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Our first runner-up this Season was Laura {Corner House} with her Vintage Superhero Bunkroom.
Didn’t you just LOVE it?! Wow, her son is one lucky boy. That bed is HUGE and I love the paint chip wall and the framed superhero art. So fun!!!
Take it away Laura to tell us how you made this incredible room.
Oh wow, I can't believe this crazy ride is over. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who voted. Even if you didn't vote for me. I was talking to a friend of mine last night and she realized that she had voted for Jess and Monica's pallet wall instead of my bunk bed and I said "It's okay I probably would have voted for theirs too. :)" But really this was such a crazy journey to go on and I have learned so much.
Creating a bunk wall was something I have been wanting to do in my boys' room for quite a while and when the final week of competition fell on the same week as one of my boy's birthdays, I knew I had to make him a new bed. I had promised him a while ago I would make him a yellow bed when he was finally potty trained and he had been potty trained for a while now.
I started by looking at plans for beds on
Knock off Wood and decided that I really liked the look of the simple bed. So I turned it into a bunk wall unit.
Building this unit took a LOT of wood.
Shopping List:
14 - 1x6 boards 8' length
12 - 1x4 boards 8' length
9 - 2x4 boards 8' length
12 - 2x2 boards 8' length
8 - 2x6 boards 8' length
liquid nails
wood filler
sandpaper
1 1/4 " nails
2" nails
2 1/2" screws
4" screws (48)
Tools:
Measuring Tape
safety glasses
drill
saw
hammer
Cut list:
20 - 1x6 cut to 38 1/2" (headers)
86 - 1x6 cut to 2 1/2" (spacers)
36 - 1x4 cut to 30 1/2" (headboard rails)
12 - 2x4 cut to 42" (headboard posts)
6 - 2x4 cut to 48" (top of headboard)
for the frame
8 - 2x2 cut to 75 1/2"
8 - 2x2 cut to 35 1/2"
8 - 2x6 cut to 74"
Wow that was a lot of cutting. Are you still with me? So basically you are making 6 headboards and 4 bed frames.
Let's start with the headboards shall we? To make the headboard, lay down two 1x6 headers. Then lay down the spacers and rails alternating across the two headers. (It's actually more fun than it sounds)
Nail those bad boys in with the 1 1/4" nails. If you are lucky enough to have a nail gun I would use it. I have a hammer so I used that... on all 6 headboards.
Then add some liquid nails and sandwich the spacers and rails with two more 1x6 headers. This time use 2" nails to make it nice and strong.
Next you are going to add your 2x4 posts. You are going to need to pre-drill holes in the post and then drill 4' screws through the posts into the top and bottom of the header. Use 2 screws for the top and 2 for the bottom. That is 4 screws per post.
Now, to make the bed fit nicely on the wall, I placed the panel to the back edge of the post for the headboards at the head of the beds. I centered the panels on the posts for the center headers and I placed them on the outer edge for the other end of the bed. Got that?
Now don't put the 2x4 tops on the headboards for the bottom level headboards yet. You will want to use 2 1/2" screws to screw the tops onto the tops of the upper level headboards and screw the tops for the bottom level headboards onto the bottom of the upper level headboards. I used 4 screws per headboard. At this point I also did a little sanding where needed and filled in any seams I felt were not pretty.
Now I took the headers and my cut pieces for my frame into the room to assemble it all. I started by using 3 inch screws to screw the 35 1/2" 2x2 into the headers. (Use a lot of them). Then I used 2 1/2" screws to screw the 75 1/2" 2x2 into the outer edge of the 35 1/2" 2x2s. This really is an exciting part because they FINALLY start to look like a bed and not just a whole lot of pieces of wood. Next you want to put on your 2x6 siderails. (you can see one on the bed in the left in the picture above.) Screw through the 2x2 into the 2x6 with the 2 1/2"screws about every foot. You want these to be nice and strong.
Now add on the upper level. You can see in this picture how I put the headboard tops on the top and bottom of the upper level headboards. I used 4 screws (alternating the angle of the screw) to screw on the upper level headboards. The frames build in just like the lower level.
Then, all you have to do is fill in any spots with your wood filler, sand and paint and sand and paint.
And then stand back and be all like... "Yeah, I built that all by myself." Only may I suggest not building this by yourself. You have to do some pretty tricky maneuvers to hold those boards in place while screwing them in.
I actually still have a TON to do in the room (like ladders, safety rails, cool shelves, a desk, curtains, train table), but the bunk-wall was a BIG part of that and it is very nice to have my sweet little boy no longer sleeping in an old little toddler bed.
Um….were the rest of you reading that with your jaw dropped, thinking “How the crap did she pull that off?” Wow! Wow! Wow! That was a ton of work, but the end result is so incredible!
Congratulations Laura! All of your projects this season were spectacular!!!
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