Our daughter has a very small room. She also LOVES disney princesses. So I wanted to build her a princess castle bed.... but how do you fit a castle bed in a 9x11 bedroom?
There were some plans on Ana's site (good plans), and others on-line. But many of these plans had the bed on the TOP of the castle, and we were concerned with her trying to make her way down if she needed to in the middle of the night.
She also loves her Disney princess canopy bed that she has now... so if I could somehow build the castle around that bed, we'd be set. Which is exactly what we did.
I reviewed several pictures online, and then designed this bed with Sketchup (I LOVE that tool).
There is storage in the stairs, in the towers on the front down below, and in the back up on top. I also put rope lights inside around the ceiling over her bed for that 'Night light Princess glow."
There is also enough room on top for her bed if she wants to put it up there at some point in the future.
The idea for the decoration came from another poster who simply used the Vinyl Disney princess wall decals.
She loves it. Plus its big enough for daddy to read stories to her up in the loft at bedtime!
I've posted the plans on the sketchup warehouse... here is the link...
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=65f7fb029052c660cb6c…
If you can't find it with that search the sketchup warehouse for 'castle bed.'
Comments
ThaddeusSwarfburnIII
Sat, 07/27/2013 - 16:17
Well done!
Nice work. We worried about the height for our three year old, and if I were to build another (hah!) I would definitely make it lower. Carpeting the stairs is a good idea, I think I'm going to do the same. You've done well to cram everything into a small footprint. We're house-shopping now, and the tape measure comes with us. Gotta have 2.8m in the kid's room! Decals are great. My daughter went off hers for a while - nothing breaks your heart like a kid saying they want to give away something you worked really hard to build, even if you know they don't mean it. My wife put on some big wall stickers of a tree with squirrels and birds and suddenly she's in love with it again. Princess indeed (eyeroll).
bbcarey
Sat, 07/27/2013 - 20:53
Thanks- it was fun and the next project is..
Interesting your commented today :-) I am doing a similar project for my son for his 3rd birthday (this weekend) making a Lightning McQueen garage for his Ligthning McQueen bed...
Thanks for your comments... the castle project was fun. Its been fun to be able to even do these things now that I've visited Ana's site. And yes- I know its going to be a bummer when they no longer want the castle, or the garage (I had my son's bed in his garage tonight and not knowing better he hopped on the bed and jumped and bumped his head bad... now he's scared to have the bed in the garage- AND ITS NOT EVEN DONE YET!)
Thanks again..