Sunday, June 13, 2010

The "Treehouse" Bed.


The bed is complete. It was a lot of work, but my son loves it and that makes it all worth it. I got the ladder done.




The idea is for it to be a sortof treehouse idea. It may be cheesy and I am NOT an artist so the painted parts are not wonderful. But he loves it though!

Monday, June 7, 2010

The Building of a Bed

So far I have gotten really close to being done with the bed. Unfortunately I hurt my back and was unable to finish the ladder and well...everything else about the bed. BUT, I did get this far and hopefully my back will be good enough tomorrow that I can go out there and get some stuff done on it.

Here is my step by step of building the bed.

Step 1 buy a big old pile of wood (Using plans from Knock-Off Wood's blog. AWESOME place to go by the way!


Step 2 BUILD IT!!!!







Stay Tuned. Hopefully once my back is better I can finish the ladder and get it into his room for good. :-)

Before Pictures and THE BED!

Okay, now that we have settled on doing my son's room next, it was time to start on the cool bed plan. Going to build a low loft bed and have the bottom look like the bottom of a tree trunk and the top I will paint green and hang silly leaves down off the top. Just fun stuff. I am going to use painters drop cloth painted brown for the bottom and paint different shades to look like the bark and probably paint a bug or two onto it just for fun. I have new undercounter lights I will attach below to make it the perfect little nook for reading or playing. I will post more on the bed later.

His room is getting so cluttered with furniture and toys. I wish I was in more of a mood to write today, but since I am not, I will just post some pictures and then come back later and give you the details. I can tell you I am going to hang new curtains, the bed will have a new cover and hopefully before its all done I can maybe even fix the wall of horrid shelves into something much cooler too.

His room before!





Stay tuned for the building of a bed!