Sorry for the delay in posting this. I had put the bedframe up on legs a while ago, gosh the photo claims on the 8th!. Here you can see the legs. Nothing fancy, and I really don’t like them. They didn’t sit down as square as I would have hoped. No bother, they can be [...]
You would think that 07 07 07 would be a lucky day, right? Katy has a terrible headache today, so I can’t do ANYTHING right. I tried to make her supper, but I was out of eggs, I went to Taco Bell as my backup plan, but their card reader was down. I cut out, [...]
The floor joist brackets want to stay too far open for my taste. So I made a jig to hold it closed using a peice of scrap 2×4. The jig is just two screws set so that the stringers are held closed against the 2×4. I also added a centerline mark on the 2×4 so I can accuratly [...]
Last night, Matt and Jessica came over for dinner (we all went out) and to play cards & Cranium. While they where deciding what they wanted to do, I started to screw the bed frame together. Matt had to help me as the one short end board had started to twist already. I put 3 screws [...]
Sunday I went to Lowes and picked up some 2x4s, 2x6s, 1x12s, and a box of floorjoist hangers and other overpriced metal connectors. I spent a lot more then I needed to if I was just to screw this thing together, but I want it so it can be disassembled fairly easily (trying to back [...]
Ok, I am sleeping in the living room right now. I figure after a year and a half of living in a bedroom, I can sleep in the living room for a month, right? My queen sized bed is in storage in Wisconsin. I bought a really nice Coleman queen sized air mattress for the time [...]