DIY children's bed house. DIY children's bed made of wood. We determine the overall dimensions and draw up a drawing

What could be nicer than the gratitude of your own child? There are many ways to deliver them, because kids are not yet so demanding in their demands. A do-it-yourself children's bed, created by a loving parent according to an individual sketch, is something that will attract the attention of not only your child, but also all his friends and guests. Even if you can’t build a masterpiece of carpentry, making a bed yourself means at least saving your family budget. In addition, it is easier to make a homemade piece of furniture suitable for the interior of an apartment or room rather than looking for the right piece in numerous furniture stores.

Before making a children's bed, you need to consider some important nuances:

• the design must be durable and, most importantly, comfortable. A child spends much more time in bed than an adult, and his mood for the whole day depends on how he slept. For these purposes, it is recommended to purchase an orthopedic mattress for a child’s bed;
• environmental materials. In the children's room, it is preferable to use only natural materials that will preserve the health of children;
• the sleeping place should correspond to the child’s age, level of physical activity and personal preferences.

Variations on the theme of children's beds

There are the following main types of sleep structures:

• simple bed;
• loft bed;
• transformer;
• two-tier.

Options such as an attic-type bed for a child or a transformer will save space in the room and create additional space for games and leisure, which is very important in small apartments or when there are several children. In addition, toys can be stored in spacious drawers that pull out from under the bed.

A simple design can be slightly complicated and made into a car-shaped bed. Any boy will be delighted with such a crib. A do-it-yourself bed for a girl in the shape of a carriage will satisfy the aspirations of even the most capricious princess.

Children's sleeping place made of wood

Of course, the most suitable material for making furniture for children is wood.

The best solution, in our opinion, is an array or, as a last resort, MDF. This material is environmentally friendly and safe in comparison with chipboard. Of course, you can make a bed from chipboard or laminated chipboard, but these boards emit dangerous toxins and are not suitable for a child's room.

Nuance. If you plan to make a bed from chipboard, you should carefully edge each section of the part to reduce the toxicity of the material. It is better to do this not on your own, but with the help of specialists. Such services are provided by construction stores.

A children's bed can be made from plywood; it is a cheaper and more accessible material. However, it makes good furniture. It is preferable to choose high-quality multi-layer birch plywood. In this case, a do-it-yourself plywood bed will delight you with its quality and durability for a long time.

In order to make a children's bed with your own hands, you will need a diagram and corresponding drawings. You can draw your own sketch yourself if you know what parts this piece of furniture consists of. It should be remembered that the dimensions of the bed must correspond to the dimensions of the mattress. Therefore, it must be purchased in advance.

Operating procedure:

1. First, you should prepare all the necessary parts according to the diagram. To do this, first apply markings to the material using a simple pencil (its traces can be easily removed from the surface).
2. Using a jigsaw or fine-toothed saw, each workpiece piece is carefully cut out.
3. Cutting the material can be ordered where it was purchased. This will save a lot of time.
4. All parts must be thoroughly sanded after cutting.
5. Next, you need to cut out the aluminum corners and make holes in them for fasteners.
6. The finished metal parts should be screwed to the sides in such a way that the base of the mattress is placed on them.
7. Next, the bed frame is assembled. It is recommended to use furniture ties to fasten parts. They will create a more durable structure.
8. If you are making a bed with drawers yourself, then after completing the main assembly you can begin assembling the drawers. They must be equipped with furniture wheels for ease of use. The best option is 2 spacious drawers, one can be used for bedding and the other for toys.
9. Once assembly is complete, you can coat the finished product with primer, paint and varnish. It is natural to use bright colors to create a cozy atmosphere for the nursery. If a bed was made for a teenager, then impregnation in a pleasant shade is enough.

It is enough to show a little imagination and this simple design will turn into the dream of any child. It is enough to give the external details a more attractive look.

A wooden bed for a children's room in the shape of a car is the dream of every boy

To make a bed in the shape of a car or give it a different appearance, you need to cut out the sides according to the sketch and cover them with film with a pattern printed on a wide-format plotter. Cover the sections with a U-shaped PVC profile (this will be done by specialists). The slats for supporting the mattress are attached to the timber using lath holders. Eccentrics are used for fastening parts in visible places.

Bunk bed

Do-it-yourself wooden children's beds can also be bunk beds. This will save the situation if there is more than one child in the family.

And the attic, made in the form of a bed, will preserve space for creativity and games.

In order to do something like this you will need the correct circuit.

Pallet bed for a child

An excellent and cheap material for carpentry projects are construction pallets. From these you can make an excellent bed for a teenager with your own hands. It’s worth making an effort, because with a minimum of costs, both financial and time, you’ll get the perfect designer item.

A bed made of pallets is the best option for a teenager

For work, you need pallets and fasteners (screws are suitable), as well as the usual carpenter's kit (saw, drill, screwdriver, jigsaw, sandpaper) and finishing products (paint, stain, varnish).

Operating procedure:

1. It is necessary to carefully consider the design of such a place to sleep. It can be made in the form of a podium on which the mattress will be placed.
2. The existing pallets should be disassembled and each board should be carefully processed with a grinding machine or sandpaper after the necessary parts have been cut.
3. If necessary, you can treat the parts with stain or varnish.
4. Then assemble the structure using self-tapping screws.
5. Place a prepared orthopedic mattress on the bed and decorate it in an acceptable style.

The pallet bed is ready - it really is incredibly easy.

Transformer design

Furniture that can be transformed or assembled becomes a salvation for small apartments. The situation is similar with beds, especially for children. To avoid curvature of the spine and the occurrence of other ailments, it is not advisable to put the child to sleep on sofas, and the sleeping place in its usual form is of little functionality and cannot be used for any other purpose.

Modified furniture costs incredible amounts of money and is beyond the means of many. You can make a transformable bed with your own hands. Its design is a little more complicated, but also quite feasible.

All accessories for the mechanism are sold in specialized stores.

The main elements of such a children's bed: a fixed base, firmly fixed to the wall, and a movable sleeping place on hinges with a mattress.

The base is usually made in the form of a cabinet.

The lifting part should be extremely light. You can use a ready-made orthopedic frame with attached sides made of a suitable material (plywood is successful in this case).
In addition, you will need legs to establish the movable part in the unfolded state. They can be styled as miniature cabinet doors.

You can make a transformer for a teenager with your own hands, and the free space in the room will be useful for placing, for example, soft bags for sitting.

Ideas for creating children's beds

A do-it-yourself teenage bed, as well as a sleeping bed for younger children, can also be made in the form of a retractable structure. The basis can be a podium with a desk and other necessary pieces of furniture placed on it.

Podium in the nursery - ideas for doing it yourself

From the first days, you want to surround your child with everything that is best, safe, reliable, and most importantly, something that will serve faithfully for many years until the baby grows up.For this purpose, as a rule, they choose natural materials that are not capable of laying a “mine” for future oncological diseases, thereby protecting the child from the first days.

Parents always want their children to grow up in a healthy atmosphere.

A crib is a baby's first fortress. It is there that he sleeps, enjoys life, begins to explore the world, studying everything that surrounds him.But how can you be sure that the coating and materials of the baby bed are safe? Only by making it with your own hands.

It is very important to protect the fragile body from the harmful influences of the external environment.

Smart dads who have their hands in place know very well- You can only be confident in something when you have tried it and done it yourself. This is the main advantage of the product. Why is that? Let's do a little comparison.

If you have certain skills, you can make a bed with your own hands.

Design and construction of a baby crib

The appearance of a child’s bed determines the comfort of the room, how the child will like it, its comfort and rational distribution of living space.

Thus, design and construction are interrelated.

We all want something original and unusual, unusual for everyday life. But let's be realistic. Why complicate life with an elaborate design of a children's bed in the shape of a car, airplane, baby elephant or steamship, if they are difficult to make? Moreover, what if there is no specialized tool such as a surface planer, CNC router, band saw, etc.? By choosing such a design, you can ruin all the wood without achieving what you want.

Let's focus on a classic crib without frills and tricks, which, although difficult, is quite possible to make from solid wood with your own hands.

The best material for a children's bed is solid wood

Wood is the most preferred material, has no contraindications, is absolutely inert. While chipboard, fibreboard, OSB, MDF and plywood contain fillers that have a detrimental effect on the body and also do not tolerate mechanical stress well.

Wooden furniture is always a noble, natural and cozy accent in the interior.

The main feature of all of the listed materials that negatively affects their use is the presence of formaldehyde, a chemical compound used in medicine for disinfection.As you can see, it’s not without reason that we recommend choosing solid wood. A prerequisite is that it is well dried. Do not use damp boards; if you look back, you will not have time: the structure will fall apart, the material will crack and twist. It is optimal if the wood dried on racks for three to four years, in a shaded place, protected from moisture.

But if there is no such thing, then machine-dried wood will do.

In addition to the boards you will need:

• Self-tapping screws, bolts (for fastening parts);
• Metal corners (will give additional rigidity to corner joints);
• Beams, slats (for a mattress stand);
• Lamels are flexible planks 15-20 mm thick, made of hard wood (oak, acacia).

Before you begin a crib making project, you need to purchase materials.

Tools - a reliable assistant to the master

The complexity of the work depends not only on the design of the product and materials, but also on the availability of tools. Having a real carpentry workshop in your arsenal, you can easily make any product. But what if there is nothing except a garage and a workbench? Can I start working?

No problem! Every man has everything he needs. And we need:

• Drill, with a set of wood drills;
• Planer for cleaning wooden blanks;
• Hacksaw for cutting;
• Set of files for grooves.

A necessary set of tools, without which the entire work project would be impossible.

Having a manual milling machine will greatly facilitate the work of assembling a crib, but if you don’t have one, we’ll make do with the above.

Using a hand router makes the job easier.

Some features of joinery

To make the furniture reliable, special joinery joints are used in its manufacture. Unlike conventional nail or self-tapping fasteners, such fasteners are more resistant to loosening, do not “fall apart,” and are resistant to mechanical damage.

The main task of choosing a connection method is decorativeness, the desire to make it beautiful and invisible.

Such a connection consists of a blind or through groove and a shank that fits freely into the groove. They are fastened with wood glue. The size of each groove and shank is selected individually, based on the thickness of the wooden workpiece (slats, beams, boards).

When such a connection is made taking into account the arrangement of wood fibers and its texture, it gives the impression that the product is made from a single piece of wood.

First, mark the boundaries of the groove or shank with a pencil. Then an incision of the required depth for the shank is made with a hacksaw, and the groove is drilled out with a drill. Use a chisel to remove excess wood. The edges of the product are smoothed with needle files.If you have a router, set the cutting depth and mill the necessary parts. In addition, using the copying ring that comes with the machine, you can easily make grooves of the desired size.

Making a baby crib with your own hands

1. We decide on the dimensions of the product. You need to start from the dimensions of the mattress on which the child will sleep. We take the standard size - 1200x600 mm.
   

   

   The frame of the crib consists of the backrests and the base itself, on which the mattress will later be laid.

2. The lower part of the crib is determined so as not to interfere with the child getting onto the bed. For children from 4 to 6 years old it is 35 cm.
   

   

   Bed foot board diagram.

3. Surface treatment. It is necessary to manufacture the parts of the product, bringing them to the same size. The supporting frame will be a beam cut into 6 identical pieces with 25 mm grooves attached to secure the lamellas.
   

   

   The base of the bed will be 4 boards 35 mm thick and 7 mm wide.

4. We calculate the calculation of the backrest. To do this, add the thickness of the board to the width of the bed. If there are railings, we make an allowance of 25 mm, taking into account their volume.
   

   

   Children's bed headboard diagram.

5. The rods for the backrest are made from 20x20 mm slats. For fastening at the ends we make a spiked connection.
   

   

   Decorative headboard with legs for a children's bed.

6. We assemble the frame. Boards and bed bases are connected to each other using shanks and grooves. For reliability, we strengthen the corners with metal corners, screwing them with bolts or self-tapping screws.
   

   

   The holes should have the same depth, which is equal to half the length of this piece of wood.

7. We attach the base of the mattress to the bed frame using spiked joints.
   

   

   Before assembling the bed, you need to check the parts for chips and various defects.

8. We insert the slats into the prepared grooves on the base of the mattress.
   

   

   You should not save money if there are few of them, in the future they will quickly break.

9. We attach the sides and back to the frame.
   

   

   After assembly, we clean the surface and varnish it at least three times.

Note! All tenon joints are secured using wood glue. Under its influence, the tree not only holds together, but also swells, securely fixing inside the groove.

Crib house - a cozy fairy tale

We all remember the unique feeling and mystery of huts made from blankets. So why not pamper your baby and improve his crib by “building” his own house for him, in which he can sleep so comfortably?

To do this, during the manufacture of the back of the crib, we will make some adjustments.

Namely, by making the railings a little larger, first cutting off their tops at an angle of 75 0 using a hacksaw or miter saw.We attach the bases of the “roof” of our house to them. It is better to secure the connection with tenons, but given the complexity of such a product, self-tapping screws are also suitable, the main thing is- don't forget to glue it.

The last step will be to attach the ridge beam, which will connect the base of the frame of our “house”.

Thus, the baby will receive a personal “fairy tale” made by the caring hands of his father, and the blanket thrown by his mother will serve as a reliable roof.

Put maximum effort, care and love into your product, and such a bed will give your child good dreams, and you – joy and satisfaction from the work done.

Of course, what we have described does not reflect all the subtleties of the process of making a children’s bed with your own hands. During your work, you will encounter many obstacles, and you will have to figure out the nuances more than once. However, we hope that the instructions for making simple furniture that can increase paternal authority to a new level will be useful to both the young father and the head of a family with many children.

VIDEO: DIY bed-house.

Parents always try to surround their children from the first days with only the best, environmentally friendly and safe things. When arranging a child's room, it is worth paying special attention to the resting place.

The bed in the nursery should not only be beautiful and comfortable, but also as safe as possible. It is not recommended to use materials that release toxins and harmful substances. The ideal option would be to install a bed made of natural solid wood.. But, unfortunately, such products in furniture stores are quite expensive. Therefore, an alternative to buying a finished product is to make your own bed.

Making a children's bed out of it is not so difficult. The main thing is to know the sequence of all the work being carried out, select consumables and tools, and stock up on free time.

A children's bed is a place where your baby will sleep, relax, and watch TV. Most children love to play, read and even draw on the bed. But how can you be sure that the baby bed is really safe, high-quality and comfortable?

You can be sure of this only if you do it yourself. If you want to do something original and unusual, look for interesting options for children's beds on the Internet. After all, with your own hands you can make not just standard types of structures, but also beds in the form of cars, fairytale castles, carriages, buses.

But keep in mind, to make such a bed you need to know the basics of carpentry and be able to work with wood. For such exclusive products you will need a special machine, band saw, milling machine, jigsaw and other power tools. If you do not know how to work with wood, and you do not have sufficient experience in this area, it is better to start with a simpler model. An excellent option would be a bed with a footboard and headboard, located on 4 legs. If you equip such a bed with drawers, you will have a place to store bedding or children's toys.

Advice: If the children's room is small, then it is better to build a piece of furniture that will serve as a playpen during the day and as a spacious sleeping place at night.

Benefits of DIY

The benefits of self-production with your own hands it is worth attributing:

The ideal children's bed should:

• be made from safe and natural materials;
• be durable and reliable;
• have an orthopedic effect;
• be made without sharp corners and dangerous elements;
• match the height and weight of the child;
• differ in functionality.

Drawing

Before making a children's bed, it is worth considering its design, dimensions, and design features. All this must be included in the drawing in order to avoid mistakes in the process of manufacturing a piece of furniture. The drawing must indicate everything down to the smallest detail.: places of fastening of elements, exact dimensions of each individual part.

Reference: The standard dimensions of a sleeping place for a child are 120 cm by 60 cm.

Tools

After drawing up the drawing, you need to purchase materials for making furniture and tools. Concerning materials, then it is better to give preference to a solid array. To make your own baby bed you will need:

From tools you will need to prepare:

• drill;
• electric jigsaw;
• Sander.

How to make a wooden bed?

Before you begin the process of manufacturing parts, you need to prepare the room. If you are making furniture in a living room, pre-cover the floor and furniture with film. Since during the work there will be a lot of dust from wood shavings.

Important: in order for the furniture to be truly reliable and durable, it is necessary to use special groove-to-groove carpentry joints during its assembly. The dimensions of the groove are selected individually based on the thickness of the timber, board or slats. Such products will resist mechanical stress well.

Any children's bed should consist of the following elements:

• frame;
• sidewalls;
• slats;
• backrest;
• legs

The frame should be made from well-planed wood. Slats can be purchased ready-made at a furniture store, or made independently from birch or pine. Placed on the base of the lamellas at a distance of 5 cm from each other. Sidewalls on a child's bed are required for safety reasons. That is, if your baby twists and turns in his sleep, then their presence will prevent him from falling out of bed during sleep.

The manufacture of a children's bed is carried out in the following sequence:

Important: During assembly of the product, all screws must be screwed deeply into the product. Then they can be puttied or closed with special plastic plugs.

Finishing

After manufacturing and assembling the crib, all cracks and joints must be treated with wood putty. Next, the product is carefully sanded and polished, and wiped off dust with a brush.

To extend the life of a children's bed, it must be varnished. And if you want to change its color scheme, before applying varnish, paint the product with stain.

To give a girl’s bed a decorative look, you can make carvings, apply decoupage, or use painting techniques. To highlight the design of the room, you can paint the product in an interesting color scheme.

Photo

By showing ingenuity and ingenuity, you can make a real masterpiece:

Useful video

The step-by-step manufacturing process can be seen in the following video:

Conclusion

In conclusion, it is worth noting that with imagination and minimal skills, you can make an original and exclusive bed for your child for any age, from a cradle to a bed for teenagers. It doesn’t matter what kind of furniture you are going to make, the main thing is to remember that it will be intended for your child. Therefore, this task should be taken with full responsibility.

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The modern market offers a sufficient selection of children's furniture, including cribs.

A child will be able to sleep in his crib for a maximum of four years, then he will have to change it to a more adult-sized version. And the price of furniture is not cheap at all, so there is an option to make a comfortable crib with your own hands. It's not as difficult as it seems at first glance!

It is not at all necessary to be a professional in this field and spend a lot of time on assembly.

The first thing you need to do is purchase exclusively high-quality environmentally friendly materials and take this issue seriously, considering the entire upcoming process.

The photo of a do-it-yourself crib shows how to make one for a five-year-old child, but all of the specified parameters can be increased to a larger size.

The benefits of a self-made bed

When you go to a furniture store, you can find a lot of options for children's beds made of various materials (plastic, fiberboard, chipboard, wood). The best material is, of course, wood, which provides safety, durability and is the most durable option.

A finished wooden crib is quite expensive. Not every family can afford such costs, especially since it will only last a few years.

The cost of a hand-made design will be several times less and has the following positive aspects:

• reliability in use of the design. Children often love to play and jump on the bed, and you won’t have to worry that it will break under the load;
• You can make a strictly individual bed. Which will suit the style and interior of the children's room and has individual sizes;
• The creation process will help you spend time with interest with your child, who will probably not refuse to help his parents.

Purchasing the necessary material and preparing tools

To begin with, you should carefully prepare the room in which the planned process will take place. If it will take place directly in the room, it is wise to cover the floor and furniture with film, since a lot of dust and sawdust will appear during the work.

Then you need to competently prepare an exact drawing of a crib for a newborn with your own hands, or find a suitable sketch on the Internet.

You will need a number of materials:

• self-tapping screws of different diameters;
• wooden panels for furniture;
• special wheels with which the drawers will be pulled out;
• a sheet of plywood or a metal grid for the base of the bed;
• sandpaper for processing cuts.

The set of tools is absolutely minimal: an electric jigsaw, an angle grinder and a regular drill.

It is important to first, before drawing up the drawing, measure the mattress that will be placed in the crib, since later it will be more difficult to choose the right size!

Step-by-step making of a baby crib with your own hands

Having decided on the size and design of the children's bed, you can begin the actual work:

• All necessary markings are carefully applied with a pencil, not forgetting about the edges.
• Then, using a jigsaw, you need to carefully cut out all the parts.
• It is necessary to cut the metal corners of the required size, immediately drilling holes in them (maximum five), into which self-tapping screws will be mounted in the future.
• To make the base of the mattress, you need to screw the corners to the bottom of the sides.
• Having conveniently placed the crib on its side, you need to assemble all the necessary parts.
• Use sandpaper to smooth out possible irregularities and sharp corners.
• At the bottom of the furniture there are spacious drawers.
• It is wise to coat the crib with varnish or a similar coating, which will give it an aesthetic appearance.
• The final stage: place the mattress on the bottom of the bed and spread the bed linen.

Accessories for baby's bed

A crib for a small family member must be equipped with sides that will serve as protection for the baby. It’s very easy and fun to sew the sides of a crib with your own hands.

Their most popular type is the option that protects all four sides and is secured with regular ties.

Note!

When choosing fabric for children's bumpers, you should opt for lightweight materials with not too “pretentious” patterns, since the baby will have to study the patterns around him for quite a long time.

A cape over the crib protects the child from insects and possible drafts. It is also possible to make an original canopy for a crib with your own hands by choosing the right fabric.

It is better to buy two different cuts (quite wide for allowance) of natural material: weightless, light, summer fabric and a denser one for winter. First, you need to purchase a frame that attaches to the bed. Then draw a pattern according to size, cut out the parts and sew them in the right places.

With imagination and minimal skills, you can make an original, unique crib that will faithfully serve and delight both you and your baby for several years!

DIY crib photo

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I can't help but rejoice at how quickly our children are growing up. So my daredevil has grown to four years old and no longer fits into his crib, which is one meter and twenty centimeters long. What kind of “pull-ups” are there now?!

This is what should happen.

My wife and I looked around several furniture centers in search of a new crib. However, we came to the conclusion that we would make it ourselves, since not a single model met our requirements:

• Exceptional solid wood, without MDF and chipboard, in extreme cases, use plywood. Personally, I even have some kind of genetic distrust towards super-ecological imported chipboards;
• Mandatory presence on the crib to prevent the child from falling (well, at least small ones);
• The dimensions of the baby bed must be no less than 160x70 cm and no more than 190x80 cm (the dimensions are determined by us taking into account the space allocated for the crib and common sense);
• The bottom of the crib should be equipped with spacious drawers (since in a one-room apartment you have to fight for the rational use of every square centimeter);
• If available, the price of a bed should not exceed twenty thousand rubles (a personal amount allocated for these purposes from the family budget).

For a long time we looked closely at all kinds of folding sofas, cribs, and discussed options with a sofa. But they couldn’t decide on a purchase: either the presence of chipboard, or the lack of sides, non-removable mattresses, tiny drawers, or “exorbitant” prices.

I eventually went to a hardware store and purchased the following tools and materials from the list:

• furniture panels;
• aluminum corners;
• different-sized screws;
• wheels for drawers;
• drills and other household items.

This purchase cost me 8,500 rubles. For another 7,500, I also purchased a lattice base from an online store for 1,600 rubles (although I could have gotten by with a sheet of plywood). Total expenses amounted to: 17,600 rubles.

Here they are, my initial materials. The size of the mattress and lattice base is 180x80 cm. There will be a royal bed for my tomboy!

I'm making markings.

I use a jigsaw to cut the designated areas, although maintaining a perfect straight cutting line is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. I sealed the cut areas with paper tape so that the fibers would not lift up as much (I read about this on specialized websites).

To my great surprise, the tape tends to run out quickly. Therefore, we had to work further without it, the main thing in this matter is not to saw the stool!

To draw complex shapes, I actively used available tools. I came up with a recess in the front side so that my son could climb into the crib himself. And it wouldn’t hurt for me to take a break on it!

This is what happened, although before cutting it was a monolithic shield measuring 200x60x2.8 cm.

I made the holes and didn’t forget the rivet (it will be hidden under the head of the screw).

This is the inside of the front side, and this corner will be where the base of the mattress will be. To begin with, I installed it on 4 self-tapping screws, but after thinking about it, I added four more for greater reliability. Fortunately, I bought self-tapping screws with a reserve!

He carefully laid the structure on its side, fearing that it might accidentally crumble at any moment. I carefully drill holes and fasten the panels together. Your own eye and a perfectly made mattress lattice are responsible for the straightness of the corners!

I fasten it with furniture ties, for which I prudently purchased a special drill, which saves a lot of time.

The first hole for the screed.

The first screed itself.

This is the result after all the twisting and fastening work is completed - an excellent, solid bed base!

I installed the bed in a specially designated place and laid out the mattress. I placed a panel at the bottom of the crib so it wouldn’t get in the way, and left everything as is for a while, since I can only afford to do construction and household chores on weekends. Our son had to sleep in an unfinished crib for a whole week, and during this time some flaws in the design became clear.

It turned out that sleeping without a headboard is not entirely comfortable, or rather very uncomfortable:

• in a dream, the child tosses and turns and, raising his head above the pillow, can accidentally catch the side, since its height is only 10 cm;
• a child can easily throw a pillow over the low side;
• the absence of a headboard means a lack of comfort; as soon as I lay down, I was immediately convinced of this.

It’s not pleasant when you contemplate bumps or bruises on your child’s head. I went to the store and bought two more small furniture panels to assemble the headboard. I sawed them as follows: for the back - one large sheet and two smaller ones - for the sides (the smallest one in the photo is just a trim).

This is me in a creative search to decide on the design and shape of the future headboard.

For symmetry, I cut out another part according to the shape of the back of the headboard.

According to Wikipedia information, emery (grinding) abrasive material is intended for processing surfaces of various compositions (wood, glass, metal, plastic). Oh, I had a lot of trouble with this abrasive material!

I cut out a window in one of the sidewalls, which will serve more of a technical function than a decorative one. So I'm going to make an attachment to the side of the crib.

I make cuts in the bathroom. My wife (I give her a lot of credit for being patient) had to put up with a thick layer of fragrant spruce dust on all the toiletries.

To draw curves and bends, I again used all kinds of available tools.

It is very important to follow exactly the intended cutting line and not deviate even a millimeter from the course.

I twist, fasten, tighten, adjust

Since it is not possible to use a drill from inside the window, I had to drill a hole from the bottom up. I made the place for the head of the furniture tie by hand (lucky that spruce is a fairly pliable wood).

While creating graphic ovals, I felt a tremendous sense of satisfaction from my own artistic achievements, but after cutting, my masterpiece ceased to be an elegant, presentable design. But the ovals served their functional purpose very well, and the child enjoys looking at them before bed. He even uses them in his new fun: he covers himself with a blanket along with the headboard and, with the feeling of creating a personal reservation, waves to us through the side windows.

At this stage, construction work had to be postponed again until the following weekend.

The long-awaited weekend has arrived, and we are starting to make legs for the crib and assemble drawers. To do this, I needed a scrap about 20 cm wide from the end panel.

My imagination told me to make legs like this.

It is necessary to file the corners to the legs.

This is exactly how I originally envisioned attaching the legs to the crib base.

Our consciousness sometimes leads us into the wonderful world of mysteries and secrets (and it just frolicked over me)! I still can’t find intelligible answers to the question: “Why did I decide to attach the legs of the bed in such a bizarre way?” This whole process could have ended with the elementary use of long self-tapping screws. But, apparently, at that moment I did not want to take a shortcut to achieving my goal.

Now it’s time to use the part of the front side frame that was simply temporarily attached to the bed. From 12mm plywood I cut the bottoms and sides for two drawers. For clarity, I somehow put this whole structure together.

Our bathroom has undergone a makeover again, this time with a decorative coating of aluminum dust (the wood dust was heroically eliminated by my other half within a week).

I twist and fasten.

I install wheels with a diameter of 4.5 cm.

The fitting process without facades. We make sure that rotation occurs without any difficulty, even in the presence of a heavy load.

We complete the work by hanging the facades.

Sweet dreams, my baby!

P.S. The entire process of assembling and installing a crib will take you only a few days (in my case, three Saturdays). Advice for those who decide to follow my example:

• if possible, carry out construction and installation work outside the house (at the dacha, in the garage), since it is very difficult to get rid of traces of three-layer dust (wood, aluminum and emery);
• think and plan carefully first, then do (unlike my sequence);
• Order cutting of plywood and panels directly in the store, having previously indicated the exact sizes and shapes.