The problem of insufficient space in apartments, perhaps, has always been relevant: how to accommodate everything you need in a rather small area? Today this issue is perfectly solved by transforming furniture. For example, a shelf-table perfectly saves space and, with a slight movement of the hand, turns from shelves into a table. Another feature of this design is that the shelves are parallel to the floor in any position, which means that even during the transformation, nothing will fall.
Of course, such furniture costs a lot, however, if you have a little patience, you can make it yourself.
You will need:
- metal profile pipe;
- wooden plank;
- metal strip;
- wood paint or varnish;
- metal paint;
- instruments;
- accessories and fasteners
The first step is to prepare the boards for the shelves and countertops. Their number and parameters depend on your preferences. Prepared boards, if necessary, are sanded and covered with paint or varnish. If there are 2 boards per shelf, you do not need to glue them together, because in the future they will be laid in a "frame", it is enough just to lay the boards end-to-end.
Next, you need to prepare metal parts, from which shelf "frames", very important for the entire mechanism, will be assembled. From a metal strip, first cut strips equal to the length of the shelves, one for each. Cut guides and legs from the profile pipe.
Then you need to prepare the L-shaped parts. They consist of two parts: two strips of different lengths, the total length of which is equal to the width of the shelves. In the upper corners of the L-shaped parts, we drill holes for attaching the rails to the bearings, and along the length of the holes for attaching the shelves. We weld all the parts together and clean the seams, after which we cover everything with paint for metal.
Next, we put the shelves in the resulting metal frames and lay out everything in the form of a tabletop, not a rack. We expose all the gaps, adjust, if necessary, the length of the legs and guides. We fix the shelves within the frameworks, while the frames are connected to each other using guides and bearings. We weld the legs.
This is the mechanism that ultimately turns out.
We fix the locking lever on the wall, which will hold the shelves in the rack position. Done!
And below you can watch a step-by-step video on how to make such a transforming table with your own hands.