{"id":9332,"date":"2015-09-12T23:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T06:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2015-11-29T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:26:07","slug":"half-scale-sleigh-bed-from-a-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9332","title":{"rendered":"Half scale sleigh bed from a kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sleigh bed I made for the Victorianna’s little girl’s room<\/a> is a kit I bought off eBay, and the instructions didn’t come with it. I went online looking for pictures and ended up on Karen Benson’s website<\/a>. One piece from my kit is stamped HCC which I think stands for “Heritage House Collection.” I don’t know if they’re associated with Karen Benson in some way but it seems to be the same kit, and from the photo on her website I was able to figure out how it goes together. And once I figured that out, I promptly changed it!<\/p>\n

[Clarification 11\/29\/15: I was poking around the Half Scale Yahoo group<\/a> and found a post from 2001 that says Karen Benson bought the Heritage House Collection line. Mystery solved!]<\/p>\n

Here are the pieces that came with the kit:<\/p>\n

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Something about the base bothered me. It doesn’t have a front and back piece — just side pieces — so the feet end up looking one-dimensional instead of having the bulk of many the sleigh bed feet I found on Google Images<\/a>. I decided to leave off the bottom pieces and make my own bulky feet.<\/p>\n

I started by assembling the frame. Easy enough.<\/p>\n

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These pieces were supposed to go together to form the headboard and footboard. Sleigh beds have curved tops so maybe I was supposed to sand the top of the skinny piece to curve it?<\/p>\n

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I had some quarter round of the correct thickness lying around, so I used that instead. <\/p>\n

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With the quarter round glued on the top was a little too tall, jutting out above the side pieces. The quarter round I used is the same height as the pieces I replaced, so this might have been by design? <\/p>\n

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Easily fixed! I used the disc sander to sand down the bottom of the piece until it fit well.<\/p>\n

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I cut the feet from 1:12 Realife spindles that were in my stash.<\/p>\n

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Nice and bulky!<\/p>\n

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I glued the feet on at the corners.<\/p>\n


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Finally, I added this embellishment to the bottom of the footboard and top of the headboard. These are from the SDK Gothic Dresser<\/a> – I had ordered some extras to make a Cassidy Creations wardrobe match the other Gothic furniture<\/a>, and didn’t end up using these. The toy shelf<\/a> in this bedroom is also from the SDK Gothic collection so now the bed and the shelf match.<\/p>\n

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Finally I painted the bed. The feet wobbled off during painting and I had to glue them back on. That probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d waited for the glue to dry…<\/p>\n

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I haven’t dressed the bed yet, but I tossed on a foam mattress, blanket, and pillow to see how it’ll look. Suitably girly!<\/p>\n

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The sleigh bed I made for the Victorianna’s little girl’s room is a kit I bought off eBay, and the instructions didn’t come with it. I went online looking for pictures and ended up on Karen Benson’s website. One piece from my kit is stamped HCC which I think stands for “Heritage House Collection.” I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,19],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-victorianna","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}