hey guys welcome to another one bighappy diy build this is part two in a two-part series showing how we builtthis platform bed be sure to check out part 1 to see how we built the base anddon't forget to thumbs up and subscribe for more videos like these with the basebuilt it was time to move on to the upper canopy we cut the four by fours to7 feet long then cut the two by fours to length by measuring between the four byfours after we inserted them into the base we used metal right angle bracketsfrom home depot to attach the two by fours to the four by four posts usingself-drilling screws there are lots of other more legit woodworking ways wecould have done this but this was by far
the fastest and easiest we started byattaching one bracket to either end of the shorter two by fours this made iteasy to install the two by fours because they just sat right on top of the fourby fours while we screwed them in to attach the long two by fours we clampthem to the other side of the metal right angle bracket to hold them upwhile we secured them using more of the self drilling screws next it was time to secure the 4x4 poststo the frames we used a socket set and drill to install six-inch lag bolts intothe corner blocking that we installed when we first assembled the base so thefirst thing we had to do was to drill
pilot holes for these huge lag boltsthat we used next it was time to actually install thelag bolts using an adapter on the drill and the socket set so as you can seethese lag bolts are actually really big so when joseph went to screw them inusing the drill and our drill is cordless and battery operated so thefirst two went in just fine but the quiff the drill quickly started tostruggle and so then joseph had to use elbow grease to get the lag bolt all theway into the wood then of course he did this four more times now that we aredone walking around inside the bed we went ahead and installed the middlesupport board using pocket screws this
board will help support the slats thatthe bed sits on once we had the bed all together it was time to pull it apart soi could finish it i was going for a weathered multi-layered finish similarto the restoration hardware look i used three stains to were oil based stains inthe colors weathered gray and dark walnut the third was a whitewashedpickling stayed by minwax that i used for dry brushing i painted on theweathered gray stain in chunks using a cheap paint brush then filled in all ofthe empty spots with the dark walnut and let the stain set for a minute thenwiped off the excess with a cloth this created a nice multicolored aged effect
then i top coated with the whitewashedpickling stain i used a dry brushing method where i dipped my brush lightlyin the stain and wiped off the excess then lightly ran the brush across thesurface of the wood in the direction of the wood graini used a clean cloth to buff out the rough edges of the brush strokes then ilayered on the whitewash until i was satisfied then moved on to the next sidei repeated this process on the entire bed so you can imagine it took quite awhile the finishing took the longest by far we could have gone for a simplerlook that would have made it go much faster for example we could have justpicked one of the stains and gone with
that now i did try just the dark walnutand just the weathered gray and we didn't like it as much as this once thefinish was complete joseph's top coated it using polycrylic and our paintsprayer polycrylic is a water-based topcoat and it's really easy to use oncethe topcoat was dry it was time to take the bed upstairs and reassemble it thebed is pretty heavy because it's solid wood so it was a bit of a haul to get itup there wow bid strong dad! reeves, the struggle of getting bedsupstairs look it look at just look at it the struggle the struggle it's a good thing she didn't have a queen. huh it's a good thing that you did not have a queen bed that's true to reassemble the bed we inserted theposts then screwed in the lag bolts to
secure the four by fours to the basewhich joseph had to do largely by hand because we needed the drill to installthe screws on the slats while joseph was finishing up with thelag bolt i placed the slats and then spaced them by eyeballing them and used1 and 1/2 inch self drilling wood screws to secure them to the base the bed willsit on these slats so it's really important that they are secure the laststep was to reattach the two by fours to the four by fours to make the canopy andone thing that we did not do here that we wish that we have was to mark exactlywhich two by fours went where because that would have made the reassemblyprocess a lot easier once the bed was
complete we put alexis's room backtogether and this is how the bed turned out later we restyled her room and thisis what it looks like now we hope you guys enjoyed the video don't forget tothumbs up and subscribe for more videos like this one thanks for watching bye