The oak at the foot is actually attached to the brace, which ended up getting reworked as a piece of 2"x2" and some pieces of 1"x4" so that I had more room to screw and glue it together.

Since the oak at the foot couldn't be attached to the oak on the sides, I had to come up with a way to obscure the corners, and you can see what I came up with.

Those accent pieces are screwed onto the side pieces and just sit flush against the front piece.



After working out all the technical details, all that was left was to take it back apart to finish with stain and polyurethane. The black stain actually looks pretty good on the pine IMHO, but I put it on a bit thick in some parts.

I didn't want to put any finish on the slats incase it would bleed into the mattress, and it had already been delivered by then, so I was anxious to finish; so I just softened all the edges with an orbital sander, and then sanded them to a nice smooth surface.



Last thing I did before taking it apart again to bring it in was to lay out the slats so I could staple them to the nylon straps.