Cabin Bed Alteration

Managed to do some work in an empty house for a customer. 

Altering a bed and a few other small jobs. 

The bed was a standard bed but they wanted it to go over the bunkhead that closed off the stairs. In the end I replaced most of the original bed!  Making three new legs, the ladder on the end and the safety rails to stop him falling out of bed.

I enjoyed this commission. Most could be made at home then assembled on site.

Cabin Bed Commission

A fun commission to make a bed to fit in a non standard sized space. 

It was to fit between the wall and a large beam that forms part of the structure of the house. It was just a few inches shorter than a normal bed. So to make a normal mattress fit I dropped the two end rails so the mattress would sail over them. 

I made the frame using Festool dominos for the joints, I especially like these for a bed as they have one's that can be taken apart with an Allen key. This makes assembly in the customers house really easy. 

the book shelves add lots of storage and behind the bed will become the customers daughters den, with the additions of curtains for a secret door!

I liked making this and loved that the whole project was made out of pine.

Oak Headboard

Finished an oak headboard for a customer this week. It was a joint project with the customer working with me - not something I normally do but it worked well. 

 We machined the wood from some oak (which we originally thought was pear before we started planing it) that was cut on his land about 15 years ago then stored under cover all that time. 

 It was some knotty stuff but with some lovely figure in some of the wood. When coming up with ideas on what would make an interesting headboard he suggested angled boards laid horizontally and it was a short step to decide to do them vertically with varying angles. 

 The construction was fairly simple as we mounted it all on a sheet of MDF, this gave us a great expanse of surface area.

 Once it was all glued it was trimmed for lengh and a frame added. I don't think I'd attempt this type of construction if I wasn't 100% sure about the moisure of the wood. hopefully there should be no movement from it. 

The head board is tilted back at about 17 degrees

I need to take some better pictures but I'm really pleased with how this one turned out in the end. Something a little bit different but still looks great.