How To Make A Bar Stool With Your Own Hands From Wood, Metal And Other Materials + Drawings, Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Do-it-yourself bar stools

Many owners of apartments and private houses equip their kitchen or living room with a bar counter - a very convenient and functional piece of furniture. Original and at the same time comfortable bar stools will be a worthy addition to it. But in stores you can rarely find an option to your liking: they can look too formal, uncomfortable, not at home. And the prices bite. Therefore, we suggest you make your own bar stools.

Content

• 1 Required materials and tools

• 2 Collecting bar stools

  • 2.1 Solid wood
  • 2.2 The second version of the wooden chair
  • 2.3 Video: DIY wooden bar stool
  • 2.4 Metal bar stool
  • 2.5 Video: DIY metal bar stool
  • 2.6 Bar stool made of pipes
• 3 How to avoid mistakes

Required materials and tools

The simplest version of the bar stool is made of wood and plywood.

To create these chairs you will need:

• screwdriver;
• drill with drills for 3 and 6 mm;
• a hammer;
• jigsaw;
• roulette;
• carpentry corner;
• bit;
• plane;
• self-tapping screws;
• sandpaper (if possible, use a sander);
• stain;
• solvent;
• brushes;
• varnish.

Depending on the option you choose, you need to take solid wood or plywood. You can use metal, but in this case the work will be more difficult. We will tell you more about this in the step-by-step description of the work.

Before starting, draw up a drawing or diagram showing the exact dimensions of the product. This will determine the required amount of consumables

Standard bar stool layout

The standard dimensions of bar stools are calculated based on the distance from the bottom surface of the table top to the floor. The gap between the chair seat and the tabletop is usually 30–35 cm.

Based on this basic data, you can create your own product design.

Collecting bar stools

So, you have decided what material you will use. Let's take a step-by-step look at how you can make several types of chairs yourself.

Solid wood

When choosing wood for a product, pay attention to the most accessible species - pine and birch. They are great for this kind of work, the array can be bought in the store in the form of furniture boards. The required thickness is 20 and 30 mm. You can borrow some details from old chairs.

Cut out 10 pieces:

• part 1 - one circle with a diameter of 36 cm and a thickness of 30 mm;
• part 2 - one circle with a diameter of 26 cm and a thickness of 20 mm;
• part 3 - four legs 30 mm thick;
• detail 4 - four stiffeners 30 mm thick.

The first part will serve as a seat, the second (small circle) - a substrate under the seat.

Chair seat and pad

When cutting out the legs of the future chair, make sure that the structure of the wood in the array is vertical.

The leg of the future chair and a visual drawing for it

Cut out the ribs from the 20 mm thick solid wood - they will serve as a footrest.

Stiffening rib

Now start assembling the chair. To do this, you need 3 types of screws:

• 5 X 80 - to screw the legs to the small circle and to each other;
• 5 X 40 - for attaching the seat to a small circle;
• 5 X 20 - to secure the ribs.

The ribs are attached to the legs with corners, which are placed below, from the side of the floor.

Bar stool assembly process

The diameter of the holes for self-tapping screws in the plane should be 6 mm, in the end - 3 mm.

You just have to stain the chair with stain, dry it and open it with 2-3 layers of varnish. The bar stool is ready!

Ready bar stool

The second version of the wooden chair

These bar stools are very easy to design and convenient to use. Their peculiarity is that the seat can be made straight or bent, and subsequently, if desired, upholstered with fabric

Solid wood bar stools

Make a drawing

Chair drawing

take a close look at the second drawing: for the sake of simplicity, it omits the top two crossbars under the seat. Remember to add them when building

More visual and detailed drawing

for the legs of the chair, use beams 38 x 38 mm. You can take poplar wood if there is no pine or birch. The length of the legs will be 71 cm. At their ends, make cuts at an angle of 5 degrees

Chair legs

attach a short bar to the top, the so-called chair apron. In the same way, fix the middle and lower crossbar

Securing the bars to the chair legs

Attach a second longer bar to the top of the rack on the right side. Also install the bottom one - it will act as a footboard

Fastening the footrests

do the same on the left side. To make it comfortable, set the height of the footrest according to the height of the people who will sit on these chairs

Attaching the footrests on the other side

fasten the halves of the chair to each other

Assembling the chair body

How to make a recess on the seat? There is a way for this, however, it is not an easy one. Make several cuts of different depths along the surface and cut the groove with a chisel.

Seat recess

Sand the surface of the seat, attach it to the legs. Fill in the holes for the oblique screws, sand the entire chair and paint.

The chair is ready, it remains only to paint

Video: DIY wooden bar stool

Metal bar stool

This chair will be a real exclusive, so you don't have to regret the time and effort involved.

The metal bar stool will become a truly exclusive piece

Surely you have the remains of sheet metal, metal profiles and scrap. All this will be used.

Draw with a pencil the shape of the future seat on a flat asbestos welding sheet. In the photo, it is indicated by red lines.

Seat sketch

Cut out the blanks according to the sketch from the 25 mm strip. Cook them together.

Workpieces welded together

For internal nesting, cut blanks from the same strip.

Internal layout blanks

Weld the blanks and grind. Round the corners.

Scratched seat blank

Weld the legs from the 30 X 20 mm profile to the seat. While welding, grab the legs at one welding point, gently push them to the desired position.

Weld the legs from the profile

Mark the levels of the footrest, for example 45 cm from the seat. Consider how comfortable that height is for your height.

Footrest level mark

Also make the footrests from a 30 X 20 profile.

The footrests are made from the same profile

Instead of plastic or rubber stoppers for metal profile legs, you can use wooden heels. They do not scratch the floor and you can always grind them down to size.

Wooden cork blank for metal profile

These plugs do not need to be screwed or fixed with glue - they adhere perfectly to friction. The main thing is to grind them in size with the legs.

Wooden plugs set

The chair is ready, it remains to paint it. Apply a coat of primer first.

Chair priming

After the primer is dry, paint everything below the seat with black paint. Wait until dry.

Painting chair legs

Wrap black painted surfaces with foil so as not to stain them during further work. Paint the seat red.

Seat painting

After the chair is dry, you can use it to your heart's content!

Video: DIY metal bar stool

Bar stool made of pipes

Ordinary metal pipes can also serve you as a cabinet for a bar stool. The most suitable material is chrome-plated stainless steel. It is better not to use plastic or PVC pipes: compared to metal, their strength is very low.

You will need:

• plywood or chipboard;
• construction stapler and staples to it;
• metal billets from pipes;
• several pipe benders;
• screwdriver or drill;
• mounting bolts;

• upholstery fabric, foam rubber for the seat.

  

  Bar stool made of metal pipes

1. Decide which model you will be making. The corresponding magazines will help you with this.
2. Measure the height of the bar to know the size of the future chair. Pre-prepare blanks from metal pipes for the base of the chair, cutting them into pieces of the desired length.

3. To find the correct pipe diameter, consider the maximum load on the chair.

   

   Carefully select the dimensions of the workpiece: diameter and length

4. Bend each workpiece in the upper part with a pipe bender in the form of a semicircle. Fasten the workpieces together with fixing bolts - this way you will provide the future chair with greater stability.
5. Make a seat from chipboard or plywood. When determining the required diameter, take into account the weight of the person who will be sitting on the chair. Attach the foam rubber to the fabricated seat frame with a stapler and cover it with an upholstery fabric. Use a dirt-resistant material that is easy to wet and dry to clean.
6. Attach the finished seat to the junction of the metal blanks. Do this with a screwdriver (or drill) and fasteners.
7. If you want to make foot rests, mark the required height on the chair legs and fix at this level pieces of metal pipe equal in length to the distance between the legs.

How to avoid mistakes

There is of course the potential for mistakes. Many of them can be easily fixed, but some can negate all your efforts. To prevent this, always follow the adage "Measure seven times - cut once."

Use diagrams and drawings of finished products, which indicate the exact calculations for each part. So you protect yourself from unnecessary material costs and inaccuracies during assembly.

If you're new to carpentry, don't try to start by assembling a designer chair with an intricate design, and better skip the idea of assembling a folding bar stool. Take the simplest model, practice, "fill" your hand, and then gradually raise your level. If you nevertheless decide to create your own exclusive model, use special computer programs for design development and structural calculation. Among the most common, convenient and easy to use, two can be distinguished:

• PRO-100;
• Cutting.

Thanks to them, you will build an accurate drawing of the product, verified to the millimeter much faster, and preview the result in a 3D model. Additional functions of these custom programs allow you to find out the quantity of materials required, which significantly reduces waste.

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in making bar stools with your own hands, this task can be easily dealt with. If you have any questions about this topic, please ask them in the comments. Good luck and easy work!