Hand Painted Dog Bed with Textured Design and Hand Made Cushions

Update as of 2014, I'm no longer making the dog beds. Thank you so much 

for you past orders and support. Please visit my new online store

featuring my mosaic art.

I wanted to share my latest dog bed that was a custom order.

The customer wanted the bed to have an elegant look with patterns and texture 

but didn't want it too busy with lots of different colors and 

this is what we came up with.

You might remember that I used to make my dog beds using 

end tables as the bases...

Since the tables were so inconsistent in materials and sizes, 

I recently decided to build my own bases and it's working out great.

Here it is all primed with the headboard that I cut out from a 

pattern I made.

I suggested a textured design on the base of the bed 

and used Flexall and a stencil to make it.

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This is after the base coat in a warm yellow...

I used the same process to make the design as I did with 

the dragonflies with textured wings

I added a brown wash on top of the basecoat to bring out the design

I found a beautiful carved wooden piece to use on the headboard...

it was almost the stencil design in reverse!

I made custom feet by starting with plain bun feet cut from furniture legs... 

I don't remember but I'm sure I probably used the other part of the leg in a dragonfly! 

I carved a groove in them with the dremel...

Painted, brown washed and topped with metallic gold...

My customer thought they looked like cupcakes and she loved them

We ended up going with a crackled background on the headboard,

edged with chocolate, cream and metallic gold stripes...

Metallic gold finials for the posts...

and more stripes around the base.

She requested custom cushions with little bumper pillows that go 

around all sides...

I made all the cushions reversible with the chocolate on one side 

and gold on the other so she has lots of options... 

She wanted the pillows tufted and explained how the buttons 

wouldn't be a problem with her dog.

  

She also wanted additional little throw pillows...

They are reversible as well.

the back...

and it was done!

It was shipped to New York and she loved it.

She texted me this pic of her baby in the bed...cutie!

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