A product made by you is much more valuable. If you have a child at home, then the pressing question is how to make a children's table with your own hands. After all, the finished product will be much more expensive.
Thanks to practical recommendations and expert advice, you can create a really high-quality, easy-to-make table. For this, different materials are used, the most common option being wood.
What materials can it be made from?
Depending on the purpose of the children's product, it can be made from:
- Natural solid wood.
- Plywood.
- Chipboard or MDF boards.
Also, foam rubber sheets, dermantin, oilcloth or thick fabric can be used as additional materials. High chairs for feeding babies are especially often covered with such fabric or oilcloth fabrics.
Sometimes children's furniture is covered with additional materials.
Naturally, it is better to create children's furniture from more expensive materials, the quality of which is higher. This is definitely a tree, and a hard one at that. But softer types of wood, such as pine, for example, are also suitable for a high chair and table for a child.
It is best to make children's furniture from natural wood.
But various other types of materials can be used along with them. Although, in this regard, there is an important recommendation - to take only those that can be checked for quality from the manufacturer itself. Only these have a standard certificate indicating that the materials do not emit toxic substances. Otherwise, during operation, toxic elements will constantly be released into the room, which will negatively affect the baby’s health.
Care should be taken to ensure that other materials do not release toxic substances.
Always remember that the cheaper the material, the higher the chances that it is of poor quality.
Tools
Tools you will need :
- jigsaw;
- drill;
- hacksaw;
- chisel;
- screwdriver;
- hammer;
- drill.
If you are planning to make a complex model of a table, also prepare:
- milling machine;
- sander;
- clamps.
As for materials , you need to stock up on:
- lumber;
- bolts, nuts, washers;
- self-tapping screws;
- furniture glue;
- dowels;
- paint and brushes;
- liquid nails;
- varnish;
- tape measure;
- pencil;
- building level.
Drawings and diagrams of a high chair with a table
Before you start making furniture products yourself, you need to prepare a detailed drawing, which should include all dimensions. A short diagram will not work in this case - only experienced carpenters can make a wooden chair and table using it.
For everyone else, before making a children's table and table with your own hands, you must either select detailed drawings or complete them yourself, taking into account the anthropometric data of the dimensions of the child's body, taking into account age.
Assembly instructions
- The photo shows the dimensions. Details of Guillaume's desk with dimensions We mark the main details of the future school furniture on the panels. You can cut them yourself, or you can turn to professionals. The thickness of all parts is the same - 30 millimeters.
- We cut out the parts with a jigsaw.
We process the ends of the workpieces with sandpaper to get rid of sharp edges and burrs. - Now let's create a magnetic board. Apply masking tape along the edges of the proposed board.
- Prime the surface with an adhesive primer. The primer must be stirred before application. To apply the mixture evenly, a short-haired roller is best.
- Let's go over the dried primer with sandpaper for sanding.
- Using a damp cloth, remove accumulated dust and wait until the primer dries completely.
- After five hours we apply paint with magnetic properties. It also needs to be stirred before application. Apply it with a roller, stirring occasionally while working. Magnetic paint is applied in three layers, each drying time is 24 hours; applying a new layer before the previous one has completely dried is not recommended. Try to achieve maximum smoothness. To do this, use a short-nap roller and a paint spatula.
- After the third layer has completely dried, apply decorative paint for school boards. In modern stores you can find any color. Mix the paint and apply it to the surface with a short-nap roller. Wait six hours for the first coat to dry and apply the second. Lightly move the roller in one direction to even out the paint.
- Now we assemble the cut out parts of the home table together. Using self-tapping screws, we secure the table stand supports to the bottom panel (numbers 3, 4 and 5 in the diagram).
- We fix the stand and install the table cover holders (numbers 2, 7 and 8 in the diagram).
- We put the table cover on the stand.
- We assemble the chair by connecting the seat to the chair post (numbers 9 and 11 in the diagram).
- Next, we attach the stand with the seat to the bottom panel of the chair using a support (numbers 6 and 10 in the diagram).
What size should it be?
It is important to remember that a children's furniture set must meet the following conditions:
- Be completely safe - therefore, you need to attach the elements securely, avoid sharp corners and rough surfaces.
- The child should be able to sit comfortably at the table and table. It is important to consider that changing body size will require changing the design after a certain period of time.
Children's furniture should be comfortable and safe.
In this connection, an essential subtlety in making the right homemade furniture is maintaining certain dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the child’s body at a certain age.
So, you should listen to the following instructions:
- For a child whose height has reached 1 m, the height of the chair should be 26 cm, and the height of the table top should be 46 cm. As a rule, these parameters are suitable for a child aged 3 to 5 years.
- The second height group, when height ranges from 115 to 130 cm, the height of the seat of a chair or stool should be 40 cm, and the height of the table 52 cm.
- If we talk about a high chair, then in this case the height will depend on the surface to which it will be installed.
Most often, this parameter has a value in the range from 350 mm to 527 mm. Everything will depend on the design option. At the same time, a perfect modern high chair should not only have the correct overall dimensions, but also be completely safe. Among its elements there should be a folding small table; it is quite problematic to do without it when feeding. Therefore, it is worth thinking about it immediately.
It is important to understand from the presented dimensions that you will have to remake children's furniture every 2 years. This is due to the rapid growth of the child.
The only way to avoid this is to make transformable furniture, which will adapt to the growing size of the child over a longer period of time.
Transformable furniture can be changed to suit the parameters of a growing child.
Choice of color and decor
An important factor is the selection of the right design and color scheme. Here, first of all, pay attention to:
- Gender of the child – for a girl, light shades of warm colors are suitable. A selection of pastel colors will help determine the final result.
- For boys, you should prefer cool shades or warm colors of greenery.
As for the design itself, the choice of ideas here is small. Most often they choose from two types:
- Classic design - it is often a wooden product constructed from individual beams and slats that have linear shapes or carved elements.
- Modern types of products - in this case, a stool, table or chair should have a unique appearance that will be more unusual. True, to make it you will most likely have to resort to more complex templates.
To choose the right model, it is worth considering a selection of children's products.
Table manufacturing process
In order not to make a mistake when making a table, you should follow a certain plan:
- First, a review of existing structures is carried out. This is done with one main goal - to choose the most suitable product in terms of shape and functionality.
- Then, in accordance with the available dimensions and drawings, purchase the necessary materials.
- Prepare the necessary tools - a saw, a hammer, a plane, self-tapping screws, screws, angles for fastening perpendicular elements, as well as a number of measuring tools.
- Then make blanks in accordance with the existing dimensions of the drawing.
- Process them, first with a plane, then sand them so that they become as smooth as possible if the structure is made of solid wooden beams.
- Then fasten the elements together in accordance with the chosen pattern. It should be remembered that fixation must be carried out simultaneously with glue and self-tapping screws to ensure reliable fixation.
Thus, to make a table and a children's high chair with your own hands - drawings, dimensions, diagrams - are indispensable when working. Further, it will only be a matter of quality and thoroughness of development.
Decoupage
After making and assembling a table with your own hands for a schoolchild, it needs to be decorated . You can do this using:
- coatings with paints and varnishes;
- installing countertops in contrasting shades;
- pasting self-adhesive film;
- decoupage with napkins or wallpaper.
Important : using the decoupage technique you can decorate not only a new piece of furniture, but also an old desk. For decoupage you can use: napkins, wallpaper, drawings, ornaments and pictures.
To give your table an attractive look using decoupage you will need:
- sanding machine or coarse sandpaper;
- brushes for varnish and paint;
- PVA glue;
- acrylic lacquer;
- materials for pasting.
The workflow itself consists of the following sequence:
- Degrease the surface to be treated.
- Cover the table with primer .
- If we are decorating an old table, we cover all its surfaces with the selected tone of paint in two layers. We are waiting for it to dry completely.
- Using glue, we attach the selected pictures and ornaments.
- We cover the product with acrylic varnish . This will keep the table looking attractive for a long time.
Tip : The decoupage technique can also be useful when decorating a laptop table, sand painting, or even a coffee table.
