The weather this week is supposed to be gorgeous, until the
weekend of course why is that? As a Stay at Home Mom, with no kiddos at home, I
am totally going to enjoy every second of the sunshine during the week, I’m
thinking afternoons reading outside with an Iced Tea or maybe an Iced Coffee,
sound perfect. Maybe I’ll do some of my workouts outside instead of in the gym
this week. Man-Childs first Baseball game of the season is this week too so how
awesome is it going to be that it’s actually gonna be SUNNY! It just feels
great to have the possibilities of doing things outside and being warm and dry
while doing them. If you live in the Pacific Northwest you know what I mean!
Anywho onto the actual topic of this post today and that’s
Man-Childs new bed! He’s been bugging us for well forever really about a new
bed. He’s had the same twin bed since he was 4! And it was a great bed, but the
problem is that he’s now 13 and already 5’10”! He just wasn’t fitting in that
twin bed anymore!
Well the Hubster decided that he was going to build him this
new bed! We looked at all kinds of options, I really love the Pottery Barn loft
beds but umm they are a little A LOT out of our price range. So we
thought about trying to build that the problem is that our house has low
ceilings so a loft bed wasn’t going to work. So we scoured Pinterest and did
other google searches looking for a bed that would be prefect and that’s going
to last at least 4 more years!
We finally found it at ana-white.com. Her plans are so
perfect and they are FREE! Which is always a bonus. Seriously if you like to do
woodworking check out her site she has great plans for so many things I think I
want the Hubster to build me the Farm House Table soon!
Ok back to the bed. We decided on the Full Size Captains
Storage bed. I love how it has extra storage on the sides and that he can’t
push a bunch of junk under his bed! It took the Hubster and Man-Child about 5
days to complete this bed and that’s including staining it. And it only cost
about $150! We chose a grey stain to just have something a little different. I
thought it would go well with his favorite colors Blue and Orange.
We still need to do a head board look for that post soon and
we are still looking for bins to put in the storage areas. I’ll post an update
when we complete it all.
We followed her plans and the only changes we made were to
make Dado cuts to make the joints stronger. You can get the full plans HERE
Enjoy
This is really nice! Couldn't you put doors on the bins? Or blue and orange containers or even patchwork curtains in those colors. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI like them open, we are going to get some kind of storage totes just haven't seen quite what we like!
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