So I am in the process of designing a bed for the wife finally and can use a little help.
The headboard is being made out of an 8-panel solid fir 36" door, the footboard another 32" 8-panel door. Posts will be made out of 4x4, likely poplar if you all think it will be strong enough. The bed will be painted white and there will be white wainscoting on the wall on either side of the bed. The goal is to have the bed look like it is a built-in (ie: integral with the wainscoting), but yet be removal if we ever decide the sell the house. The blank space would then be completed with matching wainscoting.
Additionally the bed needs side rails as our king-sized bed is made of two twins. So I can use a little help in deciding on the size of the rails. I was thinking somewhere around 1 1/4" thick by 10 - 12" or so to match the beefiness of the doors and the posts.
What do you all think?
Thanks,
Mike