In our apartments every year there are more and more pieces of furniture that we cannot do without. These, of course, include the stool. With his own hands, it will be made or bought in a store, it does not matter much. Its main functions will not change from this. Modern stools are wonderful pieces of furniture, but we strive to give your home a special charm and unique beauty. Therefore, we will make a stool with our own hands. Let's start with the simplest models.
DIY folding stool
An interesting and mobile model of an irreplaceable piece of furniture. It can be made from various improvised materials. For the base, a metal pipe or wooden bars are used, and the seat is made of thick fabric or braided from a cord. Take, for example, a wooden structure with a rag seat.
We need bars, long bolts with nuts, self-tapping screws, dense fabric, thin foam rubber. To begin with, we make two U-shaped blanks from wooden parts with the required dimensions, connected between the soda by long self-tapping screws. When our main parts are ready, we assemble them into the base structure. To do this, dividing the length of the legs in half, put a mark. We install two workpieces side by side, placing the legs of the stool one after another, and drill holes, guided by the marks. We connect the parts with bolts and nuts in such a way that the structure can freely fold or slide apart.
Now let's make the seat. Its width depends on the length of the crossbars on the main wooden parts, and the length is taken arbitrarily. But it should be remembered that the larger our panel, the more the legs will move apart and, accordingly, the stool will be lower. For example, take the seat dimensions of 25x35 centimeters. We need a piece of fabric 52x55 centimeters and a piece of thin foam rubber 25x30 centimeters.
Fold a piece of fabric along in half. We lay it with foam, placing the piece in the middle. We bend inward the edges of the fabric, fixing them with needles. Lay a straight line along the entire length of the seat. We fix foam rubber with several decorative lines. We connect the transverse edges and process them using an overlock. The seat blank is ready.
Spread the legs of the stool slightly, placing the seat part on top of them. We wrap one side of the rag blank around the bar and fasten it with furniture studs. In the same way we fix the second side of the seat. We made a comfortable stool with our own hands. Now we can take it with us for a picnic or fishing.
If you need to get to the mezzanines or get a jar of jam from the upper shelves of the cabinet, a stepladder stool will come to your aid. With your own hands to make such a piece of furniture is easy. Its design consists of two stools of different heights, fastened together. But we will do it even easier. We will reveal the side parts and the seat with a step from a solid sheet of thick plywood. First, draw a pattern on paper. Side details look like a ladder with two or three steps. The upper plane of the side part will serve as a support for the stool seat. Therefore, it is made corresponding to the width. For steps, 15-18 centimeters are quite enough. In addition to the seat, steps and side parts, we will need two jumpers, which will give our design stability.
We cut out all the details from plywood, using paper patterns for this. We put the sidewalls vertically and put a stool seat on them. We fasten parts using self-tapping screws and metal corners. Then we fix the steps in the same way.
After that we fasten the jumpers. We place one under the lowest step, and the second from the side of the seat. We cover the finished stool with our own varnish or paint in a suitable tone, let it dry completely and use it with pleasure.