The new bed wasn’t really finished until we had it assembled, of course.  And that depended on us getting a new mattress for it, since our then-current mattress was 15 years old and showing it. In the process of shopping, one of the...

Once I had my base pieces finished I made the walnut lattices that fit inside the cherry frames.  Sanding everything took almost a full day, thanks mostly to the tedium of breaking the edges on all those lattice strips. The simplest parts...

This bed is designed to look like the night stands and dresser:  cherry casing sitting on a walnut base.  The frames for the headboard and footboard stand in for the cases, but the “base” is actually four separate...

A king-sized bed frame is a jumbo project.  My lumber shopping list included 49 board-feet of 5/4 cherry, 10 board-feet of 12/4 cherry, 52 board-feet of 5/4 walnut, and 5 board-feet of 4/4 maple for the slats.  To make sure they’d...

The final piece of Julie’s and my new bedroom set is a king-sized bed: As you can see, I’ve deliberately taken a lot of style cues from the dresser and night stands so that it is clearly a set.  The headboard and foot board...

Three coats of Arm-R-Seal got wiped onto each of my subassemblies, and I gave it some extra time to cure.  Then there were just a few more things to do. First, I mounted the cases on their bases.  The corner blocks I’d inserted gave...