Baby Bed Conversion

I originally built this baby bed for my first Grandson in 2005. Since that time several Grand-kids have used it but in 2011 the design (Rockler) was deemed "unsafe" by the Consumer Product Safety Commission due to being a drop-side design. So it was collecting dust in storage.
A couple of years ago my wife asked me to convert it to a hall bench for our mud room, so I did. This year I upgraded that bench to a hall tree with a bench so again the converted baby bed appeared to be destined for the burn pile.

A few weeks ago my wife had a great idea of converting it to a porch swing -"Can you do that?" she asked.  "Does a bear eat honey?" - I answered. So thus began my project. I think it came out pretty good and my beautiful wife and kids love it. It can stay in the family for a while longer.

I was able to use the same wood and not add any "outside" wood so I had to plug holes and adjust dimensions so some "love" defects can be seen but overall we love it.