Refinished Bed

I've been wanting to take on a larger more detailed piece of furniture for quite some time now. My husband found this bed at a Garage Sale so we decided to go ahead and purchase it at for my daughter's room. I had a complete before picture but it must have gotten lost in the shuffle. Any way, here it is from mostly start to finish!

It had these awful details on it that I did not really care for. Luckily they were just stapled in so I was able to work them off with a putty knife.

We pulled out the staples with wire cutters and then filled the holes with wood filler. 

You can see the original finish pretty good from these pictures and also how discolored it was after we took the details off.

 We sanded the bed to its original wood finish with 80 grit sandpaper and then to smooth it out we used 100 grit sandpaper. The spindals on the head board were too hard to get to with the sander and were just getting ruined so I decided to take my chances and just left them alone to paint over without sanding them at all.

My daughter wanted a black bed so we got a quart of Behr black paint in satin enamel finish (Didn't want it to be too shiny) and painted one coat, let dry for a couple of hours and painted another coat and let dry for a complete day. The spindles held the paint very well after the first coat.

Here is a picture of the finished product without pillows and a picture of it with. It's a simple little bed and my daughter loves it! It was super easy to do and a great first project as far as big furniture is concerned.