Wednesday, November 28, 2012

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, A DIFFICULT DECISION: PART I


Certainly having a new home is a big step, whether it's your first home or second.

But the hardest part is the step of leaving the parental home as rent and often buy your new home brings with it, the purchase of furniture and other artifacts of daily use that will help us have a more comfortable life.

Understanding that we are all lovers of good taste and design, but you always have to pay many thousands for these items, think that a coffee maker for home can cost about $ 200,000 or a chair or shelf, can be well over $ 250,000. -

But what if we embarked on the idea of being a teacher for a day and buying the necessary materials, we set up our furniture and decorate our paints and as our new home ?

Reviewing some things with Javier Sodimac, I caught the bug to make a shelf for the house, which according to my measurements perfectly and money available, should not cost more than $ 60,000 or less. There are cheaper, but I like my PA that are so expensive! grrrr!

The first is to go to Sodimac and buy a sheet of 18mm structural plywood, the sheet size is 1.22 x 2.44 mt and has a value of $ 13,270. Eye can ask our plate sized and it's free!

Then the proud seek to build our furniture, bag of 144 units of 3/16 × 2, has a value of $ 2,999.

Already with raw materials purchased can buy a gallon of MINWAX, polyurethane varnish, which will serve as a sealant for $ 6,490. It is only to seal, also sold in aerosol brand Marson. Now if you do not like it, they can leave the natural wood finish.

Important to give a better finish, we can buy a painting that leaves us impeccable furniture, for that I chose Sherwin Williams, both by price and by quality as well, I have to choose colors muuuuuchos in all varieties. I recommend Oil Semi Gloss, in which we have more than 800 colors to choose from. This is the most expensive, as we choose a color for the value of $ 13,290 on Easy. There is always more economical but I want a good and clear, in my next project I will use it on me.

We also bought sponge roller to apply the color and huaipe ($ 1,290) to apply the varnish sealer Minwa x. For rollers spend between the two $ 4,000 one for much of the furniture and the other for the corners, and achieve a more even finish.

If we have nowhere to drain our painting, we can use a tray that's from $ 890.

I always request my furniture is mobile, as the friends arrive all at once and need space to care for them, so I'll use the same wheels Ducasse braked when in that corner of my home. Buy 4, the value of each is $ 1,660 in Easy.

Now I bought the materials and I invested $ 48,869, I'll do my furniture to my pint. Besides being entertaining, at least to me, it relaxes the DIY. Then I will give you and show you the results.

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