Do-it-yourself bed-car, how to make, important nuances of work

Today, many consumers are keen on self-made furniture. The number of home craftsmen is increasing all the time. Some of them acquire prefabricated structures at furniture enterprises, while someone prefers to manufacture products according to their own projects. A children's bed-machine with their own hands can be made with all kinds of decorative elements or have a very simple look. It depends on the personal preferences of the child, the parent, as well as financial capabilities.

Materials and Tools

Thinking over the design of a children's bed-car, one should not forget that children are "people" playful: they jump, run, play throughout the room and on the bed as well. Therefore, the frame of the product must be strong, without pronounced angles and metal mounts that can cause injury to the child.

The main requirements for the material for children's furniture ─ safety. It is carefully selected and checked for relevant sanitary certificates. In the process of making a crib-machine with your own hands, the frame is better to make from solid wood:

Nut;
Ash;
Birch;
Oak.

In addition to wood, it is allowed to manufacture a children's berth from the following materials:

Chipboard with laminated printing. The material has an aesthetic appearance, the bed from it can have additional boxes for seasonal items, toys or bedding. The disadvantages of the product include peeling off decorative "tuning" and instability to moisture;
Chipboard. The material has a protective film, which is applied at the initial stages of chipboard production. Reliable moisture-proof material provides the typewriter bed with a long service life and eliminates the penetration of harmful resins into the atmosphere of the room;
MDF. For its manufacture, manufacturers use sawdust, which are bonded to each other with a natural polymer and paraffin. A do-it-yourself bed made of MDF does not present a child any health hazard, since the quality of the material is equivalent to wood. The material is moisture resistant, resistant to mechanical stress.

To make a crib-machine with your own hands, the home master will need certain tools and materials.

Instruments:

Electric or manual jigsaw;
Hammer;
Sander;
Screwdriver;
Roulette, level;
Manual or electric milling machine with a set of cutters;
Drill, drill.

Instruments

Materials and fixtures:

Wooden bars 50x50, 50x30 mm;
MDF (thickness 12-16 mm);
Plywood (10 mm thick);
Self-tapping screws, plugs;
Bolts, nuts;
Pencil;
Wooden dowels;
Furniture upright castors for rolling out drawers;
Piano loop;
Connecting furniture corners;
Stain, glue, varnish.

The details of the car bed are cut with an electric jigsaw, the edges are cleaned and machined with a milling cutter. To close the slices, use a plastic edge or heat-resistant tape.

When buying building materials, first of all, you need to pay attention to the condition of the bars. There should be no knots in them, since after a certain period they can jump out. The beam should be dry and even.

Materials

Step-by-step instruction

How to make a car bed do it yourself? You can focus on the basic version of the product. And you can use your own project and complement it with exclusive decorative elements.

Drawing and dimensions

To make a crib for a boy, you need to develop a project that will be a diagram and drawings. They indicate the dimensions of the future children's bed-cars. As an example, consider the manufacturing process of a model with a standard polyurethane foam mattress with dimensions of 1600x700x100 mm.

To make a "racing car", you need to prepare drawings of structural elements:

Under the "hood" will be located a box for children's toys;
"Spoiler" is a shelf;
Side drawer ─ 639x552x169 mm;

Drawer Size:

Bottom ─ 639x552 mm;
Side walls ─ 639x169 mm;
Inserted ribs ─ 520x169 mm.
Niche for a drawer with upper cutouts for beams 50x50 mm;
For a niche, you will need two parts with a size of 700x262 mm;
The headboard has dimensions of 700x348 mm. The upper part of the element can be drawn in a radius or rectangular shape.

Then all dimensions of the parts are transferred in full size to the templates, the projection of which will be transferred to the main material.

Cutting material

Lay out the prepared templates on the selected material (MDF or plywood) and perform the cutting of the details of the bed for the boy.

Side pads may take the form of a race car.

For cutting parts at home, craftsmen use an electric jigsaw.

Cutting should be carried out slowly in order to avoid chips on external cuts.

The nuances of making a frame

The main advantages of the frame include strength and reliability. If cribs are made at home, then for the frame it is better to purchase ready-made sawn material. For the manufacture of the frame, you can use two modifications:

The frame can be made with a frame on supports or a box reinforced with wooden beams of 50x30 mm. To connect parts using metal corners. The size of the frame or box should coincide with the size of the mattress + 1-2 cm. The plywood bottom can be replaced with a slatted bottom, which can be purchased at a hardware store along with the plate holder;
When the design of the frame and frame are one. The load bearing is distributed on the sides, head and foot. According to the patterns, the details are cut, which are then assembled using confirm. For the mattress, a frame is made of timber, which is attached to the inner sides of the sides and the back. To strengthen the frame in the car, you can use bedside tables or dressers. In this case, the sidewalls of the car are attached to furniture products. You will get ready-made niches for bedding, stationery, toys, as well as seasonal clothes.

Assembly

A home-made car is assembled from prepared parts that are cut out of MDF boards using a jigsaw. Each detail must be numbered. This contributes to the quick and error-free connection of structural parts.

In the details, all holes for fasteners must be drilled, the end parts are ground and processed with the corresponding edging material. Only after this is the pre-assembly of the bed-cars and all detailed matches checked. Then the structure is disassembled and the master proceeds to the next stage. He paints the details in accordance with the design project. After the paint dries, the parts are covered with water-based varnish, which does not harm the health of the child. And only after this is the assembly of the product.

From a selected beam of 50x50 mm, make a frame for the mattress. Connect the boards with self-tapping screws 80 mm long. The dimensions of the mattress frame are 1600x700 mm.

Attach the support legs ─ 5 pieces to the assembled frame (3 in front and 2 in the back of the structure). The height of the supports is 225 mm. Make a front box, which consists of two side walls, front, back and cover. It is to be attached with a piano loop.

Connect the back wall and the bottom with a confirm, then attach the side parts and the cover with a piano loop.

On the plywood or sheets of MDF to impose templates of the side sides of the machine. They will be different, since on one side you need to prepare a cutout for the drawer. Fix the side structures on the mattress frame with a confirmative. The sides are mounted at a distance of 13 mm from the floor.

Determine the location of the box, and then perform a screw screed on the side of the rails and fix the box with screws to the side of the machine.

To make a niche for a box of racks of size 700x260 mm. Cutouts of 50x50 mm are provided in the upper part of the niche, which correspond to the cross-section of the beam. Lock the struts.

Make a headboard according to the pattern. Attach the headboard to the frame.

Attach linear rollers to the box or use them as guides that can be attached to the side racks of the niche.

The dimensions of the box are affected by linear rollers, between which the box should be placed. Reinforce the drawer in the structure so that the board coincides with the front of the drawer, and the lower edge of the side of the bed is flush with the lower edge of the facade.

Install a box in a niche. From the beam, make a stop on the opposite side so that it does not go further than necessary.

Attach parts with screws to the structure. Make a cover plate, which is in the project with dimensions, and attach it to the facade so that the distance to the floor is 41 mm. Make wheels and tires. The radius of the outer tire is 164 mm, and the inner 125 mm. In the inner circle to make disks.

Under the wheels are hidden supports on which the structure is installed. Fix them on the car bed. Reinforce a 16 mm thick MDF spoiler with 12 mm posts. Put on a berth a sheet of plywood 10 mm thick.

Base and mattress

For the manufacture of the base, durable material is used so that it can withstand the weight of the child and not break if the child suddenly decides to jump on it.

Production Order:

To fill the base, cut slats 20x20 mm;
The distance between the rails should not exceed one and a half widths of the lamella;
Fix the slats on the slats of the frame with holders for lamellas.

Cut the slats

Fasten them to the frame

Parents should be very serious about choosing a mattress, given the age and physiological characteristics of the child. Doctors have identified several basic types of mattresses for a certain age:

Up to 3 years ─ coconut, 5-12 cm high;
From 3 to 7 years ─ medium hard, latex;
From 4 years ─ with independent springs;
From 7 to 12 years ─ soft type allowed;
Older than 12 years ─ polyurethane foam, 14 cm high.

Today the industry offers mattresses with antibacterial impregnation or ventilation covers. The mattress is laid on the base.

Up to 3 years

Over 12

From 7 to 12

3 to 7

Dressing

To make the boy happy with the assembled “car”, it is beautifully designed. Decorative elements are made of the same material as the main product. They can be decorated with multi-colored self-adhesive film. Some details can be painted with saturated persistent acrylic paints with a spray gun or from a spray can. And sometimes a simple brush comes to the aid of the master. Volumetric machine beds are most often painted in saturated red or blue, decorated with white stripes.

The wheels can be cut out of chipboard plates and painted black, and inexpensive plastic caps can make the center.

Wheels can be separately not painted and not decorated, but painted on the side parts. And also it is possible to paint the bed-cars assembled.

The car bed is decorated with emblems, inscriptions, moldings or stickers. The sides are decorated with decorative pads that are screwed with 80 mm screws. The bottom edge of the pad is 41 mm from the floor.

In place of the headlights, holes for point low-voltage LED lamps are cut out. In this case, the "car" will have luminous headlights. The final appearance of the design depends on the imagination of the craftsman.