I was thinking about building a bed for my son for a couple of months now. I looked at numerous designs and finally settled on this particular style because the arching headboard looks really nice to me. Head board is made from Burch plywood. I Cut the arch using a jig saw and sanded smooth with a power sander.
Head board without any decorative elements looked very blank to me. So after building the project, I thought of adding two decorative elements to the Head Board to decorate it up a little. I was planning to put a bird's outline on to the headboard. During the making of this project, I saw a couple of Clint's western spaghetti movies and decided to cut a piece of a man on a horse (this is somewhat similar to the opening sequence in the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly movie). I also added the Golden Leaf decoration that I saw in a History Channel show.
Here is the final product.
Bed Size : Twin
Finish: Cherry
Material: Pine and Burch Plywood
-paul
