New night stands and pictures

The Margrethe aka Danish Modern Style Bed Version 3.0 with Storage

This is the same design as before, but the headboard is about 5 inches wider and extends lower, so that there is no gap between the mattress and the headboard. This is because the particular client in question was worried about pillows slipping through said gap. Even though my wife and I have never experienced this problem, I get this request quite often, so I figured I should have an option for those with allusive pillows.

The other addition is the storage, which is the same design I've used before (two long, floating drawers that slide to both sides) but this is the first time I've used it with this bed design.

I'm calling this the Margrethe because, in a previous post, I asked for name suggestions, and someone named Else suggested I name it after the Queen of Denmark. Done!

Walnut Storage Bed with Attached Night Stands

3 Recent Beds

I've been building a lot of beds lately, and mostly failing to take any good pictures. Here are three of the beds I've built lately with my poorly staged photography.

Danish Modern Style Bed Version 2.0

I revised the design from before, bringing the headboard out flush with the back of the bed, and echoing the soft curve of the front legs with the back legs (if that makes sense). I built this out of walnut. I sold it to a couple who lives in a rad home up on a cliff in Silverlake- we had to haul it up about 100 steps to get to the house! I'm stoked on where it ended up though, it's a great home and great people.
p.s. I want to start coming up with names for these original designs, but I haven't been able to think of anything yet. Submissions are welcome!

Wall Unit/Record Case

I built a sweet wall unit for our condo, but it never really fit anywhere in our new home. Thankfully, a couple came over one day and saw it and wanted it, so it's in a new home now. This freed me up to build one that fit perfectly where we wanted it. It's built from pecan/hickory plywood, and I left the plywood edge exposed.

Outdoor Bench

We tore down an enormous brick fireplace and replaced it with this bench that we designed and I built. Jana (my wife) had the idea to plant the succulents underneath, which will look amazing when they grow in fully. We had our first outdoor party with it a few nights ago with some friends and a fire and it was fantastic!

Danish Modern Style Bed

This is a new bed design I dreamed up and decided to build. It's built from jatoba (a.k.a. Brazillian cherry), rosewood and maple.

Armoire

I built a storage bed this summer and was asked if I could build an armoire to match it, thus comprising a bedroom set. I'd never built an armoire but it sounded like a great design challenge and a chance to stretch my skills so here it is. It's built from baltic birch with jatoba (Brazilian cherry) veneer and solid jatoba and rosewood. I really like the variety of tones in the wood.
Our friends Randy and Megan came over to help me take some good photographs of the piece. Randy taught me the power of a solid white background and proper shading in taking good photos, plus he brought over his nice camera and artistic eye. Thanks Randy!

storage bed with cabinet headboard

I built this bed with the storage drawers last summer for our friend Jen, who wanted to surprise her husband for their 10-year wedding anniversary. She asked me to build it without a headboard so that, down the road, she could have me build a cabinet-style headboard to go with it. Her husband Appie contacted me this summer and wanted to surprise Jen with the headboard for their 11th anniversary. So it took a year to put all together, but here it is. The bed is all solid cherry, and the headboard is plywood with cherry veneer.

Twin Bed with Storage

I love this bed. It's solid walnut and turned out incredible. The basic design is not my own, but I added the turned legs and the drawer pulls. My favorite detail is the expressive, continuous wood on the drawer fronts. Hopefully this detail will be observable in these pictures.

Rosewood Storage Bed with Night Stands

For this bed it was requested that the drawers be very deep- 10 inches as opposed to the normal 5 - 6 inches. So I decided to build them out of baltic birch plywood and cover them with a veneer. The veneer is Indian rosewood while the bed is mostly South American rosewood, but I think it made for an interesting contrast. The headboard is really interesting too- it's got all kinds of birdseye-like markings and highly expressive grain action. I don't really have any idea what type of wood it is but it was mixed in with my stock of rosewood and it looked awesome so I used it. I also really like the pulls on the night stand drawers.