What can be done from the rails with your own hands?

Wooden slats - an excellent material that allows you to easily create various crafts and interior items. Rack and hanger, bench and chair, flower bed and pots, shelves and chair, other furniture in this design look stylish and modern. An overview of various options for such structures will help to understand what can be done from the rails with your own hands.

The decision to make furniture from slats with your own hands is usually taken in cases where you need to get an item of non-standard sizes or with an original design. Due to the fact that structural parts usually have a square or rectangular cross-section, they are easy to join together, it is not necessary to use blueprints. You can cut parts to the required dimensions using the simplest measuring accessories and hand tools.

The simplest storage system made of wooden slats is quite easy to make with your own hands. You can pre-draw a diagram, figure out the desired dimensions of the future rack. For use, mounting rails with a size of 20 × 40 or 15 × 30 mm are suitable, depending on the planned loads. Of the tools you will need:

• saw on wood or jigsaw;
• drill;
• screwdriver;
• roulette;
• file.

The presence of a grinding machine will allow you to quickly refine the finished product, give it a gloss, but this is not a prerequisite. The racks are manufactured in a specific order.

• Sawing parts to size. It is better to cut it at once for all elements, taking into account their quantity.
• End machining... The cut is filed with a large file, the edge is removed at an angle of 45 ° to avoid chipping.
• Grinding... It can be done manually with fine emery paper, but it will be much faster to cope with a sander. Edges can be rounded or kept sharp.
• Assembly... The easiest way is to do it with a screw or self-tapping screw. In the first case, you will need to additionally drill holes with a drill. Their diameter should be less than that of hardware. First, shelves and other horizontal bridges are assembled, then they are fixed on the frame.
• To strengthen the structure fix the lower and upper levels with corners.

The finished rack is painted or varnished. The wood can be tinted with wood stain or treated with an impregnation with protective properties. Apply the decorative finish carefully, without haste, and dry it under the conditions recommended by the manufacturer.

From the slats, you can make an original bench for the hallway or use in the interior of the cottage. Of course, the base should be chosen more durable: from a metal pipe for the street, from solid wood for home use. The frame part is made of a bar with a cross section of 50 or 100 mm, on top of it, laths are nailed or screwed onto the self-tapping screws. The bench can be without a backrest or with a supporting top. The finished product can be painted or protected with special impregnations, especially if the product is to be operated outdoors.

In the case of rack and pinion structures, it is better to immediately consider a hybrid option in the form of a chaise lounge - beach lounger... Other design options in the interior will look too rough.

To make the chair, you need to prepare the legs: 2 parts 20 × 40 × 800 mm and 2 parts 20 × 40 × 560 mm each. The lower crossbeams are also paired, 10 × 50 × 380 mm each. Upper 1, measuring 20 × 40 × 380 mm. The crossbar for sitting is also needed in a single copy, 20 × 40 × 300 mm. And you will also need 5 slats 20 × 40 × 400 mm and a piece of fabric for the back of 600 × 500 mm.

The assembly order will be as follows:

• jumpers are attached to a long pair of legs at the top and bottom;
• the fabric for the back is pulled onto the resulting part;
• the seat is going: a jumper is attached to the short legs at the top, then 5 prepared slats;
• assembly of the chair: the second pair of legs is passed between the lower jumpers of the long part, fixed with a movable joint.

You can pre-paint or cover the frame of the sun lounger with impregnation.

For a summer cottage or a loft-style house, bar stools can be made from slats. In fact, they are a high-legged stool with jumpers at the base and a light back. The slats on the seat are easiest to fix end-to-end, but on the back they are placed vertically or horizontally, depending on the chosen design solution. For the base of the structure, wooden elements 40 × 50 mm are suitable, for the back and seat - 20 × 40 or 30 × 40 mm.

Despite the fact that the tree can hardly be called a material resistant to various weather conditions, many summer residents make fences for flower beds from it. It is enough to take slats with a section of 20 × 40, 30 × 50 or 40 × 50 mm and bars 50 × 50 mm for the frame. The base can be of any shape - rectangular, square, you can make an option with a bottom or hollow, installed on top of an existing bed. The assembly of the frame is carried out by analogy with conventional boxes, the sidewalls can be made solid and with gaps, painted, covered with protective compounds.

It is easy to make a simple hanger in the hallway from wooden slats by connecting long horizontal strips and short vertical ones. The design can be stylized as a picket fence or simply painted, tinted, and then supplemented with ready-made metal hooks for clothes.

Wooden slats are a versatile material that can be easily used in the interior or at their summer cottage. Among the crafts that are easy to create with your own hands, there are several interesting ideas and solutions.

• Hanging planter for flowers... In the design of the veranda area in the country, wood products will look very attractive. The pots are made according to the size of the pot, you can make the bottom of the mesh so as not to impede the outflow of water.

• Shelves... In this case, you can make ordinary racks or simply fix several rails on metal corners, having previously sanded and tinted them.

• Windowsill... Rack designs are often combined with a battery grid. In this case, the horizontal part is made solid, the vertical is mounted with a gap.

• Chandelier lampshade... It will complement well the interior of a summer house or country house in country style. A rounded frame can be made from an aluminum or chrome rim, a plastic tube, and short slats can be fixed around its perimeter.

• Floor lamps... Floor lamps made of slats fit perfectly even into the aesthetics of high-tech style; you can make a structure of any height and size.

• Panel on the wall. Such decor often acts as a structural element on the wall. Reiki can be used as a screen in space zoning, as buffels at the head of the bed, in the TV area, above the desk.

• Shoe rack... It is made by analogy with shelving, you can make a bench on top for sitting. The rack shoe rack looks simple and laconic, it goes well with the dacha interior and with a Provence-style city apartment.

• Picture frame. It is very easy to make it yourself.To connect the elements, the cuts at the corners are made oblique. In this case, the slats can be covered with carvings or other types of decor.

• Hot stand... Several butt-joint glued or, in the case of a tongue / groove, rails can be turned into a rounded, rectangular, square or curly surface for installing kettles, pots.

• Sliding doors of storage systems. A frame of the desired size is assembled from 40 × 50 mm rails, thinner elements are attached horizontally or vertically to it. The finished structure is installed on special guides, fixing it in a given position or moving it aside as necessary.

• Lighting system box... With its help, you can more interestingly beat a part of the zone with artificial LED lights. It is optimal if the same slatted decoration will be present on the surface of the walls on the sides.

Reiki is well suited for building summer houses for children, sun sheds, sandpits and other structures that can be used to decorate a summer cottage. They can be used to make a light greenhouse or greenhouse, but the carrying capacity of such shelters for plants will not be too great.

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