Trent in Houston, Texas sent us this picture of a bed he built for his son two years ago. He says he is currently making a customized shelf to match the look of the bed.

One of the reasons we provide the photo gallery here is to give our customers the opportunity to see how others have customized and enhanced teir OP Loftbed. There is so much you can with it!

Alex shared this picture of the OP Loftbed he built. He says, "After all of the work I put into it, I thought I'd email you guys my queen sized loft bed. It was a little bit of work but worth every minute. It works great and I can't imagine my tiny Chicago apartment without it!"

Scott in Michigan built this OP Loftbed for his daughter for her birthday. "It is hard to get her out of it now. The design was easy to follow, and I have amazed myself putting it together and having everything line up enough that I could get the bolt through! I added a big desk underneath using a piece of finished plywood. This really adds some space to a small room. Very sturdy as well. No issue with anything falling over on the desk while someone climbs up to the top. Thanks for all of the great pictures out there to get ideas."

Scott in Illinois says, "I just finished my bed this weekend. This is my first wood project with plans. After searching the web, I chose your plans because of my initial communication with your support and your testimonials. You have lived up to you name."

"Your plans are bang one. So easy to read and follow and the bed went together like clockwork. Thanks. I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided to blog about it on my internet marketing blog."

Sandi wrote to tell us, "Just wanted to share my pics with you. I am a stay at home mom and this was also my very first woodworking project! Even I can't believe it turned out so great! The plans I purchased are very precise and easy to figure out. My neighbor helped me with the angle cuts on the mattress supports and loaned me some of the tools I needed. Assembly is pretty easy, it's the sanding and staining that take a lot of time. Especially for me because it was my 1st time doing all of that! But it was well worth it and my kids both love it! I would definitely do this again. (I know it would be a lot faster the 2nd time around!) Thanks for the great plans, money well spent!"

Kirsten built these two highly decorated OP Loftbeds. She says, "I'm a stay at home mom with almost no woodworking experience. The beds took quite awhile to make, but that was more due to the painting and decorating than the actual construction. I made the Yankee bed for my son. I like the added space. He loves the little reading nook we created under the bed."

"My daughter loves the pink fuzzy steps. I'm awfully proud of the lap joints! This is completely doable for anyone with a knack for assembling things and the willingness to try. The second bed was a lot easier than the first. My daughter loves to shut herself in the bottom and read and play with her stuffed animals! With all of the decoration, it probably cost as much as a store bought bed, but is eminently cooler. Thanks for the plans!"

Audra sent us this picture and says, "Here is the 4th loft bed that my husband has built for our children. The first 3 were just basic lofts for our older children, but we got creative with this last bed. Thanks for the great plans. They are sturdy, well built beds."

Lori in Idaho built this loft bed for her daughter. "Since my daughter's room is quite small, the loft bed was a perfect answer to space management. I added a 4' x 2' desk underneath for doing projects and homework. Most of the time was spent preparing the wood in terms of cutting, drilling, sanding and staining. My friends came by when the headpiece was put together, and the next day were amazed it was done. 'I thought you were weeks away from completing it!' my friend said. I am very pleased with the results. I do appreciate the great set of plans!"

Michael built this loft bed and tells us, "Here is my version of your bed. The bed went together very easily. I built the tall double but added a twin on the bottom so my son could use it as a couch/lounging area or for a sleepover. I attached the front piece on the twin with knock down bed hardware. The only problem was the need to relocate the ceiling fan in the room. Needless to say my son and all his friends love it and their parents want me to make one for them. No time for that, it's on to the next project."

Travis in Kentucky wrote to say, "My father in law built this for my 6 year old for Christmas.  Needless to say! It didnt make it to Christmas we had to give it to him immediately!! It is soo sturdy and was really easy to build.  He built it in about 1 day.  The wood ended up costing $80 and the hardware was about $40.  So its a wonderful and cheap investment.  I will say this bed will be with us for a longtime!!! We love it!!!"

Tony shared this with us, "I just finished this bed for my 10 year old daughter and she loves it! As you can see from the picture, I added bead board under the bed and lighting above the desk for her to do her homework and work on her laptop. I still used the cross braces behind the bead board for the exceptional stability. Thanks for the great plans that were easy to follow and well designed. I saved hundreds of dollars and am my daughter's hero, at least for a couple of days anyway!"

Craig wrote to say, "Everything went smoothly, even when we had to change the height of the bed platform once we got the frame into my son's dorm room. It's very sturdy, and very useful. Sorry I don't have any better pictures, but here's what we have. FYI - we saw a lot of other loft kits, including one sold by Lowes, and they were very flimsy comparatively. I don't know that I would have felt secure with them. I pulled and yanked on the OP loft once my son and I had it finished, and it just won't budge." Continued in the OP Loftbed blog...

Danielle in Texas built this OP Loftbed for her daughter. "This twin high loft took about a month for me to build from start to finish. The plans were easy to follow. My husband thought that the work involved might have been worth the extra cost to have someone else build it. I, on the other hand, have minimal skills and found the experience enjoyable and empowering (I also did about 90% of the work). This bed is STURDY! It does NOT MOVE! I had fun making it, I can take pride in my work and my daughter LOVES IT!" Continued in the OP Loftbed blog...

Paul in Minnesota wrote to say. "I went with the king sized loft so I could put two twin mattress up there so that both my 11 yr old son and I could sleep in. Under the loft made a perfect play area for my 6 and 4 year olds. I raised the height so that I could stand under it (I'm six feet) and added a couple railings. It's really sturdy. Now I just need to stain it and add some carpet to the stairs for extra padding. Fun project, ended up costing around $150 which is really great for the amount of space it saved me (I live in a 650sf studio apt)."

These are the first two OP Loftbeds built by Rob in California for he and his roommates. " Hi! I just wanted to thank you for your excellent bed plans and to share with you the 3 beds I've built from them. My roommates and I recently moved into a 3 bedroom apartment where the rooms are quite small, so we needed a way to make more space. We didn't, however, want 'collegiate-height' lofts, so I modified the plans to be just tall enough to fit our dressers underneath. Our lofts have about 3ft of clearance."

Alex in North Carolina tells us, "I just completed this twin loftbed for my Granddaughter Maggie. The underside is covered in an ultrasuade like material that I adhered with a spray-on glue. With the help of my friend Richard the project was completed in about 28 man-hours, most of which went into the sanding, staining and polyurethane."

Ali in California shared this with us. "We want to thank you for the great plans for our Daughters bed. We had so much fun painting, making, and decorating this bed. It was fun to let her pick out the paint and create it for her own little personality. She really wanted her name on her bed, so my husband came up with the great way to put her name on it. Now we have to get one done for the 8 year old who is very jealous of her little sisters bed. Thank you again for the great idea's."

David in California shared this with us. "I made this over new year and my daughter loves it. Now my son wants one too (I anticipated this and bought two sets of bolts from you guys:-). Now I'm on to the next bed. My son is drawing a picture of what he would like and I have to made to order. You guys design are great! Thanks a lot."

Michael sent us these pictures and tells us, "I looked for some loftbeds for my 2 boys for quite some time and I was never able to find what I wanted without paying $700-$1200 each and even then the quality was questionable for 2 active boys. I found your website and purchased the twin bed plans and then modified them to what I wanted. I am thrilled with how they turned out and as you can see, I have made 2 of them and they are mirror images of one another. Lots of sanding and several coats of polyurethane have made a nice, sturdy, high quality piece of furniture. Thanks OP!"

Mariela in Chicago writes, "Just wanted to share pictures of our terrific loftbed. We thought more of your customers might like to see the queen size. The tall queen works great, totally sturdy and our queen pillowtop mattress and boxspring it perfectly. We need as much space as possible in our tiny Chicago apartment!  Since we love stencils so much we eventually made it look like a cargo crate by stenciling it with shipping words like "Overnight Express", "this side up" and also our production company logo! We love it so much we even created an online photo album dedicated to it!"