 Do you want a DIY rustic farmhouse bed? We'll show you how we made ours for $150. What is up? Welcome back. If this is your first time here and you like to do it, build it or make it, give us a subscribe. This week, we're building a bed. We're going to make our own queen size bed for our littlest queen. We had a grill move out and now we have a grill moving up. One went off to college and the other one's moving into tween hood. So room makeover. We're going to slide the cut list in right here for a couple of seconds. And when you do that, we're going to set up over at the miter saw. Okay, so we've not made this bed before. So we're going to a little bit wing it as we go along. I'll be following the directions. First step is to cut the headboard legs and foot legs. So we're going to use a four by four and cut it at 52 and a half and 14 and a half. Get that. Got it. Next step, we're going to cut, we're starting with the headboard and we're going to cut a top header at 67. And the way these plans are written, so you know too, they're written so that you can adjust the measurements to a king or queen or twin size bed, any size bed. So we're working with a queen and it's width of mattress plus seven inches. So we're going 67 inches. 67. Yep. Okay, step one, now that we have the boards cut, we're going to attach the top rail of the headboard to the four by four legs using two and three quarter inch self tapping wood screws. All right. Well, the self tapping, maybe not so self tapping. I didn't get self tapping. So we're going to drill a pile hole. You look good. The boards for the slats that make the headboard and a one by two. That's the backer board to put the slats on. So we're going to use a one by two at 29 inches. And we're going to use, we're going to modify the plans a little bit. We're going to use one by eight instead of one by sixes. So we'll use four of those to make the headboard. We have laying around and I'm cheap. Okay. Step two, now that we've cut the one by two, we're going to attach it flush to the back of the headboard and then we're going to add the one by eight slats to make the, I don't know, headboard back. Is that what you would call it? Yeah. Sure. Headboard back. Headboard back. So we're just going to glue and nail these on. We're going to pocket hole the one by eight together and attach them together first and then attach them to the headboard. So the first thing we're going to do is add the pocket holes. We're going to flip it over, glue it and then hit these pocket holes to secure to the top. This two by six has the bottom brace of the headboard and we're going with a 60 inch cut. We have the headboard laying face down and we're going to use these clamps to mark a spot of 13 inches up from the bottom. Then we're going to attach this two by six between the legs. I like it. Alright, the two by six is going flush with the front of the headboard. Okay, so we're going to start with a two by six cut to the length of the mattress. In our case it's 80 and then we're going to cut a two by four to the length of the mattress that will sit on top at 80 as well. We're in the second set. We have a two by six that's cut down to 80 and we're going to put some pocket holes in it and attach the two by four to the top. This will be one of the side rails. This is step six from the plans in case you're following along. Which is a two by four, two by six cut to the width of the mattress, ours is 60. We're going to assemble the footboard. It's the same as the rails except then we're going to attach them to these four by four feet. Alright, we have to stand it up for the pocket holes. What do you mean? The pocket holes. The pocket hole is in this. Oh. It's like the two by four centers on the four by four. The holes in the bed rails. Just going to put three on each side of each bed rail. Alright, let's go dry fit it. We're going to attach the side rail. Garrett's measuring 14 and a half up from the bottom which is level with the footboard and he's going to use this little clamp. So the side just goes flush with the four by four. Next step is to add the cleats and the slats. We can't add those yet because we have to disassemble the bed and to symbol it up in the room. So at this point we're going to stand and paint and we'll meet you up in the room. Alright, since we're going to distress it and it's a girl's bedroom we're going to use some gray, a dark gray and some areas that we're going to distress it and then come through with some kind of purple pink color thing. Lilac. Lilac. So it'll just have a hint of lilac when we distress it. That's the thing. It's all sanded, we threw some spots in there so that it will peek through when it's all distressed and now we're going to paint it white. Time to assemble it. We're going to keep the footboard on the ground and stand the rails up to assemble it. It'll be a whole lot easier. We think. We think. I think. So all the cleats on the side rails we decided against gluing them because if we glued it we wouldn't be able to take it apart again. Because the cleats cover the pocket holes that attach the side rails to the headboard and the footboard so if you glue it on, that's it. That's it. It would be done forever. This is the bed forever. Go ahead and never go down this way. She'll always live here. For the cleats they are 60 inches same as your length of your mattress. We put some pilot holes in them and we're just going to screw them to the side. We're going to use these two bad boys. Little one by twos as spacers on the top. 81 inch cleat for the middle and some 62 inch slats and I'll be right back. Wait for me, Dan. Alright. Back. Yeah, should be 60. Can I see the pencil? Half would be 30. Ooh. Look at me. Look at you with the mathness. You're such a math leap. Back with some 62 inch slats and I put a little pilot hole in them. We're going to space the slats out in the bed. Place the hand width. Now that little pilot hole that we had we're going to put a screw in them. To subscribe, if you haven't subscribed yet and hit that bell, be notified of our new videos and in the meantime, you can watch this old video or that old video. Not that old. That's not that old but this one's a better video. You should watch them both and we'll see you guys next week.