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My Mother, Savla, and I thought that my redone room needed a new headboard. We went to the salvage yard looking for something we could use. We found this wonderful gate. We thought that with a little work and a lot of imagination it could become an awesome headboard! |
| The gate was too long for a double sized bed so the first step was to cut it down to size. |  |
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Then when I finally got that extra portion off I got this victory shot! |
| Things like hinges and the box where the door handle was had to be cut and grinded off to make it look less like a door and more like a decorative headboard. |  |
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By cutting out the box for the door handle there was a square that needed touching up. With the extra piece that was cut off earlier (from the victory shot). I was able to extract the arches I needed to complete the square. |
| The finished metal work. It still kind of looks like a gate. Now on to the wood frame! |  |
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Here is an image of the wood frame being worked out. It was Glued and Screwed into the metal frame. Advice: spend a little more on better wood. |
| Everything is now in place. The cracks in the knots are filled in and the corners rounded with a router. I primed it with Kilz latex paint then with a coat of black spray paint. It is now ready for its final paint of Rustolium's Espresso colored paint. |  |
| Here is the finished project bolted to the bed and modeled by my mom and looking good. |  |
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