2015 Small Sofa Beds for Small Spaces, MUST HAVE!

2015 Small Sofa Beds for Small Spaces, MUST HAVE! - You know who totally got snubbed at the Oscars this year? Microjig. Maker of the GRR-RIPPER. Work safer. Work Smarter. This video is also sponsored by Harry's. I'm using a combination of inexpensive pine boards and plywood for this project First I'll cut down the pine boards to their widths. To cut the decorative tapers on the bottom of each leg, I'm using my microdial, no wait, MicroDial Tapering Jig. As always, it's a good idea to cut all the pieces that are the same size at the same time so you don't have to adjust your setup. I can glue and tack the side pieces together. Two of them only get a rail on one side. Now I can attach the legs to those pieces, keeping in mind that the taper goes outside. Whenever I use pocket screws, I like to use glue on the joint also. To make sure this lower piece is positioned in the same spot on each side, I've cut out a scrap that I'll use as a spacer. And once again, my poor spacial awareness kicked in and I've got the pocket holes on the wrong side of this piece, but it's already glued up so I'm just going to fill those in. And once these are sanded down, I'll paint right over them. I'll prepare the two back pieces the same way. I'm going to glue and screw these into just one side. I'm notching out the corners in the lower shelf. Before I assemble anything I'm going to glue on these drawer runners which are just square pieces of solid wood. I'm sanding the tops of these runners down now with 220 grit sandpaper because once this is assembled, it's going to be really hard to get my hand in there to sand it. This part's going to be a little tricky, I need to set this shelf in place before I put this together. And again, I'm using glue and pocket screws. Now I can glue this shelf into place. I can't get my nailer to fit inside of this gap so I'm just going to clamp this into place. The drawers are just simple boxes made out of plywood. I'm using a rabbeting bit on my router to make a ledge for the drawer bottoms to drop into. I cut these two thin pieces of hardboard to use as the bottoms of the drawers. The rabbeting bit leaves these rounded corners so I need to cut these corners to match. Then glue and tack them into place.

I don't want the drawer going all the way back. I want it to stop right about here so I've cut out some little stop blocks that I'll glue and tack into the back. This piece of plywood is going to be the top. I'm covering up the edges with iron-on edge banding. Well the paint's all dry and I've moved it inside. Sofa Bed For Small Space  It was just too blindingly white out in the sunlight and I couldn't see anything. I want the drawers to slide in and out really smoothly. The key to doing that on wooden runners is to polish them using a paste wax. I'm going to use this wax sent to me by my friend Linn. She makes her own using linseed oil and beeswax. I'll include a link down in the description if you'd like to check it out yourself. It even smells good. Let me show you how it works. Using a rag, I'll just wipe this onto those rails. You can even put it on the paint. And I'll put it on the bottom of the drawers too. Once it's dried for about 5 or 10 minutes, you can start buffing it with a clean rag. Having drawers slide that easily is very satisfying. I'd really like to take a moment to thank you for choosing to spend a few moments of your day with me in my workshop here at Woodworking for Mere Mortals. If you like this video and you're not already subscribed, I'd like to encourage you to.

I believe that, even in a small space, Ikea Small Sofa Bed you can have a certain level of decadence. I'm Suzi West, designer, stylist, curator. I own a shop in Brooklyn called Collier West. And this is my 200-square foot flat in Brooklyn, New York. I was working with a broker in time constraints. Supposedly, there was somebody due to move out in September in the garden space. I came in, took a look at it. There's a backyard area that's about three times the size of the flat itself, and that seemed like a great opportunity. What I love about this space is its warmth. Also, there's a particular mood that it brings. And it brings a sense of calm. Well, the other thing about small a space is you have a small dog. My dog's name is Tchotchke. He's a toy schnoodle. So having a petite in the house is appropriate. When you're in a one-room flat, there were some choices. You could approach it in there would be a bed in the middle of the room, and it would purely be used for sleeping. I opted to mask that idea, because I like to entertain. I can have people over. It's limited. There's basically a coffee table and what appears to be a sofa. I have a piece from the late 1800s that's called an Amberg Patent File. It's an old, handcrafted chest of drawers many drawers, maybe 112. And that's where I hide a lot of things. I like books, so that's an easy thing to put on exposed shelving. I have a kitchen set up with curated dishes. Hanging on the wall of my kitchen is tissue boxes. They were already designed to hang, so it made for sort of instant shelving. I have a sensibility towards strong graphic materials. I love signage, particularly funny signage with great words on it. Because I didn't have the ceiling height to bring in a chandelier, I opted for really opulent sconces.

Small Sofa Beds Ikea I have a really strong sense of capacity and what you do with your clothing. On ULINE, they have these amazing bins. And so I designed a system where I'd just hang the absolute extremes outerwear and dresses and everything else goes in some sort of bin or a shelve department. I want to continue to downsize. You can break a lot of what used to be standard rules of design by using a little compression and a little creativity. Living small has been really instrumental in what I do and being productive. For a lot of people, it's really tight, but it's given me a lot of freedom and a lot of liberty, and I recommend it, in general, for people that really want to free up even your mind-- the time you spend searching for keys or your passport. An average clean in a small space might be a couple hours, versus an entire Saturday. And so there's a lot of merit in doing it. It requires some discipline. But if it's for you, it's a really ideal way to live.