When our girls were old enough to move into a normal twin size bed we were looking around at the local furniture stores and were amazed at how expensive kids beds are! For the basic bare bones nothing fancy bed we were looking at shelling out over $300!

NO WAY!

My wife’s family had an old bunk bed set beating around the houses. One half spent a few years in a shed and the other half in a brother’s attic. We got a hold of the set and went to work. First I scuffed up the clear varnish and patched or filled any major gouges and holes. Then I painted everything with a sturdy white primer/finish coat.

Then came the fun part, for a couple of dollars at the local craft store we bought some wooden plaques or apliques, painted them the accent color and my wife decopouged decopagued, doco… well she clear shellacked the kids names with sparkles on to it.

The most expensive part were the new mattresses and the bedding. We splurged on that because, really, the beds them selves cost less than $50 total! Can’t go wrong there.

Here is one Happy Customer.

Peace!