Assembling cabinet furniture with your own hands

You purchase new furnishings. Prices in stores, of course, make you want the best, but you have to buy. However, you can save significantly when purchasing by assembling the purchased headset yourself.

Having familiarized yourself with photos and videos of assembling furniture with your own hands on the Internet, you are quite capable of mastering this generally simple process.

Tool

To assemble furniture, a minimum set of tools is required. Screwdriver with bits, 4 mm hexagon, mallet, pencil, square ruler, tape measure, building level, awl.

It happens that there are no holes for connections; you need an angle clamp for precise fixation and a jig, as well as a Foster cutter for hinges and drills of various diameters.

Assembling a furniture set

Any furniture in a disassembled state is a set of panels (planks) of various sizes (usually made of laminated chipboard and MDF, less often solid wood), the necessary fittings, decorative elements and a set of fasteners, packed in boxes.

Modern cabinet furniture has sets of various cabinets, shelves, chests of drawers and other elements.

Each of them is packaged in a separate box, which contains diagrams and detailed instructions for assembling the furniture set.

Assembly must begin by unpacking it at the installation site and checking the contents.

Don't make mistakes

Tips for assembling furniture will be useful for beginners:

Prepare your work area by covering the surface with cardboard from the packaging.
Before you begin, number the parts and check that they are complete.
Monitor the accuracy of the markings, because the final result depends on this.
Check the diagrams and do not confuse the details.
Tighten the connections firmly, but do not overdo it, so as not to split the body or break the threads; it is better to set the screwdriver to medium tightening force.

To connect elements the following are used:

Eccentric coupler Can be used many times, there are no protruding caps on the outside.
The furniture corner is practically not used, since it is issued on the inner surface of the product, for economy class goods.
Dowels made of hard wood connect the upper and lower parts of the set to the sidewalls.
Furniture screws, the main difference is that the head is square with curves, it cuts into the material and does not allow it to turn when tightened.
Ties for connecting headset sections.
The confirmat or euroscrew is easy to use, but it requires turning three stages of the hole, or a special drill profile.

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Furniture salon advertising

A furniture store, of course, needs a bright sign. Just don’t regard it as the main advertising tool. The salon only serves as a showroom. The client can come, touch the sofa, table or chair with his own hands, and evaluate the quality of workmanship.

Other tools are responsible for attracting visitors:

leaflets;
brochures;
social media;
website, etc.

It is important to remember the target audience here (return to the beginning of the article). Flyers in the subway are unlikely to attract buyers of luxury sofas. Printing sales brochures is not always justified when selling cheap chairs. I tell you about my experience in preparing brochures here.

Sale of furniture through non-standard showrooms

I picked up this idea from Western marketers.

Furniture companies enter into contracts with residential building developers. They provide complete furnishings for a new building. The result is a kind of showroom. A buyer comes to choose an apartment and sees not empty “concrete boxes”, but cozy, comfortable housing. Everyone benefits from such a partnership:

The developer sells housing faster.
The company sells not just one sofa, but a batch.
Clients do not waste time traveling to stores and are not tormented by the question “how will this look in my apartment?”

Buyers do not see empty rooms, but a furnished new building. The probability of a transaction and the average check are much higher.

Documentation

For each set of furnishings, the manufacturer usually includes instructions for the correct assembly of furniture with drawings and the order of combining parts, which must be strictly adhered to.

Violation of the established rules risks the fact that the almost finished creation will have to be disassembled, otherwise something will not be put in place.

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Assembly instructions

If you still decide to act on your own, find instructions on the Internet for properly assembling furniture, get a lot of useful information, treat it with caution, in some cases it does not correspond to reality, and sometimes it directly contradicts it.

In any case, this version of the medium is better than the instructions, sometimes printed in translation from foreign sites in broken Russian.

The amount of information is very large and is constantly updated with new, very sensible tips on assembling furniture for beginners.

Some things that determine the sequence of the process remain unchanged - if you try to jump over them, you will return to the previous level, as in a children's game.

Table stand

We assemble the bottom and sides, taking into account that the cladding is not glued to the rear ends and sometimes a chamfer is chosen. This will help you position the panels correctly.
We install the upper strips and, having laid the structure on the floor, measure diagonally. They must be the same, then the surfaces will be perpendicular.
We nail the back wall with nails or, if there are staples, using a stapler, since it is quite expensive to buy for one time, it is impractical.
We secure the legs and level the box.
We install hinges and hang doors, adjust their closure.
We attach the shelf holders and shelves, and install the handles.

Washing

We fix it in the same way; if there is no opening in the countertop for the sink, we cut it out and install it with sealant. If necessary, we make cutouts for plumbing fixtures.

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Installation of sliding doors

Strictly level we attach the upper and lower guides, which should be slightly recessed. We install wheels on the door, insert and adjust their position with special screws.

Results

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If you decide, then good luck! In the future, you can help friends and acquaintances, and maybe start your own business collecting furnishings.

Basic Rules

First of all, in order to assemble any piece of furniture well, it must be of high quality. Therefore, when accepting delivery, first check the contents of your order. Most often, a single piece of furniture, or an entire set, should be accompanied by a list of parts, which will be the first part of your instructions for properly assembling the furniture.

Before this, you should have accurately measured the space that the furniture you bought will occupy, so that in the end it would not turn out that the conventional wardrobe simply does not fit in the right place.

Moreover, you need to take into account that the same cabinet must also be assembled indoors, and the latter must be spacious enough to comfortably carry out assembly and subsequent movements. Carpets should be removed and the floor itself should be covered with something like a blanket to protect the surface from damage.