Modern Bedrooms: West Elm Inspired Bed

Last year I decided it was finally time to start working on the master bedroom. Before I started building furniture for my master bedroom, it was a wreck. It was the ugliest room in our house. We had no headboard for our bed, I was using a TV tray as a night stand, and all our other furniture was old and falling apart.

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The first step in the transformation of our bedroom was to address our ugly bed. While trying to decide what I would build (because buying something was not an option for me), my wife saw a headboard from West Elm.
Before I started making plans, I was curious to see if anyone else already made DIY plans and sure enough I found that Decor and the Dog had great plans posted online. If you want to see the plans, follow the links below.
Headboard: http://decorandthedog.net/decorandthedog/2011/04/west-elm-window-headboard-copy-cat.html
Bed Frame: http://decorandthedog.net/decorandthedog/2012/07/west-elm-inspired-bedframe-tutorial.html

Part of the process of building furniture that I really enjoy is making a project plan and figuring out how to build something, but for this particular project, Decor and the Dog did such a great job that it was pointless for me to try to make my own plans. I followed the plans by Decor and the Dog very closely. The main modification I made was to use 24 instead on 23 for the headboard frame.