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How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands

This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of making your own beanbag chair. With a few simple items such as fabric, sewing supplies, and polyfill, you can have your own unique chair in no time. You'll be able to customize the chair to fit your space as well as your taste with the multiple fabric options. Choose your size based on your own needs with instructions for creating small, medium, and large options for any use. It's an easy and fun project that anyone can do at home. Enjoy the convenience and comfort of a beanbag chair, customized just for you!

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In this article, we will provide detailed instructions for creating a comfortable and original frameless chair. Such a ready-made beanbag chair in a furniture showroom can be very expensive. Meanwhile, the process of its creation is quite simple and does not require significant efforts and costs..

Frameless armchairs are rightfully considered the best option for childrenโ€™s furniture โ€“ soft, safe, comfortable, easily adapting to the shape of the body. But what is really there, such bean bag chairs will appeal to both adult residents of the house and guests who will appreciate the originality and comfort of such furniture..

Today, stores offer a wide selection of bean bag chairs in a variety of shapes and colors. But the price, unfortunately, may seem too high for such, strictly speaking, simple and unpretentious furniture. So why not sew a beanbag chair with your own hands, especially since nothing special is required for this.

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands Both comfortable furniture and a great toy for children โ€“ thatโ€™s what a beanbag chair is.

A bit of history

Bean-bag, sacco, pear, ball, bag โ€“ as soon as they do not call frameless chairs, which are rightfully considered one of the most unusual types of furniture. The history of bean bags or sacco, which in Italian means the same bag, began in 1968. It was then that Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro and Piero Gatti came up with frameless furniture, simply transforming an ordinary bag full of leaves and hay.

The Italian industrialist Aurelio Zanotta, who decided to invest in the mass production of bean bag chairs, made the right decision to bring the designersโ€™ idea to life. The furniture novelty has received several design awards and has become an exhibit of museums, as an example of art and a new word in interior design.

Today, bean bags are popular in various countries of the world, they are actively used in the design of office reception areas and public places, cinemas and halls of student dormitories, childrenโ€™s and living rooms.

On average, the price of a ready-made frameless chair is $ 90-100 and depends on the quality of the filler, the fabric chosen for the cover and the popularity of the manufacturerโ€™s brand. The price of genuine leather products can exceed $ 1 thousand, and an ordinary ball chair, which is so popular when decorating childrenโ€™s rooms for boys, costs an average of $ 120.

The price, of course, is not so high, but why spend far from extra money if you can buy inexpensive filler, fabric, threads and make a do-it-yourself bean bag chair?

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands Bright armchairs-pears and balls can become a real highlight of the interior and are a fairly popular option in both residential and public spaces

What you need to create a do-it-yourself bean bag chair

So, you decided that you can do it on your own and are ready to start sewing a beanbag chair yourself. First of all, you need to take care of the availability of the following materials:

  1. Scale-coordinate drawing paper, that is, simple graph paper that will be needed to create a pattern.
  2. Inexpensive, but durable fabric for the inner bag, which will be filled with filler. The most common natural mixed fabrics are suitable, for example, satin or tee (fabric for sewing overalls), mattress or raincoat textiles, durable, water-repellent and at the same time lightweight polyester material. The size of the fabric cut depends on which chair you want to sew. For example, sewing a pear chair with a height of 120 centimeters and a diameter of 90 centimeters requires 2.5 meters of fabric with a width of 115โ€“122 centimeters. Such a chair can easily withstand a weight of up to 100 kilograms. If you want a slightly larger armchair โ€“ you will need at least three meters of material, maximum โ€“ three and a half, unless, of course, you are sewing a small sofa.
  3. Outer cover fabric. The cut will be the same size as for the inner cover, but the choice of fabrics is much wider here. You can use flock, velor, jacquard, chenille, faux leather or fur, tapestry or faux suede. It all depends on how much you want to spend on sewing a beanbag chair and your desire to create a bright and durable thing. It is believed that flock is ideal for a child seat-ball or pear โ€“ water-repellent, non-fading and at the same time very soft, pleasant to the touch material..
  4. Two zippers from 30 to 100 centimeters long, depending on the size and type of bag. On the outer cover, the zipper can be replaced with Velcro. The zipper on the inner case is necessary so that you can add filler in the future, and sooner or later you will have to wash or clean the outer bag. In addition, if you wish, you can sew several external covers to change the appearance of the chair, surprising the guests every time.
  5. Pencil for constructing patterns.
  6. Meter ruler.
  7. Chalk to transfer the pattern to the fabric.
  8. Scissors.
  9. Strong reinforced threads for secure seams.
  10. Filler. How to fill the bean bag โ€“ you choose. Initially, the creators of this frameless furniture filled it with water, but then the idea had to be abandoned. Such โ€œwaterโ€ chairs turned out to be too heavy, and nobody canceled the danger of a flood. Straw or hay is not a very comfortable option and it will be uncomfortable to sit in such a chair. In addition, straw and fragrant hay do not like high humidity, and such a filler will have to be changed every 6โ€“12 months. Buckwheat husk or rice โ€“ the chair, again, will turn out to be too heavy, clumsy and expensive, and we want to save money. Scraps of fabric, synthetic winterizer, cotton wool โ€“ all these fillers will sooner or later crumble, fall off and the chair will become uncomfortable. The ideal option is expanded polystyrene balls with a diameter of at least 0.5 and no more than 1 centimeter. Too small balls of polystyrene foam will make the chair quite heavy, and large ones will not be able to spread evenly over the chair and it will be uncomfortable to sit. Our standard chair will need 200 to 300 liters of filler. Remember that such a volume of filler weighs only 1-1.5 kilograms โ€“ do not buy, for example, ten kilogram industrial packages โ€“ they can take half a house. It is believed that imported polystyrene foam balls are better than domestic ones, but they also cost a little more. You should not try to replace the finished filler with โ€œcrushedโ€, that is, recyclable waste foam. This is a cheap option, but a chair with such a filling will not provide comfort..
  11. Sewing machine.

Now letโ€™s roughly calculate the costs. We hope that you already have a sewing machine, scissors, ruler and pencil, and the chalk can be replaced with a bar of soap. A bag of filler with a volume of 100 liters costs from 200 to 500 rubles (depending on the manufacturer), and we will need three such packages. The cost of fabric for covers depends on the type of material. Letโ€™s say we chose a tisi fabric for the inner bag (from 85 rubles per meter), and for the outer cover โ€“ flock (from 190 rubles per meter).

The filler today can be ordered online or purchased at a hardware store, fabric โ€“ at a specialized outlet or also online.

As we remember, we need about three meters of each fabric (we will take it with a small margin). So: 600 rubles โ€“ filler, plus 255 rubles โ€“ fabric for the inner bag, plus 570 โ€“ material for the outer cover. Total โ€“ 1425 rubles. Yes, a skein of reinforced threads also costs money โ€“ about 9 rubles. As you can see, even in the case of using a rather expensive upholstery fabric, the cost of a do-it-yourself bean bag chair is about half as low as the ready-made options.

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands To create such a standard pear chair, you will need about 2.5 meters of fabric for the inner and outer covers.

Bean bag design options

Frameless chairs can take on the most bizarre and unusual shapes. Below we give patterns for the three most popular options for creating such furniture, but before dwelling on one of them, think about where your beanbag chair will be located, and what function it will perform in the interior.

For example, if you plan to place a frameless chair in a nursery, then your imagination in terms of colors and shapes is limited only by the childโ€™s preferences and your financial โ€œceilingโ€ in terms of buying fabric for an external cover.

A beanbag chair in the living room is more difficult to place, since the overall style of the roomโ€™s interior design can sharply contrast with such an unusual object. Immediately, we note that it is difficult to fit a frameless, virtually shapeless chair into a classic interior..

Such furniture is more suited to the Art Nouveau style, which is characterized by bizarre shapes and the absence of straight lines, as well as modern interiors.

In any case, remember that the color of the outer cover of the chair should be in harmony with the overall color scheme of the room..

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands The tricolor beanbag chair fits perfectly into the interior of this bright childrenโ€™s room

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands The neutral beige shade of these frameless armchairs has made them a harmonious part of the modern interior.

The process of creating a beanbag chair

Letโ€™s proceed directly to sewing a frameless chair:

  1. First of all, we determine the shape and dimensions of our product and transfer the pattern to graph paper. The pattern is transferred to paper according to the indicated scale. You can create your own version by calculating the dimensions that are required for you, and if the chair is intended for a child, simply proportionally reduce the width and length of the wedges, as well as the dimensions of the remaining parts.
  2. Further, according to the prepared paper patterns, we cut out the material, not forgetting to leave an additional 1.5 centimeters on each side for the allowance. You should have six body gussets, two bottom pieces, and one top piece if you are sewing a pear chair. For a ball chair, you will need a lot more parts โ€“ 20 large hexagons and 12 small pentagons. For a rectangular chair, cut out the bottom, two side, front and front parts, as well as the back.

Yes, do not forget โ€“ this is only the inner cover, then you will have to do the same, only on the fabric chosen for the outer cover of our chair.

  1. Then, for convenience, all the parts are fastened together with needles and bent by hand. Likewise, at this stage, zippers should be swept into the bottom of each cover, so as not to spoil the appearance of the chair..
  2. Now we sit down at the sewing machine and reliably sew each seam with a reinforced thread, and remove the temporary seams โ€“ we donโ€™t need threads sticking out anywhere.
  3. To make the chair durable and last a long time, you should additionally impose a second line or process each seam with an overlock, after bending the launch left by us.
  4. Now we turn the resulting โ€œbagโ€ and proceed to filling the inner cover with expanded polystyrene balls.

Before filling, we advise you to remove small children and pets from the room, as light balls tend to electrify and fly around the room with lightning speed. Getting a small ball into the respiratory tract is very dangerous, and it is strongly discouraged to swallow them. If the balls managed to fly apart, use a vacuum cleaner to collect them.

It is much more convenient to fill up the filler through a large watering can, which is inserted into the neck of the inner case, a paper funnel, or just a cut-off plastic bottle. It is impossible to fill the inner cover โ€œto the eyeballsโ€ โ€“ about two-thirds to leave the chair the opportunity to adapt to the person sitting.

  1. Now it remains to iron the outer cover (if required by the selected textile) and put it on the inner one, already filled.

By the way, you can put one cover on another at once, and then fill the styrofoam balls inside โ€“ as you prefer.

  1. For convenience, you can also sew a strap, for which you can move the chair from one place to another. Although, in the case of a ball chair or a rectangular model, the strap will be clearly inappropriate.

Another caveat: if you are using artificial leather for sewing an outer cover, you should leave several eyelets (holes with special metal round inserts) to let air through. Thatโ€™s it, not so hard really?

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands Pattern for a pear chair, dimensions are for an adult version. 1 โ€“ wedge; 2 โ€“ bottom part 2; 3 โ€“ bottom 1 part; 4 โ€“ top

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands Pattern for a round bean bag in the shape of a soccer ball. 1 โ€“ 20 parts; 2 โ€“ 12 pieces

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands Pattern for a beanbag chair of a rectangular shape. 1 โ€“ piece of fabric; 2 โ€“ side parts 30x80x60 mm; 3 โ€“ frontal detail 30ร—70 mm; 4 โ€“ front piece 93x70mm; 5 โ€“ backrest 60ร—70 mm; 6 โ€“ bottom 70ร—80 mm

How to make a beanbag chair with your own handsPattern transferred from paper to fabric of the inner cover

How to make a beanbag chair with your own hands This is what a beanbag chair looks like inside

First, we advise you to try your hand at sewing a small pear chair for a nursery. If the experiment is successful, and the chair turns out to be beautiful and comfortable, you can start sewing an adult model โ€“ after all, you most likely still have the filler..

โ€œHaving stuffed your handโ€, you can experiment further โ€“ to sew an outer cover from multi-colored wedges, create a chair-ball that is more complicated in terms of cutting, or make compound wedges.

Experienced bean bag chair makers can afford to decorate their product with appliquรฉ or embroidery, transform a child seat into a cartoon character, animal or futuristic object. In addition, pockets for small things and toys can be sewn to the chair to make it not only comfortable and beautiful, but also a useful interior detail..

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  1. Victoria Wells

    I would like to know the step-by-step process of creating a beanbag chair from scratch. Can anyone provide detailed instructions on the materials needed, measurements, and sewing techniques involved? Additionally, any tips or tricks to ensure a comfortable and durable beanbag chair would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your guidance!

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