20 Most Creative Rustic Modern Wooden Bed Designs

20 Most Creative Rustic Modern Wooden Bed Designs - Now look, forget the jocks and the socks because today's project I think would be a really good gift idea, and it's going to be very simple to make. And, of course, it's going to be rustic. Everything I do is rustic. Oh! There goes the back. I'm feeling a bit rustic myself. Oh! So, basically all we're building is a really simple box or crate to store my magazines... My tradie magazines because I'm a tradie, and tradies don't read women's magazines, do they? That was embarrassing. And of course, it has to be out of recycled timbers, and I'm using old hardwood fence palings, but you could use something like an old pallet to give the same effect. Now, you can make your magazine rack any size you like, but mine is going to be 550 millimetres long which is about 21-1/2 inches. It's going to be 300 millimetres wide which is about 12 inches, and about 240 millimetres high which is about 9-1/2 inches. Let's cut these pieces. And to make the crate a bit more interesting and a bit more rustic looking, I'm going to cut two of these boards down to 45 millimetres wide or about 1-3/4 inches.  With the pieces all cut, it's now time to give them all a really good sand prior to assembly.

Now, Modern Wood Bed Frame Designs before I assemble the crate, I'm gonna add some colour. Now, I've got some yellow poster paint, that's all I'm using, some poster paint that the kids use at school, and some white poster paint. It doesn't really matter what you use. And then we'll sand that back to give it that nice, rustic look. Now the yellow is going to go on two of the short pieces and two of the long pieces, and the white is going to go on the other two short pieces and two long pieces. So just slap the paint on. There's no real science to it. It's meant to look rustic. So the old hit and miss method is pretty effective, suits me down to a T. So there you go, just like that. And once it's all dry, we'll give her a sand back. Beautiful. So just grab your paint, and it's the same with the white. Just slap it on. Now, if you like... And this paint is now dry... You can just grab some of the contrasting colour and just put a few dabs on it here and there. Just like a few dabs, just like that, and that'll sand back beautifully. Now, when trying to make something rustic with paint, just remember that there's no right or wrong way to do it. It's just about layering. Put some paint on, sand it back.

If you like the look of it, fantastic. If you don't, put some more paint on it. It's pretty simple. The paint's now dry, and this timber is ready to sand back to give it that beautiful, rustic look. Now, Modern Wooden Bed Design Ideas I've had to duck inside because outside you can probably hear it is pouring with rain. So hopefully, fingers crossed, the lighting in here is good enough so you can see what I'm doing. Now, I'm going to sand these back with an 80 grit sandpaper.  Told you it was easy. 30 seconds later, and I've achieved that beautiful, rustic look which is exactly what I was after. I'm absolutely wrapped. Now all we need to do now is repeat that process to the rest of the painted boards and Bob's your uncle. So this is what we've finished up with. We have three lengths for the bottom, we have two ends, and we have two sides of the crate. And these shorter pieces here attach to the ends of the crate, just like that, and these will actually hold the whole thing together, which you'll see soon when we put this thing together. Let's do it. Now, the first step of the assembling process is to nail the two ends together, and they're nailed to these cleats here. Now, make sure that the side that you want to look at is facing up which I have here, and you'll also notice that this is sitting on a couple of blocks, and that's because when I nail this off, I don't want the nails to penetrate the work bench here.  Now you can see here how the nail's gone all the way through the two pieces of timber, and sticking out here. Now you can cut those nails off with some snips, or hacksaw, or even a grinder. Now with the ends assembled, it's time to attach the sides. Now remember, this is the inside with the cleat, and that's the outside. And now it's time to nail the sides off. And I'll like to use a square and put it on the inside of the end piece, just to make sure that it's sitting up nice and straight. And then we can nail it off.

Now in the words of Crocodile Dundee, Modern Wooden Bed Frames Uk "That's not a crate! This is a crate!" Look at that! It turned out absolutely fantastic, exactly how I wanted to. And to finish it off, all we need to do is give it a sand back with a 120 grit sandpaper. That'll make it nice and smooth, followed by two coats of satin polyurethane. Rub that back a little bit. And then to finish it off, I'll whack on some groovy wheels, and we're done. Now give it a brush down, and then once that's done, put on your polyurethane. So with my satin polyurethane, I'm gonna give it two coats. I can't believe I just did that at least I gave the old bench top a bit of a coat anyway. It's not all bad. So there you go, all done. And I reckon it turned out absolutely fantastic. Now to finish a job off, all I did was install some metal casters that I bought from Bunnings for about $3.50 each, something like that. And I also found these old handles in the back of the shed which I installed to both ends. And to give the whole unit a really authentic look, after the polyurethane dried, I got a 180 grit paper and gave it a light sand. And what that does, is that it takes off that sheen which then gives it the real aged look. And like I said at the start of the video, this would make a really great gift idea. Not only is it simple to make, but it's also very cost effective. And in my eyes that's a win-win all round. Great tip knackers!  Now don't go just yet, because there will be a few photos flicking backwards and forwards of the finished project. And if you like the video, subscribe to my channel. The button's just down there, and give it the old thumbs up. It'd be greatly appreciated.

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 I don't have to worry about the grain direction or the color of the plywood matching. The main challenge to this project is that every piece is a different size. I'm going to start by making a bunch of rectangles. You can cut these out using any kind of saw you happen to have. A circular saw... A jigsaw... A band saw... A table saw... Or you could even use a hand saw. Nah! Five of these pieces are squares. These are the shelves and I'm going to cut out the curves differently than I'm going to cut out the curves on the rectangles. The curve on each of the square shelves is just a quarter of a circle. To draw the circle, I'll find the center of the square by connecting the diagonals. The distance from the center of the square to the edge is the radius of the circle I'm going to draw. And I'm setting that using my beam compass. Cutting corners is easy with a jigsaw. Or a band saw. Or even a coping saw that I would hold like this if I had one. And there are all kinds of ways to sand these curves smooth. But actually, when it comes down to it, most people just prefer using hand sandpaper and a little bit of elbow grease. Okay, I just totally made that up. One corner of each of the upright vertical pieces gets a one inch radius. I'm going to join all of my shelves together using my pocket hole jig. I'm not really sure how to clamp this down while I put the screws in so I just put a board on top of the shelf so that I can push this up against it and hold it in place.

I'll see if that works. I'm just trying to be super careful that I don't go so far that it comes through the other side. Those pocket screws will be hidden because this side goes against the wall. It's turning out really handy to have my plans available while I'm trying to put this all together so I can kind of visualize how it fits together. Modern Wooden Bed Furniture I really should have looked at those closer because this next shelf goes on like this and if I had really thought that through I would have drilled those holes at the same time as these holes. But I guess it doesn;t really matter. It looks like I'm going to have to make up this clamping strategy as I go along but it looks like if I just lay this on its side, I can clamp this together and put the screws in. And really, that's the only tricky part about using pocket screws. You've got to clap your pieces together to hold them in place while you put the screws in or they'll just slide around. And I'm only putting these in until I feel a little bit of resistance. because they will go all the way through if I'm not careful. Now I can start working my way up. That was kind of tricky. After letting that sit overnight, it's surprisingly strong. Of course, you could certainly make those joints as complicated as you like. I want to thank you all for watching this week's episode of Woodworking for Mere Mortals. And I especially want to thank my Subbable subscribers who often get to see these video a day early and without ads. If you'd like to make your own corner shelves, check in the description for a free set of plans. And if this is your first time here, please consider subscribing to my channel. It only takes one click and I have brand new woodworking videos every Friday. And if this is your first time here, you picked a really good time to find Woodworking for Mere Mortals.