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SOPHIA’S BED, AND LAURA’S WARDROBE

Too much work to organize a lot of photography of the building process, and most folks wouldn’t care, in any case. If you want details, just write me an e-mail and ask…..

I’ve made beds for my kids through the years, plus bookcases, closet “built-ins”, and so on. Laura remembered, and asked for an elevated bed for Sophia - it makes her room so much easier to use, particularly with the trampoline in there…...

Here’s the bed:
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It’s about 46 inches to the bottom of the mattress, which is fine for Sophia’s size, and will be fine for some time, yet. At the right is the staircase for access at bedtime, and it’s dual purpose, because it also has space for bookshelves, or stuffed animal storage, etc.

Here’s the view from underneath the bed….
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There will be shelves in the two left sections within a day or two…..

Sophia got used to the whole thing very quickly, apparently - she scrambles up and down like a little monkey…even at night, which is what worried me for a time. Worried me enough to consider trying to work out some sort of railing, but it appears to be completely superfluous…..
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This project will be completed when I finish a 46-inch tall and 12-inch deep set of shelves spanning the opposite end of the bed - then hopefully all of the bins, loose animals, etc. will have a place to live, rather than kick around on the floor.

The other recent project was Laura and Leslie’s wardrobes - since they’ve made the master bedroom closet into a nursery, they need somewhere to put their clothes, and even I can made better-looking and more useful wardrobes than the cardboard ones they used for moving. My construction is not “cabinetry” by any stretch of the imagination—“useful”, or “serviceable” would be the correct adjective…..
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One really nice thing about both these projects was the price - I’ve been haunting the “cull bin” at Home Depot, and regularly checking the sheet materials at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, and haven’t paid more than about 1/3 the regular price for anything other than the closet rod, so far. I even found the four shelves in the wardrobe, and another four or five for Sophia’s stairs, in the “take it for free” bin at the ReStore. So far, I’ve made Sophia’s bed and Laura’s wardrobe, plus stockpiled enough particle board for Sophia’s bookcase and part of Leslie’s wardrobe, and the cost to date is about $120.00. The wardrobe uses some fairly long and wide pieces of particle board (3 @ 26x60, and 2 @ 26x48), but I’m still hoping to find the pieces needed in the bargain locations - otherwise, I’d have to buy three or four full sheets of particle board, and end up with a lot of scrap.

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