Crib transformer do-it-yourself. Round bed transformer for children: types, equipment, methods of transformation

In the world modern technologies, when in small area I want to place everything acquired in the apartment, transformer beds are beginning to be popular. Consider how to make a transforming bed in step by step lesson with your own hands.

We make an unusual transforming bed with our own hands: types of beds

Bed transformer is great solution when you need to combine several interior items into one design. This model is especially popular in small apartments. There are several basic options for transforming the bed: wardrobe, desk, chest of drawers, sofa.

Everyone chooses the model that fully satisfies his requirements. The principle of operation of the bed is based on the similarity of the sofa mechanism: with the help of special fasteners, fixation in a certain position is possible.

The most common model is the bed-wardrobe. Depending on the position of the bed when folded, two types of this furniture can be distinguished: horizontal and vertical.

The closet f of this design can be real or imitation. The main components of this type of bed: a box, a berth, which can be single and double, a lifting mechanism.

You can also make a bed-wardrobe with your own hands, if you have one. necessary material and tools.

Before starting work, make sure you have complete list necessary tools, of which there will be a sufficient number: a level, a square, a jigsaw (preferably electric) with a saw for wood, a screwdriver, a tape measure and a pencil, an electric drill with drills, a puncher and pliers.

The first thing that will be in demand at the beginning of work is drawings. They are performed independently, adhering to certain principles:

• The type of transformation is carefully thought out. The sketch shows the furniture in a general view and sets dimensions
• According to the created sketch, a general drawing is made, in which all the details are displayed
• Each detail is considered and drawn separately, indicating all dimensions. When performing this paragraph, the width of the material used should also be taken into account.
• The joints of the parts are carefully calculated, while taking into account the thickness of the PVC tape for pasting the edges
• All construction details must be more than 5cm

The very first step in the manufacture of a transformer will be the purchase or manufacture on their own grounds. Before starting work, you need to buy a mattress that will set the size of the bed. To make a base with your own hands, you will need a plate laminated chipboard. The required details are cut out of it. In a vertical bed, the base is also the facade of the cabinet, so it can be made from fragments that differ in texture and color.

It is not recommended to cut chipboard at home, so it is better to contact specialized enterprises. If you still have to trim some parts, then in order to avoid chips, you need to use a jigsaw at maximum speed.

You should buy shock-absorbing bent special plates, which are called "lamellas", with them they also buy a frame of the appropriate size. All this is assembled together and installed on the bars.

Then a sleeping place is assembled with a screwdriver and a confirmation, which is hidden under a plastic plug. Corners in work should be used iron, which guarantee durability and strength. A 4cm x 4cm beam is attached to the side walls of the bed, which is a support for the lamella structure.

The next step is to secure the mattresses and fasteners that will not allow the bed to open spontaneously.

The wall to which the structure will be attached must be durable. After that, you can assemble the box, which, if desired, can be equipped with additional shelves. Then we give preference to one of the types lifting mechanism: purchased, from garage curtains or with an electric drive. The hinge is attached to the bed and the box, after which the lifting mechanism is checked, the function of which is to easily lift the bed and fix it in one position.

You will also need shock absorbers and a system of counterweights, which should be carefully selected. The base of the cabinet is attached to the wall, the bed rises, and the facade at this time is decorated with various fittings and elements. You can safely use an interior element made by yourself. The photo clearly demonstrates one of the wardrobe-bed decor options:

By the same principle, the process of making a bed-table and other variations takes place. It differs from an adult bed of a transformer a children's bed of a transformer because it is not built-in. On the contrary, all elements are built into its design.
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Transforming into other pieces of furniture, they are in demand due to the ability to save space in the room. For example, a wardrobe bed allows you to free up space in the room during the day and relax comfortably at night.

Alternatively, you can do something similar with your own hands without special skills and specific equipment. This is the easiest option for self-design.

To make a folding transforming bed with your own hands, you will need a folding mechanism with shock absorbers, which allows you to press the bed against the wall and disguise it as a regular wardrobe. As well as the following materials with tools:

• plywood sheets;
• confirmations and key;
• metal furniture corners;
• screwdriver with nozzles and self-tapping screws;
• level, square;
• orthopedic base with lamellas;
• furniture handles;
• facade doors.

1. MDF is purchased and the necessary details are cut out. Then you need to assemble the frame for the cabinet. Its prepared parts are laid out, holes are drilled on the long sides for the folding mechanism.
2. Parts of the furniture will be pulled together by confirmations. To do this, holes are pre-drilled in the right places. Confirmat is screwed with a screwdriver or a special key. His hat is closed with a plastic cap.
3. On the upper part cabinet is attached plywood stop.

4. In the middle of the structure, a beam is fixed to strengthen the frame. The bottom stop made of plywood is fixed to it.
5. The next step is to mount the folding bed. The corners fasten the side rails of the bed with its lower and upper slats. it important point assembly - in these places the bed experiences heavy loads during operation.

6. Under the dimensions of the bed, you need to purchase a base with curved slats. An orthopedic base is inserted and attached to the sidewalls with self-tapping screws.

7. The leg of the bed is assembled and attached to the base.
8. Improvised doors are used as the facade of the cabinet. They can be decorated at will even with mirrors. Sleeping place attached to facade panels using small metal corners for strength.
9. A folding mechanism is attached to the side boards of the base. He will lift the frame with the mattress and fix it in a vertical position.
10. The cabinet box is installed in its place, it can be attached to the wall. The bed frame is inserted into the wardrobe.

11. The fixed part of the folding mechanism is attached to the cabinet.
12. Straps are attached to the bed frame. They will hold the mattress in place when the bed is raised to an upright position.

13. Shock absorbers are inserted into the folding mechanism.
14. A handle is attached to the doors, for which the bed will lower to a horizontal position. The cornice of the cabinet is also the leg of the bed. The transformer is ready. In the assembled state, the model fits perfectly into the interior.
15. If desired, you can make a horizontal transforming bed with your own hands. In this case, the bed is built into a lower niche by folding the side.

The compactness and attractiveness of such a bed will be in demand for modern interior in limited space conditions. It is stylish, functional and takes up minimal space.

With the birth of a child, each parent thinks through to the smallest detail any departure of the child outside the apartment. After all, the comfort of the baby is very important, and if the child is comfortable and convenient, then the mother is calm enough. Therefore, before taking the child to the country or home to friends, you should think about what the baby will sleep on. For greater convenience of the baby, a portable oval crib is suitable - a transformer, which is easy and simple to do with your own hands.

We take an environmentally friendly fabric that will not cause irritation in a sensitive baby. Preferably cotton or denser satin, lay it out on the table and mark the contours of the future bed.

We sew the fabric on a typewriter, carefully processing the seams, trying to avoid coarse threads or sharpening excess.

Carefully smooth out our future basis under the crib, check the softness of the fabric again to be sure that the baby will not rub anywhere. Sew a piping over the oval and leave it hollow.

We begin to fill the crib with padding polyester, it is not advisable to use cotton wool or similar materials.

We sew the main bed of the baby across so that it is similar to a mattress and creates the effect of an orthopedic bed. With the advent of such a bed in your home, the most the main problem all young parents: how to teach a child to fall asleep on his own in a crib, because in such a transforming cocoon the baby will sleep happily.

Try to flash the couch several times, especially pay attention to the fact that there are equal distances between the “ribs” of the couch mattress.

The transformer bed is ready, but before using it, you must definitely thread a rope or elastic band into a hollow edging so that you can create a cocoon effect for the baby's greater convenience.

Of course, some will say that you can buy a baby crib cheaply and carry it with you as an extra, but such a soft cradle will take much less space and more convenient to use.

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The baby crib should be ready to receive the addition to the family while the mother is preparing for discharge, but not only out of courtesy and joy. Man is a social being, and a stable society is impossible without hierarchy. Having received his territory and things from birth, even if he still does not understand their meaning at all, a small person will gain self-confidence, over time he will correctly determine his place in society and achieve success. This, of course, is not an absolute law, but the statistics clearly show: babies, by the will (or lack of will) of their parents at an unintelligent age, roamed anywhere, are much more likely to grow up carelessly useless. There is even a historical and sociological theory: they say that people began to emerge from savagery and create civilization when they invented the cradle and mothers stopped carrying babies all the time.

All this may be interesting, but in a developed civilization, dad, rushing around shops and websites in happy anticipation, discovers that the prices for cribs for babies are disproportionately high compared to the complexity and material consumption of products. And you can’t dig, a solid medical-environmental-production-legislative basis has been put under each hidden cheat. And then how about in a consumer society, and let parents do not regret anything for their child.

Let's say the head of the family is a craftsman. Then he gets the idea to make the crib himself: its design has developed over thousands of years, there is nothing complicated in it, and nothing is required of the material. It is possible to make a crib for a baby with your own hands, using the usual household tools and plus a jigsaw, manual or, better, electric. There is another reason: after giving birth, the mother, especially if it is the first-born, will be “on edge”. Convinced that the faithful in her absence did not go on and on, but diligently worked in his field for the sake of the family good, she would calm down much faster and generally return to normal. And there will be more milk, which is again good for the child.

What will we do?

Classic crib for a newborn, pos. 1 in Fig., the design is straightforward. Basic requirements for it:

• Ecological cleanliness and complete medical and sanitary safety.
• No sharp protrusions or edges.
• There should be no holes / openings and slots in which anything can get stuck in a little one, from a finger to a head.
• Mandatory presence of sides; it is known how dangerous it is for babies to fall even from a small height. The front board (wall) is desirable partially folding or lowered, so that it would be more convenient for the mother to take care of the child.
• Ventilated, i.e. slatted or perforated bottom. No matter how improved the means of children's hygiene, the baby will someday make the bed.
• If the newborn is the firstborn and it is supposed to add brothers and sisters to him someday, then sufficient strength and durability in combination with a collapsible design.

Often, for ease of movement around the house, a crib is placed on wheels, pos. 2. In small apartments, you can sometimes find samples with drawers for linen in the under-bed space, as in adults, pos. 3. However, for the reasons stated above, the drawers under the cot must be fitted with moisture-proof lids. Finally, rather complicated and expensive, but convenient for mom and saving living space product - a crib for newborns, combined with a chest of drawers for swaddling, pos. four.

Many babies have to be rocked to sleep. The main types of rocking beds hammock, pos. 5, cradle (with upper bed suspension), pos. 6, and a cradle (with a bed on the lower curved rocking supports), pos. 7. A hammock is suitable only as a temporary rookery, say, in the country on the weekend. The bones of the baby are still soft, and constant reclining on something pliable deforms his skeleton. Cribs for newborns - hammocks are most often made folding and transportable.

The cradle is easy to swing, but it is more difficult to make, because. some kind of mechanism is required. In addition, the risk for the baby to fall out of the cradle, hanging over the side, is much greater than from a hammock or cradle. The latter, in addition, is easier to make, and the small bumpers on the rocking chairs make it completely safe, which is why the cradle is the most common. In the cradle, there must be a bed retainer, and it is highly desirable to have a spring with self-resetting, which must be taken away for motion sickness, otherwise the busy mother may forget to insert it, moving away from the crib. “With self-reset” means that the mechanism itself will put the stock horizontally and drop the pin into the socket if the angle of the cradle exceeds a certain allowable value.

Note: baby cribs can have completely different bumpers, see at the end.

Motion sickness in the transverse direction for a person is not optimal, this is how our vestibular apparatus works. Anyone who has gone to sea in a boat or sailing yacht knows that pitching is much easier to carry onboard. Infants who are constantly rocked sideways may even develop a habit of motion sickness, which is why the obnoxious screamer, growing up, risks turning into a hyperactive stunner or "no" autist. The probability of injuring the baby's psyche by excessive motion sickness is reduced to almost zero if the cradle (pos. 8) or cradle (pos. 9) are adapted to motion sickness in the longitudinal direction.

Recently, pendulum beds, pos. 10, free from the disadvantages of cradles and cradles. Firstly, lateral motion sickness in a pendulum bed is harmless, because. the child's body does not bend with him and his vestibular apparatus experiences a completely negligible load in one plane. Secondly, it is almost impossible for a child to fall out of it, because the crib itself is not tilted. Thirdly, the underbed box can be arranged in a simpler way - access to it is provided automatically. The pendulum mechanism itself is fundamentally simple, pos. 11, you will only need to occasionally adjust the tension of the springs as the child grows.

How not to do it!

In no case should you make a crib for a newborn that can swing in 2 planes, pos. 1 and 2 in fig. Perhaps your offspring, having matured, intends to become a pilot or a parachutist and from the first run will endure with a joyful grin, without turning a bit green, training on loping. But in infancy humpty-dumpty back and forth would not do Valery Chkalov any good either.

Further, it is undesirable to make the bottom of the crib with a too rare crate, pos. 3. When the baby learns to stand up, his legs will crawl into the cracks along with the mattress. A thick mattress pad (see below) solves the problem, but this is extra work, material and costs, and extra dryer replacements. The best bottom for a newborn's bed is made of fiberboard with a thickness of approx. 10 mm with holes with a diameter of 20-30 mm, drilled on a grid with a pitch of 70-90 mm. Suddenly it will completely become unusable, it is easier and cheaper to replace than a mattress pad, and it takes up less spare space. And don't worry, fiberboard is environmentally friendly. pure material, even cleaner than the original wood. In its manufacture, synthetic binders are not used, and during the processing of wood, all volatile substances are “exhaled”.

Note: it is also undesirable to make a height-adjustable bottom in the baby's crib. Nests under its holders are seductive from the point of view of knowledge of the world, and the little finger will climb into them. If without nests, then a rather complex and expensive mechanism is required. And the folding side is enough for mom.

A bad solution is also a playpen, pos. 4. In all beings whose life is divided into an active phase and sleep, the instinct during the latter demands complete security. The combination of the sleeping area with the play area does not give it. What adult is able to sleep sweetly at work? And what about small children who are defenseless and not yet able to realize their surroundings?

About the canopy

A canopy over a newborn's bed is not a luxury. And not so much a remedy for dust, which should not be in the nursery and in general in a well-groomed apartment. But remember, which of the adults was not brought to white heat by an autumn fly or a mosquito itching and itching in the dark? What is it like from them to a baby who still does not own little hands? And it is very, very not necessary to turn on the fumigator or spray repellent in the nursery.

The canopy over the baby's bed is made of freely breathable natural fabric: chiffon, veil (silk or cotton), organza (only silk), muslin. The optimal design is a tent, on the left in the figure, or a tent, in the center, which, if necessary, allows you to completely fold / push back the canopy. But remember: in the process of learning about the environment, the child will pull and pull the canopy.

Purchased children's canopies are equipped with a strong bracket with a paw-holder made of lightweight durable elastic plastic, on the right in fig. At self-manufacturing the best option- a canopy-tent suspended on a cord from the ceiling. Hook-screw M6, screwed into a steel threaded collet, and a strong adult will not pull out of the ceiling, and if you unscrew it, the hole is almost imperceptible on the ceiling only 2.5 m high. except for the lightest fabric and a thin lace, it will not fall off.

Note: best protection on the bed from annoying insects and dust, under which the asthmatic does not out of breath - mosquito net. But not a fiberglass window, but a special tropical one. Its cells are wider than those of dress-drapery airy fabrics and it is stronger. We have a rare product, but still take an interest. Ruffle bows look good on her too.

What to do sides?

Sellers offer a wide variety of protective railings for infant cribs: folding, lowering, swinging, sliding, with doors and manholes. But upon closer examination, it turns out that there is something everywhere in which a finger or a whole pen can be pinched. And the recesses under the overhead parts carefully store the dust and, as it were, invite the settlers themselves. Only undesirable and not of a human kind, but of an arthropod.

The simplest and safest bumpers in the crib of a newborn are folding ones with elastic bands, see fig. The height of the folding part of 150-180 mm is enough to make it convenient for the mother to take care of the child. There are no complaints about such boards, but it is reliably known that at least one new person in this world with a character of envy m-mes Sobtchak & Timoshenko, for 3.5 years she has never been injured and has not broken anything; During this time, the rubber bands were changed 2 times.

Note: 2 ways of laying a folding bar of this type will be discussed below.

Let's get down to business

Now it's time to make the bed. Making it and decorating it is another article (with one small exception, see below); first you need to make a solid and reliable foundation for them. And before that, decide on the material; first of all, for its safety for the baby, then for the price and manufacturability at home.

What to do?

Plastics fall away even the safest: a little grown up, the child begins to touch everything. The tactile sensations from plastic go against his fundamental instincts, which can cause irritability and damage the emerging moral and volitional qualities. For the same reason, we also discard metal, which will also hurt more when the baby starts teething. Then the shortcomings of textile and other semi-soft type of beds will fully affect.

As for chipboard, the emission class of phenol-containing compounds E0 (zero, premium or extra grade), it seems to be applicable for children's furniture. But conscientious manufacturers in the specifications honestly indicate: “For children from 6 months”, therefore, not newborns. In addition, high-quality chipboard is expensive, a bed made from it will cost more than a ready-made purchased one with a canopy. That is, a newborn's bed must be made of wood.

We choose wood for a crib, taking into account the fact that its impregnation with any biocides is unacceptable. Therefore, any business wood of foreign origin is no longer available: consumer supervision simply will not let it go to the market raw. From domestic hardwood species, birch and beech are suitable for a crib for several generations; for single use - cheap aspen or linden, but it is expensive. All the rest contain tannins, salicylates and other substances that are harmless for adults, but can cause allergies in a baby.

From conifers pine is quite reliable, but not every one. Pine wood goes on sale in the form of expensive tar, cut down during sap flow, and cheaper dry chips, harvested in winter. Tar is good for outdoor buildings, because. does not lend itself well to rot and pests, but is absolutely unsuitable for a crib. The rest coniferous trees the change in resin content from sap flow to sleep is not so pronounced, so it's better not to risk it.

In order not to miscalculate with pine, it is better to make a plywood bed out of it. The cheapest construction and packaging plywood is made from dry-chip pine glued together with harmless and safe casein glue. There is no point in "cheating" for manufacturers, because everything else is more expensive. A plywood crib will last with proper care. home training material, see below, 2-3 times for 4-5 years, which is quite enough for a family.

About finishing

Over time, the baby will feel that something is climbing in his mouth with which to bite. And then he starts to chew on everything. This is a natural and necessary process, but once it created serious problems for children's furniture makers: to leave the tree bare - the fibers would be swallowed, or even choke on a chip. Nitrolac is not harmless, and its sharp scales cut lips, gums, tongue.

Now there is no such problem: acrylic lacquer on the water based, firstly, it is completely safe; secondly, it is very durable. Compounds of a similar composition restore the enamel of bathtubs, on which even a seasoned wolf will break his fangs.

Very suspicious parents can still put special silicone pads on the sides of the crib. But you will have to buy them and customize the design to the selected sample: building and aquarium silicone is not suitable for homemade products, you need a special one from which teething toys are made. It is not on sale in its raw form, only in finished products.

Cradle and classic

How a classic wooden crib for newborns is arranged is shown in fig. on right. Pay attention, firstly, to the laying of the sides in the pockets and the prefabricated design of the rocking chairs. We will deal with the first one, and we will use the second one further. Its recommended dimensions and specification of parts in a modern, labor-intensive artistic details, performance, are shown in fig. below.

Cradle

Who knows, perhaps the pediatrician, after looking at your restless baby, will recommend rocking him in the cradle. Child to child is different, and there is no person who would fit into everything in everything. general rules. In such a case, in Fig. drawings of a newborn's bed - cradles from boards. However, it is no longer possible to keep a grown child in a cradle, so you should not increase the length of this crib. Secondly, the latch (stopper) of the bed is still needed, since the baby is restless. In this design, it is manual, so remember to insert as you leave and control each other.

Plywood classic

Here in fig. - detailing of a plywood bed for a newborn of the classic type with a side with elastic bands. It was made at home; jigsaw manual (electrical in wide sale didn't exist then). The wayward person mentioned above grew up in her. Material - 2 sheets (quite a lot left) of birch plywood 6 mm thick; will go and construction pine.

First of all, the plaz was prepared (several pieces of packaging cardboard put together), the contours of the parts were sketched on it, and everything was covered with a solid plastic wrap. Then the plywood sheet on the plaza was impregnated with a water-polymer emulsion, first on one side, and after it had completely dried on the other, and cut into blanks with a hacksaw. With a jigsaw, grooves were cut for the crate in the middle plates of the packages and openings in the backs.

Parts were glued together from plates on PVA for wood (sold and sold in construction and hardware stores). The glue was applied with a brush in a thin layer on all surfaces of the package plates to be glued and kept until soft tack (the glue film turns slightly yellow and becomes translucent in places).

There were no clamps for rallying packages, there was no time to do it. Therefore, small packages were simply wrapped in polyethylene and tightly pulled together with a flat elastic band for underpants; she left a whole skein, approx. 10 m. It was necessary to tighten the packages with an elastic band, winding and pulling the coils very evenly so that the plates do not crawl over the glue. The upper and lower planks of the walls (pos. 1 and 3) nevertheless crawled, so after applying and holding the glue, they had to be knocked down with small nails. The nails were then pulled out, and the holes were smeared with home-made putty from sawdust on the same PVA.

It was more difficult with the backs, you can’t tighten them with rubber bands. Therefore, holes were drilled for assembly guides, which were used as furniture dowels 18 mm long. The gluing of the backs was carried out on the plaza under oppression, to which pancakes from dumbbells and stacks of books went. According to the calculation, for 2 layers of PVA of such an area, oppression of 25-35 kg is needed, evenly distributed over the surface of the package.

Also, from 3 strips of plywood, each part of the support belt was glued together, but it was assembled already in the crib in place. In all details, the adhesive streaks that appeared after drying for 3-4 days were cut off with a safety razor blade (mounting knives did not exist then either) and the edges were skinned.

While the glued packages were drying, the bed frame was assembled from boards cut into half a tree, glued without exposure and reinforced with nails. The squareness of the frame on the glue that had not yet hardened was carefully verified by measuring the sides and diagonals, because. she later served assembly template, and only then were the nails driven in. The flooring of the bed is fiberboard with perforation, see above. It was laid on glue and nails on the side from which the paws of the crossbars were, so that they lay on the longitudinal beams, and did not hang on nails and glue.

Note: the racks of the crate of the backs were made similarly to those of the walls, but shorter. They were laid in place in front of the overlay of the top plate.

A crib was assembled on screws (now, of course, confirmations would be better). The loads on the connections of the baby's crib are small, fastening with threaded hardware along the layer in this case is quite reliable and at the same time allows up to 4-5 disassemblies / assemblies if the plywood is impregnated with a water-polymer emulsion. The squareness of the box was verified with a bed, and its horizontalness with a level. Then marks were made along its bottom, and beams of the supporting belt were placed on them with glue and nails; the transverse ones should fall into the gap between the longitudinal ones, so the bed will be stronger.

The oval support boss of the folding bar of the side is less traumatic, and it is easier to make it than a pocket. Some of the scraps 18 mm thick went to the bosses, they were put on glue and nails. At the ends of the plank, U-shaped holes were chosen for them, with a drill and a chisel - there were no household wood routers then either.

Time still endured and the crib was covered oil varnish, not as harmful as nitro. Immediately, the elastic bands were fixed in blind holes, also with furniture dowels. Then another final drying, and the crib is ready.

Transformer

There are also a lot of convertible cribs for newborns on sale, but at least one variety is not just a tribute to fashion. We are talking about a bed for growth, but the matter here is not limited to a sliding bottom. An already sufficiently formed personality may be indignant: “I won’t sleep like a little one!”. Therefore, a transforming crib "from scratch" should be structurally and outwardly similar to an adult. In this case, the fence is made removable from the cord; Of course, this option is only for fairly calm babies. And the transformation comes down to the fact that one back is removed and the bed is increased in length with it. Drawings of a self-made "growing" bed for newborns are shown in fig.

Drawings of a crib “from zero to growth”

What if you are very restless?

It also happens that the doctor shrugged his shoulders: nothing can be done, you need to sleep with you, then he will outgrow it. Or vice versa, even if the mother is the most wonderful in the world, she is weak and constantly getting up at night for feeding is beyond her powers. Then you need a crib attached to the parent without a front wall. The composition of the crib for restless newborns necessarily includes a bumper - a soft hygroscopic pillow along the contour with ties, see fig. on right. And from what and how to sew a baby crib bumper with your own hands, see the video below:

Video: how to sew a bumper (sides) in a child's bed

Arrangement

In no case should you protect the mattress of a crib from getting wet with oilcloth, this will lead to scuffs and diaper rash in the baby. Firstly, actually mattresses need 2, with a margin for drying. Secondly, they must be non-rotting and dry quickly enough. Therefore, it is preferable to sew them from linen and wrap them with coarse calico, flannel or baize. The stuffing is the best horsehair; its almost complete replacement is coconut fiber or sisal.

Now remember that the bones of a newborn are soft. Therefore, the thickness of the mattress is needed small, up to 6-7 cm. But then it will not be so comfortable to sleep, feeling the hard bed with the body. A mattress pad 10-15 cm thick will help out from the most dense, 45-50 number, furniture foam, it is wrapped in the same fabric as the mattress. The mattress pad, in addition, will take in part of the moisture, which will speed up the drying of the mattress, but then they also need 2.

A pillow for a newborn is not needed so that torticollis does not develop. However, sometimes, on the recommendation of a doctor, for very fidgety people, you have to buy a butterfly pillow: its middle is almost flat, and the wings are voluminous. But in no case should you experiment with such pillows yourself - suitable materials are not sold separately and the manufacturing technology is not subject to “domestication”.

Decorations

When considering the design of a baby's crib, you need to remember that his vision, both in terms of sharpness and color perception, is formed gradually. Therefore, the contours of the decor elements need to be smooth, and the colors are soft and unsaturated, preferably close to the middle of the spectrum: pale yellow, light beige, light green, pale blue. Bleached reds and oranges are acceptable, but noxious greens, deep blues, and purples are inappropriate, as is anything shiny.

A very simple and useful way for a child to decorate his crib is to hang a mobile carousel above it, see fig., c soft toys. Their smooth movement will not only calm the baby, but also contribute to the development of his visual motor skills. Since mobiles for babies came into use, the number of children with congenital visual defects has decreased markedly.

Finally

Presumably, now it has become clear to you that an unpretentious bed for a newborn is inherently not so simple, because it contains a whole world of a new person. Therefore, let me wish you success not only in mastery, but also in studying the basics of child psychology. They have it from the very beginning, even if they themselves do not understand it yet.

In order to optimize living space, free up space in small apartment, you should take a new approach to the issue of furniture. Bulky wardrobes, sofas and beds need to be replaced compact systems- transformers. In this article we will tell you how to make a transformer bed with your own hands.

• children's bunk bed transformer;
• single or double bed for the bedroom;
• desks that turn into an easel;
• changing table that transforms into a coffee table;
• a double bed that turns into a single bed after transformation.

Folding bed design

Depending on what position the bed occupies when folded, there are horizontal and vertical wardrobe-beds. The prefix "wardrobe" comes from the fact that such furniture either performs additional function(a place to store things), or imitates it.
The main structural elements of the wardrobe-bed are as follows:

• box - made of laminated chipboard, pine plywood or planed poplar boards;
• bed - can be used factory-made or independent;
• lifting mechanism - it is recommended to purchase German or Italian production.

The main details of the box are a persistent shelf and a plinth. You can do without a back wall, but from an aesthetic point of view, this is not good. You can solve the problem by hanging a picture.

Preparation for the manufacture of parts of transformable furniture

To make a transformer bed with your own hands, you need to have the following tool at your disposal:

• level, square;
• electric jigsaw with a wood saw;
• screwdriver with nozzles for screwing self-tapping screws and confirmations;
• metal tape measure and pencil (thin marker);
• electric drill with a set of drills;
• perforator;
• pliers, shoe knife, file.

The first thing you need to make a transformer bed with your own hands is a drawing. It is carried out according to the following principles.

1. The sketch shows general form furniture, and overall dimensions are set. In this case, the type of transformation should be thought out.
2. Using a sketch, a detailed general drawing is created.
3. Drawings of each part are made and all dimensions (in millimeters) are indicated. At the same time, it is taken into account that the thickness of the chipboard used is 16 mm (plates with a thickness of 18 mm and 10 mm are also produced).
4. When calculating the dimensions of the parts at the joints, the thickness of the PVC tape for pasting the edges should be taken into account (sometimes 0.5 and 2.0 mm).
5. On the drawing of each part, the sides are indicated, the edges of which are subject to pasting with PVC tape.
6. Parts with a width of less than 50 mm should not be included in the design: such a part cannot be technologically manufactured using a chipboard cutting machine.

Important: when using chipboard with a directional pattern on the front side, the orientation of the parts should be taken into account and indicated on the drawing.

If you cannot complete the drawings on your own, you can use ready-made ones (from the Internet or special literature).

We assemble a transformer bed

To make a bed, you need to do the following:

Important: the bed (moving part of the bed) should be designed as light as possible: it is necessary to avoid the use of unnecessary parts.

One of the main conditions for choosing a place where it will be installed folding bed transformer - wall strength. If this is a double transformer bed, the wall near it should be made of monolithic concrete or stacked in two bricks. Otherwise, it will not withstand the load transmitted by the moving part of the transformer. In extreme cases, the problem can be solved by installing spacers to fasten the structure to the floor slab.
After making sure that a suitable place for installing furniture is chosen, we perform the following.

As a result, we get a practical transformer bed (a photo of some options is presented above).

Your attention is a do-it-yourself transformer bed for children (a video demonstrating the possibilities of transformation).