To make any piece of furniture with your own hands is quite simple, you need to have a tool, material and a properly designed idea. If earlier the bar counter was typically a restaurant piece of furniture, now it is part of the kitchen or open living room of private houses and summer cottages. Today it is a fashionable element of the home interior, bar stools are an obligatory addition to it. Making them yourself will not be difficult if you pay attention to the master class presented below.
Where to begin?
To begin with, you should determine what a bar stool is. In simple words, this is a stool with high legs, which can be equipped with a small back. The easiest way to make a bar stool from wood, while some elements can be replaced with chipboard panels.
For the manufacture of any wooden structure, drawings are required with an exact indication of all product sizes. They will allow you to prevent mistakes during work and determine the amount of necessary supplies.
Where to start and how to make a bar stool with your own hands? To do this, determine the height of the bar. It is necessary to carry out the following calculations:
- Measure the distance from the edge of the bar to the floor;
- It is necessary to subtract 350 mm from the obtained dimensions. We get the necessary height of the bar stool.
For wooden options or bar stools from combined materials, the seat height will be on the same level, so you can make a stool from any material and in any design without making size errors.
What tools are needed to work
In order to make bar stools yourself, you need the following tools:
- roulette;
- a hammer;
- drill with a set verified;
- screwdriver;
- grinding machine or sandpaper;
- jigsaw;
- varnish;
- brush.
Features of making a chair from solid wood
If you want to make a sturdy and beautiful stool ideally suited to your bar counter, then the material for it should be selected solid wood. The most affordable and most suitable for this breed is birch and pine. You can buy them in the form of furniture boards and boards in any specialized store. The thickness of the material should be 20-30 mm. The master class provides for the manufacture of a stool in several stages. First of all, it is necessary to cut 10 parts, taking into account the dimensions listed in the drawings:
- the first part is a circle for sitting, which should be 30 mm thick and 350 mm in diameter;
- the second part is a circle serving as a substrate for the seat. Its diameter is 250 mm with a thickness of 20 mm;
- then four legs are cut from an array of 30 mm thick;
- the last we cut 4 slats, playing the role of stiffeners in the structure. For their manufacture should also use a material with a thickness of 30 mm.
The legs should be cut so that the wood structure in them is vertical. Otherwise, the strength of the structure will significantly decrease, and it will be unreliable.
When all the parts from the tree are sawn, you can begin to assemble the structure. To do this, the following supplies are required:
- metal corners, through which stiffeners will be attached to the legs;
- self-tapping screws, 5x80 mm in size for fastening the legs together and screwing them to a small circle;
- 5x20 self-tapping screws in order to fix stiffeners;
- self-tapping screws, size 5x40, through which the seat will be attached to a small circle.
The assembly of the chair is carried out according to the following scheme:
- We fasten the legs together using self-tapping screws.
- We set the stiffeners, which are fixed by the corners.
- We fasten a small circle to the legs.
- A large circle of seats is mounted on top, which is fastened to a pre-assembled structure
- The finished chair is varnished.
The second option for the manufacture of a bar stool
The drawing of this product is slightly different from the previous one. The design is a classic high stool, equipped with several stiffeners. Despite all its simplicity, such products look very good at the home bar, they are durable and comfortable.
The rectangular sitting of such chairs can be upholstered if desired or made concave, which will be an excellent design solution for a home bar.
As in the previous version, this project of a bar stool made of wood begins with the creation of a drawing.
To simplify the image, it does not show two crossbars located under the seat. They must be present in the present design.
Now consider how to make such a wooden chair:
- Four legs are taken for the legs, measuring 40x40 mm. It will be best to take a pine, birch or poplar. Each leg should have a length of 710 mm.
- We fasten 2 legs, installing the upper crossbar. The same should be done with the other two legs.
- Set the middle and lower crossbar in the same way.
- Now we collect from the legs the general design. To do this, attach the two remaining upper crossbars and install the two lower ones, which will act as footrests.
From above by means of self-tapping screws the seat is established.
How to make a concave seat
This method is not easy, and to make a recess in the seat, you have to be patient. But the result is worth it. The work is carried out in several stages:
- Using a hacksaw, several files of various depths are made in the board. The closer to the center, the deeper these slots should be. And at the edges of the structure, accordingly, cuts are made smaller.
- By means of a chisel and a hammer, a recess is planed with respect to the cuts made.
- The last step is grinding the seat, after which it is attached to the legs.
- The seat is fixed to the chair, which is varnished after assembly.
To make high-quality bar furniture is quite simple, if you carry out the correct design, choose good material and have all the necessary tools at hand. Such products are obtained no worse than factory ones.