Build Your Own Sofa Frame

Cover foam with batting.

Build your own sofa frame. Inexpensive but great looking your home decor can be updated on a limited budget when you make this neat homemade couch. Be sure to visit wood building sites like ana white for some awesome free building plans. How great would this sofa look on your covered porch or patio much less in your living room. You just need solid wood 2 x 8s and 4 x 8s ikea sofa cushions and minwax wood stain finish gray.

Cut diy couch foam down to size. We also offer a down wrap cushion fill. You can build one very easy if you follow these step by step instructions. Modify with a bottom shelf or x bracing on the ends.

We purchased our plywood at a local lumberyard. Use the best stain grade plywood you can find if you want to stain it. This step just helps to smooth out the sharp edges of the foam. Attaching the sofa table lid and the seat storage lid 1.

Make it yours size layout details choose from any of our standard sofa or sectional sizes or custom size for just a little extra to fit your living space. You can also search. You can check out this. Learn how to make a couch the easy way with pallets.

Assemble the seat frame as shown using glue and 2 1 2 screws. Cut 2 pieces of 3 4 inch thick hardwood 2 foot 4 inches long by 10 inches wide. Choose from 6 leg stain colors. Your frame size will depend on the size of the picture you are framing and the size of the mat that you want.

Check out this simple design featured on homemademodern on youtube. Since you re basically building your own couch from scratch you get to decide the dimensions shape and everything else. Once you have your couch frame built free building plans are found here the. I ll share the formula to figure it out.

Of course you ll also need some power tools like a circular saw cordless drill and miter saw with laser. Choose a soft medium or firm seat cushion. This is a free diy project plan that you can use to build your own lift top coffee table. With the pocket hole jig set for 1 1 2 material drill pocket holes in each end of each piece including the 2 3 seat supports and the 2 4 back support.

First you need the dimensions of the picture you want to frame then the width of the mat you want around the picture and lastly the width you want your frame to be. Screw one hardwood sheet to the top of each arm rest on the sofa using countersunk long screws to form support. Add a sofa bed. Build your own diy upholstered couch step 1.

Cut the 2 4 pieces for the frame. This coffee table has a lift top so you can use it as a table.