Project · Australian-made bed
Fifteen years on, still worth keeping: an Australian-made bed, reworked to last
This bed was quality Australian-made, about fifteen years old, beautifully built, and nothing wrong with it. The owners had simply bought a new mattress a touch larger than the old one, and could no longer make the bed or change the sheets easily. The easy fix was to cut the footboard down. But a bed made this well deserves better than a rough chop, so we went out, worked out a proper solution with the customer, and reworked the foot so the lines still flowed and matched the bed head. Done right, it looks like it left the factory that way. It took longer. That's the point of buying Australian-made in the first place, and the customer was thrilled.
In the workshop, reshaping the foot so the lines flow back to the bed head.