Bed built from old doors - Day 2 http://handygoddess.com The Handy Goddess goes shopping for bed posts to attach to the bed doors to build the headboard and footboard in this diy home project demonstration


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[Music Playing] She is happy, she at home and she is here to empower you. She is the handy goddess! I mean I have to find something for just post for this, is that right? It just—it cannot --stand up without it, so I am checking it out in the garden section and looking what I could find. And that is just the regular 4x4 post. I do not like it, so -- These are interesting, all right. I was just going to pick something simple and boring. This is simple. I mean not so boring. It is actually have some art on it. Simple, another one is I just want this already made, all I have to do is attach it, right? You know what; I am going to pick this, because they are pretty and rustic -- So, I will take this. All right, so I have my post. Well, certainly it is not what I thought it looked perfect one. Well, I shop in the -- I think these are kind of funky, and I think that they are just perfect. Oh, and did you notice? I went back and exchange the door. I mean the blend it was certainly smaller than this one, but I really did not like the detail and it was not divided out on exactly like this door. And my big concern with this is I do want symmetry. So, I think I end--look at this door, it so beat up. It is so unusual, that I figure if I have to choose super stressed doors, I am going to have even more interesting finishing on them in the end, right? Well, that is my hope anyway. Okay, so to get started, we need to cut this two to the desired ranks, and that is I need to figure out how wide that needs to be. And, subtract of which of these -- These are three inches, really. These are three inches wide, perfect! And, the beddings to be is 76 inches wide, so we are going to take three, oh that just so easy. So we can make the doors cut in both down 70 inches, and that would be just perfect. So, let us get started. And let us see, I got my –measurement. I will set up my circular saw and cut around this. [Demo] Perfect! [Demo] Yey! I am not ready. Okay, take off the reading glasses and put on the safety glasses, I can see pretty well. I made sure my –blade is not cracked up, plug in the saw and I can proceed to. Trim –I do not want to trim my door. Make sure –Three-- [Demo] Oh, yes! So I got both doors cut now. And they are saying like everything is really symmetrical. Yey! So, everything is ready to go, except I have to be somewhere in an hour, so I guess we are gong to finish this later. [Music Playing]