Hi i just read your article on making bench out of a headboard.
Make a bench from a bed headboard.
The seat needs to be about 18 from the ground.
How to make a bench from a headboard and footboard.
You may remember it looking like this.
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Begin by cutting down each table leg to 18 inches standard height for a bench.
A headboard and foot board can do more than grace each end of a bed.
The first step in making this headboard bench is cutting the pieces to size for the seat frame and the front legs.
Here s what that headboard is looking like these days.
Use a miter saw to ensure square ends on your cuts.
I was recently asked to make this bench out of an old bed.
I toyed with the idea of cutting the legs off of the headboard cutting an angle in the top of the legs then reattaching them but it really seemed like a lot of trouble.
The bed had been in the family for many generations but it couldn t be used anymore due to some pr.
Stand the headboard up and set the foot board halves on each end at a 90 degree angle to create the arms of the bed frame bench.
I ve made a few headboard benches and every single time they are a little bit different.
Every project has a complete tutorial to show you just how the bench was made from a bed headboard and more.
I got a full size bed frame from a house i was cleaning out and now my wife wants to make a bench out of it.
These repurposed bed projects are perfect for your patio home and more.
I knew when i bought it that i wanted to make it into a bench.
If you look closely at the before photo it was in pretty.
A lot of the benches i ve seen using headboards seem to look horribly uncomfortable because the back sits straight up.
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First you need to make sure that the headboard and footboard have a place to attach a seat to.
Both the headboard and my garden look much different these days.
They make terrific benches when you take them apart and reconnect them closer together and repaint them.
Step 3 drill a hole from the back of the headboard to the front where the top of the foot board touches.