When we moved to a new state, we gave away and sold so much! I LOVED our bed, but with 3 kids that like to wake up in the middle of the night and come to our bed, our queen seemed to be shrinking. So, we sold it for cheap and had a king mattress delivered to our new house.
And there it sat on the floor for ... a couple months. It was nice to know that the baby turning into a toddler wouldn't fall out of this bed, but also we are old and getting in and out of the bed was not comfortable. Our dog also thought this was a giant dog bed.
Side note - this is a ghost bed which is foam and it's amazing!! We got it at Costco and are so happy we did!
I had been wanting to build our bed for some time and had pinned many many plans but none were quite right. We went with this bed meets this bed with some adjustments. We adjusted this plan from ana white (love her!) and made exactly what we I wanted!
Our first adjustment was using a sheet a plywood as the backing instead of 1 bys ... I liked the clean lines of the single sheet. We also made it taller.
We bought the kreg jig rip cut for the project (and then used it on our shelving project). It's a very handy tool and I see us using it a ton! We'll eventually get a table saw when our budget and space allow, but for now this works great!
We used a 1 by 6 on the top and 1by 4s on the bottom, sides, and middle.
We decided to space it with a larger section in the middle - it's perfect!
We glued the boards on ...
And screwed them in from the back (this skipped to the footboard - forgot to take pictures of the headboard!
Not sponsored by Dewalt ... yet (lol) we just love their tools!
Added the 2 by 4s to the sides and attached with pocket holes in the back.
We decided to do a 2 by 3 and a 2 by 4 on top to finish off the top. Michael routered (this router is AMAZING and worth every penny) the bottom edge and bottom side edges of the 2 by3 and the top and bottom edges and sides of the 2 by 4.
And of course we sanded and sanded and then sanded some more.
The stacked 2by3 and 2by4 really finish off the headboard.
He also routered the inside edges of the boxes on both the headboard and the footboard
So much sawdust everywhere! It's way better than glitter!
Repeated the same steps with the footboard and we were done.
I wanted it to be black so we primed, painted with 2 or 3 coats (and lightly sanded between each coat) and finished it off with 3 coats of poly.
Painting is more work than staining ... there I said it!
Set it up in the room and added 2 support beams (same as the plans) and 1 bys to support the mattress.
2 of our helpers.
One insists on wearing a swimsuit all the time and the other wants me to throw a ball all. day. long.
There it is all set up! LOVE!
It's simply beautiful! Look at all that detail!
We made one minor change that made a huge impact with both how sturdy the bed is and how it looks. We switched out the 1x6 with a 2x8. That small change stopped the weird wobble that was going on and I like the heftier look. 1x6 above and 2x8 below.
I am so happy with our new bed!!
It's so nice to have an actual bed that is not on the floor - it's more comfortable and I can put laundry on it to fold it ... so much easier on the back!
I feel like this bed is a symbol of our new like ... we started with a pile of wood and a plan and ended with this beautiful bed. Hopefully we'll be able to build just as beautiful a life here in our new state! If we can build this, I think we can build anything!
Let me know what you think!
