How to make an ironing board with your own hands?

For high-quality, and most importantly, convenient ironing of clothes and linen of a modern iron with the necessary options will not be enough, because for such work we will need more and special equipment place. Ironing board - that's what you need more.

Of course, today there are no problems with finding ironing boards. In any specialty store you can find a lot of different models. And yet there is another fairly simple way that will allow you to acquire this necessary item in everyday life - you can make an ironing board with your own hands. Such a thing can even be presented as a gift to a loved one. Such a gift will appreciate when they find out that you did everything yourself.

They washed and then stroked all the clothes and underwear, now the question arises: “Where to put and hide the board?”. Usually, ironing boards are left in the room in the unfolded state, and some each time after ironing, they fold it up and put it behind some furniture to make room in the room. That's just such a folding and unfolding take a lot of time and effort. There is an excellent way out - retractable ironing board.

This built-in type of construction for ironing combines many advantages.

1. Easy installation. For the most simple use of the board is attached to the wall. Several special fasteners are screwed to the wall, and then the board itself is then installed on them. By the way, it is recommended to carefully choose a place so that next to the embedded structure there must be a socket.
2. Significant savings in free space. Households can not be limited in movement, because the ironing unit can now be hidden in the closet, and this, in turn, will give the room more space.
3. Practicality. It is necessary to iron the clothes - they take the board out of the closet, stroke it - hide it back.
4. Appearance. Foldable ironing design is made out for the interior style, thereby complementing the overall picture of the entire space.
5. Reliability durable design. All these qualities provide the ironing board with a long operational period. For example, there are models that are equipped with a sturdy metal frame with thoughtful details.

Now you need to figure out how to mount such an option yourself, make the drawings and scheme. A special mechanism allows you to lower and raise the tabletop if necessary, which is very convenient. In addition to the table top, in this design for ironing there is also a frame embedded in a wall niche, and a footboard.

First of all, before mounting the ironing board, it is necessary to make a niche where the device will be folded. That is, first you need to make a storage for the ironing structure. Niche easier to make in the house frame type. It is only necessary to pull out the inner lining, then to give the niche with the help of wooden boards a special form.

• Determine the size of the future board. The optimal length of a home-made wooden tabletop will be size - 130 cm, the width of the device should be 40 cm. Furniture panel should be measured, focusing on these parameters. It is better to choose the shape of the shield with the corners of rounded shapes. At operation of a board with such corners upholstery will not suffer.

• Next, you need to prepare several bars, the size of which is 3.5x4x30 cm, and three bars with a size of 3.5x4x110 cm. Of course, these parameters may differ: everything will depend on the space of the room and the growth of households who will use the ironing board.

• For accurate and fast cutting of the element using an electric jigsaw. Along the edges of the part is processed by a milling machine.

• On a long bar, 52 cm are measured, on the other hand, 5 cm are measured. Markup points should be marked and then drilled through holes in marked places; a drill with an 8-mm drill should be used. The same is done with other bars.

• Thanks to cork drills, a sample is created on two long bars. Thus, the bolt heads will not stand out, they will be completely recessed in the material.

• Further it is necessary to connect 3 received beams with the help of bolts. It is better to use fasteners marking M10. The bar in the middle rotates 180 degrees.

• We measure 3 cm from the edges of the short beam, we create 8 mm holes. On one of the parties we make a sample.

• Further, similar holes are drilled, but only in a 2 cm indent. Sampling is done on one side.

• Long bars with short bolts.

• Made supports of long and short bars are fixed to the tabletop. At the same time, you should indent around the edges by 18 cm.

• With the help of a milling machine on the other side of the tabletop create a recess for one leg, so it will fold inward when the transforming structure unfolds.

• Now you can start cutting out the upholstery panel type. This should be done taking into account the dimensions of the table top. The size of 150x50 cm is considered optimal.

• On the lining fabric you need to cut around the tabletop to cut the fabric and place the cut piece on the surface.

• Now the tabletop needs to be turned over to lay on top of the upholstery material located on the wrong side up. The edges of the upholstery fabric are wrapped and fixed on the ironing structure. For mounting it is better to use a stapler.

For information on how to make a transforming ironing board, see the video below.