Bunk beds

Hey Capt
very nice bed set looks great and cute little Joe too.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

this is great…i need to make some for my girls…so this is going in my favorites!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

One of these days I’ll get some pics of my daughters’ beds’ pink and purple paint job.

Great Lookin Bed Kids Love Bunk Beds

-- Jim, Kentucky

Terrific looking bunk beds, I like the size of the corner posts. It has a very clean, yet solid look to it.

-- Craig, Springfield Ohio

Nice beds. Do they come apart and make 2 single beds or is that just a trim around the posts?

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

Sweet beds. I miss having them as a kid. I tried to convince my wife to put them in our bedroom but she wouldn’t go for it (probably because I wasn’t going to let her have the top bunk.)

-- "When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start looking like nails." Abraham Maslow

Looks great! I will need to make one of these in a year so. Are the corner posts solid, or was that addressed in the thread from the previous set you made?

-- Doug, WA

The bunk beds do come apart and form twin beds. That was actually how I came to make these in the first place. When our first daughter was getting kicked out of the crib by the arrival of number 2, I decided to build a bed. This was one of my first woodworking projects. I made it as a twin, but used hardware to be able to make it into bunk beds if I were to build another twin. So when the boy came along and kicked number 2 out of the crib, I made another twin bed to match the first and had them set up as twins; one painted in pinks, and the other in purples. Once I made these bunk beds for my sister in law, my girls wanted their beds converted into bunk beds too. I kinda like them better as twins.

The posts are solid pine. When I made my first one, I was able to find un-treated pine 4×4 posts and used them for the bed posts. When I made all the rest, I had to glue three 2×6 boards together to make 4×4 posts. If I hadn’t already made the first one out of solid pine posts, I may have done the posts differently. Especially if they were made of hardwood.

At first I was worried that you compromised the strenght of the rail when you notched in a goove for the ladder. Then on second thought I realized that you notched the ladder, not the rail. Done so well I could hardly tell.

-- Mike, Waukesha, WI