Life's Ruff Dog Bed

It's a dogs life isn't it? 

Sleep when you want, someone brings you your food, and it's ok not to shave your legs.

Now I'm not claiming for one second I came up with the idea of turning a headboard into a dog bed.  If you look on Pinterest you can find a gazillion of 'em to use as inspiration.

Not only do I not claim stake to the idea, I didn't make this one either.

My ever increasingly talented #2 daughter got out the saws and used her skillz.

She trekked out for a day of garage sales with me and came home with this five dollar twin headboard, which was exactly what she was on the hunt for.

You see there is this boy. 

Well, a guy.  Or I guess technically after a certain age they are probably men.

And this fellow, (yeah I like fellow), and my daughter are an item. 

Then there is Greta and Walt. 

The fellow adopted Greta from a lady who had to move, and Walt was approaching a year in age, the last from a litter without his new home, so the fellow gave him one. 

The fellow obviously has a kind heart, and it seems a love of dogs....and my daughter.

Walt is as sweet as can be even while exercising his teeth on #2 daughters phone. 

Good introduction to kids being expensive right?  Even the four legged kind.

So daughter #2 measured and sawed, nailed and glued and ended up with a frame to fasten the cut down version of the headboard too.

She painted it up in two shades of Fusion Mineral Paint - Sterling for the letters, with a top coat of Ash. 

She had a little help from a certain 5 year old with the sanding to distress it.

Life is ruff all right, and I surely liked my view looking out the front door as they toiled.

I'm no stranger to re-purposing a headboard as something else, I've got a full size one turned into a bench, and I think the matching foot-board is somewhere in the Shed 'O Schitt. 

Old Albert's Headboard Bench

It looks like her twin size headboard is almost identical to the full size one I used. 

Thank you to Daughter #2 for texting me a picture proving it really is a dogs life.

Maybe after a nap I'll wander to the Shed 'O Schitt and scavenge for the other part to my headboard.  I think I know another dog who has a Ruff Life and needs his own bed.

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