I took the Bed home and laid it out on the drive to see what it would look like and found this. Now we will be cleaning each piece and inspecting it that will be in the next post. For face book friends I’m posting this on my website Don’s woodcraft shop.   

Repurposing A Friend’s family bed Some friends of mine found this family bed in the basement of their dads house. They feel it is about 100 years old. They ask me to repurpose it in to some items. The following are pictures of it now.

This oak flooring that you see. I live close to a flooring factory and pick up their scraps for some projects. It’s like free wood. you will see me mention this a lot in my post. Because materials are expensive. You should always look for scrap. It can turn into nice products.

The legs are very old table legs we found in a reclaim salvage yard in KC, the sides are pallet wood and the top is old barn wood. I don’t want to cover up the rustic elements. I considered painting and roughing the top.  So I roughed up the top, added walnut stain and semi-gloss clear […]