Hi, friends! Finally, another post, right? I wanted an iron bed for the mom's room in my little house so I looked on line and found a real one that I thought I could duplicate. I measured on graph paper first. I bought the small wooden dowels at Walmart. They came in bags, but a lot of them weren't straight so I had to buy a couple of long ones and cut them to size. Then I used a generic Dremel tool with a little rounded end drill bit to drill the holes in the dowels. The dowels that fit into those holes got sanded on each side so that they'd fit into the rounded holes. I used beads to decorate the bed. I filled the holes in the beads with gesso so they wouldn't look so much like beads, hehe. I used Kris's tutorial at 1inchminisbyKris, for the mattresses, only I didn't make the buttons like she did in the tufting. I glued in tiny beads.
Behind the bed is the closet for the bedroom that is almost complete. See the little plastic containers that I'll used for baskets? Those are sauce containers from McDonalds that I've trimmed. The handles on the faux drawers are bead spacers, and jewelry jump rings that I opened up to fit. I will next make bedding for the bed, and curtains for the windows, and finish the room with decor. I'll show you a pic when it's complete. I hope you like my little bed. Thank you for visiting.