hi guys welcome back today I want to show you how I am putting together these
little wooden beds well they look like wooden beds but they're actually made
out of cardboard this one is made out of foam board and this one is made out of
regular cardboard and they feel just like wood so I want to show you how I'm
doing that just simple little beds there's nothing
fancy about these at all and if you want to see how I put them together then stay
tuned so each bed frame is made out of
cardboard or foam board whichever one you prefer two popsicle sticks some wood
filler and some tacky glue just your regular white tacky glue alright you're
also going to need some sandpaper and some paint of course whatever colors you
choose it's up to you age look - all of my bed's if you wanted to do the same
sort of thing then you'll need a dark brown and what I used was a burnt umber
and the base coat will be a dark brown and then whatever top coat that you
choose if you do want to do a crackle look I used crackle medium if you've
been around and following me for a while you'll know that most of everything I
make is kind of wonky I don't have any straight lines
I find charm and wonky things all I cared about this bed was as long as if I
set it down on something flat like a flat surface
it didn't wobble okay so what I did to get the headboard in the footboard
started was I just eyed up a shape on a piece of cardboard and I cut it out and
then I used that piece that I cut out as a template to cut out the next pieces
because depending on what you're using you're gonna cut two or three pieces for
each headboard in each footboard so this was foam board and you can see I've cut
two pieces and glued them together okay and so forth foam board I found two
pieces was the perfect width this is a McDonald's coffee box and it's pretty
thin so for this one I used three pieces so each piece once I finished assembling
them had three pieces cut and glued together I found with this
regular cardboard that two pieces was thick enough because if you do three and
I've done three here just to show you your see that's a bit thick this is two
pieces here see how much thicker that would be so it's up to you how you do it
so you need a headboard a footboard and a bed board so like I said I cut out a
headboard and footboard and I'm gonna use these as templates and I will
measure them in a second here for you let us put them on there and trace
around them I haven't done my bed board yet because I am going to use a ruler
for that that's just a little over three inches so a little over three inches for
the highest point of the headboard and about three inches wide about three and
a quarter inches wide and this one is two and a quarter these have to be the
same way so use them as template so I'm just going to cut out these two pieces
okay I'm just using my scissors I'm not worried too much about how the edges
look because I'm gonna be covering that up anyway you do want a flat edge on the
bottom so try to get that as far as you can the part that will sit on the floor
okay now I'm going to cut my bed boards and for that I did measure all right I
have to pop in with an edit because I've lost the clip and have no idea where it
went the size of beds is completely up to you the height of the headboard the
height of the footboard totally up to you and of course the length of the bed
but I will measure mine of course just in case you want to know this one is
just about four and a quarter inches and of course the width will be the same
width as your headboard and footboard this one's a little bit longer this one
is five inches if you're doing (a twelve) a 1/12 scale then every inch equals a
foot I don't follow a scale like this I every
if you were following a scale a 1/12 scale then every inch equals a foot all
right and this one is four and a half inches so once your bed board is cut out
then just use it as a template as well all right next step is to glue these
pieces together and if you are using a commercial box like I did here that food
came in or coffee came in you can see how glossy that is paint has a problem
sticking to that and also glue so just give it a light sand okay I don't have
to worry about that on these or the foam boards they glued together nicely and
what I'm using is a syringe I bought off Amazon I normally use a paintbrush
because I buy bulk glue and a great big jug so I can't really pour it and it
doesn't have a a nice top up pour-able top on the top so I normally use a
paintbrush with glue and then somebody commented when I was making my stairs on
film one day I was having troubles getting glue into little spots she said
get a syringe and I didn't even know they existed for glue okay so what I'm
doing now is I'm I glued it together and I'm just standing it up on the table
top to make sure that the bottom edges are even I'm gonna stick these under
books but I want to let the glue set just for for a couple minutes otherwise
when you put books on top it'll just slide the pieces will slide apart so
give your glue a chance to set a little bit okay just try your pieces that
they're sticking and they're not sliding then you can stick some books on top you
know my pieces are nice and dry and let them sit for about 20 minutes you can see
my edges aren't very straight or you know I didn't pay any attention to how
they look and that's totally fine because we're gonna be covering that up
so don't worry about that the next step we need to do is add our
popsicle stick so our bed board has something to sit on
okay and these are my mice bed so I don't need them very tall so I found one
width of these it's the perfect height for my mice I'm
just gonna cut off that round end and now I'm just going to measure okay I
want to make two pieces for each bed so we need two popsicle sticks cut for each
bed that you make so when you glue these pieces on these little popsicle sticks
just make sure that you put it down on the tabletop that you're working on and
you push it down so that it's flush with the tabletop like I said in the
beginning you don't want it wobbling so you want to make sure that the
everything is flush and now you want to leave the glue set for a few minutes
before we move on to the next step and do use wax paper or parchment paper
because that glue could dribble out at the bottom and get stuck to your table
I'm just gonna set those aside and I'll just leave them for a few minutes before
I move on to the next step just so things aren't signing around so I'll
give it about three or four minutes and then we'll attach our bed board and I
get the glue right on top of that craft stick okay so I'm gonna use a block of
wood here now I'm just gonna lean that there
okay once your piece is set in place I'm just gonna add a little bit more glue you can use
a paintbrush like I said alright so the next thing I do I look so professional hey
I just want to weigh down the top so these are full bottles of paint
I just weigh it down make sure everything's straight up and down before
you walk away like you don't want it to dry um with the bed boards
pushed in or out or anything just make sure that they're straight up and down
put your weights on top and now you just leave it for about 20 minutes or so
maybe 30 minutes even I would set a fan on it if you could as well and that will
help you just want to make sure this is nice and dry before we move on to the
next step
if the pieces are dry they are still a little bit flimsy that's gonna get
better look that one eh okay so what we're gonna add now is this wood filler
and I just use my finger and I'm going to fill in all the cracks with it okay
and as you're adding it don't put too much pressure on the end boards as
you're working cuz I hang on to the middle usually what I'm working and when
I get here just hang on to the part where it's attached just kind of hold it
together while you're pushing it's not going to fall apart on you if you just
touch it or just push on it but if you keep repeatedly putting this stuff on
and working it into all the creases and stuff you could cause it to get weak you
know what I mean like so you want to just make sure that you're not putting
too much pressure on these in boards as you're working okay I set that aside to
dry actually put the fans on it and let it dry some before I finish with the
wood filler because I was finding it too difficult to put the or keep the wood
filler where I needed it to stay as I was working because it was wet it was
pulling out of the spots that I wanted to put on there but now I can feel it's
quite a bit more sturdy than it was but it's gonna get even more so after this
part is done and once this is dry this wood filler in here this board and this
board here the end boards become like one solid piece so that's what makes it
feel like like a wooden piece I just love these little beds I think they're
so easy to make I hope you think so too I really do I hope this you know helps
you get your little house filled up with furniture great we're in the next day
and they sat all night and drive and they're pretty sturdy now pretty good
what I did before I went to bed as well I do this with all my pieces that I
glued together with tacky when things are sitting for a while or
finally leave them overnight I always add another little layer of glue you can
use a paintbrush - you don't need to use a syringe like I said it's just easier
for me get those little cracks and I do this on all parts that are joined
together and I did it in here as well the tacky glue dries really strong and
you'll never be disappointed by adding a little bit of extra tacky glue and I
just leave those sit let them dry and then we can move on to the next step so
that's what I did with all my pieces look at these ones eye and eye wood
filler so I went to the Walmart got some last night and it's purple I've never
seen that before but it dries white so it went on purple
and dried completely white it's not gonna take my sandpaper and I'm just
using what I had on hand it doesn't have to be the same one this is like a fine
grit probably a little coarser grit would be better but that's all I have
anyway just sand down the edges and any parts that are like this here I would
sand that down when you get to this part these parts here
make sure you sand those down so that will show up in the paint I've done one
here so you can see see that that has to be sanded down we're gonna bring go
straight down to the cardboard all right I've sanded down this bit here
and there was a few little areas that can use a little extra so I'm gonna do
that now and let it dry all right time for the paint you can do this any color
you want I mean this is where your creative process is gonna take off like
I said I like that shabby look with the cracks in the paint so I'm gonna do a
dark brown first over all my beds all right so I normally put on about four
coats of that Brown I just feel like that
it's the perfect number it covers up everything I need to be covered any
pictures underneath like this is a coffee box you'll cover that I just like
the I just like the looks of the four coats I'm just
putting this on like I said so I can get that color underneath when I put the top
coat on on it it gives me a nice comment underneath that cracking now we don't
need it on this part here I was just a little bit carried away there all I need
the cracking for is the headboard in the footboard and anywhere that's gonna be
seen I don't need any on the back all right guys we're gonna end the video
here the mattresses that I made I did show that on video and that will pop up
on your screen at the end of this video the painting part like I said is totally
up to you if you wanted to see somebody who knows exactly what you're doing with
crackle medium it's not me I just kind of you know I did follow the
instructions and I put my crackle medium over top my four coats of brown paint
and then I added my paint over that and I just get crackle and stuff but this
might not be exactly the look that you're looking for there is a better way
of doing crackle medium and I know somebody here on YouTube that does a
great job with that her name is Ara and she has Bentley
House Minis I will put her link in the description box below I highly suggest
going to check her out if you like that aged look on your furniture I'll put
that link directly to her aged furniture video in the description box below and
yeah she's got awesome video she's and she does wonderful miniatures so check
her out for sure and there will be a second part to this video I'm just not
sure when and some of these might change color I'm gonna keep this color I love
this this one is actually called vintage and it's a chalk paint I know a lot of
you will love that color as well okay oh and this chippy look here I decided to
just forget about the crackles and I went with chippy instead and I just used
this little tool here and I just scraped off the paint to expose the brown
underneath yeah so we'll just end it there and I'll get this up for you guys
and hopefully that will be helpful and you'll get yourself some little beds
made for your tree house or your dollhouse thanks much for watching and
we'll see you super soon