{"id":878,"date":"2017-01-27T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbibby.co.uk\/woodwork\/?p=878"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:18:20","slug":"play-house-bed-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbibby.co.uk\/woodwork\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Play-House Bed Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a><\/span>

\"\"<\/a>With Olivia growing up fast we’d known for a while that she would soon need a full-size bed. When we first asked her what type of bed she wanted, we showed her some pictures of children’s beds, and this included a few of the play-house variety where the bed is raised off the floor, with space underneath for toys and steps or a ladder running up to the bed. Well, once she’d seen beds with steps (and some with slides) I think she was sold on the idea and was adamant that she wanted one “with steps”…and that was about all she’d say \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So we did some research and looked at a whole bunch of beds but couldn’t really find one which ticked all of the necessary boxes. Most of the beds we saw were either too low to the ground, making the play area pretty useless, or had a ladder instead of steps (don’t forget that it needed<\/strong> <\/em>to have steps!). Also the general appearance of many wasn’t great and so in the end we figured, why not just build one for her.<\/p>\n

Before starting the project we needed an idea of what we wanted to make. After spending a loooong time scouring the internet for ideas we finally agreed to make something resembling this bed which we found on Pintrest. As you can see, this is actually quite a small bed, not a full size single and it also has a ladder rather than “steps”. But in terms of the look and feel, it did look like what we wanted.<\/p>\n

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The bed we wanted to base Olivia’s bed on<\/p><\/div>\n

While we were researching all of this we came across a bed for sale on eBay for a mere \u00a325. It was second hand, but was solid pine, full size single and was raised. It wasn’t really high enough to make good use of the space below and it had a ladder instead of the much sought after “steps”, but we decided that rather than trying to build the entire bed frame myself, I could just modify it to suit our needs. So I bought the bed. You can see it in the pictures below.<\/p>\n

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We bought a raised single bed from eBay for a bargain \u00a325!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is all of the parts for the bed I bought<\/p><\/div>\n

Now I had a bed frame which I knew would be the correct size, and also an idea for the finished look. The next stage was (as usual) to design and build the bed in 3D on my computer. This would help me to ensure I could get measurements correct and buy the right amount of material.<\/p>\n

The final design looked pretty cool. It required only minimal changes to the framework and just needed a few larger cut panels to be attached to it and painted.<\/p>\n

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This was the final design<\/p><\/div>\n