My youngest son, who is 3 is in need of a twin size bed. He's been sleeping on a toddler bed for a while now, and I can tell he's not enjoying it anymore! Hubby and I have been discussing about buying a new bed for him, but I knew we could do better and save a few bucks!
I went to my parents house and took a look in the basement. There was my old twin bed that I use to sleep in just sitting there. Mattress, head board, foot board and a wooden board to lay on the bed frames and hold the mattress. It use to be part of a bunk bed set, but it's one of those that can be used as two beds as well.
Well, the head and foot board needs a coat of paint and the wooden board needs new batting and new material to be put over it. So I decided, I can fix it and make it look GREAT!
First, I brought out all the pieces...
Here's the wooden board.
The mattress.
Finally the rails, head board and foot board!
The first thing I did was tear off the fabric and batting off the wooden support board.
Then I decided to paint.
Now I don't paint much, but I think I did pretty good.
I painted the head and the foot board.
Defiantly looks better then it did before!
I then replaced the old cardboard with new cardboard.
I then laid the batting down.
I then laid the fabric over the batting and stapled gun a few piece to hold in place.
I then flipped it over...
and stapled all around the edges.
After I was done, I placed it on the bed rails and put the head & foot
boards on to see how it would look!
Here is my 3 year old trying out the bed!
Can't wait to bring it home and add the mattress to it!
