They can make a stepladder, but not simple, but combined with a chair. This design is called "chair stepladder", a feature of this design is that it combines a stool and a small staircase with a stepladder. In an era of crisis, many people save on many things, including furniture, and some craftsmen can make simple designs with their own hands.
This design is a huge help in the economy due to its stability and sufficient height.
Making a simple model
Such designs folk craftsmen make a large number, but all of them can be divided into 3 types:
- Stationary - to the solid furniture (stool) add a few additional parts, forming a stable design.
- Transformer - the name speaks for itself, when a simple chair, thanks to the design features, turns into a sturdy and high enough ladder.
- Folding - almost the same as the transformer, but only takes up much more space, and for small apartments, this is an important condition.
To make this ladder, the home master will need:
- drill;
- a hammer;
- saw or electric jigsaw;
- chisel;
- metal parts;
- plywood, boards;
- glue on a tree;
- means of final finishing of the finished structure.
To choose the most convenient stepladder, the home master needs to study the drawings and choose the most suitable design, which will be convenient to use in this or that room. Most often use a ready-made stool, this greatly facilitates the assembly of the entire structure and requires much less time than when making stairs from the very beginning.
The diagram of the simplest design is created on the basis of an ordinary sturdy stool, only it needs to be slightly modernized. You need to take a bar about the same thickness as the legs of a stool, decide how many centimeters the stool will be above, and cut it to size. Make it from the end of the saw cut by half the thickness of the timber, and using a chisel to remove the unnecessary tree.
The same operation should be done with the legs of the stool, after which the bar and legs of the stool are connected together and fastened with the help of glue, as well as self-tapping screws. As a result, the stool will stand higher for the selected length of the bar.
Next, you need to attach a step to it. Approximately in the middle of the stool, it is girdled with a bar so that a rectangular frame is obtained. On that part of the frame that will protrude, attach a thick plywood or board and attach from the front of the legs for stability and a better distribution of weight.
Thus comes out a small stepladder. The only downside is that the design can be quite cumbersome and heavy. To use such a stool in a small room is not entirely convenient. For the manufacture of more complex structures, such as a folding chair and a ladder at the same time, you need to spend more time and materials. This design consists of several elements:
- A seat that is cut from thick plywood or collected from racks.
- Supporting the rear pillar, which is the shape of the letter H, it can be assembled with both metal corners and screws, and with dowels and glue.
- Stairs, which, as a rule, has 3 steps.
In order for the process of manufacturing parts and their further assembly to be understandable, it is necessary to find drawings of such structures. When all the parts are made and processed with sandpaper, you can proceed directly to the assembly itself. First you need to fix the steps in the side racks, they are fastened with glue, for additional strength you can fix them with screws. After the finished staircase is fastened with bolts with a back part. Wooden stepladder almost ready, it remains only to attach a pad to it, check the work of the entire structure and process the wood, stain, varnish, etc.
Transformer chair as a kind of ladders
You can make another version of this design, which is called a folding chair. This homemade chair, perhaps, is the most convenient design for home use.
This construction is 2 parts, connected together by means of loops. One part looks like a narrow stool, and the second part looks also, but at the same time it is attached to the back, like an ordinary chair. It is enough to turn the second part 180 degrees, so that the back becomes the legs of the ladder, and its legs become a staircase with steps. In this case, 2 ladles of the seat also touch each other, a stable construction is formed, which is convenient to use.
To produce this design, you will need piano loops, boards, bolts and material for wood processing. First saw out the main elements of the structure, side surfaces, steps, etc. To get it right, you need to use different templates (if possible) and make a chair stepladder with your own hands. After all the details are ready, just connect all the parts together. And beforehand you do not need to tighten the bolts to the end to check the entire ladder in the collection, everything is correctly done and everything works as planned.
If something is not right, then it can be easily disassembled, the shortcomings eliminated and finally collected.
This video talks about making a stairway with your own hands:
To make a chair with your own hands at a home master with the availability of materials, tools will not be difficult. This stepladder is always useful at home, in the garage, in the country or in another room.
Happy owners of spacious apartments with high ceilings enjoy air and light. High ceilings are wonderful, but comfort brought with it the problem of "reaching out to heaven". In other words - how to get to the ceiling to hang a chandelier. Put a stool on the chair and become like acrobats? Dangerous. Drag an old wooden ladder and lean against the wall? Uncomfortable. To get a building sliding ladder? A good way out. But there's a better way - a stepladder chair!
Wonderful transformations
Every house needs chairs. They do not happen much, especially in those hospitable houses where it is always crowded. And certainly never will be superfluous such an interesting invention, as a chair, which turns into a stepladder. Useful properties of the chair-transformer are many:
- This is a full seat.
- This is a reliable ladder, the height of which is enough to safely climb to the desired height in the apartment.
- The stepladder can be folded and stored in a pantry, it takes up little space.
- Wooden transformer is easy to carry.
But such an unusual and useful thing is useful not only at home. The library usually has high shelving, from which you often need to get the required books. In offices, too, there are high shelves, where are stored, for example, archives. A simple staircase or a real tall stepladder in the office style of the office will look like alien objects, but a normal chair with a look will not attract anyone's attention.
Externally, the stepladder chair looks almost like the rest of the chairs, only on the sides it has extra legs. The seat of the chair consists of two separate parts, connected together by a piano loop. When the product is transformed, the back of the seat, the backrest and legs turn into a ladder. The resulting design is stable, because it has front legs, additional legs (struts) from the front of the seat, and an inverted wooden back. Stairs of the improvised ladder are the platforms that are built between the struts and legs and the seat.
Tip:
A stepladder chair can be searched in stores, but it's interesting to try to make the most similar thing if you want to build something for the soul.
For the manufacture of the ladder, expensive materials and tools are not required. In one of the following articles, we will tell you in detail how to do it.
Where did this transformer come from?
You will be surprised, but the story of the ladder chair goes far into the past. Initially it was invented as a stepladder for the library. But it is rumored that the idea of such a transformer was offered by none other than Benjamin Franklin, an American scientist and public figure, writer and journalist, whose portrait flaunts on a hundred-dollar bill.
There is another version of the authorship of the chair. It would be like an Englishman, Robert Campbell, in 1774 invented and patented a folding ladder for the library. The heyday of the production of this piece of furniture fell in the era of Regency and Georgianism (1811-1829). Then many wealthy people who have extensive libraries in their mansions (note, just with huge ceilings!), Ordered chairs-transformers with twisted ornaments on the legs and smooth curls.
In fashion, except for curls, was and Gothic. Therefore, the backs of the ladders were decorated with peaks and trefoils. Until now, artifact items of furniture and furnishings of long ago sunken centuries have reached us. Historians were able to accurately determine the years of manufacture of such chair-ladders and clearly establish that this happened long before the Franklin era.
And in the feast and in the world
Modern masters joyfully picked up the idea and make transformers for every taste, purse and interior. In the course are both cheap plywood and pine (budget option for cottages and apartments), and expensive wood - oak, beech, even exotic wenge wood. Of course, we try to design only in the silence of a private library. After all, you will not climb on such a ladder (which the ladder and the ladder will not call the tongue!) To twist the bulb.
Here is a story about an unusual subject with a rich history. A stepladder chair is a beauty and functionality in one product! Look at the thematic video, and you will understand how this wonderful wooden transformer unfolds. Did you like the story? Write to us.
Alexey Shamborskiy, 30.01.2017
Using traditional ladders of ladders makes it possible to get to the top of the walls or ceiling, to find things on the mezzanines, high shelves. If there is plenty of space in a private house to store such equipment, then the issue with the apartment is much more complicated. As an alternative to a more cumbersome folding ladder, you can get a compact, transforming stool stepladder.
The presence of a chair-transformer in the economy will allow performing various manipulations at a height exceeding human growth (finishing ceilings, walls, screwing light bulbs in ceiling lamps, storing things on the mezzanines, finding books on the shelves of the home library, etc.).
How to make a folding staircase
To buy a good folding stool-stepladder can be problematic because of the rarity of goods from this category. At the same time, making a stepladder with your own hands is quite feasible, especially since the materials that will be required for this procedure are inexpensive and you can not buy them. Deciding how to make a stepladder chair, it is not superfluous to study the photos and video materials published in the article.
Tools and materials
For the manufacture of wooden chair Ladders will need to have the following tools at hand:
- hacksaw or circular saw;
- electric jigsaw;
- screwdriver;
- small "Bulgar" with a clean circle on the tree;
- a hammer;
- grinding machine;
- a set of brushes for painting.
The most suitable material for making a chair is multilayer plywood with a thickness of at least 12 mm. Plywood of greater thickness will be much stronger, but its application will affect the weight of the product. If you plan to operate the chair not only in enclosed spaces, but also in outdoor conditions, it is worth giving preference to moisture-proof plywood.
As ancillary materials, you need to purchase: a piece of a piano loop, wood screws, paint or varnish for wood.
Drawing of chair-ladders
First you need to draw a drawing of the future product. To this end, you can use the scheme published on our website, or develop on its basis a more suitable option. When drawing up a drawing, you need to keep the basic design principles of the product. The geometric dimensions of the ladder chair, the materials used, the nuances of design can be changed, guided by their own preferences.
Having determined the necessary dimensions of the future staircase, the scheme for cutting plywood sheets should be displayed on a sheet of paper of millimeters. Next, using copying paper, you need to transfer the image to a sheet of plywood.
Step-by-step instruction for assembling a ladder chair
- With the help of a saw-saw with teeth for cutting plywood or circular electric saws, it will be necessary to cut the plywood sheet into separate elements of the future design.
- Cutting of internal, external curvilinear contours of elements of a product is carried out a manual or electric jig saw.
- Grinding of the edges of the sections of the component products is made by an angular grinder (Bulgarian) with a sweeping circle around the tree.
- To fine-tune surfaces, you should perform manual sanding with sandpaper. The outer planes are processed by a grinder.
- Cutting and polishing all the workpieces, you can proceed to the direct assembly of the chair of the ladder.
- Initially, using a screwdriver and wood screws, vertical structural elements lower, upper parts of the product.
- The middle stage, consisting of two parts, is connected together by self-tapping screws using a piano loop of the appropriate size.
- Further, the upper and lower parts of the chair are attached to the middle stage. The pony loop during the operation of the product will act as a hinge along which the folded-fold chair.
- After assembly of the structure, for its preservation and improvement of appearance, it is necessary to paint the finished product with acrylic paint or varnish for wood. To ensure resistance to moisture, it is desirable to use paint for outdoor work or yacht lacquer.
The finished product will successfully perform the functions of a convenient, not taking up much space for a ladder, and it will also be useful as a comfortable chair for the kitchen, the hallway. Excellent stability, sufficient strength of the chair-transformer allows you to safely use it during manipulations at height. In addition, it is a cute, original home furnishing subject, the use of which will be approved by all household members.
Video of manufacturing a chair-ladders by one's own hands
- Making a stool
- Folding structure
The stepladder chair is made of different materials.
Having at hand only all the necessary tools and plywood, you can make a stepladder with your own hands.
To make a wooden structure, you need a bar, plywood, a hacksaw, a jigsaw, drills, a grinder, a spatula.
Making a stool
Preliminary preparation of the drawing, which denotes the constituent elements of the product and its parameters. The stepladder consists of racks, a seat, a support post, a ladder march. When self-manufacturing The following parameters are taken into account:
- seat height - 60 cm;
- between the support and the string must be a distance of 60 cm;
- between the strings of the ladder, a distance of 48 cm is observed.
The stepladder chair, made by your own hands, will be comfortable to use if you place the steps in steps of 15-20 cm. To make a seat, you will need cross strips. Preliminary wood is processed (to obtain a perfectly smooth surface). Reiki are fixed with each other. From the edge from 2 sides an indentation of 5 cm is made. To make a groove, you need a router. Then the cross bars are fixed on the rail-bases. To increase the strength of the product, glue is used. You can make the seats themselves from 2 boards in the size of 150x500 mm.
The supporting part of the structure is made of guide rails, which are designed to provide connection (horizontally) and increase the strength of furniture. At the ends of the wood holes are drilled. As the staircase march is fixed at an angle, the stairs of the staircase are mounted horizontally. To determine the angle, it is recommended to assemble furniture without steps and connecting bars. Elements of the construction are set taking into account the above recommendations.
Then the product is fixed. The lower ends of the string and supports are cut at an appropriate angle. The next step is to mark the position of the steps. The width of the 1st stage should be 44 cm, and the depth - 15 cm. To collect the staircase, a ladder will need a string. Guide posts are attached to the seat. The upper ends of each rail are rounded. The resulting furniture is varnished.
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Folding structure
To make a folding chair, stepladder, you will need to make curly elements. The edges of the components of the furniture are treated with sandpaper. To connect the mobile and fixed parts, use piano loops.
The construction of a stool with a movable module provides for the production of 2 steps.
The module extends due to the guides.
The chair-ladder is presented in the form of 4 legs, footboards and a king. The thickness of each part is 19 mm. Side panels are made of plywood with a thickness of 3 mm and parameters of 17x25 cm. To make a staircase, you will need guides 31 cm long, fasteners, lacquer, glue, drill.
Legs, lining and footsteps cut out of blanks. The upper ends of the king should be cut at an angle of 80 degrees. The steps are sawed. Their ribs are rounded. At the bottom step, do notched corners are 3.8 x 3.8 cm in size. For the assembly of furniture, screws and dowels are used. The upper and lower kargas are fastened. The middle legs are assembled in pairs. The knots are connected by the kings. Screws are used to fix small legs. The supports are attached to the thimbles and connected by the king. Then, the remaining 2 steps are strengthened.
The obtained parts of the chair are set as they will be fixed. Free elements of the guides are fixed. If the assembly is done correctly, then the stool is disassembled. Installation of the stair-ladder is made anew with the help of joinery glue. Finished construction covered with putty and varnish. Plywood pads can be painted.
Metal chairs-ladders are equipped with 2-3 steps. Such furniture can be with one-sided or two-sided climbing. The metal structure has the following advantages:
- low weight;
- strength;
- speed of assembly;
- comfortable application due to the presence of rubber overlays on the steps;
- availability of a broad platform;
- stability.
The elements of the metal staircase are fixed by standard bolts. If necessary, they can be replaced by new analogues. Unlike wooden construction, a metal stepladder can be stored in basements and other damp areas.
If you are planning to make such a useful device for your home, like a stepladder with your own hands, you will definitely need drawings. From the accuracy of the calculations performed, it depends not only on the final appearance of your product, but also on its quality characteristics, such as strength, stability and convenience.
Product Features
To begin with, it is necessary to understand what such a design is. First of all, it is a piece of furniture, that is, the look of it should be appropriate and, if possible, fit into the interior as much as possible. In addition, such a stool or folding chair acts as a miniature staircase. With its help you can get to high shelves or a light bulb in a chandelier.
A ladder chair can be a simple variation of a conventional stool with an overstated seat or a transformer. In the latter case, in order to take advantage of the steps, the product needs to be turned over, or rather, to install one half of it into the second.
Transformer made of wood is suitable for any interior
There are a lot of models. The most popular and most reliable is a chair with a back, which when folded turns into an additional support.
The huge advantages of this chair are:
- compactness;
- ergonomics;
- multifunctionality;
- ease of use.
Make your own folding chair-transformer by the type of ladders can be only if you have at least a minimum of skills in working with wood, as some of its parts are milled whole on a milling machine or with a drill and special attachments. Much more important here is to calculate all the indicators in such a way that after the assembly everything came together literally to a millimeter.
Basic calculations
In order to make a simple model of such a product, it is necessary to perform a series of calculations to determine basic parameters. A staircase ladder, designed by one's own hands, can have an arbitrary configuration, but you need to calculate such indicators as:
- length of support legs;
- backrest height;
- number of steps;
- the sizes of steps;
- dimensions of the seat.
The design and layout of the assembly of the transformer chair
From the length of the support legs, in fact, the height of the chair depends on its direct use. In addition, longer legs are installed at an angle for better stability of the structure. The back of the chair should be placed in such a way that in the position where the transformer is converted into a stepladder, it stood on the floor level with the main support at right angles to the surface.
The seat will be divided into two parts so that the chair can be folded. The number of steps is calculated depending on the final height of the ladder. Usually there are 4-5 of them. For the screeding of the legs, crossbeams are required. Their length depends on the distance between the supports at a particular point.
Selection of material
To make a wooden chair-stepladder type transformer yourself, you will need a durable material. Usually, pine boards are used for this purpose, but this tree species has certain drawbacks. So, it quickly loses its quality characteristics, can crack, rot and split. In the event that a large load is expected on the product, it is better to find a more durable material. The best option is oak or beech, but these breeds are quite expensive. Alternatively, multi-ply plywood can be used, as it is durable, very durable and able to withstand a huge load.
Oak - the best material for furniture production
To fix the details of the staircase, you will need wooden dowels, carpentry glue and screws. For swivel parts you need strong hinges.
The best option for joining the two halves of the chair is a piano loop.
If you are afraid that the legs of the chair can not withstand the load and fly out of the grooves, additionally use metal bars with nuts to tighten the structural elements on the sides.
How to make a chair-transformer
The stage of the work, which will show how well the drawings were prepared, is cutting and assembling the parts. In order not to be mistaken when performing cutting parts of the chair, it is desirable to make detailed patterns in full size and use them for fixation on the material. So you can saw with a jig saw or milled every little thing provided by the projector.
Before you finally collect the ladder, you need to "sample" the details. The stepladder with its own hands is assembled quite simply: the design is fixed with temporary bolts or on PVA glue, if the transformer is completely convergent in size, you can perform a final assembly.
To protect the wood from moisture and heat, it is recommended to treat all elements with stain and varnish in advance. In extreme cases, this can be done after the assembly of the ladder. Lubricate the hinges for soft work. Take care not to stain the chair with oil. Such a piece of furniture is always useful for you in a private house, and in an apartment.