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Playhouse Bed Frame DIY

Playhouse Bed Frame DIY

If you’ve already tackled the first DIY from our Fall Hanna Home shoot than you might be ready for something a little bit more labor-intensive. Our prop stylist Dane has an extra special project up his sleeves for you: A Playhouse Toddler-Size Bed Frame! Not for the tool-averse, this project offers challenges and rewards. We recommend an extra set of hands to hold lumber in place and help out with the trickier steps! Here’s what you need to make your own below:

Materials:

– 2 x 2 x 8 wood blocks
– minter saw
– a ruler
– drill
– elmers glue
– wide paint brush
– hammer
– measuring tape
– brackets
– nails
– varnish

 

1. Gather tools and materials pictured above. (Please note: The board feet of lumber will depend on the exact size of your toddler’s mattress and height of your house). Cut (4) 42” vertical 2×2 posts to stand at each corner.

2. Cut 2×2 pieces to create the frame around the bed attaching to the vertical posts at the corners. Pre-drill holes just smaller than your 3” wood screws making sure to put one screw above the other so they don’t hit where they cross. This is an important place to have help stabilizing the corner posts.

3. Attach steel corner brackets to keep things sturdy. Cut 2×2 pieces to go between the posts at the top (same length as pieces directly below. Pre-drill and attach. Steel brackets at these corners too. Attach (2) pieces of 2×2 to form a 90 degree angle for each end of the house. Hold these corners up to the end of the house with the peak centered and mark where they line up with the outside edges of the house.

4. Mitre cut at these marks and attach the roof pieces by pre-drilling before putting in the screw. One piece of 2×2 left to insert between the 2 peaks and the house is finished. For stability I would now cut 1×3 slats at the bottom evenly spaced with about 2” of space between each.

5. Good wood glue should be applied at all wood joins! And steel corner brackets should be installed at all 90 degree joints. Sand and clear coat with a water based non toxic finish.

Enjoy your cool new playhouse bed frame!

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Make Your Own Unique Apple Watch Band at Home

Make Your Own Unique Apple Watch Band at Home

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In this modern-day, most people do not see the need for owning watches as they can see the time on their devices. Different types of watches exist that are for various purposes like running. Today, watch companies are concentrating more on running watches because most people use them than others. Watches have different parts that play crucial roles to their makings, like the bands.

There are different kinds of bands that runners use due to the unique features they possess. The Apple Watch Series come with their own bands when you purchase them, but these bands may not be what you want which means you can buy or make other bands. There are so many different things people like to make, and today, I will be helping you learn how you can create fantastic apple watch bands at your home.

How to make your own unique Apple Watch Band

There are DIY ways to make your own Apple Watch Band for your Apple Watch Series that you may be having. Remember, you can use different materials to make the Apple Watch Band. Let’s look at how you can make an Apple Watch Band in a general way;

Apple Watch Band at Home

 

Using fabric and materials of all kinds

You can use different kinds of fabric to make your own Apple Watch Band for any of your Apple Watch Series. Below are the steps you will need to follow to do this successfully;

– Step 1

Gather the different items you will be using in your tasks of making the Apple Watch Band. It would help if you had a piece of cloth of your choice, a sewing machine, scissors, and elastic. These are the most common items you may need for any Apple Watch Band you want to make.

– Step 2

Using the scissors, cut the piece of cloth you have to the measurements of your wrist. You should cut the fabric meant for the watch band and another for the retainer. You should know the size you want depending on how big or small your wrist is. To be safe, cut the cloth to seven inches and the elastic six. This way, you get to have an Apple Watch Band that gets to be very secure around the wrist.

– Step 3

The piece of cloth you have cut to be the retainer you now sew it on the part meant for the band. You have to secure the retainer on both ends to come up with a loop that is closed. This loop acts as an attachment between the watch and the spring bars.

Fold the material meant to make your Apple Watch Band on the edges to keep the edges from showing. When doing this, you leave space that you will use to get the elastic and through the tunnel that comes when you were sewing the two sides meant for the band.

Keep your measurements balanced to make an Apple watch band series that fits well without any spaces showing between the wrist and the Apple Watch series you are using.

– Step 4

Take the elastic strip and sew it where you get to bring both ends of the flexible strip together. It is easier to sew this using your hand instead of the sewing machine.

– Step 5

You can now go ahead and attach the Apple Watch Band you have made to the Apple Watch Series you own. Insert the ends of the spring bar inside the holes in the watch. This is after you have already had the spring bars behind the retainer cloth. …