Hybrid Bed Build - Printable Version

Hybrid Bed Build - Printable Version

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Hybrid Bed Build - Axehandle - 02-01-2018

I Had been pondering this idea over in my head for better than a decade now so it was time to move on it. I was sick of beds that always moved when you moved. Cheap beds joints always seemed to loosen up. My brother bought a $2000 dollar Ashley bed and he said it started acting up after less than a year. Basically, it started racking at the stretcher to leg connections as beds nearly always do (as well as workbenches).

I have always been a metalworker first and when structural problems arise, I generally use steel to solve them first. I figured a steel bed would never move. However, steel is not the most aesthetically pleasing material. Especially for indoor furniture. I figured some wood accents would have to be used to overcome this deficiency of steel. In my head I pictured black painted steel with walnut insets between the framework. Well, down here, walnut is expensive so I was delighted when Hurricane Irma brought a cherry tree down in a friend’s yard.

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After the wood dried to my liking it happened to be around Christmas and I was itching for a new bed. I had told LOML that the cherry would be used for kitchen cabinets in the next few years when we redo the kitchen. I told her about my plans for the cherry and she agreed to use it for the bed. I even convinced her that this steel bed I was going to make would be a fine piece of furniture and she skeptically trusted me on that.

So I welded up a steel queen size bed frame.

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Here you see the cross braces I made to accept drawer slides.

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I painted it a hammered copper color of RustOleum spray paint sold at the BORG. Started fitting drawers that I had built out of ¾ ply. The best ply I could find at the BORG so it was mediocre. I ended up using a false front drawer design.

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Finishing the drawer faces and inset panels.

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Here with the panels and drawer faces installed and starting on the headboard.

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Building the headboard.

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RE: Hybrid Bed Build - Axehandle - 02-01-2018

Some detail shots. That zinc hardware has since been changed to black.

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Here installed in its place. Still needs drawer pulls.

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RE: Hybrid Bed Build - chips ahoy - 02-01-2018

Nice job,very well done.

Mel

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - kurt18947 - 02-01-2018

Very attractive and I'll bet you don't have to worry about joint failures.

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - hcbph - 02-02-2018

When I say the comments about using a metal frame, my thought was yah right. I was wrong, it looks great and I'm assuming very solid.
Well done.

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - Bill Holt - 02-02-2018

I am a big fan of metal and wood furniture. You did a fine job.

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - stav - 02-02-2018

Wow, not at all what I was expecting. Very nice.

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - digger - 02-02-2018

Love it !

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - 2beast - 02-02-2018

Way cool
Cool

RE: Hybrid Bed Build - wood-chips - 02-02-2018

Very nice!
The tree you scored yielded some nice wood.