Thursday, October 08, 2009

Whitewashed fence bed



Tanya designed it. I engineered it. We built it together. Neighbor Karl Hansen helped me carry it upstairs: a whitewashed headboard and footboard built like fencing. These pieces are heavy, because it's a king-size bed.

We haven't had a real bed -- something more than the metal bedframe that comes with the mattress and box spring -- since we've been married. It was fun fixing that problem with this project.

7 comments:

  1. Wow, how unique! And very nice looking. I gotta know -- did you think about putting a green quilt on it and getting pillows with houses on them? :)

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  2. That's very cool. Just watch out for kids peeping through knotholes.

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  3. And Doug wins the creepiest comment award! :)

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  4. Mikael, I replied to your comment, I thought, but it got lost. I love the idea. However, it'd be hard to beat the quilt Tanya found, shown.

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  5. That bed rocks! David and I always make (re-cover) our own headboards. It's fun and it's a cheap way to change things up.

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  6. Woo-hoo! I'm a winner!

    And I didn't even have to go with "Aren't you worried that Ollie will get confused and do his business on your bedspread? Or mark the fence?"

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  7. Mona! Welcome!

    Ollie? You mean Oliver, the Green Arrow? Or do you mean Olie, our dog?

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