On Wednesday two weeks ago I started building a bed for Kayden. He and Kyra are now sharing a room and his little cot is just too small for him. So the build commenced. This was going to be a bunk bed type design.
When I built Kyra’s bed I had in the back of my mind that we might want
the kids to share a room so I designed her bed to be square and modular so that I could add another on top of it at a later stage. Naturally design came first, most of the hard work was done during the build of Kyra’s bed so it was just a matter of sourcing wood and getting it cut to size.
First, I started off marking up all the pieces of wood. This is where the furniture screws and dowels would be placed to keep the whole thing together. I am a bit hopeless when it comes to this aspect of the build so everything had to be checked and then checked again. After about two or three hours I had all the pieces marked up and it was time to start drilling. A good few hours of work and I was ready to dry fit the frame together. By nightfall of day one I had most of the frame
assembled.
The next thing to come was the ladder. Strangely enough it took forever but by
the end of day two I had it all clamped together and glued.
The next two days were spent sanding all the pieces of the bed to a smooth, fine finish. At night while the sanding was going on I started planning colour schemes. First I took a picture of the beds in their stacked position and then used photoshop to see how the colours would look.
Once the colours were decided it was time for masking off the different parts with masking tape and then we started painting. The paint we used was Plascon Double Velvet and had names like Granny Green, Nabula Red and Crazy Daisey Yellow and Greek Island blue
Eventually it was all done and the kids love it to bits. Pictures can be seen in the Gallery under the Bloody sweat and tears folder in the Kayden Bed section.
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