How to make a bed for a summer residence with your own hands

You can comfortably equip a dacha with minimal costs, for example, you can make a stylish sleeping place out of lumber yourself. The bed must meet all the basic requirements in order to get a good night's sleep. This is not difficult to achieve if you follow the advice of the masters. Country rest will be complete on a wooden bed.

cottage bed — Each owner of a summer cottage wants to comfortably spend their leisure time in the warm season.

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How to choose furniture for a summer residence
How to make a bed with your own hands
Features of bed decor
Where can I put the bed
Pros and cons of a wooden bed
Video: do-it-yourself bed made of wood
50 design options for wooden beds for a summer residence

How to choose furniture for a summer residence

Usually, used sofas are transported to a suburban area. But it is a little pleasure to lie on a structure deformed with age. And in the fresh air, sleep is the best way to improve your health. A good alternative to old upholstered furniture will be a simple, but new bed.

bed for a summer residence photo — As a rule, people come to the dacha for the weekend or on vacation, that is, they stay there with an overnight stay.

A bed at the dacha with your own hands will work if you have a power tool and at least a little woodworking skills. The main criteria for the furnishings in the country are strength and durability. An important factor is convenience, the mood and well-being depend on it.

bed for giving ideas — To make your stay in the country house pleasant, you should take care of a comfortable sleeping place.

Features of building materials:

Hardwood furniture (maple or sugar maple, oak, beech, hornbeam, ash) is durable. The wood does not dry out over time, with proper care it will last for decades.
Coniferous wood is inferior in strength to deciduous wood. Loose, knotty. Most of the knots on the planks are made of spruce. For the foundation, such lumber is unreliable. Plus conifers - resinousness, pleasant and healing aroma lasts for a long time.

solid wood — Furniture can be made with your own hands from scrap materials, for example, from boards and bars.

Natural wood is hypoallergenic, unlike chipboards, it does not contain harmful components, has a pleasant smell, and has an aesthetic appearance. Wood lends itself well to processing, it is a convenient material. The bed can be made simple and with an original design, unique finish. A similar piece of furniture in a rustic style will revive the interior, create a cozy home atmosphere.

double bed made of wood — If you visit the dacha only in the warm season, there is no point in buying expensive furniture for your home.

How to make a bed with your own hands

The simplest design can be unified, supplemented with drawers on wheels for storing bedding, linen and textiles. When deciding how you can make a bed with your own hands from a tree for a summer residence, it is important to first decide on the type of model. Children and adults make their own single beds, lorries, double beds. For a large family, two-tier options are acceptable. The construction principle of all modifications is the same.

bunk bed — If you make furniture from hardwoods (oak, beech, ash), then such furniture will be wear-resistant and, with proper care, will last for more than a decade.

Helpful advice. Take your time to throw away wooden pallets for transporting bricks and other building materials. They create ultra-fashionable trestle beds and podiums.

Drawing and diagram

It is not necessary to follow generally accepted standards and canons. For example, for stunted people, it makes no sense to make a bed 2 meters long, a length of 1.8 m or a little more is enough. The width of homemade options is also not standardized. It is better to draw a drawing of a bed in place, on a piece of furniture. It is advisable to pre-apply other elements of the furnishings. Then the piece of furniture will ideally fit into the existing interior. Existing lumber should be taken into account so as not to purchase new ones.

You can choose a ready-made scheme on the Internet, it indicates the format of each element. In construction markets, the boards will be exactly cut to the desired format, at the dacha it will be necessary to put everything together. The furniture creation process will not be long. There are special computer programs, drawing services are provided by private construction firms.

bed drawing — You can contact a furniture company and order not only the creation of a drawing, but also the subsequent detailing of individual elements on special equipment and machines.

Note! If you plan to install a ready-made orthopedic mattress, the drawing is made with reference to it, all geometric parameters are taken into account: length, width and height.

Selection of tools and materials

To work, you will need a lot of devices:

do not forget about the meters: this is a ruler with a corner, horizontal and vertical levels;
when finishing wood, it is convenient to use a grinder, if it is not there, they are stocked with sandpaper of various grain sizes;
you will need a standard set of electrical equipment: a drill, a screwdriver, screwdrivers can replace it;
for sawing wood, use a hacksaw with fine teeth, a frequent step or an electric jigsaw, with it you will get an even cut, it is convenient to make rounding of corners;
clamps for firm fixation of workpieces will be useful.

instruments — Having chosen and bought lumber, having made a drawing of the product, it is necessary to prepare the tools for work.

Now about the materials. Particular attention is paid to wood, boards and bars must first dry out, otherwise the frame will lead. For the headboard and backrest, glued furniture boards are convenient. They are made of solid wood, marked by class, the most beautiful extras, followed by class A, B. Models AB only on one side do not have knots and defects.

furniture boards — It is necessary to select consumables based on your needs and financial capabilities.

For reference. It is advisable to dry lumber at home for six months, periodically turning over the bars and boards so that there is no deformation.

You will also need:

stain, it is better to choose formulations with an antiseptic;
varnish, acrylic or parquet;
brushes for applying paints and varnishes;
mounting angles and hardware (you can use nails, screws, screws, bolts).

wood stain varnish brush — Use high quality, quick-drying and non-toxic materials for these purposes.

Important! For decoration, they buy accessories, ready-made carved onlays and other ready-made decor.

Manufacturing of elements

First, you need to prepare all the components of the structure, only then proceed with the assembly of the bed.

Frame

They start with cutting the floorboards, the marks are applied on both sides. This is especially important when cutting wood with a hacksaw. Each cut is pre-checked for perpendicularity. In order for the frame to be flat, all corners must be straight. On the inside, the parts are fastened with metal corners, the frame is fixed with hardware.

Note! All end surfaces must be sanded, first the processing is carried out with a coarse-grained abrasive, then the grain size is reduced. Polish the varnish with special soft attachments using wax-based polishes.

Base

It is necessary to prepare the bars on which the base will lie. They are attached to the inside of the sides, the pitch depends on the base material. For the bottom of the bed, on which the mattress is laid, use:

thin boards (make flooring);
plywood;
slatted strips (sometimes mattresses are completed with ready-made structures made of lamellas fixed with a cord).

bed base — Finished lamellas should be laid at a short distance from each other (about 5 cm). They can be fixed on the support bars with self-tapping screws.

Headboard

When the bed frame is ready, proceed to fixing the headboard and back. These elements are essential for a comfortable sleep. Restrict the movement of pillows and blankets when a sleeping person fiddles uncontrollably in their sleep.

bed made of wood — It is necessary to attach two bars to the legs and you can attach the future headboard to them.

For reference. Instead of shields, you can make a stacked headboard from bars, attach a piece of plywood, or come up with something original, for example, attach a parquet board or blockhouse panel.

Support

The legs are attached to the frame at once, they are made in the corners or on the sides, indented from the edge. Another option for the location of the supports is possible. Popular beds on small in height, wide legs in the form of bars. For curly headboards, make long ones, beveled on one side, round or hexagonal.

cottage bed made of wood — In order for the finished product to have an aesthetic appearance, it is necessary to pay special attention to its finishing.

Note! The legs can be shaped to any shape; their height can vary from 15 to 25 cm.

Assembly

The bed is collected when the base is well stained with stain, sanded and covered with a layer of varnish, at least 3 layers are necessary. The first, after drying, is sanded, small wood fibers swollen from the water base are removed. First, the bottom (base) is laid on the supports, then the mattress, it should protrude above the side slats by at least 5 cm. The bed is ready, you can make bed linen, lay a pillow, a blanket. The bed is ready for bed.

cottage bed design — When the varnish or paint is completely dry, you can lay the mattress on the finished bed and use the resulting comfortable and high-quality product.

Features of bed decor

Experiments are welcome when making furniture yourself. Although the bed has not undergone structural changes over a long history of existence, there is always room for imagination. In the country, you can build a swing bed, the frame is hung on chains from the ceiling or ceiling. In this case, the headboard and backrest are made small.

bed swing — Despite the seeming simplicity, such a bed makes it possible to arrange a sleeping place in an original way.

On the Internet you can find a headboard:

imitating a picket fence or thin boards;
figured, the tree is easy to mill;
with a pattern, it is applied by an engraver or burned out with a soldering iron with a thin tip;
in the form of a semicircle, children's options are complemented with removable ears;
brutal design option - the use of pallets or pallets.

As for modernization, you can make a bed with a lifting mechanism from an old dolphin sofa. Some people prefer to install roll-out drawers on wheels or pull-out ones that move along a rail.

bed with drawers — A bed with a storage system becomes a versatile piece of furniture.

Another interesting option is a soft headboard. A sheet of plywood is covered with non-woven fabric. You can lay a layer of foam rubber. To get the relief, use a stapler for furniture, glue a button covered with the same fabric over a metal clip.

By the way, about the fabric. In order not to interfere with annoying flies and mosquitoes, at the cottage above the bed, canopies are made of soft mosquito nets or organza.

canopy for bed — You can make a wooden bed for a summer residence with your own hands as soon as possible.

Where can I put the bed

The location of homemade furniture is limited only by the size and number of storeys of the dacha. Some people prefer to take a nap on the terrace or in the gazebo.Experts recommend taking into account several points:

you should not install the bed with the headboard to the window, the drafts are insidious, you can catch a cold;
when a person lying on the bed does not see the front door, unconscious anxiety appears;
the light shining in the eyes is annoying, lovers of evening reading should take care of a wall lamp, and place the bed away from a bright chandelier;
the outer walls of the country houses are not insulated, in the off-season they are very cold, they do not install beds close to them;
the shelves above the headboard when collapsing can cause a lot of trouble, scare, it is better to replace them with a small bedside table.

Do not install wooden beds near fireplaces, heating boilers, stoves, chimneys, in wet areas.

Note! It is necessary to provide free passage to the door so that there are no obstacles on the way.

Pros and cons of a wooden bed

The solid wood bed is a classic that never goes out of style. Wooden furniture is acceptable for children and adults, appreciated for its stylish appearance, the absence of annoying factors. The wood retains a pleasant aroma for a long time, which has a calming effect. Reliable construction is durable, unlike chipboard, the strength of the fasteners does not weaken over time.

A wooden bed can become an interior decoration, in the country it can be used for additional seating during feasts, only an orthopedic mattress is not intended for such purposes.

You can independently make an exquisite, unique thing that will delight your household. To keep it intact, it is necessary to protect the wood from moisture and drying out.