it's finished!

[piranha]

the paramour's bed. *whew*. it is solid; not totally overbuilt, but just right -- we can both lay on it if we want and it doesn't bend anywhere. and it doesn't squeak. i can stand on it comfortably to hang curtains or put things on the shelves (which are yet to come).

$35 lumber and screws, and a pilot bit which will be useful for other things.

i am happy.

Comments

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

Awesome job on the bed! Wanna make me a kitchen table?

kitchen table

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

the shipping would kill it. i suggest ikea. :)

Re: kitchen table

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I HATE IKEA! I've been in one store and while I don't normall have claustrphobia, this story gave it to me - I couldn't get out of that place fast enough!!

I'm looking for something a bit more rustic - not quite a picnic bench, but one of those round fold-up ones they have down by the beaches sometimes. I see them all the time on the Hannah Montana show. I'm sure if I looked around here, especially with summer approaching, I could find something. Of course, then I'd have to unpack all the stuff in my kitchen so that I'd have a place to put it...

[boxofdelights]

Excellent!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! We need a frame for our bed, so I should show this to someotherguy.

[dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I might actually say _underbuilt_, there, but then again I typically build beds out of 3/4" plywood and 2x10s. :)

I can't tell from the photo what kind of saw you used, but you might want to float the cut ends of the cross-bed boards; those can have a really nasty tendency to gnaw on one's calves at unexpected moments, especially as the wood ages and the cut face roughens.

underbuilt

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*chortle*. that's what i used to do, but this doesn't have to last for millennia.

i've sanded all the ends and rounded them off a bit, and the mattress also sticks out slightly, so the setup is good to the back of one's knees.

i will, however, round off the bottom left one of the slats, because that's a corner that might hack into one's legs if one gets out on the side (you know how little space there is in the egg room; it's just enough to stand up and sidle on by to get to the door).

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Wow; very nice!

[flarenut.livejournal.com]

Nicely done. Should be stable. And shouldn't last longer than necessary. (I have a bed that I built for temporary use -- until I got a real bed -- in 1982. It's 3/4-ply and some 2x4 bracing (and a couple of 4x4 posts since it got expanded to king in '97, and a plywood-box headboard screwed on one end maybe six or seven years ago) with oak trim on each side. And I would love to be rid of it. But it sleeps just fine, and there's always something else to do. So it'll probably hang around till someone rejiggers the plywood and the blocking into a coffin...