I quickly sketched out an idea of how I wanted the bed to look and started gathering materials. I gathered strips of balsa wood and decided to cut them into thirds.
Well so I had a hard time figuring out how to cut them. I didn't have a craft knife so I ended up using one of the kitchen knives. SHHHH, I told no one. XD It kinda worked but I had to snap them apart which left jagged edges, but I remembered I had an unnaturally rough nail filer that I could potentially use and it worked!
lol Sanding it down got EVERYWHERE on my desk. I probably shouldn't even be doing this in my room. Gotta love what I was wearing. XD
After cutting the pieces I went ahead and just assembled it to get an idea of how long, wide, or tall I need it.
After deciding everything, I actually ran out of materials so I had to go buy some more and in different varieties. I bought some more that was wider than the strips I got the first time. Time to glue it together! I hot glued the pieces together but I had to hot glue around the pieces to safely secure it [too many fell off on me so I gave up neatness for support].
Afterwards I glued two strips together to make a square piece for the feet of the bed. I'm going to make a canopy as well that's why the strips are so long.
I put Jin on the bed and prayed that he didn't fall through and the bed actually held up pretty well! I am still a bit worried that Jin might be too heavy so I think I want to reinforce it a bit by putting an extra strip on the underside or an extra foot in the middle. What do you think I should do?! Give me your thoughts!