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Frameless chair - an original interior detail
Among unusual items In furniture, you can increasingly find frameless furniture, which appeals to modern consumers. Surprising at first acquaintance with their bagginess, such seats captivate those who sit in them. The defining sensation in describing the sensations of sitting in such a chair is absolute comfort, because the bag takes the correct position of the body and is adjusted at the request of the owner.
What options does the original chair not carry? Ball, ottoman, pear or bag. Such products are ideal for children's rooms and youth interiors. Has great value, what kind of filling will be selected for pear chairs. The comfort of the owner, the weight of the product and the durability of the product depend on this. environmental safety. What is the chair filled with? Which option to choose from the variety of materials? The decision is made by the buyer.
Natural fillers. Pros and cons
Residents of megacities and rural areas, seeking to get away from synthetic abundance and wanting to surround themselves only with environmentally friendly safe items, give preference to natural materials. They use filler for bean bags in different combinations
- It is beneficial to use coniferous shavings (cedar, pine), which exude healing aromas and prevent rodent pests from approaching. But the material requires careful selection and over time it turns into small sawdust, which loses its appearance and does not provide volume.
- Down mixed with feather. The material is light, but gets loose over time. Down is used with extreme caution, as it most often causes allergic reactions. And when wet, such a filler emits a peculiar smell that not everyone will like.
- Grains and legumes include rice, peas, beans and even peanuts. But such products differ in weight and are susceptible to the invasion of rodents who are not averse to feasting on the contents of demons. frame furniture.
The disadvantage of natural materials is their hygroscopicity. By attracting moisture, such filling for pear-shaped chairs can sprout, become moldy, and acquire a musty smell. In conditions country houses or irregularly heated rooms, it is better to abandon the idea of using such materials.
Filling for pear chair - polystyrene foam
The most popular for making frameless furniture are synthetic balls that create the required volume. The product, filled with crushed foam, does not lose its shape during use for a long time. Expanded polystyrene granules are foamed elastic air lumps that are lightweight. Products where filling for bean bags can easily be obtained the required form, transforming to the contours of a person, appealed to modern users. Such furniture provides a person with an orthopedic effect. Allowing the body to relax, a high-quality filler does not allow the owner to awkwardly fall into the chair, but has the effect of a cloud that hugs the figure, giving a comfortable position.
Advantages of synthetic filler
The buyer chooses artificial material for stuffing a pouffe bag because of the advantages that frameless furniture provides long time retains its shape. What attracts them to this material?
It is not difficult for the owner of the pouf to independently supplement the volume of foam that has decreased over time. They are sold in bags of 100 liters or more.
But for buyers who decide to make their own original furniture using filler for a pear chair. 300 liters is the minimum required amount. You just need to follow safety rules when stuffing the product, because light granules can get into the respiratory tract if spilled. Scattered balls can be removed using a vacuum cleaner.
A homemade piece of furniture will delight your household; its lightness and convenience will appeal to children and adults. A shapeless chair, created with your own hands, will decorate your home. Exclusive frameless furniture will not only provide comfort, but also emphasize the taste of the owners.
Ho-ho! Dreams tend to come true, especially if you really want to make them come true. For many years now, Kostya and I have been eyeing a bean bag chair, or as it is also called: a bean chair, a pear chair, a frameless chair, Big Ben, a cushion chair, etc. And somehow we still couldn’t get this desired thing: either there was a catastrophic lack of space in the previous apartment, there was no renovation to accommodate such beauty, or we simply couldn’t find expanded polystyrene anywhere (those foam balls, which fill the bean bag chair).
While hatching the idea of creating a bean bag chair with our own hands, we managed to accumulate enough information about how and what to sew it from, what to stuff it with, and how to choose the size. In addition, we found a beautiful natural fabric for the outer cover and an ugly, but knitted fabric for the inner cover. And we also discovered that granulated polystyrene foam went on permanent sale to the Epicenter retail chain. And when we found time and Kostya accidentally drifted into the nearest “Epicenter”, from where he carried 200 liters of white balls, it became clear that we would sew a bean bag chair very urgently. And so it happened.
So, how we made a bean bag chair with our own hands.
We needed:
- Fabric for the inner cover (2.5 m x 1.4 m). It should be a good stretch fabric. We took an old knitted sheet.
- Fabric for outer cover (2.5 m x 1.4 m). Any dense, non-stretchy fabric (cotton, velor, furniture fabric, even leatherette) will do. Our fabric is thick cotton and felt very nice and soft on the finished chair.
- Expanded polystyrene 200-300 l. These are the kind of balls that we used to break up unnecessary packaging foam into when we were kids :) construction stores This happiness is sold in large bags. It is better to take smaller balls, they are less likely to bunch up. In Kyiv, as I already wrote, we found suitable polystyrene foam for stuffing a bean bag chair with our own hands at Epicenter (200 l - 95 UAH), Leroy Merlin also has polystyrene foam, but not always in larger granules (300 l – 120 UAH). We bought 1 bag of 200 liters, although the recommendations said that we would need 300-400 liters. When we filled the bean bag chair and began testing it, we came to the conclusion that it was just enough for us, since a soft bag takes the shape of the body better than an elastic one. This chair provides a very good rest for your back, and for a pregnant belly it’s generally an irreplaceable thing :)
- 2 zippers. For the inner cover – 50 cm, for the outer cover – 100 cm.
- Strong threads
- Paper for large patterns. We took craft. You can take old wallpaper.
- 2 Velcro strips, 10 cm long. They will be needed to connect the inner and outer covers.
- Sewing machine. In my opinion, it is impossible to sew all this manually...
Stages of work:
1. Create a pattern. A standard bean bag chair consists of 6 wedges and 2 round or hexagonal parts (the upper one is small, the lower one is large), and a handle is also attached on top. There are quite a lot of different patterns for frameless chairs on the Internet, but the meaning is the same. Appearance the bean bag chair does not change much depending on whether there is a circle or a hexagon at the bottom; the width of the wedges will be 40 or 50 cm. Of course, the main dimensions greatly influence the size of the finished product, but I mean that the type of wedges and the bottom does not radically affect what your chair will ultimately look like.
We found and finalized the pattern for a medium bean chair (120 x 90 cm). It seems to me that the standard width is quite enough. If you increase only the height of the wedges to about 140 cm, then the length of the headrest will increase, that is the chair will do for a taller person.
Bean bag chair patterns
To transfer the wedge pattern to a large sheet, you need to draw the middle of the wedge - the axis, put marks on it at a distance of every 10 cm and measure the widths indicated on our pattern, and then connect them into one line. This will be the side bend of the wedge. Then we fold the pattern along the axis and draw the second half of the wedge symmetrically. There is a deflection at the bottom of the pattern. We measure the specified deflection size from the height of the axis. Then we apply a ruler to the two lower edges of the pattern and bend it to the indicated deflection mark and draw a deflection under the ruler. Cut out the finished pattern.
How to draw a deflection on a wedge pattern
In order to draw a circle, take a non-stretchy thread and tie a loop at one end (we will thread a pencil into it). Using a ruler, measure the length of the radius of the circle from pencil to finger. We press one end of the thread to the center of the circle, thread a pencil through the second and draw a circle. Cut it out.
How to draw a bottom pattern for a bean bag chair
To build a hexagon, you need to draw a rectangle, and then place the hexagon in it according to the specified dimensions. Cut out the part.
Don't forget about the rectangle pattern for the handle.
Patterns for a frameless chair
2. Now we place the patterns on the fabric, as in the picture. This is necessary for more rational use of the material. For the same purpose, the round part is cut into 4 parts. Before sewing a bean bag chair, they need to be sewn into a full circle. When cutting the fabric for the inner cover, we didn't divide the bottom piece because the old sheet was oversized and we had enough of it to fit all the patterns at full size.
Placing bean bag chair patterns on fabric
3. Cut out all the parts, not forgetting the seam allowances (1-1.5 cm).
4. First we sew the inner cover. We sew wedges together, in last seam sew in a 50 cm zipper.
This is what the outer case looks like without the bottom and top
5. Sew on the bottom. For convenience, it is worth connecting the wedges and the bottom with pins.
6. Then sew on the hexagon top. Don’t forget to sew 2 Velcro onto this part.
7. We sew the outer cover in the same way. On inside we sew 2 Velcro on the hexagon, and on its outer side we sew the handle of the bean bag chair (first we fold the rectangle in half with the wrong side up, sew along the edge, turn it inside out, and then sew it to the hexagon).
Finished inner and outer covers
8. When the 2 cases are ready, it's time to stuff the inner case with polystyrene foam balls. To do this, I advise you to go out into the entrance or at least into the corridor, since the balls tend to crumble and fly in different directions. Have a vacuum cleaner or broom and dustpan on hand. The bag of balls needs to be cut very slightly in the upper corner. Otherwise, by cutting off the entire top of the bag, you risk spilling a lot of balls past the cover. This means that it will take a long, long time to clean them up. Insert the opening of the bag into the cover of the bean bag chair and, shaking the bag slightly, slowly pour out the contents. This action is best done together. After filling the chair, fasten the clasp.
9. Slide the inner case with the balls into the outer one, secure the upper parts of both cases together with Velcro. Fasten the zipper and enjoy your big bean bag chair, which you made with your own hands :)
Velcro for connecting two covers
Kostya holds the bean chair by the handle
All three of us spent the whole day testing this miracle of comfort and discovering the additional functionality of Big Ben. In addition to the fact that this chair and bed is 2 in 1, it has a very good streamlining of the body, which allows pregnant women to finally rest their belly in a comfortable position.
A bean bag chair is a child's joy :)
In addition, Ksenia appreciated the bob and began to use it almost as a trampoline, slide and sofa at the same time. It is noteworthy that it is quite difficult for her to get out of the arms of the chair, which means she strains her muscles and this is very useful. It’s very funny to watch how a baby stuck in a sack flounders, turns over, pushes away and squeals with delight. In addition, you can still feel the lumpy texture of the balls through the covers, and this is a wonderful massage for small children’s feet.
Evening family reading
By the evening, it was discovered that the enveloping effect of the chair helps to lull the obstinate baby to sleep :) A couple of episodes of the cartoon, a comfortable position in the chair next to the mother and the baby is sleeping. Another property of the chair will please those who love warmth. It's very warm. As you know, polystyrene foam is an excellent insulator, and the foam balls, which cover the body from all sides, warm you so much that you won’t freeze, even if you really want to. You just need to remember to take a cozy blanket with you.
We recently got this new piece of furniture. We immediately appreciated its merits and made it our home; sometimes we even argue about who will sit on it. If you have any questions while creating a bean bag chair with your own hands, write to us and we will definitely answer them.
We wish you inspiration to create wonderful cozy things!
P.S. After 5 months of active use.
Let's take a thorough look at the most important and most frequently asked questions in this article:
- Cost and Quality
- What are the quality guarantees?
- Crinkling over time
- Toxicity and Environmental Friendly
How much does a quality filler cost?
Don’t be fooled by cheaper offers from dubious sellers, be it a beanbag chair for two or three thousand rubles or a pear chair filler for one hundred or two hundred rubles - they will last you for several months, at most.
Firstly, when you see that a bean bag chair costs 2000 or 4000 rubles, rest assured that it is made of cheap fabrics and materials that will not last long. WHY? Because otherwise such a chair will be unprofitable for the seller, since one chair takes at least four meters of fabric and about 300 liters of filling, and at the same time, “the seller is also a person” and must make a profit! If so, it means that such a chair will be filled with low-quality and cheap filling.
Secondly, look at what volume of filler they offer you for the specified price. As you have already read, for the average person (height 170 cm), the volume of the chair cannot be less than 250-350 liters. Many stores of cheap bean bags or private sellers of filling on Avito deliberately mislead customers, offering to buy filling for 200, 100 or even 50 rubles, but the volume is either not indicated or is written in the smallest font. For information: expanded polystyrene is produced in cubic meters(1 cubic meter = 1000 liters) and the average retail price of high-quality expanded polystyrene, which is certified, starts from 4000 rubles, which means minimum price for 100 liters it cannot be less than 400 rubles.
Conclusion No. 1: The cost of 100 liters of filling for a beanbag chair should be at least 400 rubles.
What filler is high quality?
A high-quality filler should be:
- Manufacturer certified and Federal service on supervision in the field of consumer rights protection and human well-being;
- Diameter from 1 to 2 mm
- Density not lower than 13 g/l
Certification- here it is worth dwelling on two points: What was certified? and To what extent do the data obtained during the examination comply with the standards for use in furniture? The integrity of the seller and manufacturer is verified very quickly and simply: request a certificate. Here is the certificate of the filler used in the ambient lounge®:
Certified specifically for frameless furniture ( NOT! for construction or thermal insulation )
Full compliance with standards: SanPin, MRL, MPC, etc.
Diameter of polystyrene foam ball or filler
How larger size granules, the lower the quality for the consumer! It's very simple - the larger the ball, the more air it contains, and paying for air is not reasonable! The more air -> the faster the granules will begin to compress under the weight of your body -> the chair will become unusable (deflate) -> and you will have to fill it more often. Diameter Poor quality the filler starts from 4mm and more, the most widespread is about 5-7mm. This filler is suitable only for the cheapest bean bag chairs and pears, where shape and comfort are not important. This filler can be used for short-term events.
The ambient lounge® uses the smallest filler (only the filler for anti-stress pillows is smaller) and this is visible to the naked eye. It lasts five times longer and is why our furniture lasts for years. The color of the granules should be white, correct form balls - round!
If you buy a filler for yourself, proceed from the truest principle: value for money.
Granule density - what does it give?
The denser the ball, the longer it lasts and the less it compresses, but at the same time it should remain soft so that you feel comfortable in the chair. The filler used in the ambient lounge® is 50% higher in density, more than 15 g/l, than its analogues, the density of which rarely reaches 7 g/l.
Therefore, ambient lounge® furniture feels softer, deforms less and lasts much longer. Instead of a huge bag of filler, which you will need in a couple of months, a small handbag of high-quality filler will be enough for you
Conclusion No. 2: a high-quality filler, when used for a year or more, is more profitable than a cheap analogue!
Doesn't your filler squeak?
Due to the low density and large diameter, the granules of cheap filler really make an uncharacteristic subtle sound... Just don’t buy a cheap one if you love yourself and those around you even a little.
The filler is DANGEROUS! this is POISON! TOXIC SMELL! and so on...
Now we know how to choose a quality filler, and therefore below we will talk about how harmful or not a certified filler is harmful. Let's look at this issue in more detail, since frameless furniture is very often purchased for children. Regarding the environmental friendliness of polystyrene derivatives, battles have not subsided since the start of production to this day: some consider the material to be absolutely harmless and environmentally friendly, while others consider it a real time bomb.
Expanded polystyrene or extruded polystyrene foam is one of the most popular fillers in the private sector, and frameless furniture is no exception. Its popularity can be explained by its high technical characteristics, and accessibility. It is quite difficult for a person who is far from the technology of producing polystyrene to figure out which of the properties of polystyrene are real and which are from the category of “horror stories”.
Briefly about the main thing: What is polystyrene foam? Often expanded polystyrene (EPS) is called polystyrene foam, which is quite justified, since polystyrene foam is general concept, which unites a group of foamed plastics (polymers), to which EPS belongs.
Firstly, it is important to understand that what is important here is not “WHAT?”, but “HOW MUCH?”. Polystyrene granules do contain a toxic substance called styrene. But its concentration is certified! polystyrene foam is extremely small (less than 0.002 mg per 1 cubic meter - remember that the volume of a chair is usually 0.3 cubic meters), because modern technologies and world-class equipment complete the polymerization process on 100% of the molecules and during the drying process all styrene molecules not connected in chains are removed. During operation, if it emits something, then, of course, within the limits permitted by sanitary standards (MPC).
FACT - Few people know, but styrene is found in such common foods as nuts and strawberries. Expanded polystyrene packaging (hereinafter referred to as EPS) is in great demand all over the world - fish boxes, hot cups, meat trays, etc.
MYTH- therefore, you can use certified polystyrene foam with absolute peace of mind for your own and the health of others. By the way, formaldehyde, which is contained in laminated chipboard, that is, in most mass-produced frame furniture, is also poisonous. But the point here is the concentration of these substances!
Is the filler allergic?
Expanded polystyrene is biologically neutral and a hypoallergenic filler - this means that no microorganisms, mold, mildew or other irritants will grow in it, which has been proven by numerous studies.
Toxic smell?
If you smell a synthetic smell and the filler has a certificate, this means only one thing: the filler has literally just been produced and it needs several days for the smell, after the process of producing polystyrene foam, to simply disappear. Everything new should have a smell!
Previously it was believed that all polymers are entirely life cycle exploitation are allocated harmful substances, since the polymerization process cannot be completed on 100% molecules - but we have already written above that this is a myth and explained why!
What if you set it on fire? or fire?
If it’s normal for you to burn your own furniture, then “you should continue along the corridor”...
Fire? Anything can happen and no one is immune, so let’s say a few words about one of the most important parameters – flammability! The concern is not so much the flammability of polystyrene itself, but the smoke and its toxicity. PPP – flammable material(G3), BUT! it does not support combustion, as it contains fire retardants.
By the way, metal also burns - remember the fire like at the ZIL plant, where the metal was burning and the temperature went off scale over 1000⁰C, in such conditions absolutely everything will burn. That is, if you bring the burner up and remove it, then in a maximum of 4 seconds the polystyrene granule will go out. This is during testing. When EPS burns, carbon dioxide is released and carbon monoxide, the same as when burning wood. The point is that this the amount of smoke is much less, since the density of EPS is on average 15 kg/m³, which is less than that of other materials.
That is why this filler is used for frameless furniture, various shapes of pillows, including for pregnant women!
And finally, let’s finish with humor :) If someone, somewhere, once told you that frameless furniture is due to the use of polystyrene foam (deputy editor - certified! ) poses a health hazard, then advise so-and-so not to use disposable tableware (including coffee from fast food stores), and also to throw away all computer equipment and television, since their cases are also used to make polystyrene... and children's toys, including well-known brands such as LEGO:)
What if you try to make something out of furniture with your own hands? Interesting? Let's start by making furniture that doesn't require a frame, for example from a bean bag chair (or, as it is also called, a pear chair).How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands at home? The key to an excellent result of your work is to do it right from the start make patterns and find a good filler. You select the fabric (color, texture) to your liking, not forgetting the harmony of the future pear-shaped product with the rest of the furniture in the house.
The most important advantage such bean bags self made
the fact that it itself is light and freely takes the shape of the body of a person who wishes to rest on it. Therefore, it is very comfortable. You can even lie down on it, fluffing it up like a pillow. People who spend a lot of time “on their feet”, or sitting for hours in the office, perfectly relax and rest their back muscles when they sit in bean bag chairs. And what delight this furniture causes in children! Be sure to take your child as an assistant when you start making a bean bag chair with your own hands.
The next important point is filler. The most popular of them now is polystyrene chips, the granules of which are 1.5-5 mm. If you use it as a filler, then you will never sit in a “cold” chair. This applies specifically to crumbs, and not to foam plates.
As an option, order crumbs from an online store (cheap and fast). And with the rest you can fill decorative pillows and soft children's toys.
It will be great fill chair bags not with traditional polystyrene foam, but, for example, with hay soaked in the aroma of hot summer or some fragrant grass. You just need to keep in mind that such fillers love rooms without high humidity. This filling is changed every 6-12 months if products made from it are used a lot and often. Therefore, the bag itself should be easily removable to replace the filler.
One of the covers that makes up a bean bag chair (or pear chair), should be made of raincoat fabric or thick mattress fabric, the second cover should be made from beautiful furniture fabric or denim, suede, faux leather and even velvet. You should not take expensive fabric for the outer cover, since with cheaper fabric the cover can be changed as much as you like, and each time you will have a “new” chair. So it’s worth thinking about whether we need to pay in online stores for the super abrasion-resistant fabric they advertise, if we have the option of inexpensive, but different and always “fresh” covers?
A strong metal zipper 50-60 cm long is usually placed on the outer cover of the bean bag chair. Best place its location is at the bottom of the chair, otherwise it may break if there is excessive load on the chair. If you don't like the zipper, sew on a few buttons.
By turning on your imagination, you can vary chair bag from a very large pillow to a comfortable mattress; it can be like a chair with a back, if you arrange the pillow in a triangle, and a comfortable mattress.
Before you begin directly working on the manufacture of the product ( upholstered furniture), we recommend doing small pattern on paper to scale to check if everything fits. 
The seams on the covers must be strong, the same as on jeans, using reinforced threads in order to withstand heavy loads.
We sew a chair bag (pear chair, cushion chair) with your own hands . Master class with step by step photo instructions and pattern.
Comfortable frameless upholstered furniture, made by yourself. Master class on making a beanbag chair.
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Frameless furniture is an oasis of comfort, a place to read and a place to take a nap. This is also inexpensive option, which is easy to do yourself.
The first bean bag chair in the style of Italian modernism appeared in the 70s. It was designed by three designers: Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro. The model was released on an industrial scale. But this was not at all the “firstborn” of the “amorphous” chair in Italian history. A less successful predecessor was called "Impact", its disadvantage was that it did not retain its shape.
Forward to a better life
The DIY bean bag chair has quickly become the preferred place to relax in the home, office and even on the street. Today there are hundreds of varieties of this furniture, from bags to sofas, made from printed materials, fabrics, with many designs. Since the models are so versatile, it's easy to see why so many people prefer to relax on a sack rather than on a hard chair.
Let's look at how the chair changes the lives of its owners:
Fills the corner of the room
Is there an empty corner in your home that's just screaming for attention? This is the ideal location for a frameless model. It can be neatly installed directly there, taking up minimal floor space, which is valuable in small room. When guests arrive, the chair is pulled out of the corner, it is not difficult to move it.
Balances perception
There are many straight lines in the space of the room. They are created by electronics, shelving, tables, carpets and even windows. According to practice, it is necessary to balance round and straight lines in the house. Bean bag chairs can complement and “soften” any room. Frameless models will be what you need to create a positive, attractive and comfortable environment.
Gives a relaxing effect
The chairs are suitable for children because they are soft. There is no reason to worry that the child will be harmed. The models create a feeling of comfort and allow the body to relax when a person plays video games or watches TV. Pets often use the bags as bedding, which is useful for older pets with joint problems.
Helps with work
Modern style life has abolished the stuffy, overbearing atmosphere, turning it into a relaxing, creative environment, furniture follows the trend. The beanbag chair promotes ease and creativity.
Good for health
Some people are under the impression that a firm, straight chair is better for the back, but this is far from the truth. When a person sits on a frameless chair, it shapes the body, which allows it to support bones, muscles and joints, giving the opportunity to rest.
No matter how someone sits or how many times they move, the chair continues to move with their body.
Attention! For pain in the spine, a chair bag is a necessity. It will cost less than expensive designer furniture.
Three advantages against three disadvantages
Advantages
— Seat covers are replaced and washed;
— The chair shapes the interior and will become a child’s favorite toy: children love to jump and fall;
— The furniture is safe, without sharp corners, environmentally friendly.
Flaws
— The filler loses its shape over time;
— Furniture needs periodic maintenance if it is often moved from place to place;
— The filler sometimes poses a danger to small child.
Types of fillers
So, if you need to sew a bag for a chair, what should you fill it with? Which “filling” is best?
- Most models are filled with an artificial material known as polystyrene foam. It is a carbide, lightweight, rigid plastic that retains its shape. This filler practically consists of air. Peas have a diameter of 3 mm to 5 mm, they are resistant to moisture and heat.
The material is reused and recycled. - Polypropylene is another polymer that is used to fill chairs and is popular in Asia. Peas made from this material have several advantages over other fillers. They are strong, durable, elastic, and when crushed or bent, they quickly return to their original shape and size, which means that the polymer does not lose its shock-absorbing properties after compression. These peas are stronger than polypropylene balls and do not have such a strong smell. The problem is susceptibility to fire and combustion.
- One of the newer polymers used to stuff bean bag chair covers is compressed polyurethane foam.
This is a type of polyurethane that is obtained in a special way to increase its density and viscosity. The material was invented in 1966 for NASA, and now it is a progressive filler for pillows and mattresses.
Chair bags with this “stuffing” are easy to transport because they can be compressed to about a quarter size for transport. But because the foam pieces are large and irregular, some people don't like their texture. The material is best used in combination with leather, which holds its shape well. - In the West, bean bag chairs are often called “bean bags.” They got their name for a reason. At one time, canvas bags filled with dried beans or other grains such as rice or corn replaced furniture. IN recent years Eco-friendly filling has seen a resurgence in popularity. When deciding what to fill a chair bag with, some people make sure that the materials are natural. A light and natural filler is buckwheat husk. It forms a solid body. There is another category of non-artificial “filling” - sand and small pebbles, they are used in combination with elastic fabric.
- What else can I fill the chair bag with? Craftsmen use any available materials to form the form, from wood shavings down to the threads, and some models of frameless furniture simultaneously serve as a kind of closet for things.
How to make an “amorphous” chair
Before creating a beanbag chair, pay attention to some points:
- It is important that the model has an additional internal housing. If the outer case is worn off, the filler will remain in the inner case.
- A zipper or Velcro will make the chair practical.
Before work, determine the diameter of your furniture. The final appearance of the model depends entirely on taste and creative intent. Some people like chairs that are the size of a regular chair, others want to achieve the effect of excess fabric. The average width of the model is about 80 centimeters.
Fabric selection
“Amorphous” models are made from a variety of durable fabrics, including leather, suede, corduroy and faux fur. The polyester fabric bean bag chairs are waterproof and can be used outdoors.
Advice. Chairs should last a long time and withstand any load, so choose strong and soft fabrics and avoid using materials that tear easily.
Don't forget that there are washable fabrics that allow you to easily clean the cover if necessary.
The chair bag does not have to be the same color. Use various materials for side details, choose interesting patterns or alternating textures.
What you need to prepare:
- durable fabric
- sewing machine or glue gun,
- scissors,
- polystyrene filler,
- pencil,
- measuring tape.
When using the simplest pattern, to determine the size of a piece of fabric, add 10 centimeters to the total width of the furniture. For example, suppose the diameter of a chair made of two circles is 75 cm, without seam allowance you will need 150 cm of fabric. 10 cm is added to this length, the result is 160 cm. Thus, they buy either two separate pieces of fabric, 80 cm wide and long, or one solid piece, measuring 80X160 cm. If one solid piece of fabric is purchased, it is cut in half using scissors, so that there are exactly two squares from which the circles are cut.
The parts are cut out according to the pattern and connected using sewing machine or glue gun.
