While I do admit that most of my 2013 goals and Pinterest resolutions were a bust, I did finish one. Well, at least part of one. I’ve been plotting making a piece for the house with hair pin legs since I found hairpinlegs.com. I bought some forever ago and they sat there taunting me. What better way to put them to use than a DIY midcentury pet bed for those ratty, I mean stylish, little mutts of mine.
Sadly, I lost the memory card that had the photos while I put this together but it was nothing fancy. I cut down some leftover 5/8″ plywood for the base to 25″ x 25″ and used some scrap 1 x 4s to form the edge around three sides. I purposely left the front edge a little lower using a 1 x 2 so it would be easy to get into. I was able to use my Kreg Jig, Jr that I got at Haven so there are no visible screws. So handy and fancy! Since I didn’t paint the bottom of the bed, I screwed in the hairpin legs. Here are few crappy shots from my iPhone. Lemur clearly believes the bed is for her.
I just lightly sanded, primed, and painted it a satin white. After screwing in the hairpin legs, I had myself a fancy dog bed. Except there was no pillow. As much as I practice, I’m still much more comfortable cutting wood than I am cutting fabric. At first I couldn’t find the right pillow form so I tried to make one by making a Frankenstein pillow from two cheap bed pillows from Target. That was a disaster in every way and form. So I just threw a regular pillow on there and put a throw over it. It sat like that for months. No pictures of that embarrassment. It is quite shameful.
Thankfully, just after Christmas, I scored the perfect sized pillow form at Joann’s. And after a bit of pep-talk, I finally felt confident enough to cut the fabric. I used the same envelope pillow case tutorial I used here, and ended up with something much more respectable looking. It is not perfect but thankfully you can’t see it and the creatures don’t know any better.
The kids love their DIY midcentury pet bed. It was initially intended to be for the dogs but Lemur has claimed it as hers.
Cats are jerks. If you don’t believe me, please enjoy this video, which I watch every time I need to laugh. My mutts have fallen victims to the bed stealing cats as well.
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So while it was technically finished in 2014, at least I finished one of my Pinterest Resolutions! Now that I’m backing to making some small furniture pieces, I’m excited to tackle some more.
Linking to: Remodelaholic
Cute! I love Lemur. My cat is just the same, she owns everything!
Cats as a whole own it all. We are their slaves.
that is awesome! so sleek and yet so cute!
Thanks. The cat has only ventured to eat and our bed since it was completed. I think that means she loves it.
That is the coolest little pet bed I ever did see. The hairpin legs make it!
Thanks so much, Kelly! The itty bitty legs were impossible to resist when I found them!
That is so great! I definitely need some more stylish pet bed options (aside from “whatever was on clearance at Petsmart”) around here…pinning!
Thanks, Gretchen! As a side note, Target has a bunch of cute beds on clearance this week. I almost bought some extras to supplement since the cat has claimed this as hers
so cute! i wish-if i were to make such a great bed-that my cats would actually use it!
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Thanks so much! I really intended it for our smallest dog but the cat has taken it over!
Hey there! I’ve been following your blog for a long time now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Kingwood Texas!
Just wanted to tell you keep up the good job!