Last year, I built my son an under-bed drawer unit, which he thought was awesome:


Until he saw his cousins new bunk beds. Then life was incredibly unfair. My wife just wanted to go to Ikea and pick up a cheap pressed wood bunk bed like the cousins had, but at the suggestion of a trip to Ikea, I experienced a mild brain aneurysm that impaired my ability to comprehend the time-value of money. So I went to Lowes and came home with this:



Because I didn't want to ruin $160 worth of blade and brake cartridge on $80 worth of lumber, I switched to a cheap ripping blade and pulled out a crap-load of staples.



Then I ripped a crap load of 2x4s:


Then I started notching them with a dado blade:



Next came a lot of glue and pocket screws: