Nowadays, there is any furniture on sale, so it’s not difficult to furnish a cozy home. But, nevertheless, still the manufacture of various furniture accessories with their own hands attracts many. For example, making such a useful thing as a bookcase made of wood. With your own hands, you can do it literally in one evening. But in any house there is a free corner that can be decorated with such a whatnot.
Necessary tools and materials
To make a corner wooden whatnot you will need:
- plywood sheets (6 mm thick);
- ruler and pencil for marking;
- cutting tools;
- sandpaper;
- screws;
- PVA glue.
Assembly steps
First, measure the angle in the room where the whatnot will be placed. These measurements are transferred to a plywood sheet, which will serve as a blank for the shelf. An angle of 90 ° is measured, and then an arc is made from its top, which makes up a quarter of a circle, the radius of which, for example, is 250 mm.
On one side of the future shelf, grooves are planned in which the racks will be inserted. Then their sides are carefully sawed. By turning the blank over, the same grooves are cut from the other side. So it will be necessary to arrange all the shelves that make up a bookcase made of wood. With your own hands, make a template for the remaining shelves in the same pattern.
To make the second shelf, the finished template is applied to the next sheet of plywood and outlined with a pencil, and then sawn out using this marking. The ends of all sides of the shelf are cleaned with sandpaper.
Shelves must be mounted on uprights. This is a kind of frame, which consists of whatnot. Do it yourself with wood from a tree is quite easy. As a workpiece for racks, you can use shovel cuttings. For shelves of three shelves, racks 0.5-0.6 m long are suitable. Marking is done on their front side.
On the racks mark the location of the shelves, and then carefully grind the surface of both of them, and only after that make holes for the screws.
Gradually, your bookcase in wood begins to emerge. With your own hands, you can make the front side of the semicircular shelves by treating the workpiece with a manual milling cutter (diameter - 6 mm). In this case, care must be taken - the workpieces must be clamped well and take a stable position. After that, the surface is again ground with sandpaper.
To finally fit the vertical racks to the grooves cut on the shelves, you need to use a circular saw. For convenience, all shelves are folded together and combined into grooves in several pallets. Refinement of the grooves is made with a chisel.
Final assembly
Now the wooden whatnot, made with your own hands, is prepared for final assembly. First, the racks are adjusted to the middle shelf. Moreover, glue for fastening is not yet used, but cost only with screws. The upper and lower shelves are fastened with screws (length - 50 mm). After connecting all the elements, the whatnot is checked for stability and the final fit is made.
Then the screws are unscrewed and disassembled the entire structure. This is done in order to cover all the grooves with PVA glue. After that, they again collect everything, screw in the screws, and here it is - whatnot! Do it yourself with wood from a tree is very simple. Now only the excess of glue remains. After complete drying, remove the chisel, and varnish the finished bookcase. Acrylic varnish is best suited for this.
Shelf Options
A bookcase due to its simple but very convenient design can be useful not only in living rooms. It will be an excellent addition to the interior of the hallway and kitchen, not to mention how appropriate a wooden shelf for a bathroom is appropriate. With shelves, trays and hooks, it will be a great place to store various bath accessories, perfumes and detergents.
Moreover, this modest furniture accessory, in addition to functionality, also has aesthetics. After all, it can be quite interesting to decorate. It looks great in the interior of a wooden bookcase carved, since wood products decorated with carvings never go out of style.
Now you know how to make a bookcase yourself, you just need to put a little imagination and effort.