Baseball Loft

This was a project that we finished and delivered on Christmas eve. It is a baseball loft. It is based off my baseball bed that I normally build with the customizable headboard. This is real similar to the baseball loft I built last August. Here are some of the changes I made to this one.
I use the style slide that I have for my Castle Loft. The customer wanted a full size coming straight out on the bottom and the larger slide helped filling in that gap. I like how small the other slide was, but like the sturdiness of this one.

I incorporated the ladder into the side panels. I love this change. The less pieces the easer it will be to ship and assemble. I also looks better and reduces the weight of the panels.
I also didn’t do the dugout bench or wall this time. The customer wanted a full size bed under there instead.

The front guard rail was made form real Louisville Slugger bats. I slightly trimmed both ends of a pair and cut most of the handle off the other two to make is the correct size that I needed. I put them together with a lag dowel type screw. After getting it together It felt a little week at the joint so I made the center support by drilling two 1” holes in a piece of ash, taking the bats apart and sliding it in the middle.

I really like this bed and may try to build one for my showroom and internet. I wasn’t able to get real good pictures, so I’ll have to build another one.

This is a picture of the old style:


Here are some building pictures:




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Mission Style Wall Bed

This is a mission style Murphy wall bed that was completed on October 18th. The customer requested only one bookcase to accompany bed. It is one of my favorite Murphy beds but not to build. There are many parts that make up the face compared to some of the others that I build.

The wood is Red Oak with a Red Oak stain from Minwax. I then clear coat it with 2 coats of pre-catalyzed lacquer by Sherwin Williams.

The mission style crown I make myself and is set at a 45 degree angle. I start with 3 ½” wide board and cut the two back angles. I don’t take it down to a point. I leave a little material to ride against the fence on the subsequent cuts, since I have a right tilt table saw. After both back angles are cut, I flip the board over, adjust the fence and cut the face side slightly. This gives the crown another shadow line so that it looks like it is no just a flat board up there. Since they are cut at 45, they will be 90 degrees to the backs and therefore to the piece when it is mounted. I thought I’d share that with you. Hope you find it useful. I also used the same mission crown on the feet of Chandlers Table.

More pictures can be viewed in the October archives or the Current Projects link.

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Oak Captain's Bed

Oak Captain's Bed
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This is an oak captain’s bed that was completed on October 25, 2008. It features 6 drawers on one side and I just left the other side open. Most of the time these are placed in smaller kids rooms and usually the bed is placed against the wall making the other side useless. The footboard has a door has a door to access the space under the bed.

The finish that the customer selected was pickled oak from Minwax followed by two coats for pre-catalyzed lacquer.

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Chalkboard Murphy Wall Bed

This is a different version of my Chalkboard Murphy Wall bed that was completed on 9-30-2008. On this version the customer requested that we do pegboard on one side and the chalkboard on the other. All other wood surfaces were finished in a cherry finish.

Here are some other pictures

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Chandler Table

This was a table that was complete on September 16th, 2008. It is a table base for a local designer. I was commissioned to build the base only and they supplied the glass top. It is built from walnut and Waterfall Bubinga. The walnut feet are 6×6x6 blocks mitered in the corner so that no end grain is showing. They were offset from the walnut base by 3” on each side. Then to make the transition from the feet to the base I used a mission style molding to match the top molding.

The bubinga used on the top a some that my brother bought at auction from Dessault/Falcon Jet where he works. I applied it to an MDF substrate with contact cement.

On the finish, I planned on doing everything natural, but the walnut wasn’t dark or consistent enough so I stained it with a Dark Walnut stain from Minwax before applying the two coats of pre-catalyzed lacquer. The top was clear coated only. By the way I just installed and used my new air assisted airless spray gun that I bought at the IWF show last month. It is great. It applies the softest finish with very little overspray.

This was actually my second one to build. The first one I looked at my cut list wrong and built it too wide by 8 inches. The customer said they would take both and sell the other on consignment for me, so it worked out great. The pictures below are of the wider one

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Sample of Waterfall Bubinga
Before the table base was stained
View without glass top

Yankee Baseball Desk Open

Yankee Baseball Desk Open
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This is a desk competed on August 12, 2008. It was custom built for a customer who also bought our Baseball Murphy Bed Locker. The goal was to incorporate the look of the old Yankee stadium. I had some pictures and what I did was to match the top to the Yankee façade.

This desk features a single pedestal with drawers and a pull out keyboard tray. I tried something different on my keyboard tray this time. I had the false drawer front pull up and the tray slide out from underneath.

It was finished it in my standard baseball blue and green lacquers. All the case was green and the drawer fronts, writing surface and back were blue.

The Rains Platform Bed

The Rains Platform Bed
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This is a platform bed that was completed on July 16, 2008. The wood that was used for this project is maple and is finished in a cappuccino finish. This is a platform style bed and only mattress, no foundation, will be used. For this reason the slats are constructed with just a couple inches of space between them. The slats also have a slot that they are inserted into to keep the spacing uniform and easy to install.

I also built case goods to match (dresser, night sands, and chest). They are built in a simple contemporary style with slab drawer fronts and squared off edges.

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