How Mom and I built the bed.... Kanani themed

Over the last few weeks Mom, Ryan, Poppa and I began a project. We built a bed for our friend Kanani. Here is the finished bed. OMG soo cozy. Wish I got to keep it.

Here is what we did.

We found these tiki plastic shot glasses at the dollar tree. Originally we thought that we'd leave them clear  and use the 4 blue with maybe some led lights, well... that plan changed when we shopped for the fabric. We found pink orange and magenta hawaiian print fabric, so the blue legs were not going to work.

We painted the glasses with Nutmeg brown apple barrel paint. Very thin coats, and it took about 3 layers to cover the plastic parts. 

We then sanded and painted the board we got at AC Moore that was 12x 24.

 and we clear coated all the legs and the board when the brown paint was dry.

For the headboard, we used Modge Podge fabric and we used cutouts from the scraps of fabric and bonded it to the wood we chose for the headboard. I only wish the board we chose was a bit bigger.

After the fabric was well attached we coated with Royal Coat but regular Modge Podge would work as well. I had Royal Coat at home. Mom did not think that it was building fast enough because we were looking for a high shine, like a wood surf board with a decal look. So we coated it with two coats of Polyurethane.

Mom made the bedding in a similar fashion as I did the bedding for the crayon bed I did make one change, and I made a quilt for this bed in replacement of the blanket.

I helped by testing the merchandise. (lol)

Poppa cut a dowel that fit tight in the end of the shot glass and Mom and Ryan glued the wood to the plastic with a glue that required contact a store brand of contact cement. 

After we had that done, on both the flat part of the leg at the top (aka the part you drink from ) and on the bottom of the bed we glued and made the contact adhesive work, we only did 2 of the legs at a time so the glue did not set up too quick on us.Poppa screwed the legs to the bed. We covered all the screws with some tacky glue so they would be more smooth on the top .

Mom also made some under the bed storage boxes. To learn how to do this go here. Super easy project. Your humans might like this project for other things, like themselves. 

Kanani and her mom loved it. Kanani couldn't wait to try it out.

If you build a bed in a similar way show is we'd love to see it/