How to make a bed yourself - a master class and a photo

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Try making a single, a lorry and a double bed with your own hands. A master class with step-by-step photos, instructions and videos will tell you how to make a bed-house, a car and a bunk bed.

Knowing how to make a bed, you can create this irreplaceable piece of furniture with your own hands. If necessary, it will be a bed for a child or for an adult. You can also make these products for dolls.

How to make a car bed?

Such a thing will perfectly decorate the interior, the child will be happy to go to bed on a machine bed. There is still a storage space at the bottom, which will make such a product the most functional.

You will need:

sketch of the bed;
wallpaper or whatman paper;
PVA joiner's glue;
2 sheets of plywood 2 cm thick and the same 1 cm thick;
self-tapping screws;
putty for wood;
acrylic paint;
acrylic floor varnish;
thin plastic or cardboard;
4 furniture wheels;
metal rims for wheels;
carpentry tool.

If you can make a project of a bed on PRO 100, and then give the plywood to the workshop to be cut out on a numerically controlled machine, then you do not need the next stage of work. If you want to learn how to make a bed inside and out with your own hands, then first look at how to create a project. Enlarge your sketch on the wallpaper or on whatman paper, using the coordinate grid.

Please note that the lines of the car should be smooth. To create these, take a template.

Now cut the template out of plywood or wallpaper. Attach it to 1 cm thick plywood, cut it out with a jigsaw, having previously fixed the template with clamps. Make small allowances so that you can align here later.

Now take this plywood template and place it on 2 cm thick plywood. Also fix with clamps and cut out the side of the bed with a jigsaw. Then lay the thin plywood template in the mirror image and cut out the other half of the bed. You also need to create from this thick material:

bars for the mattress, on which it will hold;
the back and front of the bed with a height of 20 and 40, and a width of 70 cm;
shelf-stall measuring 15 by 70 cm;
bars to strengthen the structure;
the bottom of the bed;
2 wheels with a diameter of 32 cm and 2 wheels with a diameter of 40 cm.

And from plywood 1 cm thick you need to cut:

radiator grill;
2 shelves measuring 70 x 70 cm for the mattress.

It is necessary to make holes-handles or recesses in the shelves.

When the parts are cut, sand them with a sander or sandpaper. Determine where you need to make holes in order to use them to connect the parts. Drill. Now start to fasten the elements of the bed and glue the seams with PVA. See if there are any irregularities left. If yes, then also go through here with a sander or by hand with sandpaper.

See if there are any irregularities left. Then cover them with wood putty. If you also have a non-separable bed, then use a putty to close the screws. And if you want to disassemble it when you need it, then there is no need to putty screws.

Now place the furniture wheels down. Here's how to make a bed with your own hands next. When assembling, place this base on some flat surface that you do not mind getting stained with paint. Indeed, at this stage, you will need to add colors to your product. In this case, the bed was placed on two stools. Cover the surface below with cellophane.

First you need to prime the bed from all sides. Use snow white paint for this. When it's dry, then you can use the one you like best in order to make a car bed.

Now take the wheel blanks and paint them. Make the rims silver and the wheels black.

To further make the bed, cut out the window and headlights with your own hands from plastic or cardboard. Paint these items with spray paint. By this time, the bed is dry, then take reflective paint and use templates to apply various patterns here. These can be waves, stripes, transitions.

The paint will dry, then cover the bed from all sides, including the shelves, with varnish. It will take two or three coats. Remember to dry each one.

Do not varnish the wheels, their black parts should not shine so that they look like rubber.

When the varnish on the bed is dry, then screw the wheels into place.

Draw the radiator grill. And if you did it separately, then screw it in place at this stage. Then fix the shelves on which the mattress will lie. It can be done in two main ways. In this case, this bed part was ordered from production. The craftsmen made a mattress to fit this bed. But this method is more expensive. Therefore, you can buy a regular baby roll mattress, rip up the fabric, shorten the excess, then sew the cover again.

It is better to use a sheet here with an elastic band, since it often bulges up in children.

Here's how to make a car with your own hands to get the joy of creativity and to please your child. If you get a taste, then you can make such a product as a gift or open a workshop to earn money making beds. If you want to see what other sleeping places you can make yourself, then watch the next master class.

Read also how to make a do-it-yourself transforming sofa for a child

How to make a bed in the form of a house yourself?

Children will surely like this sleeping place. You can first create it from wood, and then cover it with a cloth to make soft walls in this way. If you are making a bed for a boy, there will be such motives that young gentlemen like. And if a bed is being made for a girl, then you can draw flowers, use textiles of this type.

To make such an uncomplicated bed, first take a suitable 40 mm block. Make them sharper in the corners and, using glue and self-tapping screws, make a base for a gable roof from these blanks. Place the triangles on one side and the other. Connect them from above with the same crossbar made of bars. Create two more horizontal battens out of this material.
Further, this workpiece must be placed on one side and on the other on two parallel bars. You will have the base of the wall and roof. Then it remains to make a bed with your own hands and attach your workpiece here.
The slats will need to be screwed to the bed. Then you will lock the planks parallel here to create this kind of bedding. If the child is small, you can make a half-closed side on one side, so that it is more comfortable for him to sleep, and the baby does not fall in his sleep.

Then it remains to paint the bed in the desired color or cover the wooden parts with stain. Place your mattress in here to size and the bed is ready.

You can install a canopy. But make it from lightweight fabric so that air circulates well here, and the child would not be hot.

Some parents do not make legs for such a bed, but place a high mattress directly on the base. For such a model, fewer materials will be needed, if you are not cold, then this sample can be used. It is suitable for small children if you do not want them to fall off the high bed.

You can make a real princess house, make original walls to get such a fabulous house. Leave the place of the windows free, as well as the sidewalls, so that air can circulate well here. This is a great DIY double bed.

If you have the right tools, materials and carpentry skills, then take a look at How to Make a Children's Castle Bed.

It is made of wood and plywood. Balusters on the second floor help to protect the child and act as original elements of the balcony. There are also balusters under the railings, which are located between the first and second floors. On the one hand, the child will be able to climb, on the other hand, it will be fun to slide down the hill.

The bed is on the ground floor, with towers on either side of it, which makes these structures look like a castle. The towers have shelves where the child can put books, other school supplies and other personal belongings. This castle bed is painted white, which adds a special chic to it. The same applies to the other children's corner.

It is intended for a boy, as it is made in a nautical style. If this complex is intended for two children, then the second child will be able to sleep on the top floor. If there is only one boy here, then he will be placed downstairs, and on the second floor he will play.

Here you can climb the stairs, then go down the hill. Upstairs there is a small house made of treated wooden planks with walls, a roof and windows. When you think about how to make a bed for a boy in a nautical style, then do not forget to place the attributes of such a theme here. This is a small lifebuoy, a ship's bell. Cushion textiles and bedding are also nautical.

And here's how to make a bed with your own hands in the form of a house for a girl.

It is made in pink colors, you can immediately see who it belongs to. Add to this white and green colors, which also go wonderfully with the main color. On the second floor, a railing in the form of a picket fence will help protect the child. There is a storage space at the bottom. There is a staircase on one side and a secure slide on the other.

If you need to make a small children's bed, but with a house, then pay attention to the following model.

On one side there is a small house, which also serves as a headboard for the bed. On the other side there is a small fence. The bed is decorated with plywood flowers. They also need to be painted. If you like textiles, then pay attention to the following.

The walls and tower are made of fabric. The walls are at the same time the sides of the bed. They are quite tall to keep your baby safe. And below there will be a place for games. This is a kind of tent, the canopy of which can be folded back. The child will be happy to play here, look through the windows, which you can also do with your own hands.

Shows how to take a bed photo. It is also made using textiles. There are horizontal beams on which the soft walls of the first floor are worn. The child will be able to move them in and out to make themselves more comfortable in bed. And on the 2nd floor it is better to put an adult child. This place is decorated with curtains, which can also be closed and opened.

And if you want your child to have a whole corner where he could not only relax, but also play sports, then pay attention to the next complex.

You can do this if you have the materials. Not many are needed.

From reliable processed beams, you need to make a support for swings, bars, for a basketball hoop and a net. Also, with the help of bars, you can create a house on the second floor. Make a secure ladder for your child to climb here.
And he will go down from a slide made of plastic. It glides well, has a smooth surface. This will need to be bought, as well as the swing, which you will also hang here.
In the corner there will be a sleeping place with a comfortable mattress. And you can make a bed from chipboard in the form of a house. One of the walls is free. Then the child will be able to get inside unhindered. If you have two children, place such buildings close to each other, they are a comfortable resting place, a wonderful decoration for a child's room.

Glue pictures here, objects that the children will like. And if you want only natural materials in the room, then give preference to wood. You can even fold boxes made of this material to make them such a rack, and inside them the child kept everything he needs.

Provide a backlight so that it is convenient for the child to climb up and down at dusk, at the same time training their sports skills.

Here's how to make a bed for kids, and what those sleeping places could be. Now, check out how to make vacation spots for teens and adults.

How to make a single bed for a teenager and a single bed?

Try to make a bed out of wood, so that you can then put a 90 x 200 cm or 80 x 190 cm mattress on it. For this, you will need:

bar for legs with a section of 5 cm;
timber with a section of 2, 5 by 5 cm for support beams;
board 24 cm thick 2.5 cm for the foot and sides;
board 10 by 2.5 cm for overlapping slats;
a board measuring 20 by 2.5 cm for the headboard;
self-tapping screws 6 cm long;
furniture corners;
joiner's glue;
water-based acrylic varnish;
dowels 8 cm long, and a section of 0.8 cm;
stain;
carpentry tools.

Here's how to make this type of bed yourself. Take a bar with a section of 5 mm, saw off two pieces of 80 cm from it. These will be the legs. At the top inside, drill 5 holes, the diameter of which is 8 mm, and the depth of 3 cm. Take a board of 200 x 25 mm and saw off 2 pieces from it, the length of which is 95 cm. From the ends, drill holes to insert the pins into them, and then fix the data elements on legs. Place the pins on wood glue and gently drive them in with a mallet.

To make two legs, take the appropriate boards and cut two pieces of 40 cm long from the timber. Attach them in the same way as in the previous case.

Fasten with the side walls of the back using furniture corners. Install the support beams along the edge of the left and right wall. Use glue and clamps for this. When the glue is dry, remove the clamps and screw these blanks with self-tapping screws.

Here's how to make the bed yourself. Take boards measuring 100 by 25 mm, cut 12 cross-pieces with a length of 95 cm. Drill holes in them from the ends. Lay on the support beams and fix these crossbars with self-tapping screws.

All parts must be sanded before assembly. Using a sliding square, periodically determine the evenness of the corners.

Treat the bed with wood stain, and if desired, walk through several coats of varnish.

Once you get the job done, you can make a more spacious bed. She is one and a half sleeping. Unlike the previous version, here it is required to make a jumper with legs in the center or near it in order to strengthen the structure. This is what the base of such a bed will look like.

Make a headboard. It consists of two legs and a wall. Create a wall from two or three boards, each 1 meter long 40 cm. As a result, the height of this headboard should be about 40 cm. For the legs, take a bar with a section of 5 cm and a length of 8 cm. Attach them to the headboard with dowels, placing them on wood glue. Additionally, reinforce this structure with self-tapping screws.

Here's how to make the bed on your own, or on your own, if a man is engaged in the manufacture of this piece of furniture. Now attach the headboard, center piece and sides. Secure them with corners. Attach the legs to the center bar.

Opposite the headboard, make a part of the boards that will be located at the feet. Fix the two rear legs with self-tapping screws on the sidewalls. Such reliable plywood can be used as the basis of the bed. To circulate air here, holes are cut in it. If you want, fix the slats here.

And to make a double bed, create a spacious border for it. You can make one that will be according to your individual dimensions.

Then you will make a bed of such width and length that it was comfortable to sleep here. See how the sidewalls connect with the legs. First, with the help of a jigsaw, recesses are cut out in short blanks, and a thorn is left on long ones. In this way, the parts are connected.

To fix the corners even more reliably, they cut out such triangles from wood, then fasten them at the corners.

Attach the bars to the sidewalls with self-tapping screws. They are needed in order to then fix the cross bars here.

Fix the block across, too, then screw the slats here so that the mattress does not fall through and it is comfortable to rest.

If you want your bed not to squeak, then make the slats 1 cm smaller than necessary. Then they will not reach the inner frame and make noise.

Now you can paint this bed in your desired color. When the paint is dry, place the mattress here. Attach the headboard to the wall, hang it on the wall using rails for wall cabinets. For the headboard, you need to cut out a workpiece from foam rubber or expanded polystyrene according to the dimensions of a pre-cut chipboard. And for decorative buttons, you need to make holes with a drill.

See what size the batting and upholstery should be.

First place the polystyrene foam on the plywood, then the batting, and put the cloth on the outside. Now take the decorative buttons and sew them in a checkerboard pattern based on the holes that were made before. You will have a wonderful double bed with a headboard. And if you need a bunk bed assembly diagram, then watch the master class and step-by-step photos to it. Detailed instructions will also be given.

How to make a bunk bed?

If you are looking for a loft bed with a play space at the bottom, then check out the following model.

This bed diagram shows the basic dimensions. See how long and wide it is. You will also see the dimensions of the vertical supports. A solid staircase is attached to the bed, on one side it rests on a large curbstone. But in order to protect the child, it is better to make a railing on this curbstone. First you need to assemble the left side of the bed. The drawing will help this. Connect the uprights to the crossbeams using dowels and wood glue. Then secure the additional structure with self-tapping screws.

Now assemble the right end piece. It will be at the same time a fence.

After that, assemble the frame of the site. Then fix this part of the structure near the bed. To make the podium frame reliable, fasten its parts with metal corners.

Now you need to fill the boards on this podium. They are fastened with self-tapping screws, you can first additionally glue it with wood glue.

It's time to make the steps to the bed. Saw off the ends of the boards at a 45 degree angle. At the top it will be on one side, and at the bottom on two. The bed assembly diagram gives the dimensions that will be needed at this stage. Attach pieces of wood to each board at the desired angle. To do this part of the work correctly, it is better to immediately put these supports at the desired slope. After you fix the slats here, you can attach the steps.

To make the bunk bed further, you will need to attach the ladder to the podium. This design must be reliable. Therefore, before giving this product to a child, it is better to test it first yourself. If you're okay with that, then paint the bed. Then, using a water-based varnish, coat with three coats of this compound.

And if you need to make an ordinary bunk bed, then pay attention to the following diagram. Shown here are the basic elements of this product.

If you want to watch how to make a bunk bed in order to understand this process even better, then watch the video tutorial. This bed will have a work area. The hero of this plot works so vigorously that you will probably want to repeat his everyday feat.