Our DIY Bed

If you have read our blog post about the Chronicles of our DIY Bed Frame (link), well, here is the final picture of the bed.  We just love this bed, you just want to lie in bed the whole day and do nothing ... that is how we feel ...

Our DIY bed ~ finally completed.  We love it!

Chronicles of our DIY Bed Frame

We recently upgrade our Queen size mattress to a King size mattress, hence we had get a new bed frame.  Instead of going to a furniture shop, Hubby said that he will make one. Of course my initial reaction was "Hmm ... how long will we have to wait for that now?".  Not doubting his craftsmanship anymore since he built our main door (you can read about it here).

So, we already had the bed legs from our recycled playground Chenggal wood stash.  All Hubby had to purchased was the wood for the head, leg and side frame.  It took him about two months to complete the bed frame from sanding down to chiseling to varnishing and assembling.  He used tenon joint to assemble the wood.

The bed frame is a mixture of Chenggal and Balau wood. The side frame was formerly a window frame.  I think the bed frame easily weights 200 kgs ...  

So below we leave you with some pictures of the making of our bed frame.

The recycled Chenggal wood from a play ground.

The side frame before it was sanded down and varnished.

Another view of the side frame with the
window hinge still intact.

Another view of the side frame.

The two side frame.

After chiseling, checking the tenon joint.

The chiseling work for the tenon joint.

This is how the pieces will be joint together.

Making sure that all the pieces fit.

More pictures of the pieces being joint together.

Two of the four bed legs being treated and varnished.

Upper portion has been treated and varnished
while lower portion has not yet.

Before and after treatment and varnish.

Treatment and varnishing in progress.

The pile of wood for the bed frame.

All the wood pieces before assembly.

A close up of the Chenggal wood grain.

The head board being assembled.

The wood pieces is being secured by a screw and bolt.

Side by side, the head board and leg board.

Side by side, the head board and leg board.

All assembled and fixed, just left for the lower bed frame.

Study Table

Hubby made a study table for our son and daughter.  The table top is made out of Balau wood and it sits on top of pedestal.  You can check out this site for more information about Balau wood at 

http://www.woodsolutions.com.au/Wood-Species/shorea-albida

For our son's study table, the wood was sanded down, treated and varnished.  For our daughter's study table, she did not want the table top to be varnished, she wanted it natural so we left it as it is, but it was sanded down and treated as well.  

Due to budget constrains, we purchased 2nd hand pedestals from Kedai Kaki Lelong (www.kkltrading.com/) and fixed the table top on top of the pedestal for our son.  Since then, we have made several trips back to the same shop to look for the pedestal for our daughter and were not successful as either the height was not right or the pedestal had some defects.  In the end, we managed to find only one pedestal and substitute the other pedestal by purchasing a metal table leg. 

The study table taking shape, pedestal not high enough,
had to put a piece of plywood to raise it

The metal leg table

A close up of the table top, Balau wood not vanished

This is what it takes to make a study table