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This was one of them fun beds. It is a design from a customer. They had one of our baseball beds on order and wanted us to create another theme type bed. This is a combination painting and bed. I am not an artist so we brought in a local artist to do the painting. We built the bed and left the horse part just a square panel of MDF on the back and sides. The artist came in and traced the overall horse shape. We cut it out along with some detailed pieces to give it some depth. The jaw, front quarter and back quarter were again cut out and stacked for a three dimensional look.
We finished all the base colors. The horses were a brown, the fence and main bed parts were left natural. The MDF clear coated gave a great background color for the flowers.
The artist then came back in and finished the detail work in acrylics. We let dry for a couple days and then clear coated it.
This custom kid's bed creation was completed in November 2011.
Building Pictures
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Chris Davis
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#1 posted 536 days ago
I posed this on our web site too. http://poggyskids.com/horsebed.htm I usually try to price things out, but wasn’t sure if the cost to get the artist will always be the same, so I had them contact us for pricing. You think this is a good idea or should I always have a price for customers.
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#2 posted 536 days ago
Also I thought about naming the horses. I need some woodworking names like Saw and Dust or Black and Decker. Give me some ideas.
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#3 posted 536 days ago
That is super fun! Someone’s going to really love that!
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#4 posted 536 days ago
How about Saw and Blade?
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#5 posted 536 days ago
Great job, Chris.
Lee
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#6 posted 536 days ago
Great looking bed ….........I’m sure many a child would love to sleep in one of those.
Chris Davis
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#7 posted 536 days ago
Thanks Ken and Lee.
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#8 posted 535 days ago
very cool….my girls each want one…
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Chris Davis
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#9 posted 535 days ago
I’ll put you down for a couple.
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#10 posted 531 days ago
I don’t have enough superlatives to tell you how wonderful that bed is. It’s gorgeous and original to the max.
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#11 posted 531 days ago
Oh! That’s just wonderful. Nice job!
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Chris Davis
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#12 posted 531 days ago
Thanks Vicki and BarbS.
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