Tag Archives: Kids Bed

Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 3

Well after hitting the boxes and tops with 60-grit, 100-grit, and 150-grit sand paper it’s is safe to say that my garage was covered in a good layer of pine dust!  After brushing the dust off of the boxes and hitting them with a shop vac it was time to move the boxes into the […]

Read More

Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 2

With the three plywood boxes completed last weekend it was time to focus on trimming them out. Since the boxes are to be painted, I am staying cheap and trimming the boxes out with pine.  Another trip to Lowes and I picked up two 1×6’s and three 1×2’s. The 1×6’s I will rip down to […]

Read More

Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 1

Well my little guy is well overdue for a “big boy” bed like his older brother.  This time rather than buy a bed with a steel bed frame, that is pretty blah, the wife decided I should build something. After kicking around several ideas and lots of googling we ended up on a design, which […]

Read More