Storage Platform Bed with Night Stands from zebra and rosewood

I built this set for my friend and photographer extraordinaire Matt Wignall.  He wanted a bed with storage but suggested the sliding door approach (as opposed to drawers).  He wanted me to use rosewood, and I thought of the zebra wood accent, which gave it a cool jungle vibe.  He took all of the photos, and his friend Neil provided the house, the quilt, chair, books, etc.

San Francisco

My wife, daughter, and myself recently ventured up to San Francisco to deliver furniture to four different homes in the city. We met some great people, ate great food and got some great exercise walking all over the city.

In the interest of full disclosure, I did not build this night stand, but I love the way it looks with this bed, which I did build.

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!

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.

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.

Floating Nightstands Round 2

This shipping company called Saia destroyed my shipment to Canada (here's some free advice- don't use Saia) so I had to rebuild this set. It was a bummer, but I think I like the way this turned out even better the second time. I'm especially fond of the headboard, which is rather wondrous I must say.

King Storage Bed with Turned Legs in Walnut

The title pretty much says it all. I think this bed turned out super boss.