Furniture in Progress

No, I still have not finished the baby gate I showed you before.  But NOT because I am still sawing through that board!  Priorities shift . . .

The big summer project is to add new bunk beds, upstairs and down.  The first one is all painted and will go upstairs tomorrow.

(The metal rods just hold the end pieces for painting.)  The long sides are on the saw horses in the back.  The balls to the left are for the tops of the posts.  All sawing was done by hand, but I did use a router and a drill.

Inexpensive furniture is inevitably cheap.  I think these beds, by contrast, will last for some time.  Frankly, I am hoping the world ends first.  With huge, 1 inch thick tenons in closely fitting mortises, these beds will be able to handle kids jumping all over them.  If that happens, the kids may not fare as well as the beds . . .

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More Laurence

Laurence: Dad, how old will Juliana be when I grow up to an adult?
Me: She will be an adult, too.
Laurence:  What about Stephen?
Me:  He will be an adult, too.
Laurence:  When I grow up, there will be a ton of adults.