Bedroom projects complete

It's been on our to-do list for a while to complete some projects in the bedroom-

1. A headboard
2. New night stands
3. Window treatments
4. Duvet and pillow covers
5. New lamps

We've been hitting a lot of estate sales on the weekends lately, gathering up raw materials. Here's the results.

1. Headboard

We've been keeping our eyes out for a six-panel door with equal-sized panels that we could turn on its side and turn into a headboard. We also hit the local salvage places and even habitat for humanitiy's re-stores in the area. No dice. We found a few doors like that, but they were all too short for a king sized bed.

Finally, I found a single panel door from the 30's of the right size. It's not what we had originally planned, but I thought we could make it work. First, I stripped all the hardware off and filled in the holes..



Like most doors of the era, this one had a larger rail at the bottom than at the top. To remedy that, I centered the panel- I sliced 1/8" off the top of the door to give me a flat surface, cut off a 2 1/2" piece of the bottom, and used a biscuit joiner to move it to the top of the door. So now the "top" and the "bottom" are the same width. If I weren't dealing with a king sized bed, I could have just cut a slice off the bottom to make it the same as the top.



Once it's painted, you don't even see this..



For the 'legs', I just made a wood sandwich- 1 x 6 poplar on the face of the door, with a 2 x 4 in the center, below the door. Carriage bolts hold the legs on, in addition to glue.



A couple of coats of paint later, plus some re-painted escutcheon plates and doorknobs, and..



Rather than leave the panel empty, we thought about putting a fabric-covered panel in it, but we have three dogs, and we knew it'd be a hair catcher in nothing flat. So we stenciled it.



2. Night stands

My wife found a couple of solid wood tables that were in bad shape finish-wise to use as night stands. She painted them white, and then we stenciled the tops. We don't mind them not being the same, the stencil and color keeps them consistent.



3. Window treatments

This one is 90% my wife's project.. she took two roller shades and some fabric, added some spray adhesive, and we had two nice shades. I made a small valence to cover the top of the window, and she covered it in the same fabric.

She didn't like the gaps at the center and sides of the shades, so she sewed up some fabric panels, weighted at the bottom, and we attached them to the valence.

4. Duvet and pillow covers

Again, this one is all my wife.. she's a whiz with a sewing machine, so she made multiple duvets and matching pillow covers.

5. Lamps

We found two wall-mounted brass lamps at a re-store, and after scuffing them up with a scotch-brite, they took paint well. We chose the same gray / silver color as the headboard and night stands, plus a clear coat. I added white cords to match, and my wife re-covered the shades with matching fabric and bias tape that she made.




So here's the final result..