In specialized shopping centers there is a wide selection of furniture for every taste. However, in such an assortment it is difficult to pick up samples that would fit perfectly into the interior of the room. Practice shows that author's design projects are spoiled by the situation. To make soft kitchen corners with your own hands in the presence of appropriate materials and unprofessional power tools is not difficult, there would be a desire.
It is necessary to start with drawing up a general concept and work plan. We will need drawings of kitchen corners, which can be found in specialized catalogs. Images with detailed detail can be made independently. In the same catalogs you can find instructions with patterns of all the necessary details for assembling a quality corner for the kitchen.
Tools and materials
For work that is better organized in the workshop, we need equipment and tools:
- jigsaws with electric drive and nail files with small teeth for cutting chipboard;
- a drill with infinitely variable frequency control or a screwdriver with a set of cues and drills of different diameters;
- furniture stapler with sets of staples 10 × 8 mm in size;
- special fasteners of the “confirm” type, metal corners and curly plates to strengthen joints.
From the materials we need:
- laminated and non-laminated particleboard;
- upholstery fabric such as tapestry, spandex or leather.
- foam rubber 50 mm thick.
For accurate patterns, patterns can be printed on a large-format plotter. Transferring images is carried out in pencil.
Cutting out the details
The designer soft kitchen corner has a base of 16 mm thick chipboard. Using an electric jigsaw, you need to saw a sheet on a table or workbench. There should be free space under the sheet, allowing you to cut exactly along the line. General rule of cutting: hidden parts are made of cheaper unlaminated particleboard.
Do-it-yourself kitchen corners are assembled starting from the covering of the seats and their backs. For these parts, the operation is performed as follows: on the foam sheet we put a component part and cut off the excess. We make fabric stock so that it could be wrapped and fixed along the contour.
Making a soft kitchen corner in the workshop, it is recommended to diversify the soft parts. Pads are formed by pulling fabric and foam with buttons lined with fabric or leather. The panels are drilled at the installation site with an electric drill.
Assembly of upholstered furniture
Assemble the kitchen corners with your own hands in the room and start with the side walls and parts that form the bottom of the accessory drawer. The parts are connected using a special screw with a diameter of 8 mm, such fasteners provide the necessary rigidity of the fasteners.
Do-it-yourself assemble kitchen corners by mounting the backrest and the lifting parts of the seats. These parts are installed using the piano hinge. On this process can be considered completed. Making upholstered furniture on your own is much cheaper, and the result will long please the eye of a home craftsman and members of his family.