Banner Elk Bunk Beds

 As we got furniture moved into the Banner Elk townhouse, it created an opportunity for me to build a lot more stuff. I started with a really cool quad bunk bed for the kids bedroom. It's got 2 fulls and 2 twins in an L-shape, I measured the back wall of that room and had only about half an inch to spare. Also, to be sure that there was enough room for grandmothers to get into the twins, I needed to move them forward. Again I measured the side wall to be sure I wasn't going to cover up a light switch or something. The void created by moving the bed I used to build in a nightstand. The end result is pretty neat. 

It always starts with a shitload of lumber into the shed

Started building the frames and cut all of the supports and slats to length

Assembling the frames

Assembling the supports

Rough layout of the finished product, full, twin, nightstand in the corner

All 4 frames

Assembling the bunks

Now with all 4 together and safety rails

Lena picked out the stain color and helped me apply

Loaded up and ready to head to the mountains. We also brought the fraud bed for the back porch

Installed! And my kids are super happy with them

So, 2 fulls, 2 twins, 2 happy kiddos. You can see how that room has a blocked off part where the chimney goes up to the roof, it created a space that I could fill with beds. There's no overhead light or fan in this room, so the light source comes from a lamp on one of the nightstands.

The first weekend we moved into the townhouse, this was in the first load of furniture that I brought up. I can't remember now if it was a thursday or friday - but I had to work a full, stressful day and only had one kid with me (the other was already up there with Kelley). After work we had to disassemble the beds, load up the truck, drive 4 hours to Banner Elk, then unload the truck at like 10 pm and build up these beds that night. Shortly after midnight I finished the assembly in place. Then we all 4 had to sleep in these beds, since they were almost the only furniture in the house at the time! But I can report that I slept like a baby after that. These are really comfortable beds and make a great use of the space