Do You Still Have Your This End Up Furniture From the 80's?
...Well it's time for a makeover.
Back in the 80's This End Up furniture was everywhere. They had stores in 250 malls and every kid had a bunk bed...mine included. The furniture was incredibly durable and could take years of abuse. While the company went bankrupt in 2000 you can still buy furniture directly from the North Carolina based company.
Back in the 80's This End Up furniture was everywhere. They had stores in 250 malls and every kid had a bunk bed...mine included. The furniture was incredibly durable and could take years of abuse. While the company went bankrupt in 2000 you can still buy furniture directly from the North Carolina based company.
This was the original This End Up Ladder end Loft Bed. The company actually sold 2 types of bunk beds..this one, in which you used the end of the bed as a ladder and a solid end Loft Bed in which you had to purchase a separate ladder. The reason I know this is because our house had both kinds.
When the local This End Up store went out of business son #2 got his own bunk bed. It started out wood colored like the picture above but it wasn't long before we painted it white to match his room.
First step was to fill in all the spaces with wood. What better wood than what's outside my door - pallet wood. The pallet wood was so close to being perfect...each piece was about 1/4 inch too wide. So after a bunch of trimming and sanding all of the spaces were filled. Right now the wood is just sitting there, it's not attached in any way.
The current headboard needed to be beefed up a bit, it currently was only as tall as one propped pillow.
To see what the heck I'm making, this is the extension perched on top of the existing headboard.
On the inside and outside of the headboard and footboard, at the top and bottom, attached a 12 piece of wood with a nail gun and finishing nails.
The vertical pallet wood piece is repeated on the back of both the footboard and headboard. There is one other difference, the backs get 2 more pieces of 12 pine on the sides, this will hold the ends of the pallets in place. All of these vertical pieces also serve to hold the headboard extension in place.
14 pine was cut 2 inches longer than the width of the bed. The corners were cut off then sanded smooth.
These 14's were nailed onto the tops of the headboard and footboard.
I love it, they no longer resemble their This End Up roots.
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amazing idea!
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What a great change! I love this upcyled look. You would never know these came from the 80's! Great Job
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