Dressers

So as a reminder that the site is only "mostly" beds. Here are some dressers we have made, some in the past and some recently. This is one with four drawers. They are made of solid wood. This particular color is not available anymore because for some reason Minwax feels the need to change the colors from time to time. This is our basic style. This is one that was built in to a loft bed. And it is a little different style. We can do this style with the bead board as a stand alone dresser with four or five drawers as well. It is a little more than the one above. It matches the Clair style bed frame really well too. This color is called Pickled Oak.

This last one is a five drawer. The color is English Chestnut. I loved this color. We did a set of Jeremy bunk beds that matched it. I will post some pictures of them next. It is a great color.

Lately, we have felt like we were living in one of those post apocalyptic movies where the machines rebel. It seems like everything mechanical we have has broken down. But maybe we have them all back in line now. In the last few weeks my poor husband has fixed the hot water heater, which meant tearing the cupboards in our travel trailer apart because whoever put it in put the access to the element facing the wrong way. He has fixed the generator, repeatedly, I think that one is going to hold for a while now. And just about completely rebuilt the front end of our van. He is tired of machines at this point and would rather stick to working with wood.

Financing

I just was looking at the newspaper add for a furniture store locally that was advertising Free financing. I read the fine print. If you are late on a payment or don't pay it off in 12 months you have to pay 25% interest from the day you bought it. That seems a little bit deceptive to me. So we have started to finance, (yes I do know how to spell it, I just don't know how to edit the page now that I posted it). Here is the deal, we don't want to make more money than we do making the beds. We will not charge interest, there are no penalties. It's just that we do realize that it is hard for many people to come up with cash to buy anything. Honestly if we were trying to buy beds for our kids from us it may not happen if we had to have cash. And we don't use credit cards, it seems we might not be the only ones in the world who are tired of giving money to the credit card companies. So if you are interested in financing your purchase click on the misspelled page to the left and take a look at the terms, if you have any questions let us know.

oops

We goofed, we do that. Once in a while thankfully not very often but once in a while it does happen. And I hate that it was on this bed. This is a customer who has been waiting. We have three of them who have been very patient and we were so happy to have one done and be moving on to number two. Then we went and goofed it up. When we set this one up it looked wrong but we were in a hurry and didn't see it. But our customer did. That is the great thing about our blog. It lets our customers look over our shoulder and say that is not the way I thought it would be. We would much rather catch something at this point. Especially one like this bed that is being shipped. It would be much harder to fix the problem after we shipped it. Anyway here is the problem, the ladder should be on the end. It is so obvious of course it should be on the end, how could you use the drawer if the ladder was in front of it. I hate feeling stupid. But it does happen. So this week we are making a new headboard with the ladder opening in it. And working on our second bed that is waiting.

Here is something not related to our beds, and not a mistake really. One day this summer my husband decided to make me an oven outside. It was more of an experiment than a final project. He wanted to make sure it will all work out before he makes one out of more permanent materials. This one did work though. I made bread in it, flat bread not like a loaf of bread. We have made pizza and brownies. I love it. It does not make it hot in my house to bake. The one that we make for permanent will have to have fire brick, concrete block will eventually break from the heat. But it was a fun experiment. The kids had fun helping. The only one who was not all that excited was the little dog in the picture. Mack was pretty sure it was a new dog house for him right up until we started the fire. Look how longingly he is looking at it. It's a hard life for a little dog.

Some new ideas

We have a couple new ideas. First one is a bed kit. This is for example the kit for the Ciera Toddler bunk beds. We have it for sale on Etsy and you can order it direct by sending us an email at fhlunsford@msn.com. We could do this for any bed you see on our blog. We can still deliver locally for free, or we can ship it anywhere. It will save you on the price of the bed and if you have some time and a couple tools you can put it together yourself. So if you are interested in a kit for any bed you see here just let us know by sending us an email. You would get all of the wood pieces, drilled, cut, sanded and ready to put together. Instructions and if you are local all the hardware you need. If we are shipping you can get the hardware cheaper locally to you than paying us and paying shipping. Idea number two. Plans for beds. So far we only have the plans for this Ciera style bunk bed set. It is actually a lot of work to get them together but kind of fun too. If you are interested in these, send us an email at fhlunsford@msn.com we will let you know how to order a set. We can either email them to you or send you a disk. They include a list of the things you must purchase, the tools you need to use, the cuts you must make and instructions with pictures to make things a little clearer, hopefully.

So let us know if you are interested in either of those things. Next time I will post some of what is going on for us besides beds.

Just a quick blog today. We are on the run. This is a little toddler bed we did that I love, it has two drawers underneath. It is cool. We have gotten back to busy pretty fast. We had three little beds that got in a loop from before out move. This is the one that was ordered first. It is very good to get it ready to ship out. We still have two more, one is not a Ciera style which is cool. It has seemed like all the toddlers we have done have been Ciera style and all this color for some reason. So we have one comming up that is neither a Ciera style or this color. It is a Jeffery and it will be early american. Pictures of it stained will be next.

The kids have started school now so we are getting into a normal working routine again. We love the quiet but it is strange when they are all gone.

Back to work

No pictures today, just me typing on some one elses computer.

We are back to work. Summer was a bit slow and crazy so far. With our move sort of dominating things. Have you ever done something and then just looked back and thought wow that was terrible? That is how our move ended up being. Somehow it just did not go the way we thought it would when we started, but everything does come to an end, both good and bad things. We are getting used to the rhythm of life with a generator. When it runs we do everything, laundry, charge batteries for the lights, charge cell phones, vacuum, and cut the kids hair. We are hoping to get regular power soon for the wood shop. We are going to sell a car I think, anyone want to buy a Chevy Lumina?

When things get slow you start thinking maybe we should do something else. I have to say though that I am very glad that things are picking up. Once you find something you love to do it is hard to think of giving it up. I do love working with my husband at home. I love that when I am done with my work I can look at something visible and see what I have done. It is great to see a nice shiny new bed and know that we did that with our own hands.

The summer was not a waste though, we have had a lot of time with the kids and that is never a waste of time. Hopefully I will get some pictures up next time from my own computer. I have a great picture from a customer in Texas. The amazing part for us of the picture is how they got the whole bed in the picture, we tried to get decent pictures in the room and could not. So I have to post it just to show off her talent.

Finally moved

We can now say we live here, it is really nice to be done moving! We put a lot of stuff into storage because obviously all of us and our stuff would not fit in this. But it is all working out ok. We now have a generator so we are able to use all of our tools and we can build stuff which is good because that is how we support our extravagant life style. It has been so long since I blogged here are some things we did that I did not have time to post. Things were so crazy but now we are hoping to get back to our simple little life that we have come to enjoy. First this is the first real platform bed that we have done. A school ordered two of them. Then we delivered them and they ordered two more. Then they told us they want two more. We like that. And we liked how the beds turned out.

This little bed deserves it's own post maybe I will get to it. But the short version of the story is that a long time ago a customer sent us an email saying they wanted us to build them a bed, but they did not know what yet. We put them on our schedule. Then due to them moving and us moving and our fire and on and on it took some time. Eventually they sent us a picture of what they had in mind. This is the end result. We loved it. It is sort of a short Clairamy. The stairs are also different from any we have done before.

Right now we are finishing up our work shop, and some toddler bunk beds and getting ready to build some book cases that a customer designed. I am looking fore ward to those. More to come about our off grid life, and what we are working on.