Bed from loading pallets will look truly stylish only in the appropriate setting. It is difficult to hope that it will cause delight, being surrounded by lush interior drapery performed in an ampir style. Wooden pallet furniture is one of the most characteristic representatives of Loft style.
If all the bedspreads and mattresses are removed from such a bed, then the simplest frame remains with an absolutely understandable and visual structure. Therefore, to assemble her independently will not work. The main thing is to work the master to work with a set of hand tools.
Advantages and disadvantages of pallets
With the help of the most common and inexpensive pallets, furniture made of natural wood can be obtained. The undoubted advantages of the pallet bed belongs:
- Furniture from pallets is now fashionable and in demand.
- Production material will cost inexpensively.
- Pallet dimensions are convenient for assembly.
- Designs are durable, and even an inexperienced master can collect them.
But what can get almost gift is usually not devoid of any tricks. Here they are expressed in the following:
- In the field of pallet freight - this is just an inexpensive auxiliary equipment, which should be durable and not serious. To the degree of aesthetic perception of its appearance here there is no one.
- Its production does not use expensive wood. Billets pass only the stage of cut, without any additional processing. Therefore, there are many different burrs.
- For the assembly of furniture, only new pallets should be purchased. Wool products usually have contamination, damage and traces of rot.
- Podiums, isolated from pallets, may look stylish, but it is almost impossible to clean up under them.
Make your own hands or buy a finished product
The bed from the pallet can be bought or order in a joinery workshop. Fashion on such products led to what even stylization under real pallets began to do. To simulate pallets in the workshop, the highest quality details from expensive wood breeds can be applied.
In the manufacture of your own hands, the lion's share will have to spend on grinding surfaces. The order of the assembly will depend only on the selected model, which may be:
- Podium laid out in several rows.
- Sofa with back and with armrests.
- Armchair.
- Bed on legs or on wheels.
- Suspended design.
- Here you can collect and children's bubble bed.
Making a simple double bed
In the manufacture of a double bed, you will need 8 pallets, a list of kragis or thin MDF, a piece of chipboard, upholstery material for the head of the head and the mattress.
The size of the pallets by Euro standard is 1200 per 800 mm, height 144 mm. For a double bed, a mattress of 2000 sizes is 1600 mm. The head of the bed will be formed small podiums on the similarity of the bedside tables. The MDF sheet 3 mm will be covered by the base under the mattress.
Assembly order:
- Surface pallets sandpaper emery. Sharp corners should be slightly rounded.
- It was no coincidence that these sizes of the mattress and pallets were chosen. In the process of manufacture, it is not necessary to promote anything.
- First, two pallets are nearby. 800 + 800 will be just a width of the mattress 1600 mm.
- From the head of the head of the pallets dock across. 1200 + 800 = 2000 mm, which corresponds to the length of the mattress. Left and on the right, protrusions of 400 mm are formed - they will be the same bedside tables.
- Pallets bonded with self-draws.
- By the same principle lay out the second row. Rows also fasten.
- Kragis is cut down along the contours of the podium and attach to the upper surface of the base.
- The chipboard is cut down the width of the mattress, they are rich in the cloth and attach to the end of the bed.
- Wooden surfaces can be seen or covered with enamel.
In this design, no pallet has to crumble.