Twin Farmhouse Beds

Finally Finished! We needed to put two girls in the same room, so we could make room for a baby. The beds I found in furniture stores were either affordable with good reason (poor quality!) or expensive with good reason (solid wood). So this was the alternative. I eliminated the box spring and elevated the platform 15 inches high, so there is tons of storage space under those beds! Another builder found this fabulous bed hardware, which I used and definately recommend: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=11
It allows you to assemble and dissemble the bed quickly without a screwdriver, which is great if your in the military! One word of caution though, in the original furniture plans, the cleats attach to the inside of the bedposts. If you use the rockler bed hardware, the cleats will attach to (roughly) the middle of the bed posts. So in order to have your mattress platform be the proper width (not too wide), you need to use a table saw and trim 3/4 an inch off the width of each of the panels for the headboard and footboard prior to assemly.