Podium bed is a pretty simple design. If you have experience with a tree and a metal profile, then to build it with your own hands - the idea is quite feasible. Well, independent design and decoration is almost always more interesting than copying the finished project. Moreover, the main stakeholder person can be attracted to this responsible occupation.

There are no fundamental differences between the podiums in the children's and adult bedroom. This is a frame of a bar or a steel profile, a wood-trimmed or fibreboard. However, in a nursery with drawn beds, it is more often realized: first, there is a free space here, while the adult bedroom love to clutch the furniture. And, secondly, the growth of the child allows the design is high enough.

Podium bed do it yourself in the nursery (photo)

Another difference: under the bed-podium often implies his classic "Japanese" option, that is, an elevation of a height of 15 cm, on which a stationary double bed is installed. In the children's such option is useless and unprofitable, as the place does not save. Here the podium is such a design in which the bed or bulk boxes can be hiding. This is especially true.

Bed over the podium

The options in the nursery are almost always more difficult for two reasons: first, the maximum area is required to free from furniture, secondly, the small growth of the child allows to use transformers successfully and diverse. As a result, the podium often turns into a real designer.

• Low elevation is the simplest solution for self-fulfillment. A small height box - for drawers is enough 20 cm, occupying about a third of the room. The children's podium plays a role not to base under the mattress, and the sleeping area. Here you can lay a mattress with bed, and you can install a full-fledged low bed with a bedside table or a pair of shelves under night toys and household items.
• The average level - the podium takes an angle or again about a third of the child, but thanks to the high height, it is the likeness of the chest - with three levels of drawers and a free section for sports equipment, for example. The choice between the bed and the mattress is determined by the growth of the child and the height of the ceiling. In any case, they need steps here, and for kids are mandatory handrails and fences.

Sample bed over the podium with your own hands (photo)

• Transformer - option for schoolchildren. In addition to drawers, a foldable or retractable table top is mounted, or even a roll-out table with a table, pitch open shelves under the system and books. The construction is more complex, but the problem of furniture decides for a long time.

Bed under the podium

Requirements for the elevation parameters in this case are more stringent, but in general the design remains the same.

The minimum podium height is the sum of the height of the bed (the base plus rollers), the mattress is 8-16 cm depending on the model, the bed is at least 5 cm, and 10-20 cm for free extension. Together, this will be about 50 cm, and, as a rule, above. Below is not recommended: either the design will be turned out with difficulty, or you have to remove the mattress and bed and store them in the afternoon separately that uncomfortable.

• You can mount one or two beds next to each other, or set them over each other - the height of the podium will be at least 1.2 m. At high ceiling height, the option is possible.
• Retractable beddow bed can be like a drawer, that is, in the adjustment state of its headboard overlaps the space of the box. Another option is possible: the low bed simply moves under the high podium. Moreover, an ordinary bed is used, but for the sake of preserving the floor covering, it is desirable to hide her legs with rubber or equipped with furniture rollers.

If you want and the availability of experience, the design make curvilinear.

Bed under the podium, examples of the work of the Master (photo)

Podium bed do it yourself
Podium Bed in Marine Style
Children's podium

Selection and calculation of the material

Materials use the same for any podium, but the dimensional parameters of the timber or the plating depend on the area and load.

• For the frame in most cases fit wooden bar. cross section 30 * 30 mm. As a base, it is desirable to install a timing of 50 * 50 mm.

If we are talking about high podium, where installation and drawers are supposed, and the beds are recommended to use a metal profile. It is worth considering the weight load that the design creates.

• If setting drawers is assumed, then you need to create compartments inside the elevation. To do this, you need a glass of 16 mm thick.
• Plywood, fiberboard, chipboard or wooden boards are suitable as a casing. Plywood or chipboard thickness - 12-15 mm, boards - 10 mm.
• It will be necessary to fastening - dowels, wood screws, metal corners, bars nuts. The amount of material depends on the size of the podium and the estimated load.
• The distance between the vertical supports of the frame ranges from 60 to 100 cm, and varies quite widely depending on the size of the box or beds. The height of the design is determined arbitrarily.
• For a box and podium under the bed, made with your own hands, of course, you need different amounts of material. It matters here and how many parts are purchased in the finished form, and how much it is supposed to do it yourself. It is recommended for a retractable bed to buy a critical bottom, and not to produce plywood solid bottom.

The calculation must be made on the finished drawing. Sketch with scale compliance will not allow to make mistakes or miss any detail.

Drawing of the podium with a pull-out bed with a large sleeping place

Instruments

For the construction, the usual woodworking tool will be required.

• Drill and screwdriver are the most necessary, so high-quality attachment without them to achieve.
• Hacksaw or electrolybiz - to cut the boards and timber. If the frame is made from the profile, then you need a metal hacksaw.
• Hex keys and fasteners - depending on the material.
• If independent processing of boards is assumed, it will take a joiner tool.

Manufacturing technology

1. At the first stage, a sketch is developed. You need to set the size of the room and the parameters of the alleged podium, then depict them on the drawing with the scale. Calculate the shape, load and material is so much easier than astonish eye.
2. Place the floor to the future base. Not only the contour, but also the placement of vertical supports and crossbars under the boxes. If the podium is adjacent to the wall, then the plinth is dismantled on this site: a wooden base of the frame will be installed here.
3. Podium and retractable bed or drawer are collected separately from each other. The simplest design of the bed is sunbed on the rollers with a solid or rush bottom. The headboard is not fundamentally required, but for the aesthetics of the entire structure, usually sets. This option is the easiest and most convenient.
4. According to the contour, the timber is fixed with a cross section of 50 * 50 mm, the mount - by self-draws up to 16 mm.
5. Vertical supports are installed on the frame with a cross section of 30 * 30 mm: the height is equal to the height of the podium less than the double thickness of the bar. Fasteners - metal corners. If the supports come into contact with the wall, then they are additionally fixed by dowels.
6. Install the top strapping and transverse beams. If the podium area is large, then it is necessary to fix the longitudinal, and the docking places to strengthen additional vertical supports.
7. If the insertion of the boxes are assumed, the sections for them include the attachment of the boards between the supports. In the finished form, the design under the box looks like a cavity of two wooden sidewalls, on which guides are fixed. If the box on the rollers, then the guides are not needed.
8. The frame is trimmed by plywood or chipboard: the plates are cut in size of frame cells and fastened to beams.

Laminated chipboard no further finish requires. In other cases, it may be necessary to paint, grinding, opening with varnish. In the nursery often laid carpet, as it is soft and warm.

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Models and drawings of podium beds do it yourself

Most models manufactured with their own hands are characterized by a simple design. This is due to the unavailable diverse modern technologies For home use.

Podium bed in nursery

For example, in the curvilinear podium, the casing lamellas should be curved accordingly. Implement this at home is extremely difficult. Therefore, when building a podium for the bed with your own hands, do with your own hands: cut the curvilinear element from chipboard or plywood and install it on supports. The space below it can be equipped as a niche for books.

• The finished diagrams and drawings of the podium beds can be found on construction and repair sites. In most cases, in addition to sizes, the drawings contain information about the materials used. It is possible to apply them in practice and necessary, but observing one nuance: ready project Designed by specific dimensions. If the parameters change, it is only proportionally, taking into account the appearance of additional supports and beams.
• If the design suits, but the size parameters are others, it will have to recalculate it yourself. Each such project is made with regard to a certain load, which is impossible to exceed.

Podium bed with drawers with their own hands (photo)

As a rule, homemade masters accompany their work on the manufacture of podium beds with their own hands not only descriptions, but also a photo of each stage and almost every fixture. This is very useful information for a novice to use.

For independent manufacture Podium beds, the most difficult part is just a bed or pull-out drawer. If you can cope with him, the conservation of the podium will definitely not cause difficulties.

The use of non-standard architectural solutions when designing the interior of the room largely determines its attractiveness external view. Such techniques include multi-level ceilings or niches in the walls. Popular podiums recently for also add originality to the design of residential space. In addition to the aesthetic component, such structures have a functional purpose.

Varieties of podium beds

Podiums with beds are worth a certain mansion in a row of cabinet pieces of furniture. Podium base - frame made of wooden or metal elements. The main load falls on supporting framework parts. Their number and alignment depend on the area of \u200b\u200bconstruction and the load on it.

The form of the podium can be any: from standard rectangular or square configurations to polygonal (for example, in the form of a trapezium) or even rounded. They can be installed in the niche of any geometry, and in the erker.

In the cavity of the structure, any communications can be covered, for example, wiring from the backlight of this zone. As a rule, the elevation height varies within 0.2 ... 0.5 m. High podiums can be equipped with steps, which adds the originality of the design. Not only drawers can be equipped in them, but also wardrobe with swing doors. If the room is allowed, you can build structures, even towering on the floor meter.

Important! Stages can also be equipped with drawersThat allows you to equip additional storage locations.

By the way, the elevation can be performed not only in the form of a box. It may, for example, be a shelf system, simultaneously serving steps. Such a design is unlikely to leave someone indifferent. But, of course, the possibility of organizing places for the placement of things is significantly reduced.

There are two podium options.

Using the elevation above the floor surface as a bed. This option allows you to organize in a hollow structure a large number of Storage sites, setting out the drawers there. In this case, the bed itself is not needed, it is enough to place a comfortable mattress on the podium, preferably orthopedic. Two people will be able to accommodate two people on a large double-blast product. But, of course, nothing prevents a full-fledged bed on an elevation.

In boxes can be stored not only beddingBut also clothes, household utensils and other things.

The only thing - as a rule, they do not occupy the entire space along the length, that is, not the entire inner cavity of the podium is used for its intended purpose. In order to optimally use the area inside the cavity, you can provide in the floor of the podium rising sash.

Finding the bed inside the podium and extending it as necessary. Such systems are very convenient for installation in rooms having a small area, since on the podium itself you can place any functional zone. For example, for work or study, game territory for children or a resting place, installing chairs and TV.

Many make part of the room with the podium at the children's room, placing equipment for games and classes on the podium and organizing a retractable sleeping place for kids. It is convenient, since children need much more space for pastime than adults. Do not forget about the possible appearance of guests, to accommodate which mobile sleeping place will become an excellent option.

The elevation finish can be performed different ways. Often apply the same materials that were used in the floor covering. If, on the contrary, there is a desire to focus on the podium, you can use a contrast. Many people like soft upholstery. In this case, it is possible to use carpet or even fur coatings.

What determines the choice of the design of the design:

• layout and size of the room;
• taste preferences of the owners;
• the purpose of the sleeping place defining its dimensions;
• the need to zoning space;
• stylist concept of interior design;
• material component.

What are attractive podiums for the bed

The podiums installed in the apartment become the central part of the entire interior. They are appropriate both in spacious premises and in narrow rooms A small area (if the ceilings are high), allowing you to change the perception of space and optimize its use. In the second case, it is possible to abandon the installation of massive and often does not allow you to install a double bed.

Mounted elevations can perform several functions.

1. Solve technical questions. These include the need to cover all sorts of communications and storage systems of storage systems.
2. Decorate the room. It is absolutely necessary to functionably use the space inside the podium. If this is not necessary, the elevation can only be a design element. With the help of the podium, you can adjust the geometry of the room and zonate space. In a plot that takes up a pretty decent territory, a living room and an office, a library and a place for relaxation, dining room and cinema, not to mention the bedroom can be arranged. The idea is placed on one area and a sleeping place, and it seems quite reasonable for recreation.

A big advantage of creating similar designs is unlimited design opportunities. This also applies to the architecture of elevation, and illumination, and the use of various finishing materials. The podiums will surely come to the owners of apartment studios, where the need for zoning space is felt quite clearly. And for this there is no need to build partitions or put shirma.

When installing podiums, there is no need for or. The elevation area usually allows you to arrange personal things on it. Many people like to sit by the window and watch what is happening. Mounted next to the window opening wide podium height with a window sill, which will be continued, can be used to relax.

The only tangible lack of podium structures, which can be allocated - a significant decrease in the height of the room on the site where the elevation is established. This moment may be important if the ceilings in the room and so low, as well as in the case of a sufficiently high growth in people in the apartment.

Important! The height of the ceilings in the room where the podium is installed, should not be less than 275 cm.

Also, some complexity may arise in the cleaning of the space inside the cavity, especially if there are no close-up sash.

Possessing non-hard abilities and skills to work with wood, tools, a small amount of free time, and the main thing is to own a vision of the interior design, the bed-podium can be made independently without resorting to the services of professional brigades.

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Creating a podium for the bed do it yourself

What should be started, thinking about the equipment of the podium:

• determine the location, shape, type and dimensions of the structure;

Important! For security purposes, no elevation should be placed next to the doors.

• create a sketch of the structure. You can do it by hand or using a program that helps simulate furniture;
• decide with the material and calculate its quantity.

Production of a podium with a nominated bed

The design is a podium, inside of which the drawer is located with a mattress and for storing bedding.

Most often a bar is used as a frame. In this example, metal corners made of hot-rolled steel are the main support details. Their length is determined by the width of the room. This is the main difference between the design from the analogues. Such a reliable system allows you to move on the elevation and install furniture items and technique.

Table. Used material.

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In addition, you will need: rollers, decorative corners, laminate and, handles for drawers, as well as fasteners: anchors, self-tapping screws, dowel-nails. Liquid nails can be used to install the laminate.

Step-by-step instructions for manufacture.

Step 1. Plywood sheets are recorded on the walls of the room. The height of the podium is at least 37 cm.

Step 2. Bearing steel corners are fixed to the plywood. For this, fasteners are used.

The distance between the corners is withstanding 50 cm. One corner is mounted to the end wall.

Step 3. Installed timber. This will require fasteners and self-tapping screws. The main elements are stacked on the installed metal corners. Bruks must be fixed in places of the subsequent compound of plywood sheets.

Step 4. The design is sewn plywood (the facade is simply applied - it will be fixed on the boxes). Connecting plates are used to connect the sheets from the inside.

Step 5. Two drawers are assembled from the sheets of plywood through the corners - one, in which there is a sleeping place, and the second, where the pillows, blanket and other accessories can be folded.

To move the design, it is necessary to fix rollers. They are installed in increasing about 50 cm. To fix the box, it is also necessary to attach side rollers.

Step 6. The podium is discharged with laminate. Decorative corners, plinth and handles on the facades of the boxes are installed.

Step 7. In the pallet large size is equipped with a sleeping place. Little drawer You can use as a storage location.

A similar durable, durable and aesthetic design can be made in a short time.

Podium bed on wooden frame

This model is designed to accommodate a sleeping place on the podium. It is equipped with three drawers for storing things.

The frame of the podium is performed from the bar.

Important! Wood should be well succeeding, otherwise the appearance of a violet may be possible in the future.

Stages of work.

Step 1. The room should dismantle the plinths.

Step 2. Anchors to the walls are fixed basic beams.

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Perfutes

Step 3. Vertical racks under beams are also attached to the wall.

Step 4. Broks are fixed by beams.

Step 5. Installed central verticals.

Step 6. The podium is sewn plywood.

Step 7. Retractable drawers are collected.

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Screwdrivers

Step 8. Mounting places with self-drawers are sweeping, after which their grinding is carried out.

Step 9. The design of the facade is painted (better if it is pre-primed).

Step 10. The laminate is installed (the same as used when finishing the floor). Pens are attached to the boxes. Decorative plinth is mounted on top of the perimeter.

It turned out a facilities with spacious drawers.

It remains to put up the design of a comfortable mattress with pillows and you can relax.

When designing structures, there is a scope for a fantasy: instead of one of the pallets, you can install (if the height allows) a chest of drawers with a system of roll-out boxes, in the upper part of the cavity to provide a module with a retractable table, etc. In the ends of the podium, if you wish, it is possible to leave open place To place the shelves for books.

What should pay attention to the manufacture of structures

There are several nuances that need to be considered.

Installation in the apartment of practical and inexpensive design gives numerous advantages to residents. Hot techniques in the decoration help to enter the construction in almost any interior styles. And the possibilities of decorating the elevation allow it to turn it into a real art object.

Video - Podium bed do it yourself

The inhabitants of small apartments are perfectly known which time you have to make efforts to save at least a bit of space. One way to solve this problem is the conservation of the podium for the bed with a spacious niche. With a big desire, you can no problem make a podium for the bed with your own hands. This solution Very convenient, but despite this, it is still not very popular among residents of the northern hemisphere. Many people simply do not like to sleep almost at the floor level. However, you can independently build such a podium for a bed that will raise it into the usual height.

The installation of the podium allows not only to diversify the interior of the room, but also to significantly save space.

In addition to the convenience and saving space, the podium allows you to diversify the interior, bringing a little eastern exotic in it. This design is simultaneously a place for sleep, mezzanine and a wardrobe. If you wish to the edge of the podium, guests can be sent to guests, pre-substituting a journal or even dining table to it. The height of the structure allows you to do this.

Preparation for work

Before making a podium, it is necessary to prepare on this responsible event accordingly. First of all you should choose appropriate place To install the podium and determine the optimal dimensions.

In most cases, the podium 200x300 cm with a height of about 40 cm can be built. You can enlarge and reduce these values \u200b\u200bat your discretion.

Take the roulette and measure the size of the future layouts in a specific room. It is convenient to build a podium in the corner of the room, along the two stocking walls, but you can make it else.

Designing the podium for the bed with your own hands, be sure to take into account the size of the mattress, which will continue to be laid on it. If your mattress width is approximately 2 m, then the podium will need to be wider than previously mentioned width. Follow the width and the length of the future buildings on the floor. Tighten the height on the wall. Based on this data, calculate how much material will need. Buy with a slight margin. Let it be better for trimming, which in the future there is an application, than once again to go beyond the wood, engage in the cut, etc.

The podium is assembled using the following materials:

• 2 boards 300x5x3 cm;
• steel corners;
• boards with dimensions 200x5x3 cm in the amount of 7 pieces;
• bar 5x5 cm 40 cm long - 10 pieces;
• plywood or chipboard (you can use DMF and OSB) with a thickness of 1.5 cm;
• plywood for niche walls;
• lED tape - you will need about 3 m;
• small-grained sandpaper;
• self-tapping screws 2, 4 and 5 cm;
• oil or acrylic paint;
• putty for wood.

Flods are laid on the solution in the width of the podium.

The assembly is performed using the following tools:

• brush and roller;
• electric saw (you can do the simple hacksaw);
• building level;
• pencil;
• drill with a perforator;
• putty knife;
• drill set (for concrete with a diameter of 8 mm, to work with wood - 6 mm);
• joinery of 3 cm width;
• corolnic;
• kiyanka;
• bit;
• screwdriver Set;
• screwdriver;
• roulette;
• electrolzik.

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Assembly Guide

The wooden bar is installed on the blocks and is attached using metal corners.

The podium should be reliable and durable. These indicators are directly dependent on how correctly the frame assembly will be made. Be careful at this stage of work.

Apply on the wall at the installation site of the podium several points at an altitude of 40 cm. Take off this height with a cord. On one wall, make a strip of 3 m long, on the other - 2 m. You can change these values \u200b\u200bat your discretion. Take one board with a length of 3 m and another 2 m long. Follow and make through holes at a distance of 90 cm with a drill of 6 mm.

Attach the workpiece to the surface of the wall, which combines the markup line and the upper ends. Push the pencil through the holes and tick the fasteners. Remove the boards. Drill the concrete for the laptops left and attach the blanks with screws and dowels.

Next you will need to choose the grooves on the upper ends of 3 bars. To do this, step up 5 cm from the top of the workpiece and draw the line at an angle of 90 ° to the edges. In places intersection of the line and facets of the rack on other sides, it is necessary to carry out perpendicular features of 25 mm long. Make propelles using a hacksaw. Scaliate chopped elements and work out the grooves using the chisels.

The MDF plate is screwed to the frame with a screwdriver.

Next, you will need to take bars and attach them with the help of self-tapping screws to the billets that you previously fastened on the wall. Do it in the corner and in both edges. In this case, the packs of bars will perform the support function for boards. Take 6 billets with a length of 2 m and screw the rack to them. Finish according to the following principle: 1 Bruk in the center of three boards, 1 bar to the edge of the remaining three boards. On the racks you need to choose the grooves in advance.

Take the carbon and set the frame from the collected elements. They need to be installed with rows, at an angle of 90 ° in relation to the three-meter blank on the wall. Substitutions are stacked alternately. First, the one who has a bar in the middle, after it put the one with Bru with the edge, etc. After that, you will need to attach the remaining board with a length of 3 m to the ends of the mounted frame. Use for this self-tapping screw. Attract the lower ends of the racks to the floor with the help of furniture corners. On this, the construction of the podium is almost complete, it will only need to attach to the frame of the plate.

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Step-by-step instruction

Niche can be collected in two ways:

• consist of roll-out drawers on the rollers;
• to be open.

The upper part and the sidewalls of the slabs are first processed by primer, then acrylic paint is applied.

Simpler version of the second option. First you need to measure the distance between the floor and the bottom surface of your podium. Also measure the outlined niche depth.

Take the electrolovka and the Fiberboard (or Faneru). Cut rectangular sheets. In the future, you attach them to racks using self-tapping screws, forming partitions in a niche. For the manufacture of the rear walls of the niche, too, use plywood sheets. Attach them to the outer part of the side racks with the help of the corners.

If underwear and other bedding will be kept in niche, do the bottom. Drink out of the plywood sheets of the workpiece of suitable sizes, place them between partitions and attach to the floor. It is advisable to make backlight. Loose on the bottom of the niche lED ribbon.. Out off the wire out in a safe place.

If you do not want niche to be open on both sides, squeeze one side by plywood sheets. If necessary, you can easily remove this wall.

The podium device is a good reception for the room of any size and destination. With it, they hide a spacious place for storing things or sleep, zonied, lifting part of the room to another level, making a composite accent.

Appointment of Podium

Rest zone

So that the elevation does not become a source of danger, an obstacle to the way around the house, thoughtful technical solutions are necessary.

Podium is suitable for any style of the room, two levels are appropriate in modern design With an abundance of glass, plastic and chrome details. Or a living room, weathered in oriental style can only do with the podium: Do not need sofas, chairs, stools.

The bed is a high mattress on the podium, the role of the sofas performs wide long steps with pillows laid on them. Pillows will soften the hard atmosphere of a two-level construction.

In the bathroom, large podium hides communications, delimit the toilet and bathroom areas.

In the studio apartment, high podium with steps makes it on a separate plane of the workbook, a table for a computer. The same project can be embodied by separating the place to study from gaming space. In the depths of the podium are stored or waiting for a rapid place to sleep.

Accommodation options

If the appearance of the podium is dictated by a technical necessity, it is placed in places of placement of pipes, wires, air duct.

Having an intention to decorate the room unusual designWhen placing elevations are guided by the following rules:

• it will inconvenient to bypass the podium towering in the center of the room or in the passing areas;
• room configuration sometimes determines the position of the podium: the presence of columns, niches, alkova ,;



• the rectangular elongated room is better divided by the podium, making visually wider, in square room It will be good to look at the angular elevation of a rectangular, square or round shape;
• if there will be a sleeping place on the podium or drawn out of it, then it has it where it would be logical to look like a simple bed;



• the easiest way to enter the podium in the studio apartment, where it will perform the function of zoning, and to a room with a complex configuration, where the elevation of the elevation will prompt existing construction protrusions.

Materials for manufacture

Requirements that should be submitted to the material for the manufacture of the podium:

• easy is important for creating a design that does not load excessively overlap;
• reliability - to withstand the weight of furniture and moving people;
• silent - the material should not make squeaks and knocks during loads.








We can see the facial part of the podium:

• laminate using a special substrate;
• an array of wood;
• ceramic tiles;
• linoleum;
• carpet.



The selection of top depends on the design of the room and the carrier ability of the frame.

• bar 30x40 mm;
• bar 50x50 mm;
• plywood 10 mm;
• plywood 20 mm;
• fasteners - self-tapping screws, anchors, dowel-nails, simple and reinforced mounting corners 50 mm.



Podium Design for Children's Room

Bar of support walls vertically attached to the walls of the room by anchors. The strength of the design depends on the width of the step between the supports: what it is less, the larger loads will withstand the podium. The optimal is the distance of 40 cm. Putting horizontal bars on the racks, collect the top of the frame. With the help of nails or self-tapping screws, the bars connect with each other, withsting the straight angle. For additional strength, a metal corner is used.

The desire to make your accommodation comfortable and the shortage of space in the human abode pushing unusual solutions To create a cozy atmosphere. If you are lacking a place in your apartment and your child is forced to do lessons in the kitchen, due to the fact that there is no place to place the computer table due to the big bed, you can make the functional podium with your own hands and solve the problem. It is worth noting that for this you need to have a stock of building tools and a carpenter skills, so if you do not know which side to go to the hacksaw, then hire a specialist. But if you feel sacred in your strength, find the switch from your laziness - and go ahead! And this master class is about how to make a podium bed with your own hands will help you.

There are many options to increase the useful area in the apartment due to the variety of podium designs. They are with a dying bed, as in the figure below.

As can be seen in the photo, we are talking about the podium, which has a bed in its design. With this solution, the bedroom area is combined, there is a child where to do lessons, and the useful space of the room is almost not involved. In this example, the width of the room allowed to produce steps, but you can do without them. If necessary, the bed is moved to the podium and in the room becomes more space. From above, you can arrange the table on which the child will be able to do lessons.

Products that have in their design cabinets under pastel underwear in their design. In this option, the sleeping place is located on top. To create such a bed, all elements can be made independently. Only the mattress needs to buy in the store. The cost of materials and independent production will significantly save compared to the purchase of such a product.

Depending on the type of podium design, the complexity of manufacture is determined. The following option is the most time-consuming in production, as it includes, steps, a wardrobe and a roll-out bed.

First steps towards creating a podium bed

Measuring the room, it will become clear what type of podium you can afford. With or without steps, with a dowel or sleeping place, close to top. Length, width and height of the room are important factors When designing. It is necessary to take into account the width of the room to fit the steps if the bed will be located across the room. Measuring the length, you can understand whether the dowel bed will be placed during its longitudinal location. And the height of the room will prompt which maximum height can be a podium. Based on the data obtained, you can define the type of podium.

Create a working drawing

All sizes obtained during measurements are transferred to a working drawing. With the drawing much easier to make a podium for the bed with your own hands, since the result of the work will be visible. On the project you can immediately determine the location of the accessories under the bed, which will travel from under the podium.

Accessories should have sufficient strength to withstand repeated loads during operation.

Installation of Podium

First of all, guide bars are fixed to the wall, which will determine the height of the podium. The mount is made using a dowel of nails or anchor bolts, and in some cases using screws. The choice of fasteners depends on the material from which the walls are made. Before installing bars in them, the grooves dumps under the bearing bars. The distance between the groove is made approximately 50 cm. This size is not fundamental, as it is possible to simply divide the width of the podium to equal parts to minimize the consumption of the material. But the width between the bearing elements should not exceed 70 cm.

There is also another way to manufacture a frame of a podium in which the bearing bars are installed on the guides from above. At the same time, the method of installation is not necessary to make grooves. Bearing bars are attached to the guides using metal corners.

After installing from the elements, bearing bars are installed. The fastening of all nodes produce metal corners and screws. As an increase in the frame under its carrier elements, the support bars are mounted. They rest in the floor and in the future will not give the frame of the opportunity to fake under loads.

Making a podium in the bedroom with your own hands, you need to properly arrange the frameworks of the frame. Purpose material that will be used to cover the framework must be shrinking on Bruke. This will prevent the deformation and bending of the underfloor material, which can be used by Faneur, chipboard or OSB. When it is elected, it is possible to rely on the cost, since the podium in the room will not be influenced by negative factors, for example, temperature difference and high humidity. Therefore, the characteristics of the casing material are not so important. It is only necessary to take into account the strength to the deflection, so that the podium does not fail under the weight of the user. Given this factor in the manufacture, the retractable bed will last for many years.

Production of drawing elements of the bed podium

Whatever you decide to make a podium in an apartment, a large or small installation of retractable elements is made in the same principle. For example, the podium with drawers is also manufactured as a bed in a niche, because for this it applies the same accessories. The difference is only in the size of the retractable elements. There are no certain principles for the production of beds. You can make it from the board or plywood, apply to fasten the details of screws or nails. The main thing is that the result of your work will respond to quality criteria, has a balanced appearance and has durability.

Note! In order to make the bed-podium with their own hands, follow the elementary rules of carpentry and follow the safety technique. You do not need to try to connect an unsecast or nauseated. Then the podium with a pull-out bed will not be ashamed to reveal the people.

In order for the bed to extend to you need to mount the wheels on it. For this you can pick up small rollers in the furniture store. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account so that after their installation, the bed was in a niche under the podium.

Finishing Podium

How to make a drawn bed to be wear-resistant? Of course, you need to apply high-quality finishing material. Today, there are a lot of such materials in the construction markets. But the podium is subjected to daily loads, since children and frequently run adults on its surface. Therefore, you need to apply wear-resistant materials. The selection scheme is quite simple. It is necessary to use materials reassigned for floor finishing. For example, laminate, linoleum, carpet or cork panels.

How to make a podium bed to be beautiful? When choosing finishing material, it is necessary to rely not only for wear resistance, but also color, since the product is a certain continuation of the floor. Therefore, it will be better if the design is covered with a material suitable for the floor or in one color scheme.

The word of the author

And remember to successfully create furniture with your own hands you only need to know the stages of production, at least somehow be able to use the instrument and tirelessly in every free minute to go to your goal. To achieve the last characteristic, you just need to find the switch of your laziness and act.