Sleepy little E's?

So, after Brad and I made a bed this summer - a project that served purpose both for style & functionality, as well as marital therapy - we decided to just keep going with it. It was fun, and my father in law was willing to start pitching in with his time and skill set as well. He has a LOT MORE of both! Which brings me to share that my girls both have new beds and matching nightstands for their room!

Bed plans: Full size Farmhouse ( Pottery Barn Knockoff) from Knock-Off Wood. LOVE that blog! One pint of paint was enough, with leftover, and Eris picked the pink (anyone that knows her would have guessed THAT!). Bedding from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.This is Eris' pink nightstand - how cute is that? Leftover wood, paint, and a new knob. Easy peasy! Well, Charles said it was easy......he make it in an afternoon. Yes, that's her sleeping mask laying on top - it came with her new bedding and she loves feeling so grown up and fancy!



Ella's bed is the same plan, same size, just different color paint. And if you know my Ella Grace, then her choice of aqua is no surprise at all, right??!! lol Bedding from same, so it sort of coordinates without matching. Since they are in the same room, we have to work together just a little bit.

And of course a matching nightstand for her too! Total expense, $4 for the pack of 2 white knobs. Love a deal like that!

And there you have it. All that's left to do is clean the other half of the room that you can't see here, hang the lime green sheers and put up white baseboards. Well, THEN I get to start the FUN projects up there.....I hear chalkboard paint just calling my name! lol

Oh, and as for building beds, now we are mulling over the plans for Ethan's room! So, more to come!

Gonna have to lie in that bed you've made!

My Mother used to tell me this as a teenager. Well Mom, it's finally come true! Last night was our first night lying in the bed we made. And we've never made a thing in our lives! I wanted dearly the Farmhouse bed from Pottery Barn....but my checking account wanted dearly to hold onto the $2200 it would cost to buy it. So, a little googling around, and I found free plans to built my own! The Knock off Wood blog by Ana White is what I'm talking about here. Brad thought I was a total nutjob for handing his these plans and saying "We're doing this!". But, $150 in lumber and then some paint and we now sleep in our own Farmhouse bed. It took 4 hours to cut and build, working together. And then it took us 5 days to primer it and paint it....working around our work schedules and waiting for paint to dry. Yesterday I distressed it and we put it together. Voila! Same dimensions, better construction and material! You have GOT to be smoking something if you think I'm crazy now! lol

Now, our mattress is SUPER thick...something like 18". So I'm considering putting in braces and ditching the boxspring so more of our headboard can be seen. AND so I don't have to take a running leap to get in the sucker. We'll see....

Pics of the process:

Me, routing edges. My first time, btw! Please don't report to my Mother that I did NOT wear safety goggles. Can you even IMAGINE a pic of YOU wearing safety goggles? My point exactly.



Brad didn't wear them either and here's my proof. So if anyone rats on me, I'll rat on him. Yeah, that's what I'll do.


And looks like I was nailing down
boards like a pro, huh? Yeah, I was.


















Here's Brad cutting out the arch we made in a 1x10 for the front of our headboard to jazz it up a little. Used a homemade protractor with a pencil and a string. Worked beautifully! He gets all the props for that.......I was freehanding that baby! And no, that clock in the background does not have hands. How strange, I know!


Then we primered and painted gloss black. I'd probably do a not-so-glossy finish next time, but if I say that out loud now I might end up divorced.


Used a sander to go over all the edges....my Father In-Law about had a heart attack when I began this. He was so upset that I was ruining it. What a purist! lol Now, it DID gum up the sand paper pretty quickly with all that paint being pulled off. Just be prepared and have plenty on hand!


Wish I could get a better picture of the wall color and bedding color. I mean, you get the picture obviously, but that wall is really a grayish blue. And it does NOT look like that in this pic!

And just so you truly believe how surprisingly easy this was....Ella Grace and Eris are both getting beds built as we speak! Lucky little girls, huh?