth of 2-4 thorns and a diameter of 2.5-3 mm. Studs made of bamboo or beech are tightly driven into the holes. "Spire" the box after fitting the parts and final assembly.

Drawer for bedside table

The device of the furniture drawer is shown in Fig. on right. The bottom is made of plywood with a thickness of 3-5 mm, depending on the desired strength. Please note: the front of the drawer is not included in its power circuit, it is an overhead detail. Do it differently - from pushing / pulling out the drawer will warp over time or even fall apart. The drawers are made from boards with a thickness of 12 mm or more or plywood from 6 mm. The box is assembled with a box connection.

It is advisable to take hard and durable wood on the cranial bars: oak, birch. However, if you have a wood router, you can put the bottom easier and stronger: select a groove in the drawers at the bottom along the contour and insert the bottom into it during assembly. The distance of the bottom edge of the groove from the bottom of the box is from 3 mm for solid thin-layer industrial wood and not less than the thickness of the drawer side for an array of softwood; the depth of the groove is from 4 mm, but not more than 1/2 the thickness of the drawer side.

The facades of the boxes are internal, pos. And on the trail. fig., or external, pos. B. Interior fronts are more elegant, but require more precise fitting of details. There is no significant difference in mechanics between them.

Facades and homemade furniture drawer guides

Wooden guides for boxes are made on the bottom rail, pos. 1, on the side rail, pos. 2, and on the fold of the quarter rail, pos. 3. Installation of boxes on the bottom rail is technologically simple and provides an acceptable box width, but “eats up” a lot of space in height; the drawer on the lower slats can jam a completely new and neatly made one. In general, the worst way.

Landing on the middle rail requires milling the grooves in the side drawers, but it provides the greatest width and depth of the boxes, because gaps both from the bottom and from the sides will be enough and 3-4 mm. If the rail is oak, and the drawers are pine or plywood, then the drawers on the middle rail almost never jam when pulled out 2 / 3-3 / 4.

The quarter lath can be planed by hand with special planers: a zenzubel and a falzgebel, see fig., Therefore, in the old days, setting boxes of handicraft furniture into a quarter seam was widespread. Pushed out no more than 2/3, the drawer moves in a quarter almost without jamming, but a lot of space in the cabinet structure is wasted.

About full stem guides

If you decide to spend money on modern full-extension guides for the drawers of your cabinet, then consider the following:

• Look first not at the brand, but at the complete fasteners. Responsible and conscientious manufacturers of hardware give with shaped heads, and the key to them, so that no one gets in with a "samopal".
• The assembly instructions must contain the exact dimensions for the mountings, Full description technical operations with drilling depth and requirements for the base (wood - what?, laminate, MDF).
• It is better to take inexpensive guides with propylene rollers. They run smoothly and are quiet, but are not as strong or durable as ball bearings. However, this is not important for the nightstand, unless you store gold in bars in it.
• Full stem guides are bottom and side. For the bedside tables, the lower ones are better, the drawers can be made wider. Side guides require clearance on the sides from 30 mm, which, with an overall width of 400 mm, reduces the inner width of the drawer to 250-280 mm. And the bottom guides will have enough lateral gaps of 6-16 mm.

What are the pedestals made of?

A wooden bedside table can be made of any wood suitable for furniture, for example. the same as for a stool or table, as well as plywood, laminate, MDF. The thickness of the boards is 12-40 mm, depending on the construction. On the dowels, cranial bars, wooden guides and drawers of the cabinet frame, it is better to take solid dense wood - oak, beech, birch; in the latter case, also on the countertop, since they work on such bedside tables and load them with weights.

The back side of the board cabinets is most often sheathed with a thin, 4-6 mm, laminated chipboard, pinned with a furniture stapler. In cheap furniture, the bottoms of the boxes are also made of laminated chipboard, but this is not necessary for oneself: it sags, crawls out of the grooves or breaks off the "shards".

The doors of the bedside tables are most often hung on hidden adjustable furniture hinges, but under them you need to choose holes in boards from 20 mm thick with a cutter. If there is no possibility or desire to put hidden hinges, then the doors are hung on piano hinges. The cabinet doors on card hinges soon warp due to the small size of the hinges and the shallow drilling depth for fasteners.

About finishing

The bedside table is not a significant piece of the interior, so there is no point in spending money on expensive finishes. It is best to paste over a ready-made, planed and sanded to smoothness cabinet in a living room with self-adhesive wood-like and double-coat it with acrylic varnish. Then an experienced cabinetmaker will not immediately distinguish it from a "real" one with veneering, and a film under acrylic in direct light will last for at least 10 years.

Where is what bedside table?

Hallway

This is the first room where a homemade cabinet, as they say, is asked for. They don't really look at the furniture in the hallway, and a shoe cabinet is really needed here: an average family of 4 now accounts for about 20 pairs of shoes, see fig. The old Soviet shoe rack will not be enough here.

Shoe cabinets are on sale in a wide range, but the prices encourage substandard, and looking at the hinge designs, it seems that they were copied from the pivot points of solar panels of spacecraft. Meanwhile, a shoe cabinet can be made much simpler and no worse: on the left in Fig. see the drawing below, and on the right in the same place - the design of the pouf-bedside table for it, in which the accessories for shoe care are stored.

There is little storage for shoes in the hallway; we also need a bedside table for gloves, hats, handbags, etc. little things. It should be higher than usual so that you can look in the mirror while standing. Dimensions and general view of the bedside table in the hallway general purpose see fig. on the right, only it is better to do it not on legs, but on a skirt made of 20-30 mm boards, so that debris does not accumulate under it.

Bedroom

The choice of a bedside table for a bedroom set is determined by the habits and character of the owner. The usual bedside table, pos. 1 and 2 on the next. rice. combined: top open shelf for an alarm clock, phone, glasses; the middle one is for reading at night, and in closed compartments everything is stored: from books “for later” and the next change of bed linen to intimate accessories for lovers of “strawberries and cream”.

Lovers of long and meaningful reading before bedtime prefer shelving units, pos. 3. This habit, by the way, greatly develops mental abilities and helps to maintain clarity of thought until a ripe old age: what is read for a dream to come, unless it is meaningless reading, is absorbed by the brain in a dream especially deeply and clearly.

Shelves-shelves are popular with fans of sophisticated design, pos. 4, but the sophistication of the bedside table can also be functional. How do you like the bedside table in pos. 5? Half the table transformation mechanism and a bit of fiction.

In general, the bedside table is a grateful object for creative ingenuity. To begin with, we give diagrams of two, see fig. In the sideboard-chest of drawers on the left, additional overlays are applied to the facades, which allows you to get an elegant design by simple means. And the bedside table-rack on the right consists of only 4 parts of a simple form.

Balcony

Glazed balcony - utility room, narrow, with an unstable microclimate. Therefore, the bedside table on the balcony is made on a frame, see fig. This allows, firstly, to dispense with the pedestal lining and put it without gaps in which condensation will accumulate. Secondly, the increased strength of the cabinet-cabinet will allow you to work on it or, say, transfer a refrigerator to the balcony, which will give great savings in electricity. And so that small objects are not lost, the tabletop is upholstered along the contour with a furniture fillet or a plinth.

Living room

A curbstone in the living room, except for the magazine, pos. 1 in the figure, according to a modern and well-founded trend in interior design, is performed long and low. The design is chosen based on the design style of the room, pos. 2-4. But a TV stand with the same general design must meet specific requirements.

Drawers in the living room

The efficiency of acoustic systems (AC) is related to the wavelength of sound, which in bass (bass, low frequencies) is meters and tens of meters. Speaker designers try their best to bypass these limitations, and they are not to be occupied with success. But all the same, the size and volume of modern flat-panel TVs do not allow them to be equipped with built-in acoustics that satisfactorily reproduce low frequencies. And here the TV stand can come to the rescue: it "catches" the low frequency vibration of the TV and transmits it into the air, adding juiciness to the sound. Only if the TV is not a "bubble" of previous generations: a heavy tube suspended in it will extinguish them.

The TV cabinet must, firstly, have an open resonator tuned to about 80-100 Hz. A niche for a player with dimensions of about 800x400x200 mm will do just fine. Secondly, the “juice” of the sound can still be added if the TV operates on small-sized external speakers, placing them in niches with a volume of 20 liters or more with a gap of 4-8 cm on the sides and top; the effect of "saturation" of sound from closed-type speakers in niches is well known to music lovers. The “ideal” TV stand design is shown in fig. on the right, and drawings of 2 suitable, for external acoustics and without it, in Fig. below.

But that is not all. The box of the bedside table, its back wall and the bottoms of the resonating cavities must be made of a board from 30 mm, and intermediate parts - from a board from 20 mm. And that's not all: the material (spruce, pine, larch, hemlock, laminate, MDF) must have its own mechanical quality factor within 0.7-1.2. However, there is no need to look for a sound-measuring laboratory, it is enough to tap the blanks with your knuckles: the sound should be clear, but short and dry, without a ringing. The "cotton" board will absorb any vibrations, and the ringing one will "catch" unnecessary ones, which will give unpleasant overtones. And that's for sure everything, the glue on which the curbstone is assembled should give a seam that retains its plasticity for years; best of all - PVA.

Bathroom

It is impossible to give any general dimensions of the bathroom cabinets, because it will contain a sink with a siphon, of which there are no different numbers on the market, and the release into the sewer lounger can be arranged in any way. But general principles the design of bedside tables for wet rooms is quite definite:

1. The cabinet in the bathroom must be raised above the floor, otherwise anisanitary conditions are inevitable, on the left in Fig.
2. Therefore, it is attached to the wall, on the right in the same place.
3. Fasteners to provide access to plumbing fixtures must be detachable: stainless (worse - bronze or galvanized) self-tapping screws in propylene dowels. Metal in metal, e.g. stainless bolts and the same collets, will become attached so that the curbstone will have to be broken.
4. A vanity unit is made of decay-resistant wood: oak, resinous pine, larch.
5. After the initial dry assembly and fitting of the parts, they are individually treated with an aniseptic for wood, and after 3-7 days with a water repellent, i.e. water-repellent agent. If an inexpensive (but very good) water-polymer emulsion is used, then the treatment is carried out twice with an interval of 1-3 days.

Under the aquarium

Aquarium is the most useful business in all respects. But the aquarium is subject to the square-cube law in almost pure form: as the size of the aquarium tank increases, its volume and weight grow faster than the size of the supporting area, i.e. the load from the aquarium per unit of bearing surface area increases. It is believed that the weight of an aquarium with soil, population and equipment in kg is equal to approximately 1.5 volumes of water in it in liters. It follows from this that the cabinet for the aquarium must meet the following conditions:

• An aquarium up to about 100 liters can be placed on any cabinet of a suitable size, because ordinary furniture is designed for a load of 150 kgf.
• A reinforced curbstone is needed for a tank up to about 150 liters; preferably wireframe. The combat tsars are made from a bar from 60x60 mm; horizontal - from 100x50 mm. The step of installing the front sidewalls is not more than 400 mm; their height is up to 650 mm. The table top is solid laminate from 32 mm.
• For larger aquariums, the support pressure exceeds the building norm of 250 kg / sq. m, so the stands for them are calculated individually based on the size of the tank and the parameters of the building structure; the aquarium stand is usually mechanically connected to the building structure. V apartment building the design of a large aquarium must be checked / developed by a specialized organization and approved by the building operator.

About corner pedestals

The bedside table is essentially a subordinate element of the interior, therefore, corner cabinets in living rooms are not in use: what is on the corner is always in sight. In an ordinary bathroom or in the kitchen there is simply no place for such, but a corner cabinet can come in handy in a narrow partition behind the door for all sorts of little things, which are equally inconvenient to hide away and keep in sight. For example, for not the most favorite toys, knitting / weaving, which is taken as they have free time, etc. For such a case - in Fig. on the left is a diagram of a corner cabinet-rack. The dimensions in the plan can be changed according to your apartment.

Just in case

All this is good, the reader may say, but what if a bedside table is needed "for the day before yesterday"? Not gorgeous, but out of waste material, so that it could be done in half a day and for 5-7 years was it enough? Say, to the dacha, to the garage, to the barn?

Please. In fig. shows how to make a durable and comfortable bedside table from the pallet left over from the construction site or other unnecessary boards. It is so easy to make that no explanation is required. But making this will give a sense of material and design, which will allow you to start working on products that are quite aesthetic and even exclusive.

Compact and almost invisible, the bedside table plays an important role. It is convenient to put a lamp on it for reading or knitting before going to bed, put the phone down and set the alarm. Inside small drawers and open niches, it is convenient to store all the little things for comfortable rest: favorite books and glasses, charging device for laptop and tablet, care and hygiene items. Making a bedside table with your own hands will not be difficult. As a rule, such furnishings are endowed the simplest design and not difficult to assemble.

Ideas how and from what you can make a bedside table yourself

Buying material separately to make your own bedside table is hardly a good idea. The expense is small. Therefore, they usually "figure out" from the leftovers.

There are incredibly many options for the designs of bedside tables:

• It can be an open cantilever structure, a light shelf unit and a full-fledged chest of drawers.
• Be made from the remnants of laminate, plywood, pallets, timber, MDF, solid wood and, of course, laminated chipboard.

Go through models and photos different ideas you can endlessly. As for modular collections of bedrooms from well-known manufacturers, and simply in search of images from Google and Yandex.

But in the end, the execution will rest only on the desire to do something and the available remnants of materials.

An example of how you can make a bedside table with your own hands, drawings and diagrams

Consider a typical model of do-it-yourself bedside furniture. A drawing and a diagram with indications of overall dimensions will look like this.

Making a bedside table from laminated chipboard of such a plan is separately unprofitable. It is more economical to do two of them at once or, for example, together with. It will cost much less than if you buy it ready-made.

The model is easy to assemble and can easily be made by a beginner. In fact, you will need to assemble the cabinet body and the box of the box. Pre-drilled several holes for confirms.

Do-it-yourself bedside table, calculation of parts and cut map

The detailing with the indication of the sides for edging is most clearly painted in the eksel plate. In fact, three types of sheet materials will be used - chipboard, fiberboard and MDF for the front of the box. However, in order to save money, it can also be made from chipboard.

If you spread out the details of the bedside table on a whole sheet, then you can see that not much material will go away.

That is why I wrote above that making one copy is extremely unprofitable if there are no leftovers. After all, you have to buy a whole sheet of chipboard.

Drilling details and assembling the bedside table

After the parts have been cut, all visible ends are pasted over with an edge, you can proceed to the next stage. Drill blanks for assembly for confirmation.

I wrote in more detail about the nuances of drilling and subsequent assembly in the article on manufacturing. In fact, the products are similar in design. Therefore, I will not repeat myself. I will give only an additional drawing of the bedside table in three dimensions.

What you need to make your own bedside table

In fact, it all depends on which stages of work you do yourself and which you delegate to the respective firms.

For example, cutting and edging of parts can be ordered in the same place where laminated chipboard is purchased. And you can do it yourself. In this case, you will need a jigsaw for sawing, a sander for aligning the ends for an edgebanding and an iron. As well as small improvised items:

• tape measure, square pencil / marker for measuring blanks and drawing details;
• sandpaper, shoe and office knife for cutting and sanding the edges after gluing the melamine edge with an iron.

For assembly, you will need cross and hex screwdrivers (it is convenient to use a ratchet), a screwdriver.

In addition to tools and improvised means, which, in principle, any master has in stock, you will need to purchase accessories and components for assembly. All this is given in the tabular form of the estimate.

Just create a similar Excel form for yourself, type in the formulas and prices to calculate the total amount of forthcoming expenses. I am sure that if you make a bedside table complete with a more significant item and lay out the detailing for the rest, the savings will be significant and will completely satisfy you. Good luck!

The principle is simple enough. And the TV, in comparison with its size, has a relatively small weight. As a rule, a product made of chipboard or MDF, if the base and table top exceed the width of the TV receiver, already has sufficient "carrying capacity".

Making a simple model is also available for a completely newbie. With work experience, you can swing at a more complicated product - or a wardrobe.

- the furniture is completely ordinary, and therefore the materials and tools will be needed here as usual. It is worth paying attention to the proportions of the selected model and the weight of the TV.

With a large length and depth, the chipboard cabinet will perfectly withstand a load of 80 kg. But with a minimum depth of 30 cm, and a fair size of the TV, a more durable material is preferable: solid wood or a combination of chipboard with a metal frame.

Materials used:

• wood - furniture board is chosen for manufacturing. The most affordable option is pine. There are no restrictions here, but if the product is made by hand inside and out, then it is worth remembering that different breeds trees exhibit different properties from each other. Hornbeam is difficult to process, exotic wood is often not varnished, and so on;
• MDF - fibreboard... Laminated or even veneered. The material is easy to cut, holds the fasteners perfectly;
• plywood is a laminated wood material. Despite its low weight, it has good strength;
• Particleboard is the most affordable option and the lightest;
• Fiberboard - the material is used for the back wall of the cabinet and the bottom of the drawers, if any in the structure.

Most workshops and even shops offering construction material, also provide services for cutting, cutting and edging parts.

The standard mount is used:

• furniture confirmations,
• dowels,
• steel and brass screws.

The set of tools is also the most common:

• drill with attachments;
• jigsaw, if a decision is made to cut the material yourself;
• hammer;
• pencil.

TV cabinet from wood materials do it yourself

How to make a TV stand with your own hands

The first step in self-manufacturing is the same for any product: creating a drawing. Using a ready-made one or developing a project yourself - depends on experience, skill and self-confidence.

In any case, you first need to establish the dimensions of the TV, clarify its mass, and also measure the parameters of the accompanying equipment. The subwoofer, speaker, set-top boxes and other dimensions are very different, so the compartments in the cabinet must correspond to their parameters.

The drawing is carried out on a scale, indicating all the values ​​for both the main and supporting elements... Then the details are transferred to whatman paper, where they are displayed already in their true size. The resulting patterns are used for cutting.

Be sure to also watch the following video of the white TV stand making process:

Conical products

The product got its name due to unusual shape- in the form of a cone with expansion up or down.

• The model with an upward extension looks, of course, much more original. However, for making it with your own hands, it is almost the most difficult project. It's about balance: here you need to calculate the balance not only for the product itself, but also under heavy load conditions. Therefore, this model is not used as a TV stand.
• The conical pedestal with a downward extension is much more stable in its design. For self-made the main difficulty here will be fastening, since the sidewalls of the product or frame elements are assembled at an angle of less than 90 degrees. A complex and accurate calculation will be required to form a drawer.
• The simplest option is a cantilever model, where only the facade plays the role of the side of the cone. But if the product is supposed to be equipped with drawers, it again turns from relatively simple into very complex.

The assembly of furniture itself is carried out according to the standard scheme, but it is difficult to find or develop an appropriate project of conical TV stands with your own hands.

Plywood

The scheme of actions when working with any wood material is the same. The only difference is the processing speed and the applied effort.

Plywood, for example, is available sanded and laminated. The first one can be sanded from one or both sides and does not require increased accuracy when cutting. Laminate must be cut carefully, as sudden movements can damage the lamination layer.

Birch plywood is most often chosen for furniture. It costs more, but looks very attractive.

1. The patterns are transferred to plywood and cut out. The edges are sanded with sandpaper.
2. The edge - plastic or wood, is fixed sequentially at the ends of the shelves, the facade and the countertop. Glue is used, if desired, you can nail the wooden edge with finishing nails. After drying - 1-2 days, the wooden edge is sanded.
3. Depending on the model, the frame elements are assembled on dowels or screws. In both cases, holes are drilled in detail in advance, be sure to refer to the diagram. For the dowel, holes are made blind, for self-tapping screws - through. The dowels are seated on glue. If necessary, the connected parts are tightened with a clamp and left until the glue dries - 1 day.
4. The assembly starts from the top shelf - or countertop. It is fixed on the sidewalls or on the legs. Then the lower shelf is installed, and then the filling elements - the third shelf, the partition, and so on.
5. It is recommended to install internal shelves on shelf supports. If the installation of boxes is supposed, then guides, preferably telescopic, are fixed to the sidewalls and the partition.
6. Collect boxes, install fittings. Legs or rollers are mounted to the bottom shelf of the product.
7. The finished product can be opened with 2-3 layers of varnish to preserve the natural structure and color of the wood. You can also use stain or paints - alkyd, water-based.

Made of wood

It is made in exactly the same way.

1. Shelves, countertops, and also sidewalls, if provided in the model, are cut out of the furniture board.
2. From wooden beam- 50 * 50, 20 * 20 mm, crossbeams and crosses are cut. The latter are needed with a long cabinet length - more than 1.2 m;
3. The assembly begins with the frame, then the crosses are mounted, and then the sidewalls and shelves are fixed. The table top is installed last.
4. For fasteners, dowels and screws are used. Holes must be drilled in advance - there is a high risk of splitting the tree.
5. The exterior decoration of the product depends on the style of the living room and personal preferences. The means are used the same: opening with varnish, staining, staining. Although in relation to an array of trees, the latter method is used less often.

How to make a TV bedside table with your own hands, the following video will tell you:

Want a stylish TV stand with sliding doors do it yourself out of wood? Then watch carefully the following video:

From other materials

• It is made of chipboard even more often. The sequence of actions and the way of processing is the same. The only limitation: if the parts are not correctly connected and you need to dismantle and reassemble, you cannot reuse the same holes. Chipboard does not hold re-fastening well. If in household there is a router, then with its help the table top, shelves and even the sides can be given a much more complex configuration than an ordinary square or rectangle.
• Glass can also be used to make furniture. In this case, only strained glass, at least 8 mm thick, usually a shelf and doors for blind compartments. In this case, to cut out the parts, you will need a glass cutter and special fittings - hinges for glass doors.

If you have experience, you can implement more decorative option... The glass door can be edged with milled bars, and on the surface of the door you can glue decorative elements cut out with a cutter and treated with varnish and stain - pouring, flowers, branches, butterflies and so on.

Such a product will definitely be unique.

Blueprints

The easiest way is to use a ready-made drawing, especially if there is confidence that the product was manufactured and operated using it. Previously, of course, you need to make sure that they fit the dimensions of the TV, as well as speakers, set-top boxes, modems and other things.

More convenient are the drawings, which indicate not only the dimensions, but also the detailing of the product with the necessary parameters, as well as recommendations on the characteristics of the material - sheet thickness, section dimensions, type of fasteners. In addition, on specialized sites you can find not only the drawing itself, but also a video demonstrating the assembly of the item.

A bedside table in the bedroom or a sideboard next to an armchair in the living room is an integral attribute of the interior of many apartments. Of course, now you can buy any cabinet in stores, but will it be unique? We bring to your attention 10 unusual ideas on how to make an original bedside table with your own hands from different objects and materials.

1. Do-it-yourself bedside table from drawers

Place a wooden box for vegetables, fruits or a parcel on its legs or casters. Attach a shelf inside the drawer. The box can be placed both horizontally and vertically, as well as make a high cabinet from two or more boxes.

The box can be decorated with, for example, branch cuts. How to make such a bedside table with your own hands, read.

2. DIY bedside table with rope shelves

Out of the ordinary wooden box or boxes, as well as ropes, you can make a bedside table with a flexible design. You can customize shelves and different rope holders yourself, depending on the items and things that will be stored in the cabinet. To do this, you need to drill rows of holes in the side walls of the cabinet and even on top. Pull strong natural or synthetic rope through the holes and make different shelves and compartments for things.

3. Do-it-yourself bedside table from books

Unusual and original project bedside tables in the bedroom or living room. Tie stacks of books with belts, ties or tie up with thick ribbons. At the same time, place wooden modules, square or rectangular boxes between the stacks. It can even be dense carton boxes from shoes or small household appliances... Old books, vintage leather belts and wooden elements give the bedside table a unique charm and style.

4. Bedside table from the chest

The chest has long been the main piece of furniture in huts and huts. Nowadays, old or modern chests are a rare phenomenon in the interior. Nevertheless, if you are the owner of an old grandmother's chest, then you can make a vintage nightstand out of it with your own hands. The roomy space under the lid of the chest will allow you to store many things, including bedding or toys in the nursery. In addition, designers offer exclusive options for pedestals in the form of expensive leather chests. These ideas can be taken as a basis and inspiration. The transformation of a chest into a nightstand lies only in the decor of the chest itself. It can be both renewed and aged, left in natural form or colorize.

5. Bedside tables from suitcases

Unlike antique chests, old suitcases are much easier to find. A do-it-yourself bedside table from a vintage suitcase will decorate the interior of the room, as well as provide an additional closed storage space. You can even hang a small code lock on the nightstand from the suitcase and store intimate things there. To make a cabinet, you can either stack several suitcases on top of each other, or put one suitcase on its legs, for example, on a stool or table.

6. Curbstone with your own hands from a barrel

A do-it-yourself bedside table from a barrel will look very unusual in a bedroom or living room. Round wooden barrel- a ready-made curbstone. The main condition is that the barrel must be clean and free of foreign odors, such as wine. You can also cut a door in a barrel, put it on its hinges, and attach a shelf inside. Alternatively, you can make two bedside tables with your own hands from one barrel, simply by sawing the barrel into two even parts.

As a curbstone, it can also come in handy metal barrel, especially if it is old.

7. Do-it-yourself bedside table from a chair

Very often, a chair acts as a bedside table. We propose to improve it by turning it into a real bedside table with a drawer. For this, it is advisable to choose wooden chair without upholstery. Purchase in the store special accessories for drawers and the drawer itself according to the size of the chair. Attach the entire system under the seat. Also, under the box, you can nail another shelf made of a square chipboard sheet.

8. Mirror and stool bedside table

If you have a stool as a bedside table, we suggest improving and decorating it. In the same way as with the chair, you can attach a drawer or shelf between the legs of the stool, and a mirror in the frame can be used as a table top.

9. Bedside table from a stepladder

A small ladder - a stepladder or an extension ladder for cabinets - is an excellent solution for a bedside table. You do not need to do anything additionally; if you wish, paint or age the stairs.

10. Hanging bedside table with your own hands

A bedside table, or rather a bedside table, can float in the air! How to make such unusual project for the bedroom - read.

A do-it-yourself bedside table is a good alternative to a purchased product, and the cost of such a design will be lower, and the number of ideas for implementation is unlimited. The configuration of the cabinet is determined by its purpose, the style of the room and its own requirements. You can make an open, closed structure, a variant with hinged, sliding and swing doors.

Classic curbstone

It is a closed product with one door and, as a rule, only one drawer. Such structures can be used in any room and for different tasks.

To work, you need to prepare a tool: a drill-screwdriver, tape measure, sandpaper, drills for woodworking, as well as a milling cutter (35 mm) and a set of bits, including a hexagon.

To cover the end areas of the material used, shrink wrap and an iron are used. Further, the marking of structural elements is made, the material of which is: chipboard - for internal elements, chipboard - for external parts.

The shelf inside the cabinet, the base of the product must be less than the total width of the structure by a value equal to the sum of the two thicknesses of the chipboard sheet. The width of the front of the drawer and the door of the bedside table must correspond to the equivalent size of the cabinet.

For work, it is recommended to use material with a thickness of 16-18 mm. This will make it possible to make a structure with a sufficient level of reliability. Small fasteners are selected based on the needs. In particular, the base of the structure is fastened with furniture screws (confirmation). Their size is 5x70 mm. Self-tapping screws 4x30 mm are used to fasten the countertop and the front element of the drawer. Smaller fasteners (self-tapping screws 4x16) are used to install hinges on which the door will be suspended. The hinges are adjusted to the size of the cutter.

Almost all the fasteners are hidden inside the structure, if you have to screw in the screws from the outside, then you can make the attachment point invisible using special plugs. A do-it-yourself curbstone is made using guides for a drawer.

As a more affordable, but at the same time less reliable option, you can use wooden "L" -shaped strips, which are attached from the inside of the cabinet to the side walls with self-tapping screws; a drawer will lie on top of them.

Option for the design of the cabinet for the balcony

In this case, it is enough to make only the inner frame for fixing the table top and the door. To use more useful space, it is better to make a bedside table in the entire width of the balcony. The easiest way to make a structure without drawers, only with a swing door. This is due to the fact that in order to install the guides under the boxes, in this case, you will have to mount the side walls.

The frame can be made using wooden blocks 40x40 mm. It is better to fasten them to the floor, bearing wall and the surface of the balcony parapet with metal corners. It is enough to install 4 bars at the corners of the future pedestal. For the shelves, several horizontal bars should be provided, the length of which should be equal to the depth of the finished structure.

An important feature of such a product is the ability to extend the window sill of a glazed and insulated balcony at the expense of the countertop, which can be fixed using the same corners. For fastening the door, hinges are used, which are installed on the frame.

At the final stage, you need to fix the handles, as well as sew up all leaks. finishing material... A do-it-yourself bedside table on the balcony is characterized by a number of advantages: saving space, fewer materials, which means reducing the cost of manufacturing the structure.

Alternatively, you can make a vertically oriented version of the product, then the swing door will be located on top and additionally play the role of a table top. In this case, the free space on the balcony will increase, since you do not have to leave space next to the curbstone to open the door.

Original solutions

If you want to make an unusual piece of furniture on the loggia, a do-it-yourself bedside table with rope shelves is made. The design in this version is distinguished by maximum simplicity and low cost, since several boards and a rope of great thickness will be involved.

An important feature of this option is the need to prepare holes at the same distance on both sides. Furniture screws (4 pcs / panel) are used to fasten wooden structural elements.

You can make a cabinet of any height, if possible, drill as many holes as possible. As a result, the number of rope shelves can be adjusted at will, since it is always possible to stretch the rope at a sufficient level. If necessary, a door is hinged. However, given the originality of the design, it is better to make it glass.

One more important nuance- the presence or absence of legs at the curbstone. Today in furniture stores you can buy fittings of any kind. If necessary, fixed or adjustable legs are attached to the product. You can also install small wheels.

If it is necessary to make a curbstone for installation on a balcony, in this case much less materials will be spent, since usually the parapet of the loggia and the load-bearing wall of the building act as side walls. More than others, a bedside table with a door located on top saves space. If the height of the product corresponds to the window sill of the glazed balcony, this solution will provide greater convenience.