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| Check out this simple solution to your storage problem. Just make a sofa that will double as a storage unit. |
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Cut out your pieces of timber to the measurements listed above, and label each piece in pencil with its length. Remember to start by cutting the longest pieces first and work your way through to the shortest, using your offcuts wherever possible. You'll waste less timber this way.
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Take the six 2245mm lengths of blue gum flooring, which will become the front and back panels of your sofa base. Cut 20mm off the width of one of the pieces (this board will be the top of the front panel). Next, clamp and glue three of these pieces together to make the front panel, and repeat the process to make one for the back.
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Using the 530mm pieces of blue gum flooring, repeat these steps to make the two end panels. While the clamps are on and the glue is still wet, choose the worst side of the panel (which will face inside when the sofa is assembled) and glue and screw the support cleats as shown in Diagram 1a and 1b.
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Set in the two centre support cleats 730mm from each end of the panel. The top and bottom support cleats are fixed 17mm from the top and bottom on the front panel. On the back panel the bottom support cleat is fixed in the same place (17mm up from the bottom edge). However, the difference is that it is fixed 37mm DOWN from the top edge. (This is the same as the two end panels.)
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Now you can fit the base together. Screw through the support cleats on the front and back panels into the end panels. See Diagram 2.
Fit the two ply supports. The ply supports are glued and screwed onto the vertical pine supports you fixed onto the two end panels earlier. They should be flush with the top and bottom pine support cleats. See Diagram 4.
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Using a circular saw cut two pieces from the ply or chipboard to fit on the top and bottom of the base. The top piece should be 550mm shorter than the bottom. See Diagram 3.
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Glue and screw the ply bottom in place.
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Now you can make the removable timber top. Cut out two pieces of flooring to 510mm and two pieces to 550mm. Cut 17mm off the width of one of the 550mm long boards. Glue and screw the 510mm lengths in between the longer pieces. See Diagram 5. Next, fit rails on two of the inside edges.
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Now take six lengths of the 500mm flooring and glue these together to form the top of the removable lid. Trim the top down so it fits exactly over the frame you have just screwed together. Then glue and nail down. See Diagram 6.
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Cut out four feet (each 560mm long) from the 40 x 40mm blue gum. Glue and screw two of them 40mm in from each end and the other two 730mm from each end. This should mean they are positioned directly underneath the two ply supports. The final product should look like Diagram 7.
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Materials
Blue gum flooring, 100 x 200mm:
6 pieces cut to 2245mm long
6 pieces cut to 530mm
2 pieces cut to 510mm
6 pieces cut to 500mm
Radiata pine, 40 x 40mm:
10 pieces cut to 165mm
4 pieces cut to 2105mm
4 pieces cut to 430mm
Blue gum, 40 x 40mm:
4 pieces cut to 560mm
1 sheet of CD ply or chipboard, 17mm thick (2400 x 1200mm)
50mm screws
Glue
Sandpaper
TOOLS
Circular saw
Drill and cordless drill
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More Info
All timber and hardware materials available from your local hardware store.
Cushion fabric from a fabric seconds store.
Cushion in-fills from Clark Rubber. Clark Rubber sells mattresses in a number of sizes and they can also cut foam sheeting to size for you. For more information call your nearest Clark Rubber store. Our foam came from Clark Rubber Chatswood, 165 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, NSW, 2067, ph: (02) 9411 7047, fax: (02) 9413 3729.
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