I designed and built this piece to hold miscellaneous toys, books, etc. in the little one’s bedroom. I love using 3DS Max to model these things before I even pick up a single tool – it makes doing the real work that much easier (and enjoyable).

Basic stuff here… 1/2″ plywood for the main carcass. And I ripped down some pine into 1×2′s and 1×3′s for the face frame, putting it together with pocket screws first, then tacking it to the front of the piece.

The initial sketch:

A clay rendering in Max:

The finished piece:

And in use:

This is one of my design ideas for a new build I’m building Emma.

Yesterday I put the final touches on the distressed finish of the trundle bed, added the handful of hardware components, and put her all together. I’ve been working on it over the past four weeks or so and am very happy with the results. I was really focused on building this thing, and not documenting the process so most of the pictures I have are just of the completed project. Here they are…

A closeup of the headboard design:

The extended trundle:

A detail of the arched design in the footboard that I carried through to the trundle:

The distressed finish I used throughout the piece:

On Friday I finalized the designs for a trundle bed I’m going to start work on this month. I based it on a few different references I came across and that were provided to me, but for the most part it follows a typical panel style. I was asked to make it so that it supports a full mattress on the top, and a twin for the trundle.

I haven’t gotten around to posting anything in a while and wanted to quickly put up a shot of the completed cabinet. I finally got around to painting and staining it a few weeks ago. The top drawer is very sticky so I picked up a pair of drawer slides that I’ll install at some point this week. But anyway, here it is: