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I built this project with a friend and it took me longer than I wanted, only because I'm new to woodworking and don't know hardly anything about it. After what I thought should only take a couple of hours, I finally completed the Buffet Table for my wife. I thought I was going to complete the whole thing under $250 but I soon learned that things are little more expensive in the small town of Delta Junction Alaska. I think my total cost was $450 but it was well worth it to complete this and finally my wife can put it to some good use.

My husband built our daybed and I upholstered it. I made 3 large pillows and the mattress was covered by sewing the fabric as if it were a fitted sheet. This way it can easily be removed for cleaning or swapped out for a regular sheet if our daughter needs to sleep here. We cut the legs off an old table for the front legs of the daybed. We love reading on it and we are so pleaded with how it came out.

So I had an IKEA DELSEV single bed frame which i bought off someone who didn't need it anymore. Great sturdy bed for $25, but I wanted more space in my rental room, so I decided to go loft given the generous ceiling height. I did some research for ideas to convert my current bed, and found the perfect one at your site! I made modifications to your plans so that I would be able to walk underneath without having to slouch, and adjusted some measurements to integrate the IKEA bed frame. The project only cost me $38 worth of timber, screws were pinched (with permission!) from my landlord's stash, and this was the result after 3 days of cutting, sanding, partial assembly, staining and varnishing, and final assembly! The small tin of stain and varnish was originally for a wooden rack project for my vintage bicycle, and i managed to cover both rack and bed frame with the entire tin, down to the very last drop!

My husband took oak from my grandma's farm from rough cut lumber to the finished product. We started with Crab and Fish's modification of the Hailey Platform Bed plan for a king sized bed, then modified the plan further to meet our needs. Our bedframe splits in half for moveability. We designed the headboard. I think our bed turned out amazing!

Used your plans for a California King! Had to lengthen the bed by 4” to accommodate the comforter.

Used the Cyndi media console plans but changed the doors, and made 2 fold out doors in the middle that drop down for use as a shelf when your going through your dvd's. Used many screws & glue. Think I going to include a trim around the top later, to give it depth.

I bought a piece of remnant silestone for the top.  It was a pretty simple build but the hardware was the hardest part.  Use wheels with bearings and 1/4" flat bar.  Otherwise it was not moving smoothly.  Love the finished product!

Modern farmhouse bed for our cottage.

The how I made this video can be seen at http://youtu.be/AoysTtE9blw?hd=1

I built this project using driftwood I had collected from the beach and using the Gaby Kitchen Island plans. The only thing I altered from the plans was instead of putting in drawers I put up a hand towel rail using a driftwood stick.

Fancy Farmhouse King Bed

We had to shorten the length to 57" for this project to fit our space of 60", due to baseboards and shoe molding. It was just a few inches too large to fit through our doorway, which we also could have adjusted if we'd have thought ahead! I was worried that the 3 small baskets wouldn't fit with our plan but they fit perfectly, Especially if you push them back from the edge a bit.

Overall cost was around $120, the screws were around $20 b/c you have to get a box each of 2" and 3" length. We weren't able to get any "untreated" 4x4's at our Lowe's so we opted for the 2x4's sandwiched together- worked just fine.
Due to such a tight space, we only faced the front of the pedestal with the plywood, but I would have liked to do the whole thing- it would've made the molding much easier to square up!
I'm a much happier Homemaker with this in place! No more moving baskets around to open the dryer door! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, now onto the loft bed!

My second project with my new miter saw. I plan to make 3 altogether but so far this is the only one done due to having a one and a half year old under foot.

I used Ana's Barnwood frame plan as a guide. I didn't have enough 1x2 to make the edges and the innner frame so the edges are made of lathe.

12x12 scrapbook paper fits inside this frame prefectly (didn't purposely make it that way but it works) I cut down a piece of foamboard to hold everything in the back. Then I found a quote a liked on Pintrest and printed it out and used thumbtacks to hold it to the foamboard.

This was one of the first projects I did, practicing to build a custom Oak bar table...