How and from what can make a tray with your own hands?

Trays made of wood look great in the interior of the kitchen and easy to use. They are easy to make with your own hands. A stylish wooden accessory can be purchased in the store, but the price of a high-quality and beautiful product will be high. Even if you do not have special abilities to creativity, you can create a homemade tray for coffee, tea, breakfast in bed.

There are quite a few options: with and without handles, with sides, with legs, with interesting decor. It is enough to make the right drawings on the model and use the master class, and then decorate the product to your liking. You can make a tray not only from a cut of wood, but also from scrap materials: cardboard (for example, a cardboard box), plywood, champagne jams, jute and even paper.

First of all, you need to think about what material will be your tray. Not every kind of tree is suitable for this. If you decide to use a saw cut, the following types of wood will do:

• oak;
• maple;
• alder;
• cherry;
• Linden;
• Birch tree.

The tray itself is an uncomplicated structure consisting of a bottom of a flat type, with sides at the edges. For the manufacture of bumpers you can use:

• boards;
• slats;
• frames for photos and pictures;
• doors from the table.

If the choice fell on plywood, then it is very easy to make a tray out of it, thanks to the flexibility of the material. Remember that such a tray will not be too durable and strong. Plywood as a material used for the manufacture of interior things that have no practical application.

You can start working with wood in the event that you have:

• sandpaper;
• furniture stapler;
• glue gun;
• screwdriver;
• jigsaw;
• Ruler and pencil;
• saw.

That is, you must have the tools for the following actions:

• drawing and taking measurements;
• cut, drilling;
• mounts.

Before proceeding directly to the manufacture, you must create a drawing, sketch. You can choose a way more convenient for you:

• choose raw materials and build on its capabilities;
• create a sketch with measurements and select the material for it.

In any case, first think over all the parameters of the future tray. The product should not be heavy and uncomfortable to use, otherwise it will be inconvenient to move. After that, you should decide on the functionality - the product can be equipped with legs, sides, handles. In fact, a multifunctional tray can play the role of a small table.

The drawing must indicate not only the dimensions, but also the attachment points. If you use plywood, consider:

• places where fittings will be located and fastened;
• width and length;
• thickness of the base and sides is also taken into account.

Products of a more complex type, for example, from natural wood are created on the basis of drawings, including:

• the attachment points of the legs, handles, joint nodes;
• fitting and decoration points;
• thickness of all materials used.

After creating the drawing, you can begin practical work. Prepare fasteners, elements for docking. To make a simple tray with sides, it is enough to follow a simplified algorithm:

• cut a rectangle of those sizes that were supposed to;
• prepare a frame along the length of the base;
• fasten the handles on the frame;
• decorate the bottom of the tray;
• join together the frame and base.

More complicated constructions of portable tables, trays with legs are created according to the same algorithm.

Decorative items, such as pens, are purchased in furniture supermarkets. The decorating stage is one of the last, choosing elements for decoration according to taste, chosen style. It is necessary to consider the interior mood of the kitchen. The final stage is coating with varnish, staining the tray using water-repellent agents.

Creating this model with legs requires a certain skill in working with tools. The option is quite multifunctional, perfectly replaces a small table. Can be made of plywood canvas, boards. You need to prepare the following materials:

• rectangular board or plywood, 40 by 70;
• 4 meter metal tubes;
• 15 mm corners - 8 pcs .;
• 15 mm gaskets - 4 pcs .;
• stain, varnish for coating.

Production steps:

• tubes are cut so that the edges are smooth, you need 4 tubes of 6 cm, 4 pieces of 25 cm and 19 cm, 2 pieces of 58 cm each;
• 25-centimeter pipes are combined with 6-centimeter corners, fixed with glue;
• the resulting handles are superimposed on the attachment point, the junction points are marked;
• holes are made at these points according to diameter;
• the material is polished with sandpaper, then treated with varnish, stain;
• gaskets are attached to the holes and fixed with glue;
• ready handles are inserted;
• the legs are attached to the finished tabletop of segments of 58- and 19-centimeter racks;
• legs angled with tubes of 25 cm;
• everything is fixed with glue.

This option is suitable for beginners. In addition to the picture itself, you will need:

• 2 handles for the door, it is better if they are of the original appearance;
• plywood;
• screws and screwdriver.

On it stick a canvas and process a varnish. After drying, fix the screws.

The method is also simple to perform, you need a frame of the desired size, plywood or cardboard base. Algorithm of actions:

• cleaned cardboard and glass;
• holes are drilled in the frame, in which handles for furniture sit on the screws;
• creates a plywood base in size;
• at the next stage, the decoration of the base takes place; you can decorate the factory cardboard by inserting it back;
• decor is fixed on plywood with glue;
• glass is inserted.

To make this original tray, you will need:

• champagne corks - 100 pcs;
• Super glue;
• glass.

Algorithm of actions:

• knife cut the cork in two;
• put them in the base and connect with each other superglue;
• put plexiglass on top and cut to size;
• Fix the sides of the plugs that are left intact, attach them to the glue.

It all depends on your imagination, taste and skills. If you can draw, then painting the tray is not difficult. You can make a pattern not only the bottom, but also the side walls of the tray. The painting is carried out with acrylic or oil paints, at the end of work is varnished.

Among the unusual ways of decorating - photos and rose petals.First you need to stick a photo of a flower on the bottom of the tray, then put petals on it, sprinkle the distance between the petals with beads. After it is enough just to fill in all clear type lacquer

Do not be afraid to experiment, the most non-trivial elements can act as a decor:

• mosaic;
• shreds, wool;
• postcards;
• leaves and flowers;
• straw;
• mat.

You can also make pens very effective. Then instead of purchasing accessories are used:

• weaving of newspaper tubes;
• corks from wine bottles;
• leather belts;
• plastic handles, wrapped with string.

The legs are made not only from metal tubes, but also from PVC pipes, which are painted at will. You can use wooden dowels.

You can simply apply slate-type coating to chalkboard on an ordinary board. This option in combination with a tree looks very original.

Mosaic decor is suitable for patient people, the work is painstaking, albeit uncomplicated. It is enough to stick pieces of various materials onto the base:

• seashells;
• broken glass;
• pebbles;
• eggshells, beautifully painted;
• tiled splinters;
• paper of different colors, cut into pieces.

Fix the details can be a standard glue type "moment". The product is covered with a fixing coating.

How to make a tray with your own hands, see below.