12 December 2010
I thought it would be fun to do a series of posts about the making of my Sasha Bedroom... the photos will be taken as I am actually creating the room, so it will be an ongoing project for a while...
I had actually started making the bed. I have an image in my head of a modern bed with a bed on a platform above a desk area and initially I thought it would be nice to have a comfy sofa section or space for the bean bag but then I decided it would be a wardrobe area for hanging dresses...
As working with wood isn't really my forte... I started off with a little flat pack pine 3 shelf bookshelf unit that I bought a couple of years ago in Au Naturale. This gave me the pieces to create the basic bed structure. I had already thought about the dimensions required for the bed so I knew when I bought the bookshelf that it was roughly the correct proportions for my needs.
I am wondering how best to attach the rail for hanging the clothes as on this side there isn't a flat edge to attach it to... not quite sure what to use for attaching it, but I do have some fine pine dowelling that was left over from making the class room which I am intending to use.
I made an upright using some of the pine that was bought for making the school desks.
It slots into the bed platform at the top and also supports one edge of the desk beneath the bed...
Sasha is interested to watch the way her bedroom is being made... I often find that I decide who will be in the story while I am actually making the room setting.
I needed to find a way of attaching the desk on the other side to the round piece of dowelling (strut actually attached to the original book shelf side). These two soft metal hanging attachments (from a small cork notice board) were perfect.
As the metal was soft I was able to bend them to fit.
Sasha standing beside the basic structure of her new bed. I bought some perfect sized clothes hangers last year which allowed me to be able to plan for the wardrobe section of the bed rather than making it into a lounging area...
Although that would also have been cute...
Even though I have decided to use the hangers for the wardrobe part of the bed it still helps to see how my original idea might have worked...
So Sasha moved her bean bag and quilt in and the kittens quickly followed her...
