How to make a rocking chair?

For many centuries, such an interior item as a rocking chair is considered one of the main symbols of home comfort, warmth and surprising serenity.

Particularly pleasing is the fact that making such furniture with their own hands is very simple. There are many options how to make a compact rocking chair at home, without wasting money to buy expensive materials. To help you in the production of such comfortable home furniture, in our master class we will show you how to make a rocking chair yourself. For this we use:

• an ordinary chair with legs;
• wooden skids ("skis").
• drill;
• screwdriver;
• Furniture screws - 4 pcs. diameter - 4 mm;
• sandpaper;
• black paint ;
• brush.

How to make a rocking chair with your own hands?

1. To begin with, we prepare the most important part of our rocking chair - semi-circular "skis". To ensure that the chair does not fall on the backrest when swinging, we make them 20-30 cm more than the distance between the legs. Those. to each edge of the legs add 10-15 cm.
2. Since we make a rocking chair ourselves, we can cut the skids from the tree block with a saw, using a drawing. However, to save time, we used the services of a familiar carpenter and received two even "skis", 75 cm each.
3. In the place of fixing the runners to the legs of the chair, with the help of a drilling machine the master made two even vertical holes on each "ski".
4. We try "skis" to the chair. At us all has coincided, runners perfectly "have sat down" on legs.
5. Now, with sandpaper, grind the surface of the "skis" and paint them with black paint in 2 layers.
6. Again, "put on" the skids on the legs of the chair and, using a drill, drill holes in them for a screw with a diameter of 3 mm. We insert a screw and screw the screw "skis" to the legs.
7. That's what we got. Now you know how to make a rocking chair yourself, and with ease you can make your dream come true.