How Do You Make A Canopy Bed With A Wooden Dowel?
Many little girls dream of canopy beds for their bedrooms. But a full-blown four-poster can be an expensive piece of furniture, beyond the means of many families. Still, with a little imagination, you can create the effect of a romantic canopy for your princess without spending a bundle. You can even make an elegant or sophisticated version for your own bedroom. Decide how you want your canopy to hang over the bed. For a twin-sized bed, you can create a simple tented canopy with a single dowel centered crosswise above the bed. For any size bed, you can use two or three parallel dowels to provide a more structured canopy over the full length of the bed or just the head. Drill holes in the ceiling and insert ceiling hooks from which to suspend the dowels (two hooks per dowel). Position one dowel along each lengthwise edge of the bed, with a third one over the center if you want more support for the canopy. Alternatively, for a half-canopy, position one dowel at the head of the bed, close
