The Zen Bed
When you have a child that is leaving the nest and heading to university, apartments need to be furnished. While much of my daughter’s furniture was sourced from Ikea, she was keen to have Dad make her bed. We worked on the design together and decided that a Japanese-style bed was the way she wanted to go. Not only is this bed beautiful to look at but it is also quite practical. The joinery for the bed allows it to be taken-down easily without tools and moved or stored as required.
This was a new bit of joinery for me which was exciting. It’s important as a woodworker to always try new things and expand your palette of skills. The rails for this bed are joined with an edge lap and the legs have a cross-shaped section removed from them to receive the assembled rails.
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