A Loft bed for Corrine

Late fall 2008-Johann was helping his parents clean out their garage when he came across the wood from his water bed he had as a child. He had been thinking about a bunk bed for Corrine's room, so when he found this wood he drew up some plans to make Corrine a loft bed using this wood. It's going to have a book shelf at the head of the bed. We will eventually add another bed underneath, but for now under her bed will be her play area.



April 8th-We bought all the supplies thinking it would be done for her birthday in February, but forgot how taxing tax season is. Some work was done on it during tax season, but most is having to wait until after. But it HAS to be done before the baby comes in July.


Johann cutting the legs on the bed. (4/1/09)

Corrine watching dad closely to make sure he's doing it correctly. "The saw is REALLY LOUD!" (4/1/09)

We originally were going to strip the old finish off the wood, and stain it-BUT the old stain was so hard to get off and we went through many sand belts before we gave up on that idea and decided to paint it white. In the end the white looks very nice in the room because the crib is white.

May 8th-with Grandpa Jenson's help the bed got made in Corrine's room. It ended up being too wide to just put slats under the mattress, so Johann ran and got a piece of plywood to put between the mattress and slates. Now all it's missing is the ladder and bookshelf. Corrine's bed is done enough to sleep on!!


May 11th-Today we put the ladder on the bed and now Corrine can climb up and down on her own and sleep on her new bed. It's still missing the bookshelf-but that will eventually get on it.


Corrine LOVES her new left bed. She told me "It's a dream come true! I always wanted to sleep up high and now I get too!"

It took alot of hours and lots of stress to get it done. It is such a strong bed that as Grandpa Jenson puts it "A Football team couldn't shake that bed apart!" it will last for a long time.

In the end we used 48 8" bolts and another 3 dozen screws. It's not going anywhere anytime soon!!