Hi Friends!
If you’ve been on Pinterest or googled “porch swing images”, you’ve probably seen beds turned into a porch swing. I saw one years ago and fell in love. I wanted a porch swing made from an old bed soooo badly!! I found a bed on craigslist TWO winters ago and actually paid the guy to bring it to me in the middle of a snow storm because I knew it was exactly what I wanted. You know how they say the shoe makers kids have no shoes… well, this has been one of those projects we just didn’t make time for. John finally decided enough was enough and he set aside an hour here and there for a couple of weeks to make me the porch swing of my dreams.
John was speaking a girls love languages over here… a place for quality time, acts of service, gift. Overall, I’m feeling the love from John and want to give him a public thanks because I’m impressed by how he made it, too! :)
Sadly I don’t have ANY before pictures. Just picture an old headboard and foot board. John took the headboard and made it the back of the swing, took the footboard and made it the front of the swing. Then added side boards and wooded slats for the seat. We painted the swing with Benjamin Moore’s Advanced paint in Atrium White.
The tricky part about a swing is hanging it. These things are NOT light. Super heavy actually. We bought metal eye hooks and attached them to the front and back. We used rope made from poly from Home Depot so it wouldn’t rot. We had to go up over the rafters by drilling through the sheet rock and pushing the rope over the beam and pulling through the other side. We used a coat hanger to make that happen. As you are hanging it, have one person hold the bench one inch higher off the ground than you actually want it while the other person ties the knot at the top. It will drop about 1 inch and be in the perfect spot for you.
That will leave large holes in the ceiling so john cut little rectangular wood pieces and drilled holes in them. He actually put the rope through that wood piece before tying it off. It worked out perfectly to hide the ugly. All we still have to do is trim the rope and we’ll be all done!!
This one isn’t for sale, but if you would like to customer order a porch swing, please feel free to use our Contact Us form for pricing. Let us know what style bed or if you already have a bed that you would like converted to a swing. You won’t regret it!! We’ve used ours 100,000 times already. Well, maybe not quite that much, but you get the idea. See?!? :)
Oh and our friends Jamie and Alta wanted us to write that we went to lunch with them over the weekend and had a great time. :)
The after pictures are done by Chelsea Bos Photography. I hope you all have a great week! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Having fun upcycling!
Sarah ;)
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