Noresund bed goes modern

Jules Yap·
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Materials: Noresund bed, iron saw, fabric for cover

Description: My Noresund bed was a little too romantic for me, so I decided to make it more modern.

1. Saw extra pieces away. That was hard! It took me about 3-4 hours, I wish I had had some powertools…

2. A lot of measuring and then cutting the fabric

3. Sewing was the easiest part 🙂 I added little pink details to sides.

~ Eeva, Tampere, Finland

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  1. Funny, it’s been 2 years since I made my last comment, and looking again today at how to transform I’m amazed how many people are negative about this transformation. It looks great, and reusing your bed is always a better solution than buying something new.

    I like the headboard enough, I just don’t like the footboard (for practical bedmaking reasons.

    I may have to break out the hacksaw…

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  2. I have had this bed a long time too, and I agree, a lot of us Noresund owners would love to remove the footboard. Making the bed is difficult, and it looks like crap @ the end. I may just make a slipcover at the end to solve that, but seeing this transformation is great!

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  4. I don’t think this was a bad change. Since there was a time when everyone wanted a that kind of bed your’s was before tuning it, the way you turned it looks just fine to me! Sure you could have selled it and bought a new one, but hey, it was intresting that someone at least tried is this possible. And I can imagine how hard work it was when cutting those parts… I once tried to cut lock from bike and Jesus K., that was one h*ll of a fight. 😀

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  5. Nice collection and cool color of beds..

    The current trends for bedrooms are exciting, the cluttered days of 100’s of stuffed animals and blinding colors are over. Give your kid’s bedroom a modern make over, they will thank you for it!
    Bunk Beds for kids come in wide range of varieties. There is so much from which to choose in terms of materials and designs used.

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  7. Too sad for the beautifull bed, that didn´t (and doesn´t) match your room…
    You could at least have covered the matresses instead of just the bed.

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  8. I disagree, I don’t think it looks any cheaper than it did to begin with (I think the Norresund is a horrible faux-artisan metal job anyway 😛 ). I’d never have done this myself as it seems like too much work, but it’s interesting to see that it CAN be done. I prefer your version to the original Norresund, but I wonder how comfy the headboard is, with the metal still underneath it? I’d feel cheated leaning back on fabric and feeling lumps! 😉

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  9. Agree with the previous comments- not a good transformation. It’d have been better to sell and buy a cheap no-frills model and make a wooden fabric covered headboard. It looks very cheap now.

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  10. Your bed looks nice, but it feels like you ruined a much nicer one to got it. You could have sold the set on Craigslist and bought a bed more your style and not destroyed a gorgeous bed in the process.

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  13. Not to be mean or anything or down your creative effort but I feel you should have sold this bed and bought a Malm or similar. Just seems like a waste of money to do this to this beautiful bed.

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  14. Quite a transformation! Consider looking into a rental power tools next time you get into that situation, great for the tools you only need less than once a year.

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