Loft With Slide

This is a loft with a simple loft in look, but a little more complex than it seemed. It is built from solid maple with a Red Mahogany stain from Minwax. It is a full size on top and an open play area on bottom. The vertical post have cutouts at the top for handles and they flair at the bottom to give it sort of a Asian feel. The cross supports act as the ladder and a slide was added for those quick exits in the morning.

For support the slats were built in a “T” configuration. Basically I added a board turned 90 degrees to get that end grain strength, since it was spanning a full size width. Also to make is stable and not to sway, I added a bottom 16”h board and used “T” nuts and bolt at the top/back guard rail.

Here is some of the raw building videos:
Loft post
Loft 2
Routering loft post
Loft side build
Loft New sides
wwbeds shop 12/11/09 11:58AM
Slide Sides
wwbeds shop 12/11/09 03:45PM
Loft Slide


More Building pictures can be found in our December 2009 pictures archives or see what we are building not on our Current Projects page

Football Locker Murphy Bed

This is a version of my locker murphy bed. It was built in November 2009. This is a murphy bed built to resemble a football locker. I normally build this in a baseball style. The inside headboard is designed like a scoreboard. This is taken from my regular baseball bed. The outside has graphics to look like vents, a name plate that doubles as the support leg and lock. The team graphic was one that was bought and applied.

This style is alway a fun one to build.
Here are some raw video of the build:
Football Cut/Rip
Football Headboard
Football Inner Frame
Football Face
Football Center