How can you revive your cottage by bringing something new to its interior, and at no particular cost? There is an option to update furniture, create a new exterior, using such an original and environmentally friendly material as wood. Experienced designers believe that wooden furniture for the garden is practical and functional. We will talk about the original ideas of furniture for a summer house in our article.
Wood is a good material
The decision to change something at his dacha in terms of updating furniture periodically visits summer residents. There are some new ideas for the arrangement of a summer cottage and housing. Recently, outdoor sofas and couches have begun to appear in garden plots and summer cottages, where it is pleasant to lie in the shade or sunbathe in the sun. And why not, because they have at their disposal such wonderful material for country furniture as wood, from which home craftsmen willingly make home furniture and cottages with their own hands.
Very often, the most interesting ideas are embodied from simple objects that are in the country in a barn or garage. This, of course, is primarily wooden planks, slats and whetstones, rounded blanks (for legs of tables and chairs), purchased in hardware stores or left over after construction or repair. A wonderful help for country furniture are ordinary wooden boxes in which fruits, wooden reels from the cable and, of course, pallets, from which the furniture made for the summer house perfectly fit into its exterior, are stored. Exclusive furniture is obtained from sawing wood.
Preparing the tree for work
Before you start making wooden furniture for your home with your own hands , the source material should be prepared. To make the product last longer, you should choose the wood of trees such as birch or larch. If the boards located in the pallet will be used, it is necessary to disassemble it with a nail puller and a hammer, without violating the integrity of the boards. Further it is necessary to clear of pollution and to polish surfaces of boards. Grinding is done manually with a drill with a special nozzle or sandpaper (but this process will take a lot of time).
If you need to fix some minor flaws, such as cracks and chips on the boards, you must use wood putty or gypsum as a putty. Depending on where the manufactured furniture will be located, the boards need to be treated with impregnation and an antiseptic. This will give water-repellent properties to the finished product and protect against harmful insects and fungal diseases. The next step is to coat the boards with an oil or acrylic primer. With such boards prepared for work, you can begin work on making your own furniture for a summer house.
Benches for a summer residence
Even the manufacture of an ordinary country bench is a creative process. You need to understand that this is not only a place where you can sit, but also some part of the cottage interior. Benches, chairs, tables can be made using prepared boards, well-preserved wooden fruit crates, or logs available at the cottage. Inside a country house, perhaps such chairs made of logs will look inappropriate, but as a street option they are ideal.
To make wooden furniture for a summer house with your own hands, you do not need descriptions and diagrams, you can simply use, for example, a photo that clearly shows the stages of the work. Made of logs, the bench will look great somewhere under a sprawling tree, and will give a pleasant personality to this recreation area. In order for it to last for a long time, all sections of wood must be sanded, primed and varnished for external work.
You can also take an old, but strong stump, if any, in the country after cutting an old tree. From it you can make a leg for a table in the garden or adapt it to a stool. For greater comfort, you can sew a small pillow on the stump.
Barrel Chairs
If the cottage has an unclaimed old wooden barrel, you can give it a new life in the form of a table by installing a countertop made of wood on it. Having cut the height of one third of the barrel and installing shelves inside it, you can get a great bar or use a barrel in the form of kitchen furniture. With your own hands for a summer residence, you can make two chairs from the same barrel, sawing it in half. The seat can be designed as a cover, and a wooden circle can be nailed to the base of the resulting chair.
Chaise lounges for a summer residence
This type of furniture, like a chaise lounge, is a necessary thing for a summer residence. We can say that this is the most comfortable lounge chair in which you can truly relax due to the floor lying position of the body. In addition, it is a spectacular exterior element that emphasizes the style of a summer cottage. And, of course, the best material for its manufacture is wood.
Undoubtedly, such a simple, do-it-yourself furniture for a summer house (photo below), like a deck chair, is made folding. In the summer, it can be used outdoors in the garden or near a reservoir located in the country, and in the winter it can be assembled, for example, in the pantry.
For the manufacture of a chaise lounge suitable cylindrical wood blanks for the base, and bars, the length of which is equal to the width of the chaise lounge. The number of bars is taken depending on its configuration and the thickness of the bars themselves.
In addition to a stationary chaise lounge, you can make such furniture for a summer residence with your own hands as a rocking chair. It must be durable, and not loose when swinging. In order to properly assemble this chair, you need to work with drawings, which show the roundness of the platform, the angle of inclination of the backrest, and the dimensions of the bars to the smallest detail.
Cable reel rocking chair
Old wooden cable reels are an inexpensive and versatile material from which you can create different pieces of furniture for your own home for indoor and outdoor use. If you are lucky, and you got a large wooden reel from the cable, from it as one of the options, you can make a rocking chair.
The perfect round shape of the coil gives a smooth movement back and forth. Its middle is cut off, decorative sidewalls are made from circles, connected by grooved boards for sitting and back. The rigidity of the structure is ensured by pulling in several places with metal rods. The boards in their lower part are supported by a metal chain. The stops on the rocking chair can be made from a rope, but the best option is a turned wooden blocks nailed to the places of the stop.
Table and outdoor sofa made of cable reels
Another option for summer furniture from a wooden reel is a table that does not need to be done. The coil is stable in itself. But making out the countertop, you can show originality. In the center, it would be nice to install a large beach umbrella that protects from the sun, and complement this ensemble with chairs made of bars, or a rounded billet and seat, cut from any material.
From such a coil and a tongue-and-groove board, you can make an outdoor sofa in which circles cut along the chord will serve as sidewalls. The work on creating a sofa is identical to the way the rocking chair was made, only the sidewalls in this case will be the cut-off part on the floor. The tongue and groove boards should be equal in length to the length of the sofa. A street sofa made of these materials looks creative.
If you have several wooden coils, then you can create an original corner for relaxation from the furniture components listed above.
Table of drawers
Making DIY furniture for the garden and the cottage will not require special expenses. Even from such a seemingly waste thing as construction packaging, you can make original furniture with skillful hands. Having inspiration and a desire to do something unusual, you can safely get to work.
The most ordinary table is obtained from four wooden garden boxes, which are used to store fruits in them. First of all, the wooden boards of these boxes must be well sanded outside and inside, so that with further use of the finished product not to damage the hands with splinter. Be sure to treat them with impregnation and a primer.
Now you can start creating a coffee table. Its basis is a sheet of plywood or particleboard. It has a square shape with a side equal to the length of the box plus its height. The table can be installed on the legs, or on wheels, so that it can easily move. All the technology for making the table is perfectly visible in the photo. The finished product can be opened with stain and varnish. In this case, the table will fit into any interior of a country house. Can be painted with paint, as a design option.
Pallet - furniture material
In the country house, of course, there should be berths. If there is a need to replace an old bed, the best option would be made of wooden pallets. Creating furniture from them is not a new idea. The designers of interior furniture drew attention to this type of material, because it is real, environmentally friendly, durable unprocessed wood.
Recently, there are a lot of original compositions of country and garden furniture. And these are not only benches, coffee tables, shelves, beds and stove benches, but also other interesting furniture for a summer house from improvised materials. With your own hands, according to descriptions with assembly schemes, any home master can try to create such furniture, even without special skills. Having become acquainted in social networks with the video material of a master class on the manufacture of a product, you can safely take on the job.
Bed for a summer residence
The simplicity of the implementation and the lack of complexity of the process in the manufacture of beds from pallets and boards allows this idea to be implemented. The bed can be a children's, single or double. If there is a sufficient number of pallets at the disposal of a home craftsman, you can make a two-level bed - a good option for furniture for a summer residence. This bed can be made headboard made of wooden blocks. On the opposite side of the bed, a good option for country furniture is a back in the form of open shelves, the purpose of which can be different.
The frame for the bed of pallets or bars is made as the basis for the mattress, and has advantages over the factory frame. This foundation is much cheaper than buying a finished frame. For the bed frame, four pallets are needed, which can be spent as much as 400 rubles or nothing at all if they appeared at the cottage when it was being built, as an option for building containers. Money will be needed for the purchase of varnish, paint, impregnation and primer. The tool necessary for creating furniture is surely available for every zealous owner, both at home and in the country.
The natural colors of the boards and bars allow the made bed to match the rest of the decor of the room, if it is also made in the color of wood.
Bedside tables for a summer residence
Bedside tables made in the form of high stools serve as a place for a table lamp, book, phone. And by the way, at the right time they are used just like stools. To make them, you will not need a lot of material - these are bars for legs and a countertop made of any material at hand. That is, design options for doing do-it-yourself furniture for a summer house are enough to stay at the most acceptable.
New life of old furniture
If you have old furniture that has outlived its time in an apartment or in the same country house, do not dispose of it. She will serve just fine. And he will continue to please the owner in the form of updated wooden furniture for the garden. With your own hands you can, for example, make kitchen cabinets, racks and shelves from it. If the obsolete dressing cabinet has become the secondary raw material for processing, its side parts or facade can be used to create a dining table for the kitchen. The frame for the countertop of the required size is made from the bars, to which the legs of the table and the countertop itself are attached.
Summarizing
It is hoped that some of the ideas listed in the article will inspire many home craftsmen to create furniture for the dacha using all kinds of improvised wooden materials. Not only is the manufacturing process itself interesting, it also allows you to give the tree a new life. And in the country, do-it-yourself furniture will look much more harmonious than factory furniture.