This is a ship bed I made for the brownstone house Peter Pan theme room

These are some of the items you need to start the bed.  A coaster, dowels, a bottom to a wooden box square shaped long dowels.

The first thing you do is take the square shaped long dowels and make two long ones for the top of the bed and cut two short pieces for the bottom.  Hot glue these pieces on.  

Next you will take the coaster and measure the width between the top of the beds square dowels.  This coaster will go between the square dowels on top.

As you can see in this picture I hot glued the cut coaster between the square dowels.

This is what the back will look like at this point.

I then added some wooden round balls to the top of the headboard area as seen in the picture.  I also added some taller wooden decorative pieces to the tops of the bottom dowels.  These need to be tall so the ships sail can be installed as you will see.

I then added some little wooden pieces on the bottom for the bed feet.

In this picture you can see I painted the bed and also added some dowels to the bottom footboard area.  This cross will be used for the sail for the boat.  I cut out some notches out of the dowels so they could fit together better sort of like lincoln log style wood.  I also cut a square piece of dowel and notch it to secure the cross beam to the bed.

I took a thin piece of wood to make the mattress for the bed.  The wood will need to be cut so it will fit over the wooden box.

You then take some batting cut a little bit bigger than the wooden piece, then cut a piece of felt material a little larger than the batting material.

After gluing the batting and felt over the wooden piece you then glue it down to the wooden box.  You now have a mattress.

As you can see in this picture I made a blanket out of red felt and added some yellow felt to the top.  I also took a piece of white and made a sail and attached it to the cross beam.  The pirates flag is made with a piece of white felt, I also went online and downloaded a pirates flag and shrunk it down and glued it to a flag which I made out of felt

I wanted to show you this.  This is the easiest way to make pillows.  Take the nylon type sponges that you can buy in the dollar store they come three in the package.  Sew a line across the sponge as shown, make sure you sew two lines in between each pillow line so you can cut the pillows out in long pieces and not have the sponge fall apart.  After cutting the pieces out long ways sew two lines on each piece to separate two pillows.  To make a pillow cover take felt and cut a long piece and wrap it around the pillow and sew a stitch around the felt.  The next blog is what this bedroom looks like now.