Simple DIY furniture for beginners. Do-it-yourself garden furniture for a dacha - photos of successful homemade products. The simplest wooden shelf
Furniture business is a business that:
— does not require cash investments;
— has profitability from 80 to 300%;
- the product of which is used by all civilized people of the earth;
— can exist and develop regardless of the technical equipment of your future enterprise;
- will never end;
— every year it develops more and more.
A business that people are already doing and quite successfully... A business that even a full-time student can start.
The furniture business can be dusty, heavy, and problematic, or it can be simple, profitable and interesting. It all depends on which approach to choose and how to do it.
If you are greedy, you will get a lot of work, if you are not greedy, you will earn good and quick money.
I'll tell you about both approaches, but I'll explain more about the latter approach.
It's simple. Let's look at specific example manufacturing the most complex type of furniture - the kitchen. Why is the kitchen the most complex look? Because the kitchen package includes the most different fittings and materials, this is the first thing, and the second is that all the details are small, and even the smallest defects immediately catch the eye.
Let us take this expensive kitchen as a basis:
What can you say about her? Large expensive kitchen... Made from the most modern materials. It is relatively expensive, 48,000 rubles excluding household appliances, stoves, ovens and microwave oven. Honestly, its price in the store will be higher by 15 thousand for sure.
I made this kitchen myself, with my own hands. No worse than in the showrooms of “Italian” furniture. The facade is made of framed MDF, has built-in household appliances, lighting, deep drawers, roof rails, long handles. The boxes are made of high-quality German laminated chipboard and covered with 2mm PVC edge. All fittings installed in the kitchen are German, from Hettish. The kitchen is no worse than its Western counterparts, either in quality or price.
Can you make such a kitchen yourself? No? What's the difficulty? Don't know how to do this? Well, okay, I'll try to convince you otherwise.
Take another close look at this kitchen. Would you be able to assemble it yourself, with your own hands, if you were given everything disassembled, with a clear sketch of each individual cabinet or bedside table and all the necessary bolts and nuts attached to this “designer”?
Have you thought about it? What if they gave you, say, 24,000 rubles for collecting it?
And on top for installation 8% percent of full price, what is equal to 4,000 rubles?
Would it be worth it to work with your hands for 5-7 days? Do you think no one will give that much for assembling a kitchen? They will! You just need to think about it a little. Of course, if you buy such a kitchen in a store, you will receive no more than 3% of the cost for assembly, and if you “make it” yourself, you will receive no less than 50% of its cost...
Your task is to find everything and order it in certain sizes or buy it.
That is, at the first stage, you need to make clear documentation for the product, in which you will have to write down for yourself all the materials and accessories necessary for the manufacture of the kitchen and calculate all the possible costs of making the order.
What does the kitchen consist of?
And now a little more about what a kitchen consists of and what your job is to make it.
1. Box made of laminated chipboard
Every piece of furniture has a box made from laminated chipboard. Whatever you are making - a kitchen, a hallway, a children's room or whatever, you need to buy laminated chipboard, saw it and glue the edges.
Where they sell laminated chipboard, they always provide services for sawing the material and it costs no more than 50 rubles per 1 square meter.
There you can also ask to glue the edge - this service costs from 6 rubles per meter (price does not include the cost of the edge). You can glue the edge yourself - then it will cost 1.5-20 rubles per linear meter.
This kitchen required 18 sq.m. of material. (3 sheets measuring 3500*1750 mm and edges no more than 100 meters).
— sawing the material will cost you 18 sq.m.* 55 rubles = 990 rubles;
— pasting of edges 100 m. * 6 rubles = 600 rubles.
We bought the material at a regular warehouse. If you go for the material yourself, it will cost you the same as for other specialized furniture workshops, maybe 5% more than for them. They may have a discount like regular customers...
That is, you are on an equal footing with furniture companies. The only difference is that furniture companies cut materials in their production, and you take them finished parts, paying for sawing and pasting. Everything is ordered, no manual work!!!
Facades are also made in factories or specialized workshops. All furniture makers order them. There are few people who buy a machine worth 2 thousand euros and fill a warehouse with multi-colored raw materials in order to make facades for their production.
So you are again on an equal footing with any furniture company. Both you and other furniture makers will never make them yourself - only order them.
3. Table top
Countertops are also made in huge factories, of which there are only 5 in Russia. They have representative offices in every city. So when buying countertops you are on an equal footing with everyone else.
The fact is that all tabletops are sold in sheets of three meters, and its width is standard version equal to 60 cm. But you can order any other size. You can also choose any color, there are more than 50 of them.
The only problem is to cut it straight, in required size. This problem can be solved at the same place where the laminated chipboard will be cut for you. It costs 20 rubles per cut to cut the tabletop to the required size.
4. Fittings
The fittings include: handles, hinges, edges, hinges, screws, couplers, guides, chrome pipes, dryers, etc.
Accessories are sold in any quantity and in any quantity. You just need to find a point where they sell it.
You can buy anything, if it is not in stock, it will be delivered to order. You will have access to all the same fittings as furniture makers. They also buy everything from a specialized store that sells furniture fittings.
Glass is cut in glass workshops to your size. Submitted an application indicating the name of the glass and size, received finished glass. Not difficult, right? Everyone knows this. But not everyone knows about what I listed above...
6. Lamps
I think that each of you has seen sales departments different lamps. They also sell furniture lamps. All furniture makers use these departments.
I think you've come across departments selling various sinks. They probably even asked themselves the question: “Who needs them, who buys them?” In most cases, furniture makers buy.
8. Technique
Ovens, countertops, and hoods are most often purchased at Eldorado or other stores selling household appliances.
The beauty of buying from Eldorado is that the owner of the future furniture can choose the equipment that he likes best, regardless of the price, and of course get a loan for it, which will make more affordable furniture. It’s cheaper for him and for you less problems with purchase.
As for installation, there are special standards for built-in equipment. It makes no difference who the manufacturer is - the external, installation dimensions will always be the same. And such equipment is always accompanied by detailed instructions on installation and preliminary calculation cabinet
What then comes out of all this?
What you need to assemble furniture
All you need is to drill holes for the Euro screed to assemble the furniture, install all the necessary fittings, handles, hinges, and guides.
Don’t think that this is a great complexity, it’s all done quickly and simply (literally - with your own hands). All modern fittings today meet the following rules - fast, simple installation, reliability, excellent regulation.
Today, many factories have appeared for the production of furniture accessories and they are all in competition for the consumer, and the consumer is none other than the furniture manufacturer. What does a furniture manufacturer need first? So that the fittings do not cause trouble during installation and are reliable, so as not to spoil his reputation... He won’t buy another... That’s why they make them now differently than in Soviet times...
The fittings are attached easily and quickly. Speed and quality are the keys to a successful business.
Let's say:
- to install hinges on the facade, install the facade itself and adjust it, without preliminary preparation Drilling holes requires 2-3 minutes;
— to screw the handle, you need to spend 1 minute (drill two holes and tighten the screws);
- mark and drill holes, assemble the cabinet - 10-15 minutes;
- drill a hole for the lamps and insert the lamp - 1-2 minutes;
- cut a hole in the countertop for the sink - 15 minutes (put the sink down, trace the outline with a pencil, cut a hole with a jigsaw and attach it to special snap fasteners.);
- saw off the required piece of chrome pipe with a hacksaw - 2-3 minutes;
- secure the chrome pipe using flanges - 3-5 minutes.
Well, everything like that... All this can be done in any garage, on the balcony, or even locally in the apartment.
Let's say, in order to assemble the kitchen that you saw above, you need to spend a maximum of 5-7 days on everything (or sacrifice three days off) - from the delivery of materials to the installation of the finished product.
If you would like to learn more about furniture production, then study the free course “Do it yourself furniture” on the website www.sdelaimebel.ru.
The kitchen set is considered one of the simple types hand-assembled furniture for inexperienced craftsmen.
The furnishings for the rest room and hall, as a rule, need professional approach, the use of unusual materials.
Today we’ll talk about how to assemble furniture with your own hands.
The use of laminated chipboard as the main building material
Today natural massif in its pure form it is almost impossible to find in the environment. After all, sets made from natural wood are considered expensive and quite elite pieces of furniture. Therefore, the array is replaced with an affordable material such as chipboard.
In most cases, the thickness of these plates reaches 16 mm. Sheets of greater thickness are also sold. The material is cut on machines.
You can do the work at home using electric jigsaw, however, unevenness and chips cannot be avoided. After all, it is almost impossible to saw off laminated chipboard evenly at home with a jigsaw.
Edges
One of weak points of this material It is considered a cut, since it is through it that moisture passes inside most easily. In this regard, due to poor quality protection, swelling of the ends is possible. Therefore, it is preferable to cover the ends with edges, as in the photo of the furniture you made yourself below.
On modern market There are several types of edges:
- Melamine. This is the most affordable edge of excellent quality. You can glue it yourself using a regular iron.
- PVC is excellent choice edges. Its gluing is only possible on the machine.
- ABS edge, similar to PVC edge, but created from a natural material.
Facades
The façade and doors of furnishings, including DIY garden furniture, are made from the best quality material.
The façade is considered separate part furniture and, as a rule, made to order.
In the case when the facades have unusual shapes, they can be produced within long period time.
Types of facades
Since the main function of the facade is decorative, it is accordingly offered in a wide variety. The façade differs in material, as well as in appearance.
Laminated MDF is a pressed and fairly moisture-resistant material. Usually the surface is treated like a natural array.
However, even the most durable film will crack and peel off after a certain period of time. The main advantage of this material is its affordable cost and speed of production.
In addition to blind-type facades, there are options for a figured look like stained glass. The glass part is fixed to a special plate.
Wood facades will appeal to fans natural materials, however, their cost is quite high. In addition, environmental friendliness is also controversial.
Note!
Painted façade to look like enamel. Possesses significant minus— chips and deformations often appear on the surface.
It was once exploited because of its attractive, catchy shade, but with the advent of shiny plastic, everything changed radically.
Glass facades made from aluminum are suitable for kitchen spaces in high-tech style. They look fashionable, but are quite problematic to manufacture and install. Unusual fittings are used for fastening.
Boxes
There are many methods for making cabinet boxes, as well as DIY pallet furniture. One of the simplest is considered to be assembly around the perimeter using laminated chipboard.
If it is necessary to create an original facade, it must be screwed onto the frame main part from the inside.
In addition, the facade is often attached to eccentrics in the form of one of the walls of the box. In this case, the main task is not to assemble the necessary box, but to secure it correctly.
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Doors
There are built-in wardrobes and free-standing ones. Internal filling It happens at the discretion of the owner; it is possible to carry out restoration of furniture with your own hands.
The main element of each cabinet is a sliding door leaf. It is not recommended to save on this part; it is important to purchase good quality fittings.
Basically, the closet is equipped with several doors, consisting of a frame into which decorative elements are inserted. Door leaves can be assembled from several materials separated by an aluminum profile.
The movement of the canvases is carried out along special guides, which are installed with your own hands, just as you create furniture from cardboard yourself.
Conclusion
If you approach the issue of creating and installing pieces of furniture with all responsibility, then the furnishings will be not only of high quality, but also affordable, distinguished by exclusivity and specialness.
DIY furniture photo
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Currently, new companies producing products appear on the market every year. Often the quality or cost of their products leaves much to be desired. In addition, you may have an endless supply of ideas that you want to implement in or. DIY wooden furniture – perfect solution For creative people, at least somewhat familiar with carpentry.
Features of the production of children's furniture made of wood
All items must be as strong, durable and, most importantly, safe as possible. In addition, the following requirements are put forward to them:
- There are no sharp corners that could hurt a child (it’s better to make them rounded).
- Non-toxic paint coating.
- No small parts (it is better to use large elements securely attached to the body).
- The connections are made without the use of nails ( the best option– screws).
- Simplicity (better to use bright colors than complex shapes and relief facades; it will cost less, and the child will like it more).
Making wooden furniture for a gazebo with your own hands
– element summer cottage, which will make your stay even more comfortable. For the manufacture of elements filling the gazebo, not only an array is suitable. For example, the leg can be made from a large stump, and the tabletop from a saw cut. The main thing is don’t forget about processing!
Excellent design solution– decorating elements in the gazebo in an antique style by brushing. You can do this as follows:
- Treating the surface with a stiff brush to remove the soft layer of wood. At the same time, the solid layer remains uneven, due to which the surface becomes embossed.
- Sand the surface using a polymer brush or coarse sandpaper.
- Processing with other dyes. It is the correct selection of painting materials that allows you to achieve.
- Polishing and varnishing (important - there must be several layers of varnish).
Do-it-yourself production of garden furniture from wood
A dacha is a place for leisure where everything is usually made from scrap materials. In this case, you can use old cable reels and so on. Alternatively, you can use leftovers from old broken furniture. It all depends only on your imagination.
For example, you can use interesting and natural materials as supports (eg stones). To do this you need to do the following:
- Adjust the height of the stones. To do this, you can dig holes of varying depths under the stones.
- Drill holes in them and in the board for connection. Use a diamond bit to prevent stones from breaking.
- Assemble the structure.
- Coat the board with protective varnish.
Making wooden furniture for the bathhouse with your own hands
For a comfortable arrangement, it is necessary to correctly place furniture in it: benches, a couch, and so on. All this, of course, can be bought, but it is much more economical to do it yourself.
First of all, you need to choose the right breed; it must meet the following requirements:
- Low.
- No knots or cracks. All irregularities must be sanded down.
- High density and strength.
Only hardwoods are suitable for the steam room: oak, alder, and so on. You can also use conifers for the waiting room and rest room, the main thing is proper processing.
Wooden kitchen furniture
Of all the interior items, they are the most structurally complex, as they contain many drawers and shelves. For the manufacture of kitchen furniture made of wood with your own hands, you need to perform the following procedure:
- Make a project.
- Prepare materials and...
- Cut the sheets into the necessary elements.
- Assemble the structure.
In order to competently draw up a project, you need to draw a floor plan and designate the necessary zones (working surface, storage space, and so on).
Important! When determining the location of cabinets, you must follow the rules .
- install as close as possible to the water supply riser.
- remove as much as possible from .
- The stove should be located no further than 2 meters from the gas pipe, but the meter should not be above.
Now we cut out and collect the elements. The main thing is to be careful and attentive, then the kitchen will be durable and will serve you for many years.
Do-it-yourself restoration of wooden furniture
How to update wooden furniture with your own hands? The main thing is diligence and accuracy, because old interior items are often quite fragile, as they have been exposed to external adverse factors for a long time.
Before you start decorating, you need to remove all the drawers (for example, sandpaper) and clean the surface.
Important! Surface cleaning old furniture must be complete, so for hard to reach places You should use an old toothbrush.
Only after preparatory work You can proceed directly to decoration. Below are interesting options, which will inspire you to create your own unique interior items.
Conclusion
Making furniture with your own hands is a complex but interesting process. The main thing is to clearly draw up an action plan and select the right materials for each specific case. Then you will be able to create unique interior items at the lowest cost.
Making your own furniture at home is a fascinating process. It allows you to make even your wildest dreams come true. To implement it you need basic knowledge carpentry, a set of the most simple tools, an understanding of the stages of production and a little patience. 
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Advantages of self-made furniture
The advantages of producing furniture on your own are obvious: confidence in the quality of materials and work carried out, implementation interesting ideas, seen somewhere or invented independently, saving money.
Suitable for non-standard premises made creative furniture with your own hands, where no model offered on the market meets the buyer’s requirements.
Required materials and tools
Most often, home furniture is made from wood boards or solid wood. The wood is pre-treated by special means, which give it resistance to humidity, temperature and various mechanical influences. Materials for making furniture include paint and varnish products and sanitary products.
To fasten parts made of wood and its derivatives, self-tapping screws, nails, staples and dowels are used, further strengthening the connection with corners.
When creating furniture, they use different fabrics, leather and substitutes, soft filling (sintepon, foam rubber, etc.), components and fittings.
The entire tool is divided into two categories:
- Drawing and marking (ruler, corner, tape measure, pencil, marker, chalk).
- Carpentry (hammer, screwdrivers, wood saw or electric jigsaw, drill or screwdriver with various attachments, stapler, grinder).
Sofa and table made of pallets
Construction pallets can be an excellent material for making DIY furniture, and the wide availability and low price They only add positive qualities to them.
Manufacturing upholstered furniture from pallets you can start with garden sofa and a table, which will become a convenient place for receiving guests.
Pallets need to be cleaned first, especially if they have been used. The wood is then sanded Special attention focusing on areas where skin and clothing come into contact. In order to give the slats water-repellent characteristics and further reduce consumption paint and varnish materials, they are covered oil primer for wood. If you plan to expose your homemade furniture outdoors in the rain and scorching rays of the sun, you should use an acrylic primer. At the final stage, the pallets are painted and varnished.
Now it's time to implement original solution in life. To do this, just stack the required number of pallets on top of each other, forming a seat, and pallets placed on edge will make an excellent backrest. All components are connected to each other with screws and corners. The final touch– purchase or sew soft cushion covers and cover the surface of a makeshift sofa with them.
The table is made using the same system: stack pallets on top of each other until the required height is formed, and fasten them together. Instead of a tabletop, use plywood, chipboard, glass or other suitable sheet material.
Wall shelves
From construction pallets can be built hanging shelves, use them to store decorative dishes, bottles of collectible alcohol. It is enough to drill in the lower jumper round holes with slots. The glass holder is ready. The shelf is perfect for frying pans, pots, cutting boards.
A shelf made of plywood, MDF or thin boards of polished wood looks more sophisticated. The module is constructed from 4 parts (top, bottom and sides), sewn back wall a piece of chipboard. Or, instead of one side wall, you can install a stand made of metal or a piece of wooden branch.
It is convenient to make hanging elements using corners or special holders that are mounted on the wall. A glass or wooden single shelf is inserted into them.
Some non-standard ideas how to make furniture yourself using scrap materials:
- Instead of holders you can use water pipes. Owners of a loft-style room will especially appreciate this design.
- There is no need to rush to throw away old leather belts. By fixing them to the wall and inserting wooden planks, you can get original shelf for little things.
- Old suitcases, drawers and other unnecessary things can be used to create designer pieces of furniture.
Wicker items
Making wicker furniture yourself is not difficult. Moreover, it may be of better quality than store-bought. The stages and complexity of manufacturing depend on the design of the frame, the method of weaving (combined, openwork or single), whether it is planned to create a pattern, or whether the facade will be even and smooth.
The main requirements for wicker products: safety, reliability and durability. This is achieved by high-quality fastening of parts using detachable or permanent connections. In the first case, the structure can be disassembled into right moment, in the second version, the parts are connected with nails and glue.
For weaving, branches of willow, alder, bird cherry, hazel, nettle, and raspberry are used. For beginners, it is better to take bird cherry blanks. They are the most flexible to work with. The rods need to be harvested in October or spring, then they are easier to clean and preserve. When cutting, you need to carefully look at the core. The thicker it is, the less flexible the workpiece will be.
To impart shades, the twigs need to be boiled. To make them white, you need to cook for 3 hours. To give a dark shade, you need at least 4. Immediately after boiling, the bark is removed.
For decoration, glossy ribbons are used, which are obtained by dividing a twig into several parts.
If you study the process of weaving furniture, it is better to disassemble a chair made using this technique.
The creation of a chair begins with the weaving of the seat, in which holes are immediately provided for the passage of the base of the back, which smoothly passes into the rear legs. To do this, they use long and thick rods, around which thin decorative vines are then woven.
The front legs are woven separately in the shape of the letter P, and then secured under the bend of the seat. The back itself is woven by forming a certain pattern of twigs different thicknesses between the frame.
A more simplified option - purchase and braiding wooden frame. Suitable for these purposes old chair without back and seat.
Kitchen Area
Making kitchen furniture on your own has whole line benefits. You can create a set exactly according to the drawing, investing in both convenience and functionality. Homemade furniture it may even turn out to be better than the one that came off the production line.
The kitchen corner is considered the most frequently produced item, and there are a great many variations in the design of the frame: from boxes and pallets, with a frame made of bars covered with plywood, a shelf-seat attached to the wall, and so on.
The production of upholstered furniture involves the presence of upholstery with filler. Most often, such elements are created separately and then attached permanently or movably to the frame.
Hemp chairs - what could be simpler?
If on personal plot There are unclaimed stumps from a felled old tree lying around, they can be successfully used. At the same time, furniture made from them will be authentic, comfortable and cheap.
The selected stumps are washed, trying to remove all the dirt from the bark. Then an even horizontal cut is made and the surface is sanded.
Processing can occur in several ways: varnishing, painting, staining. The product is often upholstered with foam rubber and fabrics. If the diameter of the stump allows, you can cut a shelf in its cavity.
IN recent years for creating individual design Increasingly, people are literally taking on home and interior design projects with their own hands. And if they start with accessories and decorative items, a gradual transition to making more complex things is not long in coming. These can be pieces of furniture for the kitchen, living room, hallway, or children's room.
To do this you need to understand general principle the process of creating interior items. The basis of the basics is a good sketch. If your drawing skills are not ideal, it is better to look at furniture sketches on the Internet or specialized magazines. It is not necessary to repeat it exactly; you can transform this or that item to suit your needs.
You can consider taking measurements using the example of creating kitchen set with your own hands.
Taking measurements has its own laws, because the drawings are based precisely on correctly measured parameters:
- If you are making a kitchen set, or something for the kitchen, you need to know the length of the walls.
- Then the height of the walls of the room is measured.
- If we take as a basis standard sizes kitchen cabinets, they will be as follows: the height of the base cabinet is 85 cm, the depth is about 50 cm, the width is from 30 to 80 cm.
- Wall cabinets are made either according to the same parameters or in a smaller version.
- Distance from wall cabinet to floor – 65 cm.
All numbers are just a standard, average size, which can be changed to suit the features of the kitchen and the height of the housewife. Next moment– entering the dimensions of household appliances that fill the kitchen.
Now these dimensions need to be transferred to paper. Today this need not be done manually; drawings are often drawn up in special graphics programs.
Library of furniture drawings (video)
Correct size calculation
Each piece of kitchen furniture is calculated separately. All elements are detailed, painted according to components. Eg, The kitchen cabinet is painted as follows:
- Rear panel - size;
- Side walls - size;
- Doors - size;
- Shelves - size.
Drawers are detailed separately. The mounting locations for the fittings are indicated. All dimensions are indicated with strict accuracy so that the drawings are error-free.
DIY upholstered furniture drawings
To create upholstered furniture, it is tedious not only to create a drawing with your own hands, but also to choose the right materials. And to the list necessary materials include:
- Boards,
- Bars,
- Filler,
- Upholstery fabric,
- Fiberboard and chipboard sheets,
- Bars,
- Leg-split,
- sharp knife,
- Drill,
- Screwdriver,
- stapler,
- Sewing machine,
- Threads,
- Self-tapping screws,
- Screwdrivers,
- Pliers,
- Glue,
- Miter box,
- Keys in the set,
- Hand saw.
Having even small creation skills simple designs and using these tools, you can understand more complex technology. The success of the enterprise will depend precisely on how quality materials you use.
Upholstered furniture requires filling; synthetic padding is ideal for this purpose. A good alternative to it horsehair, but the cost of the latter seriously exceeds the cost of padding polyester. Foam rubber is also suitable, the only note is to choose foam rubber sheets of medium elasticity.
The work begins with creating the frame. When individual elements are created, drawings will be required. The parts are marked on the material, after which the blanks are cut out.
The first fitting will show whether the design and drawings match - the parts must fit together. If there is no match, the details need to be corrected immediately.
DIY kitchen corner (video)
Advantages of handmade furniture
Whether interior items are made for the kitchen or another room, such designs have undoubted advantages:
- High quality– since you choose the material, accessories yourself, and control all stages of the creation process;
- Significant cost savings– purchase of materials, that’s all the expenses;
- Creation of a single interior ensemble– with furniture created by yourself it is easier to make the interior harmonious;
- Gaining experience and moral satisfaction from the work done.
Besides non-standard sizes rooms, corners and projections require appropriate furniture.
Special design programs
These programs greatly simplify the design process. They help to make the correct sizing calculations and more. Using programs you can:
- Create a sketch a certain thing;
- Create a design project, for example, a kitchen set;
- Narrow down your choice of materials up to a certain category;
- Choose decor options, finishing, fittings;
- Build 3Dmodel future design;
- Optimal placement of parts on the sheet– precise cutting of sheet material;
- Manage the cutting process material.
In short, you can computerize the entire process, thereby ensuring that mistakes are avoided, and everything that is difficult to do with your own hands can be done on a computer.
Creating a kitchen project using KitchenDraw on a computer (video)
Conclusion
Creating any interior items is not an easy task, but it is quite feasible for a non-professional. Accuracy of measurements, drawings, modern weapons computer programs design will simplify this process and allow you to create truly high-quality, original item, which will serve the owners for a long time.
