Today i m going to share with you what i did to my pineapple bed i found at lucketts this spring.
Make a bench from a bed headboard.
They make terrific benches when you take them apart and reconnect them closer together and repaint them.
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The first step in making this headboard bench is cutting the pieces to size for the seat frame and the front legs.
The seat needs to be about 18 from the ground.
Every project has a complete tutorial to show you just how the bench was made from a bed headboard and more.
If you re new here welcome.
Both the headboard and my garden look much different these days.
Hi i just read your article on making bench out of a headboard.
You may remember it looking like this.
I toyed with the idea of cutting the legs off of the headboard cutting an angle in the top of the legs then reattaching them but it really seemed like a lot of trouble.
I knew when i bought it that i wanted to make it into a bench.
A headboard and foot board can do more than grace each end of a bed.
But the overall build is very similar with all of them.
A lot of the benches i ve seen using headboards seem to look horribly uncomfortable because the back sits straight up.
First you need to make sure that the headboard and footboard have a place to attach a seat to.
I was recently asked to make this bench out of an old bed.
Use a miter saw to ensure square ends on your cuts.
The bed had been in the family for many generations but it couldn t be used anymore due to some pr.
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Step 3 drill a hole from the back of the headboard to the front where the top of the foot board touches.
These repurposed bed projects are perfect for your patio home and more.
I read your article on how you have done it and going to use it as a guideline to build it for her.
I got a full size bed frame from a house i was cleaning out and now my wife wants to make a bench out of it.
How to make a bench from a headboard and footboard.
Stand the headboard up and set the foot board halves on each end at a 90 degree angle to create the arms of the bed frame bench.
If you look closely at the before photo it was in pretty.