Convert an Old Bed Into a Bench Seat

After removing the iron work from the footboard I used a reciprocating saw and grinder to cut it in half.
You could use just 1 of those tools.

After removing the legs from the foot board I cut the top round rail in half. I then reattached each half to each leg with glue and screws.
I left the bottom rail in one piece to use as a stretcher on the front of the bench.

I first found the height of the sides of the bench and marked that out on the headboard.
I pre-drilled 2 holes and countersunk those holes on the back of the headboard.
Using a clamp to hold the leg and headboard together I screwed and glued from the back of the headboard.

Using a pocket hole jig a made 3 pocket holes on each end of the stretcher.
As I didn't have a clamp long enough I used a ratchet strap to hold the stretcher in place while I glue and Screwed it in place.

Because i used the foot board stretcher for the front of the bench I needed to make new stretches for the sides out of two-by-fours.
I ran some two-by-fours that I had laying around through my thicknesser to clean them up, cut them to length and attached them with glue and pocket holes.

Now that i had the frame of the bench made I could reattach the ironwork to the sides.
I do this by drilling two holes in each side of the iron work and screw it in place

After cutting two strips of 2 x 4 on my table saw a pre drilled and Screwed them to the bench frame to make seat rails.

I filled all of the screw holes with dowels.
once the glue is dry cut them to length and sand them flush.

I went around the entire bench touching up any scratches and the dowels with stain.

Using a scrap of MDF from a previous project as a base I cut a piece of foam to fit.
I used hot glue to hold the foam in place while I attached the fabric with a staple gun.
And Screwed the seat cushion to the bench.

Last step was to go over all the iron work with an outdoor metal paint.
The paint are used is made for outdoor fences.