the platform bed
This is a repost from the design blog, but I thought was very relevant to us and something that we would like to share on here so I figured it wouldn’t hurt.
It only took me a little over 6 months, but my promise to make our first bed has been kept, It is now complete!!
Check out a few more pictures on Flickr: The Platform Bed
What a project to undertake. It’s a rather simple design, but has taken a while to come together. Especially only having the weekends to work on it for a while. Not having any work lately has allowed me to get it finished up.
Another part that took a while was finding the wood. I wanted to use rough sawn lumber, for a finished, rustic look. So after scouring craigslist for weeks I finally found a guy who had cleaned out a saw mill that had closed.
Kris and I went late one evening on the spur of the moment and it ended up getting dark by the time we got there, so I tried to pick out these huge planks of rough sawn lumber in the headlights of my car. After planing it down we discovered that we ended up with a mix of pine and oak.
Only when we bought this wood I forgot to calculate for enough to make the head board. So, the frame has been together for a while now, but I just recently found another guy to buy more wood from, some beautiful white oak, and was able to finish the head board.
All in all it was a fun project, but I’m glad to say that it’s finally done. Whew.
