Sweat Pea bunk bed Part 2--stairs and shutters.

The rest of the story: Part 1--front and side panels, Part 3--pergola and window boxes,Part 4--drawers and cubbies, Part 5--the finale!

When we last left our intrepid builders, they were freezing their butts off in an unheated garage in January/February working on the bunk bed for the granddaughters. 

Continuing with the stairs--

Got pretty good at cutting out hearts with the jigsaw. 
Now need to come up with a project to use the cutouts!

Built pretty much exactly as directed in the plans.

Well now its February and we told Rusty's friend we would be out of his garage in January.  He has been more than patient with us but its time we got out of there.  Thanks again for letting us use your garage Mike!!

So everything gets put in the back of the purple truck and hauled home.

Once home, we started working on the shutters.  The upper shutters were done as instructed, except for adding dowels for extra strength to keep the two sides together.  But why have upper shutters and not lower shutters??   Sister wants to be able to have shutters on her windows too!!  So we added shutters to the lower bunk windows.  

Dowling jig again. 



One thing we did modify was to have the shutters actually fit into the window opening instead of lying on top of it.  The hinges are from Hippo Hardware in Portland. 

Next we started working on the roof.  According to my measurements, if I kept the original design for the roof it would fit in the room but with only about and inch or two to spare.  So we kept the roof the same size, but reduced the slope slightly so that it was not as tall.  In consequence, it sticks out the front of the bed a little further than the original. 

I went to the bargain lumber place and picked up a little of this overlap siding which I used as the final roofing material. 

The claw!!

Because the roof sticks out farther than the original plans, we added this teal fascia board to keep little treasures from falling through. 

The roof is attached with a pocket screw on each end.  Its heavy enough that it doesn't really move around.

Finally we painted the slats for the top bunk rainbow.  We originally used the 1x4 slats that the design called for, but felt that because of the added width that structurally they weren't really up to the job.  So we ended up putting in 2x6's instead.  So plenty sturdy for daddy or mommy to climb on the top bunk to read stories. 

Now sister on the bottom bunk has something to look at.

 
Ok--that's enough for Part 2.  Part 3 will be the pergola and the window boxes!