DIY Rustic Lounge Chair

This is how i did this funtional furniture, dedicated to people who like to read books in a comfotable place. The design should be rustic and eco style.

The main estructure is made of reusable pallet planks and the upholstered is made of fabric swatches.

• Wood planks (125cmX8,5cmX2cm).
• 50x 8 mm Dowels.
• 4x 60cmx2,5cm broom-sticks.
• 12cmx60cm fabric rectangles.
• wood screws.

Tools.

• Drill and drill wiks.
• Secrew driver.
• Hand Saw.

• Scissors.

• Sander.

With my poor experience in Fusion 360 I imagined the shape of an armchair and started to draw all the parts with the tool Create a Sketch. after finishing the sketches with the Extrude Tool I made them all have the same thickness as the wood planks.

Since I was having a very fun and bearable experience, I made the first details such as the dowels, their holes and the crossbars.

For the seat angles i used anthropometric scales to ensure comfort.

In conclusion look for a mid-century style with which to make the chair. Regarding fusion I had a very good experience and the tutorials helped me a lot.

First I put all the pieces in place and used the appearance tool to add pine texture to it.

To make the render I had the idea of showing the parts of the chair, so i duplicated the chair and began to disassemble it and leave its pieces arranged for the render.

To render your desing you must change the workplase to render.

Let´s start rendering , first I set up the scene and aim the camera correctly and then the render settings like this. That may take a few minutes or hours, it depends on your PC.

Many wonder why a render, It´s helps me a lot because I always do things very small or very large and it is also very good to see your design in this way.

As they were pallet planks they were badly damaged, so i sanded it with a sander. For the cut draw all the measurements on the wood and with a saw cut them.the legs of the chair were twice as thick so I joined two planks together with screws.

The assembling, In the assembly I joined two planks with screws because the legs are twice the thickness of the planks and I joined the upper part with those of the sides with dowels like in the desing.

I put the seat together with screws and made the holes of the diameter of the broomstic (crossbar).

I disassembled fabric swatches to cut the fabric into 12cmx16cm rectangles and make a hole in the middle to pass the broomstick. I arranged the fabrics like this dividing them into 4 so that they can all have all the fabric designs.

Finally I put the sticks with the fabrics on the seat.

I was very satisfied with the final result.

Download Fusion 360 File!