Agree, each of you has thought at least onceon how to make a folding one. After all, perhaps, there is not a single apartment or house in which there is no soft sofa. When you come home, especially after work, you really want to either sit or lie on your cozy sofa. Only fashion changes every time, and with it the design of furniture. And you can create an original sofa bed with your own hands. 
A comfortable and original folding sofa can be made by own hands, having free time and necessary materials.
Fabrication and purchase of materials
It will take your free time, but it will bringpros. Firstly, you will save your money on this sofa, since now the cost of store copies is quite large. Secondly, you qualitatively pick up supplies and will be confident in them. Thirdly, you can at any time change the appearance of the sofa, changing the skin. Fourth, you will save the area of your apartment, as the product will be collected in the afternoon, and in the evening can turn into a sleeping place. And, most importantly, you will feel pride in your work and show off to your family and friends. 
Sofa folding mechanism.Before you start making a folding sofa with your own hands, you must decide on the size and type of product. There are three main types of them: a sofa-book, a roll-out sofa, a folding sofa. And also do not forget to draw a drawing of it. You will need it not only during the work process, but also in order to correctly calculate the consumption of the required material. Having decided on all this, you can proceed to the next step. To, namely, a folding sofa, you need to purchase the following materials:
- boards (5 cm thick and 15 cm high);
- Fiberboard;
- corners;
- bars;
- springs;
- fabric for sheathing;
- thick foam rubber;
- varnish is transparent;
- hinges for doors;
- furniture boards;
- electric jigsaw.
Having bought everything, you can start working on the sofa itself. Instruction to you in this will help. Back to contents</a> Manufacturing of a sofa-cot 
The back of the sofa is made of a furniture board. We will begin work from the back of the sofa. It is made of a furniture shield. On it a little earlier, draw a marking of the upper curly line. To do this, take a template. Next you need to drill a slot in the form of a diamond and the top line of the backrest according to the drawing. You will need a jigsaw for this. To get a hole in the form of a diamond, you need to pre-cut the holes under the jigsaw. Then drill the cracks near the obtuse corners of the diamond. In sharp angles, do not rotate the saw blade. After completing this work, remove the sawdust from the edges. After patterning the remaining parts of the furniture board, all the elements must be ground. Do not forget to carefully strengthen them, pressing to the bench board. With the profile milling cutter, you should round the front parts of the sofa. If you want, then the finished elements, varnish. Then fasten the main block of wood to the wall. The size and height you determine by your preferences. The height you determine will be equal to the height of the side parts of the seats. The beam is fixed horizontally in the middle, fix at the edges with screws. On it, put a rail of wood, on top of which, fix the seat on the hinges, thanks to which the sofa will unfold. Further, this rail should be attached in the lower part to the bar with self-tapping screws. Holes for them are made initially. 
The sofa unfolds and folds thanks tospecial loops. After this, you must mark the location of the loops for the side seats, they will fold inward. By marking hole holes for dowels, the loops are fixed with screws. When the hinges have been installed, the side panels are attached to them. Now install the back of the sofa, taking a two-sided self-adhesive tape. You can supplement your back with foam rubber in your case. It looks nice and comfortable. Homemade sofa is ready. The only drawback is that there is no additional linen box. Back to contents</a> The principle of making a sofa-book can be done in another way. But first, get everything you need:
- boards;
- bars;
- lamellas;
- Particleboard;
- bolts;
- the mechanism of transformation;
- non-woven fabric;
- foam rubber, sintepon;
- covers on the sofa (you can make by yourself);
- wooden fittings (for armrests);
- sandpaper.
Most folding sofas are completeda box for clothes. Start by collecting the laundry box. Do a box with dimensions 190x80 cm. To make the structure stronger, attach two cross bars in the middle. The bottom of the box is made from a sheet of fiberboard. The seat and backrest will consist of two identical boxes made of bars (40x60). Nail them into slats so that they hold the mattress. Armrests are made from chipboard (24 mm). They need to make skeletons. Bottom the bolts drill holes. In the laundry box also make 2 holes on both sides. Attach the transformation mechanism on both sides so that there is a free space between the backrest and seat frames of 10 mm. Take care that the seat does not extend beyond the armrests when the product is folded. All the roughness on the skeletons can be treated with sandpaper. Attach the non-woven fleecele and thick foam rubber to the lamellas. The mechanism of transformation you do not cover. Synthepone can be topped with foam so that it does not wear out. Put on the seat and back the sewn covers. On the armrests, glue foam rubber, twisted in the form of a roller, and from above you will need to attach it for thickening and softening of the armrests. Tighten the armrests with the same fabric from which you made the covers for the sofa itself. Fix accessories on the front. Do not forget to check if the mechanism of transformation works by spreading out and folding the sofa-book. Well, the sofa is ready with its own hands. Here the principle of the sofa is simple and reliable. But also there is a minus: such a sofa can not be put close to the wall, because when decomposed it will constantly rub against the wall. Back to contents</a> We make a sofa-eurobook 
Sofa-eurobook unfolds easier than othersmodels. In our time is very common is a sofa-eurobook. He unfolds by moving the seats forward, and the backrest is lowered to the horizontal position. There is such a sofa from the base, back, seat, sidewall and folding mechanism. Start the work with the base (size 65x190 cm). To do this, take boards (width - 15 cm, thickness - 5 cm) and fix them with screws. In the corners and middle of the base, screw additional bars, for a better strength. For the bottom of the base, a sheet of fiberboard is used, which is nailed to the slats. Next, proceed to the backrest and seat. They are made of boards 5x15 cm in the same way as the frame of the base, dimensions of 70x195 cm. In the finished boxes insert bars 5x5 cm, fix them at a distance of 8-10 cm from each other. Fibreboard sheets are attached from both sides and screwed on the legs. Do not forget, the soft part of the backrest needs to be turned outwards. The sidewall is made of chipboard also in the form of a small box. The unfolding mechanism looks in the form of indiscriminate loops. They should be attached to the base of the backrest and the sofa itself. After assembling all the elements of the construction, begin to stick the polyurethane foam. Then wrap them in a sintepon or holofayber. Divan the cloth that you have chosen using a construction stapler. All is ready! It is not difficult to make a folding sofa with your own hands, you just need to follow these schemes and instructions correctly. Although you can add something and your own. Perhaps, then the sofa will be even more convenient, practical and beautiful. Do not be afraid to create with your own hands!
