DIY Bed Redo

Have I told y'all how awesome my dad is?  Well he's pretty amazing and a fabulous furniture builder.  He actually used to see the furniture he made, but now just makes it randomly...and mostly for me :)

We have been so blessed to get to have multiple pieces of his creations throughout our house like...

Bailey's dress up cabinet!

Our entertainment stand!

And our bed!

He actually built this bed for me before Adam and I moved into our first apartment together.  In college, they had bought a mattress and boxsprings for me and my Meme and Grandpa Doug had given me a bed frame, but that's where the actually bed ended.  So my dad built the frame of the bed and my Meme and I covered the headboard...for the first time.

Initially it was this white striped satin sheet that we covered around the padding.

Then when I found out Adam never even liked that fabric, I recovered it in burlap.

We knew that the burlap needed to go (it was stained and stretched from use and moving), so we finally decided to also redo the rails too!

Together, we chose this awesome faux leather upholstery fabric from Hobby Lobby (and I used my 40% off coupon!).  To change out the headboard, I just took off the old burlap and stapled on the new faux leather fabric.  This is pretty easy to do with just one person unless you have too much fabric like I did and need someone to hold the fabric while you cut the excess off.

I also took the trim detailing my dad added to the railing off because we wanted something a little simpler and it would just be easy since I was going to restain the rails to touch up some scuffs.  Then I just picked up some Rustoleum Stain in Kona.  It is a beautiful deep brown/black that warmed up the original stain so nicely.

We let those dry for about a week...simply because Adam went out of town for work and then I went out of town to visit family.  It was totally dry though in a couple days.

Then we just picked up some new L brackets, drilled those into the headboard and rails so that we would have a secure fit and popped the mattress back on!  PS In case you're wondering, we have the i8 mattress from Sleep Number and it's ahhhhhmazing!  Thats why the base looks like that and that's what that white box with the tubes coming out of it is. :)

I am sooo happy with how our bedroom is finally looking and love the duvet cover and shams we got from Ikea...see that post {here}!

And here's our little cutting machine helper :)

Hope you enjoyed this DIY adventure, and as always, thanks for stopping by!