Bed Glorious Bed

Over the weekend Ryan threw the bed on the trailer and drove it up to lovely Kelita's place to set up.  It looks FANTASTIC!!!!!! I had Kelita send me pics because I couldn't be there to see it in person (Norah was napping).  We did a fantastic job! It looks just amazing in her room!

Today I am busy attempting to organize the disaster that has become our basement! Only 2 weeks until I head back to work and I have a lot to do around here! AHHH!!

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Well today Kelita and I tackled the bed again!!  We figured we had about 3 plus hours of work ahead of us and were both secretly dreading the whole thing this morning.  Weren't we pleasantly surprised when an hour and a half later we walked out of the basement basically finished the bed!!!!!  Can I hear a YAHOOOO!!!

Starting this morning we still had to sand down the headboard and then put the first coat of stain on it. Then steel wool down the side rails and the foot board that we had previously stained and then do a second coat of stain on them.  Based on how long it took us last time we thought this was going to be an all day event. BUT we apparently have improved on our processes because we flew through it!  You live you learn!! Well we certainly learned!! One thing we both learned was this time we were opening more windows/doors to vent the fumes outside so the house wouldn't be so stinky!!  Haahaa!  Anyway on to the pictures.

Here is the foot board all finished. It has 2 coats of Minwax 2 in 1 (stain and polyurethane).  I love this stuff, its super easy to use! You can brush it on and just leave it, no messy wiping it down and you don't have to add polyurethane after.  Its a lot less glossy too and that's why I love it so much! After the second coat it really darkened up.  You can see in the background the headboard with its first coat on, big difference in colour!

And here is the headboard with the first coat of stain. It was still very wet so you can see the brush strokes but those disappear as it dries.

Anyway all that's left to do is steel wool down the headboard and stain a second coat which should take about 40 minutes. I plan on tackling this next week.  I promise to post photos once its set up at Kelitas!!  It looks soo amazing!!!  HIGH FIVE KELITA we are awesome!!!

1 Bed, 2 Girls and 4 Posts

First off... get your mind out of the gutter!!! Today my good friend Kelita and I tackled staining a bed!!  This bed used to be Ryan and mine BUT we have decided to go a different route for the new house SO Kelita is taking the bed from us.  She wanted a dark bed SO we're staining it!!!  We managed to sand down and do the first coat of stain on the foot board and both side rails before calling it quits today.

Here is a lovely during photo of the bed. The before photo I took of the headboard isn't cooperating right now but I'll load that photo later. So this is the colour the bed was previously as Kelita wiped it down.

The side rails took us no time at all to sand down (by hand because the power sander was giving us serious grief today!).  BUT the footboard was a different story!!  All I can say was the words "friggin stupid balls" was uttered more than once today as we not only sanded them down but then had to stain them and avoid drips!!!  BUT after only 3 hours (wow it felt like a LOT longer) we had managed to finish the side rails and the foot board.  LOVE the colour!!

Now we just have to sand the headboard and do the first stain coat on it. And then do a second coat on the footboard and the side rails. BUT its coming along wonderfully!!!