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A short while back my fiancée and I moved in together. We were broke and needed a bed because prior to moving we had single beds and now we were sharing an air mattress on the floor. I had never built furniture before but after a visit to a local furniture store and seeing how expensive beds were I figured I would try to build a simple one. We picked up an inexpensive mattress and box spring at Big Lots for $200. I wanted to build the bed out of some kind of hardwood but the boards were more than I could afford at the time so I settled for aspen. At the time I made this I was not into woodworking and it was built out of necessity so try not to laugh.
I started out with a frame made from 2x4's that would not be seen and used 4x4 for the legs. I tapered the legs into octagons at the bottom so it wouldn't look total *******.
I counter bored for the carriage bolt so I could glue the aspen boards directly to the sides of the 2x4's.
I glued up 1x2 boards to 1x6 boards. I figured this would be a good place to rest my foot to tie my shoes. I put a 1/4 round on the 1x2's before I glued them. After gluing the 1x2s to the 1x6s I used a flush trim bit to smooth the back side. I used a simple miter cut on the corners because at the time, I simply didn't know how to do any joining more advanced than that nor did I have the equipment to do so. I glued the sides directly to the 2x4's.
I put a couple brackets in the corners in hope that it would help strengthen them.
I started out with a frame made from 2x4's that would not be seen and used 4x4 for the legs. I tapered the legs into octagons at the bottom so it wouldn't look total *******.


I counter bored for the carriage bolt so I could glue the aspen boards directly to the sides of the 2x4's.

I glued up 1x2 boards to 1x6 boards. I figured this would be a good place to rest my foot to tie my shoes. I put a 1/4 round on the 1x2's before I glued them. After gluing the 1x2s to the 1x6s I used a flush trim bit to smooth the back side. I used a simple miter cut on the corners because at the time, I simply didn't know how to do any joining more advanced than that nor did I have the equipment to do so. I glued the sides directly to the 2x4's.

I put a couple brackets in the corners in hope that it would help strengthen them.
