Simple garden furniture with your own hands

Smart use of unnecessary things

Surely in every shed or garage there are a lot of things with which you can make garden furniture. Beautiful interesting ideas for the garden are sometimes born from the most unpresentable things:

• The wooden reel (drum) for the cable is considered a unique find for the gardener. You don't even need to make a garden table from a wooden coil, it is stable by itself. You just have to show a little originality, making out the tabletop and leg properly. For added convenience, you can attach a sun umbrella to the center of the coil. Also, chairs, sofas, stools and other creative things are created from coils.
• Do not throw away your worn-out car tires. Rubber is a very durable material, perfect for the garden. By the way, tires make ideal swings or hanging chairs for adults and children. Consider a simple way to create original seats from car tires:

1. To begin with, you need to thoroughly clean three tires, which will soon become a chair, and prepare several future supports - branches or narrow logs.
2. On two tires, one of which will become the seat and the other the back, we make holes in the center or slightly closer to the inner edge of the tire.
3. We pass a strong rope rope through these holes to make a lattice. For greater strength of the seat itself, knots can be made near each hole: if the rope breaks in one place, the seat will still remain strong. It is better to tighten the rope all the way, as it will stretch a little during use.
4. Next, we put one bus with a "lattice" on a regular one, fastening them with bolts with nuts or brackets from the inside for strength. It turns out a kind of ottoman or stool.
5. Add the back. To do this, you need to pick up strong support branches. The last tire with a rope mesh is attached to them. The resting place is ready.

Garden tire swing

Original shop made of car tires

Tire and glass coffee table

Coil tables

Coil Romantic Dinner Table

Another find for lovers of suburban rest will be wooden pallets or pallets, remaining during the transportation of building materials or found near large stores. Garden furniture made from wooden pallets is quick and easy: stack them one on top of the other to create a square coffee table and a few small chairs. If there are many pallets, you can arrange a real corner sofa for a large company:

1. We take 6 or 8 pallets and carefully clean them in order to protect ourselves from what could previously spill or wake up on the pallet. If the pallets are too old, we check their strength and, if necessary, repair them. Next, we sand the pallets and cover them with varnish or paint them in the desired color.

2. We select a place for a resting corner. It is better that this place is in a cubbyhole or in the corner of some building. Then it will be possible not to make the back. If you choose an open space, you will need to take another 3 or 4 pallets to create the backrest.

3. We put the pallets with the letter G close to each other in two rows (one on top of the other). For strength, it is better to securely fasten the parts with nails or screws. In some cases, a mobile structure will be more appropriate in order to bring pallets into the room in case of rain or in winter.

4. If it is necessary to make a backrest, then part of the base is sawn off from additional pallets so that you can nail them down, or metal profiles are used for fastening.

5. For convenience, we will sew cushions to fit the resulting seating area. We make the same pillows with loops for fastening for the back. For ease of cleaning, it is better to prepare several replaceable covers that will prevent the pillows themselves from getting dirty.

6. In the center of such a corner, it is worth placing two more pallets on top of each other as a garden table.Decorating is limited only by the desire and capabilities of the author.

Old barrels, baskets or buckets can be used as separate elements of garden furniture. You can arrange a real wooden chaise lounge from the frame of an old cot, a beautiful table on wheels from a broken wheelbarrow, etc.

- it is only important to give free rein to your imagination

Peculiarities

Garden furniture usually belongs to one of 3 types, among which are portable, permanent and folding. The first category includes chairs and tables, some swing options. In which case, there is a place for them under the canopy of the terrace, in the garage, basement or inside the house. Permanent furniture can only be dismantled. The folding type is the most complex in execution, but the resulting structure is reduced in size if necessary, sometimes several times. Corresponding to its name, it is made by movable joints. Folding furniture can be either permanent or portable. Whenever possible, assembling structures for the garden is best done indoors with a workbench and a large work table. Then the accessories will be protected from moisture, and the storage of waste materials will be convenient, there will be better opportunities for reuse.

Assembly guidelines

Garden chair

Garden chair assembly diagram

Dimensions (edit)

Work on the manufacture of garden furniture begins with the preparation of sketches of future furniture items or a simplified drawing indicating the main units and their sizes.

Garden table

Garden table assembly diagram

In the future, when proceeding to the direct assembly of individual units, you will need to take into account the following circumstances:

1. To assemble furniture, you will definitely need a set of fasteners of the following names:
   • screws;
   • bolts;
   • self-tapping screws;
   • PVA glue or special furniture glue.
2. The hats of all fasteners must be reliably recessed into the body of the wood, which excludes the possibility of injury and scratches. The products themselves should not have non-rounded sharp corners, and their surfaces should be well polished.
3. In order to avoid the destruction of wood from rotting and fungus, it must be treated with special protective agents (antiseptics), and covered with linseed oil and several layers of varnish on top. Such coatings perfectly preserve the natural naturalness of the wood pattern and especially emphasize its texture.
4. To protect the wooden legs of furniture from rubbing against the ground and rotting, small duralumin or tin fittings should be stuffed on them.
5. For greater convenience, the seats of improvised benches, various types of armchairs and chairs should have a slight slope towards the back. For this, special wedge-shaped inserts are installed on the side supports, which have a slight difference in thickness.

Is it worth spending energy on homemade furniture

The answer to this question depends on personal preference, but we will still present several arguments in favor of such a pastime.

1. Cheapness. The dacha, as a rule, is financed on a leftover basis, and the available money goes, first of all, for seeds, fertilizers, equipment. You either have to rest on torn, crumbling chairs, which have served their purpose in the last century, or spend money on tasteless plastic furniture. Homemade products will cost the cost of nails.
2. Originality. There is a high probability of finding the exact same plastic kit in the house across the street and in several other areas. The handcrafted item is unique.
3. Changeability. When our exclusive table or sofa gets annoying, we will design and build a new one. The issue price is another set of nails.

Step-by-step instructions for making country furniture with your own hands from scrap materials

Start by making simple stylish things for your suburban area and soon, you will be able to show off to your guests an exclusive "hand-made" thing.

Tire ottoman will be a decoration of any garden

Materials and tools: Tire of any diameter, plywood sheet, screwdriver, hemp rope, drill, 12 screws, scissors, glue gun, glue, brush, varnish.

How to do:

• Put the plywood circle of the appropriate size cut out in advance on the tire;
• With a drill we drill holes along the edge of the plywood and use screws to connect it to the bus;
• We do the same with the other side of the tire;
• We mask the tire, starting from the center of one of the circles, glue the hemp rope;
• Cover the finished pouf with a brush with varnish.

Stages of work

Ready-made pouf from a tire, made by hand

Wooden lounger for a comfortable stay in the country

Materials and tools: A tree trunk (as straight as possible and without knots) or about 15-17 logs with a diameter of up to 15 cm, an electric saw, a screwdriver, hardware (take with a margin), colored tape.

How to do:

• Cut the tree trunk cleaned in advance from knots and chipping into pieces 80-90 cm long, up to 20 pieces
• Glue the chaise longue stencil form on the floor with colored tape ("wave" figure);
• We alternately connect the logs with screws along the stencil line;
• We install an additional log-support under one arc;
• The finished chaise longue can be sanded and painted as desired.

Work order

Tips for finishing and handling garden furniture

In order for your furniture to look neat and serve for a long time, it is necessary to correctly provide options for care and protection from external factors. You may need: protective impregnation and antiseptic for wood, paints, varnishes, anti-corrosion compounds for metal, protective waxes for trophies and fragile wood species, sealants, covers for storing furniture in the off-season.

Video: saving on furniture for a summer residence correctly

From scrap materials you get many options for beautiful and comfortable garden furniture. But by giving preference to environmentally friendly and simple materials, you can fill the space with cozy things, staying in harmony with nature and in harmony with the family budget.

Materials for the manufacture of country furniture

Wicker furniture can make any interior more cozy and stylish. A popular solution is to make furniture for a garden and a summer cottage with your own hands from willow twigs. Wicker chairs, tables and armchairs look very elegant, airy and inviting for a pleasant rest. Such furniture is environmentally friendly, fits well into the interior, does not accumulate static charge. There is only one relative drawback of wicker furniture - it can only be placed indoors, since under the influence of natural factors, the rods begin to exfoliate, and the furniture loses its attractive appearance and strength.

Wicker furniture is environmentally friendly, fits well into the interior, does not accumulate static charge

Ready-made wicker furniture made of willow rods, bamboo or vines is quite expensive, so not everyone can afford it. In this regard, a cheaper "substitute" is gaining popularity - wicker furniture made using the paper-weaving technique. For example, to make a small table, you will need about 500 newspaper sheets. Having some weaving skills, making furniture using this technique is not difficult.

A relatively new material for the manufacture of country furniture is wooden pallets (or pallets), which are used to transport building materials. You can easily and quickly make a sofa, bed or armchair out of them, although their scope of application is not limited to this. Designers offer more and more interesting ideas that you can borrow for your home.

Pallets can be easily and quickly made into a sofa, bed or armchair, although this is not limited to their scope.

Most often, it is enough to connect several pallets together - and the frame for the bed or sofa is ready. For convenience, you can additionally make a backrest for a sofa or a headboard for a bed. Then the little thing remains - put the mattress and pillows, and the place to rest is ready. Processing is also minimal and comes down to sanding the surface, as the surface can leave splinters.

An unusual solution is plastic furniture for a summer residence. Make sofas, ottomans, armchairs and more DIY furniture very simple, as they are collected from plastic bottles. Such furniture is well suited for a country house, a garden and even for going out into the countryside due to its lightness and mobility. It will most likely take a long time to collect the material. Plastic bottles are cut in half and the parts are nested inside each other. 4 such bottles must be collected in a separate module, firmly fastened with adhesive tape or film. If you collect several small modules, you get the basis for a pouf. It remains to make a soft cover for him - and a comfortable pouf is ready. But if there are more such modules, then an armchair and even a whole sofa can turn out.

Furniture for a bedroom in the country

Many city dwellers prefer to spend all summer in the country, so it is important to provide comfort and good rest there. You don't even need to buy new furniture for this - wooden pallets, cable reels, plastic bottles and other materials will come to the rescue.

Furniture for a bedroom in the country

First of all, the question arises of what to make furniture for the bedroom in the country with your own hands. Ideally, use pallets to assemble the bed. This is a very practical material, which is also not so difficult to find, so a pallet bed will cost much less than a regular one.

From pallets, you can make a bed of different models - from a small single to a huge double, with or without a headboard. The style of the finished furniture will depend on the degree of processing of the pallets - you can minimize processing, thereby giving the room a touch of industrial style, or you can refine the pallets, paint and varnish more, and then they will look more beautiful.

A pallet is a very practical material, which, moreover, is not so difficult to find, so a bed made of them will cost much less than a regular one.

The method of making a bed, regardless of the design, is the same: you need to connect pallets together to get a podium

It is important that all pallets are the same size and in good condition, otherwise it will not be possible to give a sufficiently normal appearance.

After drying, the pallets need to be processed so that splinters do not remain later - sanded with a "sandpaper" or a grinder. Then wipe again with a damp cloth, prime and varnish or paint.

Connecting pallet furniture assemblies

Make holes on the long side and connect the pallets between themselves with nails or screws. Put a mattress on the resulting podium and secure with elastic bands.

According to this principle, it is easy to make furniture from pallets for summer cottages with your own hands of other models. For a large double bed, you need 4 pallets, and if you need to make a headboard, then additionally 2. The bed from pallets turns out to be very low, which is not very convenient. It is not difficult to make it higher: you need to attach the second "tier" of pallets. The finished bed can be equipped with storage boxes, castors or illuminated with LED strip.

Interesting solutions and examples of country furniture

DIY pallet garden furniture: how to make a table

Pellet bench and table

The presence of wooden pallets and pallets on the farm will go into the hands of the owner. Wonderful things can be built from them. Moreover, these things are often made of coniferous wood, which are distinguished by their strength. If there are no pallets, then they can easily be purchased at any hardware store for a small cost.

1. Take 2 pallets. Clean them well. Shorten one by 300-400 millimeters.
2. The one that is smaller is installed on top of the large one and they are fastened together with nails or staples of a construction stapler. They are installed on top of each other in such a way that on both sides a "step" is obtained, on which you can then put, for example, flower pots.
3. The structure is stained. Then it can be varnished.

Thus, you get a table with a niche in which you can store, for example, crosswords or magazines. It can be decorated using decoupage technique.Sometimes these tables are put on wheels from carts, as in stores. This allows it to be rolled from place to place without difficulty.

"Cheap and cheerful": making a garden bench

A simple version of the bench

Often, huge boulders can be found on the site where the house was recently built. They can also be used as building materials.

For example, if you take two of these stones of approximately the same size and a thick board, you can build a shop. The boulders will play the role of supporting structures for it. They must be installed in small indentations on the cave pillow. With the help of a diamond drill, it is necessary to make holes for fastenings in the stones with a perforator. The same holes are made in wood. With the help of anchor bolts, the elements are connected to each other. The wooden part is coated with an antiseptic and varnish.

Chairs made of logs from a log house

Comfortable chairs in the garden under the crown of large trees - cozy and comfortable

If you have logs left over, they can also be used to create garden furniture. They can be used to build a couple of beautiful chairs.

1. Saw off 4 50 centimeters from the log. These will be the future legs.
2. Saw another log along a length of up to 100 centimeters. A seat will be made from these parts.
3. Place the legs in parallel in pairs and attach the seat boards to them, the flat side of which should be facing up.
4. Using nice thick driftwood, construct the armrests and backrest.
5. Treat the wood with antiseptic and varnish.

Rattan as a building material

Technorattan braided stool

Rattan is a raw material from which wicker furniture is made. It is made from palm fibers. It is somewhat more difficult to work with it than with other materialsbecause you need certain skills. But you can learn this on your own. Naturally, natural rattan is quite an expensive material, so there is an artificial substitute - technoratan.

You can use an old stool as a frame for future furniture that you will braid.

1. Cut the Technorattan strips to the length of the seat + 2 heights.
2. Start weaving from the central part of the frame.
3. Fix the woven parts periodically with a furniture stapler.
4. When you reach the edge, bend the Technorattan strips downward, fasten some of the ends under the seat, cut off the excess.
5. Leave the strips near the legs in order to braid them.

We make a wooden bench

This is an important attribute on a suburban area - it is practical, useful, helps to create coziness, looks impressive and fits well into the dacha setting. You can take any version of such garden furniture as a basis, creating your own original design. The process is quite simple and does not require special skills, but it helps to put some ideas into practice.

Tools and materials

• hacksaw for wood;
• a circular saw;
• two-handed saw;
• hammer;
• plane;
• pliers;
• screwdriver;
• nail puller;
• LBM.
• wooden boards - 12 pcs. size 870x100x50 mm;
• beams;
• antiseptic agent to protect wood from fungus and moisture;
• paint or varnish.

1. Make 2 identical pieces, each 870 mm long, which serve as benches in the structure and a supporting back for securing the boards.
2. Grind the boards with a plane and apply an image of a curly leg to the workpiece, stepping back from the beginning of 330 mm.
3. Draw the backrest on the same workpiece without affecting the width. It should taper towards the end.
4. Saw out the part along the made contour.
5. Make two 430mm planks for the bench.
6. Connect the blanks to each other, carefully grind the fragments. To connect the parts, use a hacksaw to make grooves in the uprights 100 mm wide and 250 mm deep.
7. With a plane, make 2 pieces 650 mm long, designed to connect the legs to each other.
8. Assemble the bench frame together.
9. Screw 4 boards 30 mm long each to it, then the back, and then the seat.
10. Apply varnish or oil paint to the surface of the product, protecting it from moisture and external influences.

Tip: when installing garden furniture for a summer cottage, choose shady places to increase the comfort of its use.

DIY wooden furniture for the garden fits well into the landscape

If you have at least a little skill in working with carpentry tools, you can make original and beautiful furniture for your summer cottage yourself. The recommendations proposed today can be taken as a basis, changing and supplementing them. The video in this article will help you find additional information on this topic.

Armchair from an old tire for a summer residence

Very often, car owners collect a large number of old tires in the garage, which have nowhere to put them, but it is a pity to throw them away. They can be used to make a comfortable chair for a summer residence. The main thing is to draw up a detailed drawing and follow the instructions step by step.

Car tires make a great chair

To to get started, you need to take:

• car tire (4 tires for one seat);
• chipboard sheet;
• furniture stapler;
• screwdriver;
• thick foam rubber;
• felt;
• knife or grinder;
• material for furniture upholstery (or other material of your choice).

Chair manufacturing steps

This piece of furniture is made in several steps:

1. First, you need to prepare the tires for work. To do this, you need to wash them well with special substances for rubber, and then cover with a special solution that will make them perfectly smooth and velor-velvety to the touch.

2. In order to connect the tires to each other (back and seat), you need to use self-tapping screws and a screwdriver. Before this, it is necessary to fasten the two tires to each other in the same way (seat) so that they stand firmly on the ground.

3. From the top of the seat and back, it is necessary to fix it with a stapler to the chipboard, which must first be cut out in the shape of a circle. Now you can make the top of the seat. From above, foam rubber, felt and then upholstery material are attached to the chipboard with a stapler.

4. From one tire it is necessary to cut out two "ribbons" with a sharp knife or grinder, which will serve as armrests for the chair. They are attached to the back and seat with self-tapping screws and a screwdriver.

If desired, the tire seats can be painted in any color or left in their original condition. For this, you can use the most common building paints.

Garden furniture style

Rustic is the first on the list of justified options. The main milestones of the style were wood, rounded lines, relief and slight negligence. Proponents of perfectionism are more likely to like crafts in something similar to the loft style. The rustic style will help in arranging a natural setting for spending your free time in peace and quiet. Furniture in the English style is made with classic "notes", balanced proportions and lines. The combination with small irregularities in the landscape will become organic. The Japanese trend in design provides for the observance of straight lines and, in fact, Japanese motives, drawings and patterns. Ornamental plants will complement the outdoor ensemble. The garden in the spirit of French classicism is furnished with sophisticated products. At the same time, the arrangement of furniture should be symmetrical.

Other styles that are relevant in this context:

• eco-style;
• Oriental;
• Mediterranean.

From pallets

Pallets are also called pallets. They are large enough trays that are usually left over from building materials. If you do not have the funds to buy garden furniture and even blanks for making it yourself, then we suggest you use pallets for these purposes. You can buy them at a very affordable price in hardware stores. There is enough of this good.

Boards in pallets are not stacked closely, but at a distance equal to half the width of the board. Pallets also have sides with a height of 10 to 14.5 cm.There is no uniform size of pallets, but in our country there are usually 100 × 120 cm and the European standard - 80 × 120 cm (they can have a continuous laying of boards).

Pallet handling

Regardless of which piece of garden furniture you have to make, they must be pre-processed. First, you need to remove the dirt from the tree, then dry it and sand it.

Tools / Materials

It is not enough to buy pallets to make garden furniture. You will also need thin, not very long nails. In addition, you need to purchase furniture fittings, such as wheels, handles, etc.

You will also need varnish / paint, glue, glass, small lights, and cloth. The composition of this additional set, of course, depends on the design of the furniture.

Making a coffee / dining table

Making a coffee table

The simplest pallet garden furniture options are dining and coffee tables. To make them, you just need to connect 2 pallets, placing them on top of each other and connecting them with nails. A fiberboard sheet, glass or thin wood can act as a tabletop. The coffee table is ready for this.

More pallets are needed to make a dining table. For the table top, you will need 2 pieces, and for the manufacture of the legs, you will need 1 pallet, which you will need to saw into 4 parts, stretching vertically and nailing in the corners.

Dinner table

Another option for the legs is to take 2 pallets, place them vertically and nail them whole on the sides. This will create a large dining table. If this table height is not enough, then you will have to stack 1 more row of pallets.

Sun lounger

The relaxation area can be decorated with sun loungers. To make them, you will need 3 pallets - 2 rectangular and 1 square (it will be 10 cm wider than the rest).

Place rectangular pallets together and nail them together. Initially, pallets need to be sanded and then painted. Now you need to make the back of the chaise lounge. At this stage, you will have to work a little more. Disassemble the wide pallet: remove the bottom layer and partly the middle one (1-2 pieces of it should remain). The top layer of the pallet will serve as a base. Remove 2-3 boards from the backrest blank. They will still come in handy for you, so disassembly of the pallet should be carried out very carefully, nothing needs to be broken. Saw one of the planks you removed in half.

Now set the square pallet at an angle to one side of the rectangular pallets. This will form the back of your chaise lounge. Fix it with the screws removed from the pallet earlier. A thick fabric or mattress can be thrown over the finished product.

Making a sofa

Making a sofa is very simple. For its base, you will need 3 square pallets and 2 rectangular ones. As sidewalls, you can use 1 pallet, previously sawn into 2 identical parts so that you get 2 thin pallets. Whole pallets can act as a backrest. For fastening, thick screws / nails, metal corners are used.

Use foam, such as a sitting mattress and back cushions. So, you get a cheap, but very original sofa.

Materials for making furniture: our tips will help you make the right choice

The choice in favor of wood is made due to the advantages of this natural material:

• Durability. Subject to the production technology and the formation of a protective layer, it is possible to guarantee a long service life of products made from solid wood. Adhering to certain recommendations for the care of a wooden surface, you can use a table or chairs for half a century;
• Presentability. Products create a special atmosphere, becoming the center of attention of others;
• Naturalness;
• ErgonomicWhen developing furniture sets, the characteristics of specific people are taken into account;
• Maintainability;
• Choice of finishes;
• Uniqueness. No one else will have exactly the same furniture.

The manufacture of furniture from wood is most often performed from wood panels, which can be:

• Solid, made of solid wood;
• Glued or compressed. In the production of such panels, thin wooden sheets are reliably connected to each other, forming an integral material.

For making furniture with your own hands from furniture boards, you can use material of various colors. In the catalogs of manufacturers there is wood in light and dark colors. This will allow you to choose the right option for a specific interior.

Furniture boards come in different colors

If the cost of ready-made panels seems too high, you can make furniture with your own hands from improvised means. In this case, you will have to show a certain imagination so that the found branch, snag, branch or pallets left after building materials become part of the future product.

An improvised bed can be beautiful

In an effort to reduce the final cost of the product, some make furniture with their own hands from chipboard. In a certain situation, this option deserves attention, but you should not count on a long service life of a ready-made headset or table. This is an economical option that is suitable for a country house. Moving such products from one place to another is not worth it.

Particleboard should be used carefully

To make furniture from solid wood with your own hands, wood of various species can be used. It should be borne in mind that it can be:

• Solid. Suitable for the manufacture of load-bearing elements. It can be apple, beech, oak, sycamore, elm and many others. Elements made of such wood are capable of withstanding a significant operational load;
• Soft. A suitable option for the manufacture of elements of decoration or ornamentation. Using cedar, poplar, birch, pine, willow or alder, you can get a product with a fairly beautiful texture. Due to its plasticity, the product lends itself well to processing, allowing you to form an element of the desired shape and size.

Wood can be different

When choosing a wood species, you should also focus on the texture and texture of the material. A smooth countertop can be obtained from beech, linden or birch. When using walnut, blanched pine, oak or ash, some relief can be achieved.

The appearance determines the grain of the wood

When deciding to use an array, you should make sure in advance of the quality of the material. It should be:

• Practically free of knots, which significantly reduce the strength characteristics of the wood;
• With a snug fit for the annual rings. This is especially true for the coniferous massif. The closer the rings are, the stronger the board will be;
• No fungus. Its presence is evidenced by the uneven color of the wood. Especially in places of cut.

Before starting work, you should make sure the quality of the material

Features of the manufacture of wooden furniture

Before starting the production of wood furniture, you should prepare the necessary tools, equipment and materials. It is worth taking care of the availability of a woodworking machine that allows you to form a surface of any shape and size. This will make it possible to implement any project from the conceived.

The manufacturing process itself includes the following steps:

Project development

It is important to consider where and how the future product will be used, its size and shape. Drawings of all elements for the future product are being worked out in detail.
Markup

At this stage, drawings from paper or electronic media are transferred to wood.
Sawing. All elements are cut to size.
Processing with special compounds, the characteristics of which depend on the place of future operation. It is advisable, in addition to biosecurity, to provide protection against moisture.
Decorative coating. It can be varnish or paint.
Assembly. The connection of the elements can be done using adhesives, laths, dowels. Other technology may be used.

Furniture assembly is a crucial stage