lundi 21 octobre 2013

Creating A Handcrafted Sofa - A Brief How To Guide

By Melissa Oakley


During these modern times, we've become used to buying customer goods and barely become involved in making your own clothes or household furniture. However, if you are looking to redesign your lounge, it may be immensely gratifying to construct your own luxury sofa provided you have the needed time, supplies and perseverance. Involving skills as varied as carpentry, stitching, sewing and upholstery, handcrafting a couch with a Do it yourself approach will truly test your capabilities to the match. Here is a swift guideline for what to anticipate and how to proceed.

To kick off your project, start with a rough sketch of what you are planning to produce and after that create this into a full type of what you are looking to make. If appropriate, you might desire to hire the services of someone with computer aided design expertise to construct a 3d model for you so that you can look at the practicality of the layout and note the particular proportions of each of the measurements. For most people, the design stage is the most engaging as you'll have the ability to experiment with suggestions, concepts and motivation to make your ideal product.

When you have finalised a design, the next task is to develop the couch frame for which you will need a hard wood timber like beech. The frame of the couch is effectively the skeleton of the end product, and will give the product its fundamental shape. Having sawn the timber to length you will need to build dovetail joints to slot together the frame step by step. This then must be fixed together using a wood adhesive and screwed in place for a hugely safe fit. The ultimate product should be a complete frame which is then ready to be upholstered.

Once the frame has been constructed you'll then need to upholster the frame by thoroughly wrapping polyfiber around the timbers to slowly build up the piece from its skeleton so that it takes the shape of your supposed design. For each seat cushion, you will need to add either individual springs or racks of springs to make certain optimum comfort. Overall, the upholstery process requires a good deal of patience and time and you may find yourself needing a few tries to obtain the piece perfectly so the polyfiber is cut precisely for your design.

After your frame has been completely upholstered, you'll then need to pick a material top cover for your couch which can either be in fabric or leather based on your distinct style. Priced in square metres, you'll have to order in both fabric or leathers from specialist providers so be sure to compute exactly how much material you will require. Having stretched the material throughout the upholstered frame you will need to fix the top cover by sewing and stitching to ensure that it is securely held in place, add a few finishing details and, viola, your luxury sofa is born!




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