Our oldest son got married about 1 1/2 years ago. As with our middle son I said I would build them some furniture. They chose a bedroom set. In all of the magazines, on line drawings and single patterns I have they did not find anything they really liked. The sent me some pictures of stuff they liked. So this pushed me outside my comfort zone again. They had some requirements. Wanted under bed storage. And no way for their cats to crawl under the bed. Also wanted the frame/stand to extend outside the mattress to all them to put phones and anything else on it. And they wanted electrical outlets on each side to charge phones. Started with the bed. I drew the bed design on graph paper, trying to get the proportions right. There is a formula for that called the golden ratio or golden mean or something like that. I did not take many pictures of the work as I was super nervous as to how it would turn out. Here are a couple of finished pictures though.
A late addition to the work was lights for the headboard. Found these really cool dimmable strip lights at Lee Valley. There is a touch switch on her side of the bed to turn them on and off as well as the brightness of the lights.
Although it doesn't look like it the wood is all stained the same colour. Not sure why it looks different in these pictures.
And then on to the dresser. Same program, had to design one as it needed to match the bed. But in this case they had some dimension restrictions so I worked with that. Oh and they had one picture of a dresser they liked so that made things easier. Started with a pile of wood and plywood.
First thing was to make the two ends. Made the frame using 2 x 3.
The joints are made using double biscuits. The groove is for a plywood panel.
Built panel end. Two required.
Top joint detail. This is a flush joint at the top of the dresser.
For the bottom joint I did it differently. The picture they sent me did it this way as well. Really happy with the way it is turning out.
