Ta...da...the incredible floating bed

Well, that cleaned up ok.

Dateline:Project Bedmake

Decided that a headboard was in order, and that I'd make my own design/measurements**. So I got a piece of birch cut at Lowes, stained it-just one layer seemed to be fine since I didn't really want to deal with cleaning another brush, and it took to the wood well enough to keep going.

Used the clamps I originally bought for the pedals on the racing game seat to lock the "frame" into place with glue and then screw in at the corners after sanding everything in sight down. Note brilliant use of blanket to catch said sanding debris. Also note that blankets were not used in previous sanding efforts.





**look for future blog posts about "head board problems//head board falling off"

Update:Bed

There has been a lot of feedback here for Clearydome Management, with folks feeling anxious, not knowing how things are progressing with the bed project. So two updates to follow...

First...Stained and ready to go... (spent a lot of time trying to decide what to get-the recommended water based stain and then polyurethane, but ended up getting two-in-one stain/poly combo. spent what felt like fifteen minutes staring at rows of paint, thinking about the huge implications of this decision. and after dealing with turpentine to clean my non-water-based stain, know that i made the wrong decision...)

Anyway, two layers of stain, but only where the mattress wasn't going to be...

The Clearydome would like to welcome Mr. Beaux, who will for the next week or so be responsible for possum control, kitchen floor spill clean up, and the occasional security detail**. Not to mention a variety of pitiful "is that all you are going to feed me?" looks.


Thankfully the new back yard fence, yet to be covered here, now has "hooks" to "keep the door closed" so we don't have the problems from his last visit...welcome to the dome, Beaux!

**Just kidding. He won't bark.

Bedmaking

Well, adding to the list of "I can do that," or it might be more accurate to at least say I'm adding to the list of "...I've tried to do that...once..." Set off to upgrade the downstairs bedroom/office, with the thought of a nice hotel room in mind. Stole the paint color for the room from yet another home improvement show. But we'll get to that later.

For now, here are the fist steps in my bed-building debut; thanks for the how to and inspiration from Todd Oldham's book "Home Made Modern," a recent library borrow...


Started with just some plywood and some plumbing parts for the legs (base to screw in the 8'legs, which were fresh enough from the plumbing supply store to make my hands all black when screwing them in), and got my first experience with "counter sinking" for drilling, once I learned what that was...

Up next...stain fun...