Showing posts with label my. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my. Show all posts
Sunday, February 23, 2014
MY BED IS IMPORTANT bed frame
I was 12 years old the first time I heard there was a problem with my back.
After some x-rays, the doctor told mom and me that I had a defect in my spine and I would not be able
to have a labour intensive job as an adult. Being a child this didnt mean much to me. I was skinny
and fierce, I excelled at all the sports I played, with awards to show for it all.
I was invincible, what did he know.
to have a labour intensive job as an adult. Being a child this didnt mean much to me. I was skinny
and fierce, I excelled at all the sports I played, with awards to show for it all.
I was invincible, what did he know.
By the time I was 16 I could feel it and I learned to realize each time I had pushed my back too far.
Over the next few years I learned that a good sleep made things feel much better. This is when my bed became very important to me.
Over the years I always made sure I had a haven to retreat to when the day had been too much.
At the age of 20 I broke my lower back and things progressively got worse.
Thats when my bed started to grow. It was so much easier to slip out of bed straight onto my feet or hop in to bed when it was level with me standing so I started to lift my bed making it taller.
This past summer I built a new queen sized bed frame with no foot board to work better with my
storage box spring. I had my sleigh bed long before I got the box spring and they just didnt work
well together so this was a plan I had for awhile. I started with a plain mid-century double sized
headboard. I lifted it and widened it with some new lumber screwed to the outsides of
the original legs. I made the top wider with these fancy carved chair arms.
Here it is in place, you can barely see any of the details with all of my pillows.
But I know its there and get to see what I built every time I make the bed.
The side rails attach to a 2 x 4 at the foot of the bed with two hardwood cabriolet legs on either side.
So that leaves my Queen Sleigh Bed up for grabs and listed in the SHOWROOM
She is not your average sleigh bed, she is amazing. I was traveling for work when
I bought this bed and therefore she was a huge treat to come home to.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
A Porch In My Finish Room A Full Size Mockup
9/24/09 The furniture made it to its porch in Boston this week ...
And what a grand porch it was ... I was thinking the coffee table might be tight, but instead, it couldnt have been any smaller for the sclae of the porch ... perfect!
8/27/09
Im working with some friends/clients on furniture for their porch. Its a beautifu, spaciousl porch on a grand old home and we want to do it justice without filling it up so much that it feels crowded. I fooled around with a couple different layouts in my cad program and now that we have finished the chairs, were working on a size and shape for the coffee table. Fortunately , the client had stopped by last week just as the table/desk shown in a recent post was leaving and happened to get a good view of it just before we loaded it up. She had seen the wood at Open Studio back in May and coincidentally I had the smallest of the three slabs still on hand. The porch is longer than my finish room, but I had enough room to layout and mockup the business part where most of the furniture will go in full size, including the slab for the coffee table. We set it up on some scrap plywood that was a little shorter than I would have designed it, but it turned out it that lower was perfect. Good for feet, can also double as a bench, emphasizes the horizontal length of the seating layout and does a good job of standing up to the overall space of the porch ... Looks like itll work, and totally reinforces the concept of mocking things up in full size WHENEVER YOU CAN cause they always look different in person than they do on paper or in your minds eye. No substitute for the real thing, the real size, AND the real height. Taping it out on the floor just wont do .... Check it out ... Click the pictures to enlarge them ...
The actual porch
First Layout
Final Layout
The chairs in the shop ... 4 fixed, two rockers ... The real cushions will be ready next week
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And what a grand porch it was ... I was thinking the coffee table might be tight, but instead, it couldnt have been any smaller for the sclae of the porch ... perfect!
8/27/09
Im working with some friends/clients on furniture for their porch. Its a beautifu, spaciousl porch on a grand old home and we want to do it justice without filling it up so much that it feels crowded. I fooled around with a couple different layouts in my cad program and now that we have finished the chairs, were working on a size and shape for the coffee table. Fortunately , the client had stopped by last week just as the table/desk shown in a recent post was leaving and happened to get a good view of it just before we loaded it up. She had seen the wood at Open Studio back in May and coincidentally I had the smallest of the three slabs still on hand. The porch is longer than my finish room, but I had enough room to layout and mockup the business part where most of the furniture will go in full size, including the slab for the coffee table. We set it up on some scrap plywood that was a little shorter than I would have designed it, but it turned out it that lower was perfect. Good for feet, can also double as a bench, emphasizes the horizontal length of the seating layout and does a good job of standing up to the overall space of the porch ... Looks like itll work, and totally reinforces the concept of mocking things up in full size WHENEVER YOU CAN cause they always look different in person than they do on paper or in your minds eye. No substitute for the real thing, the real size, AND the real height. Taping it out on the floor just wont do .... Check it out ... Click the pictures to enlarge them ...
The actual porch
First Layout
Final Layout
The chairs in the shop ... 4 fixed, two rockers ... The real cushions will be ready next week
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