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Repurposed Bed To Bench Tutorial

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This project is a great example of repurposing one furniture piece to make an entirely different one. This Repurposed Bed To Bench Tutorial is going to share how to take the headboard and footboard of a bed and recreate it into a bench. 

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

This bench started out as this bed:

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

My mom scored this head-board and foot-board for 50% off at a thrift store. The details on the pieces caught her eye and she just couldn’t pass it up. I am glad she didn’t.

The bed had amazing detail, but it kind of gets lost with the dated finish on it. I knew this would look so much better painted white, but first we had to figure out how to make it a bench.

To make this bed a bench, the first thing Matt did was cut the top piece off of the foot-board and removed some of the trim pieces so we could add them back on after the bench was built.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

He cut the top piece off the foot-board for two reasons:

  1. The front of the bench needs to be flat to sit on it and that top piece made that impossible.
  2. For the sides of the bench we are going to use to foot – board

Next, he attached the foot-board to the head-board with some wood we had in the garage. To get the size of this bench right (height, depth), we measured a bench we had in the house.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

Hubby did add more of the wood pieces to the side of the bench to give it ample support.

Next, came the seat. Hubby used the same wood on the seat that he used for the supports. Then, he added the trim piece back on the front of the bench which covered up the ends of the seat boards perfectly.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

The picture below shows the side of the bench with the repurposed top piece that was cut off originally.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

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To paint the bench, I used one of my favorite tools – the HomeRight paint sprayer.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

The white gives it a fresh, updated look.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

I distressed it all with some sand paper.

Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

What a transformation!

Like most of you know, repurposed projects are some of my favorite projects to do. Looking beyond the original intention of a piece and seeing the potential in what it can be, is rewarding and makes this budget-minded girl happy. I decorate our entire home this way and hope to give you inspiration to change-up some of the pieces in your home that you don’t love anymore. Look around your home and reinvent what you already have. 

If you don’t have the supplies or the time to make your own Repurposed Bed To Bench, I found some beautiful options online:


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Do you have a headboard and foot board lying around? Don't get rid of it! Check out this repurposed bed to bench tutorial and make it into something useful again.

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