Platform Bed

These are some platform beds that were competed in October 2009. They both use full size mattresses, but the platform is about 75” wide. I made a row of cabinets to where they fit on the side of the bed and they fit on top of the platform.

I made the cabinets in 3 pieces, but where they appear as one. The dividing face frame hides the seam between the cabinets. The top is made in one piece to also make it look to be one piece.

One of the beds has a headboard where the other one doesn’t. They both go to the came customer, just one child choose to have a Media Stand instead of the headboard. The one with the headboard will have a frige in that open spot under the headboard.

Here are a few building videos:
Abby Headboard cut
Headboard Banding
Abby Headboard Sanding
Abby Build
Alex and Abby's bed
Platform build
Cabinet Cut/Rip
Cabinet Bainding
Bookcase Building
Door Parts
Door Preps
Door Building
Door Sanding
Abby and Alex Drawers

Building pictures can be found a my blog on Lumberjocks.com

You can watch us build this live from our Current Projects page at wwbeds and poggyskids.com Also at the site photographs are posted each day of our work.

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This is a platform bed that was completed in October 2009. It has a 15 ¾”h drawer unit for storage, a panel headboard, and a small frame for the platform. The finish on it is a simple Danish Oil to keep that natural look.

Here is the raw footage of the build (sorry about video quality still using backup computer):
Hutchison Drawer Cut/rip
Sanding
Hutchison Sanding/Pocketing
Hutchison Drawer Pre-Assembly
Hutchison drawer build

You can watch us build this live from our Current Projects page at wwbeds and poggyskids.com Also at the site photographs are posted each day of our work.

Orginal Train bed

I am currently building a train bed and blogging about it (see Train Blog) Some of you have been watching so I thought I’d share this one that I built in 2004. This is a bunk bed version, unlike the one I am building now.

Here are some building pictures of the new one. I didn’t have any saved of this first one:

For more building pictures see my Current Projects link at wwbeds.com or poggyskids.com. See what we are doing live:

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My Girls Beds

This is a couple Murphy beds that were completed 12-23-2008. I built them for my two daughters. I designed it to cover an entire wall. The two beds are separated by a desk with shelves. Each of the beds and the desk all have a three stage touch sensor lights for reading or to be used as a night light. The lights over the bed I added a mercury switch to shut the lights off when the bed is in the up position.


I finished it in just a natural maple with two coats of pre-cat lacquer to match a chest and a converted changing table that I built before.

I gave this to them on Christmas but were not able to install them until New Years day. We also painted the room Tinkerbell Green.

Here are some more pictures: (Put you mouse on the picture for a discription)

Cherry Finish Excalibur

This is a Murphy bed that was completed on 5-9-2008. I call it the Excalibur. This bed has arched raised panels on the face along with fluting on the trim beside the doors. Above the fluting is the release leg that unlocks if from the cabinet and acts at the support feet when the bed is in the down position. Above the feet are rosettes that were cut in.

To tie it in to the customers existing furniture I matched the color and changed the crown up a little. The customer had some dental molding that they wanted to match. To get this to work I had to deviate from my standard cut list and make a taller header and sides. The dental molding wraps around and I needed to figure a break that would allow it to disassemble and reassemble to where the molding looked seamless.

The color is a dye stain followed by a wiping stain. The dye is a combination of brown and red dyes with a lot of thinner and the stain coat is Red Mahoney from Minwax. The cherry colors was matched off a customers drawer.

Here are some links to the building pictures

http://wwbeds.com/may08pictures/IM003587.JPG

http://wwbeds.com/april08pictures/IM003569.JPG

You can see more at our "Current Projects" page.

Murphy bed Sideways Ross

This is a Murphy bed that was completed on January 26, 2008. This is a style that I build often, but this is the first sideways version. It is built in oak with 2 24” bookcases. Most of the time I keep the two sides symmetrical. This customer chose to have two different style bookcase.
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Special Edition

I just finished building another Special Edition baseball bed. This was a fun bed to build. It was ordered for a professional baseball player for the Angels, Kelvim Escobar. His designer placed the original order and Kelvim filled in the stats with his information and faxed the forms back to us.

This bed is based on our Special Edition version with a few modifications. For one, this will be the first one that we put both drawer and trundle under the bed. We also stained the wood a Special Walnut color from Minwax. Staining the headboard, I think, works out better than painting the letter black. We may make this the new standard.

The desk was a nice addition to the group. I did a distressing technique on the top. I first used a white undercoater to give it a white base; then I used a special walnut glaze to antique it a little. I did a little simulated worn look on the corners to make it look well used.