Finally completed a bed for my 3 year old daughter. This was my first project in 20 years, so it’s taken me about 9 months of relearning techniques, practicing, finding the right tools, and just finding time really.
Originally was just M&T and half lap joins, but when setting up I decided it was a little too wiggly so I put 38mm and 17mm angle brackets to reinforce it.
Mostly construction lumber from local hardware shop. A few pieces “feature pieces”, Blackbutt and Macrocarpa. Finished with walrus furniture oil. The slats were cut down from someone selling off pieces of their bed on marketplace. (?)
Leave it as it is if you and your family love it.
Maybe when she is older she will ask you to paint it, or she will love it as it is for her whole childhood.
Great job.
She does love it for now. But I made it easy to disassemble so we can change bits, replace with nicer timber, or fix up anything that cracks from my amateur work.
And she just stayed in her bed for the entire night without crying out for us, the first time in about a year. I think she must be really happy about it.