fiveone.design: Make Your Bed

Our first official project was to make our bed completely out of paper and ink only. My bed is quit simple on top with a white comforter and white pillows but underneath, my blankets are a little more detailed but still sticking with the simple black and white. My second comforter has detailed flowers in white with a black background and the other side is the inverse of that. Then i have my blanket which has black polka-dots.

For the polka-dot comforter, i dipped the wrong end of a paint brush in ink and pressed it against paper. This gave me different sized dots, which I was unsure of at first, but it gave the illusion of the bed having depth at different angles. The second comforter, with the flower detail, was very time consuming. I tried to replicate the exact patterns by examining the blanket while I painted the flowers. I even did the reverse side. To get them to stick together like it was one complete blanket I had to place them on top of each other, with blank sides touching, and fold the edges together then I used water to kind of glue the two pieces together. It was extremely tough to put the water on the ink and not smear it off but I did it.

Next came the pillows. I tried many different ways to make a pillow but ended up crinkling the paper as much as I could without ripping it and then folding it in half and watering the edges, just like i did with the flowered comforter. I then crumbled paper together and wet the wads, let them dry, and then put them inside the pillow cases to give them an actual pillow effect.

Finally, with all of my bedding finished, I could work on my bed frame. This was a task because I just have a solid black headboard with nothing else. I tried to replicate how my bed frame actually is but putting two rolled up pieces of paper through paper and then sticking the ends through a black rectangular like box i made from origami. It worked out but is pretty fragile.