Reuse an antique bed frame on a swing to create a comfortable outdoor living space on your sunroom or on the back porch. Children and adults will be attracted to the cozy respite when they fill it with pillows and soft bedding. Building materials are available at your local home improvement store. Although an adult can perform the necessary steps to transform the bed, two adults are needed to hang the complete swing.
Zinus Lorelei 14 Inch Platforma Bed Frame / Mattress Foundation / No Box Spring Needed / Steel Slat Support, Twin
Things you will need
Step 1
Sand the frame of the bed with an electric sander and wipe the excess dust with a cloth. Paint or stain the frame of the desired color. Allow the frame to dry completely. You can skip this step if you like the original color of the bed frame.
Step 2
Cut 4 keys from the 2 by 4 tables with a saw if your previous bed frame does not have existing clamps. These should be the same width as the inside of the frame of the bed. Place the clamps at an equal distance through the frame of the bed and screw them with wood screws.
Step 3
Cut the plywood according to the dimensions of the frame of your bed to form the lower support of the swing. Place the plywood on the supports. Secure the plate in place with 1 1/4-inch screws.
Stage 4
Drill retentive pin size holes 5 1/2 inches from each corner on each side of the bed frame, totaling 8 holes. Insert a lag eye bolt into each hole. Slide a screwdriver through the eye of each bolt and use it as a lever to tighten the bolts.
Step 5
Drill four holes of the same diameter as the lag eye bolts on the roof rafters where the porch swing will hang. These holes should correspond to the corners of the bed frame. Insert 4 delayed eye bolts into the holes and tighten them.
Step 6
Pass a chain through an eye bolt from the ceiling and down through the 2 bolts into a corner of the bed frame. Connect the ends of the chain with a quick link or carabiner, forming a triangle with the chain in the corner. Repeat for the remaining corners and roof bolts.
Step 7
Adjust the chains so that the swing is uniform, using the level if necessary. Place the mattress on the frame of the bed and cover it with bedding and pillows.
Things you will need
- Bed structure without headboard or footboard
- Electric sander
- Cloth
- Paint or stain
- Mountain range
- 4 wooden boards, 2 inches by 4 inches
- 1 1/4-inch wood screws
- Punch out
- Screwdriver
- 12 coach screws
- 4 chain lengths
- 4 quick links or carabiners
- level
- Mattress
- Bed
- Pillows
Tip
- Place the bed frame on two trestles to hold it while hanging the chains.
HOW TO MAKE AN UPHOLSTERED HEADBOARD
Do you need a new headboard? Hands on, then;) Transform a wooden board with foam, wadding and a nice fabric and create your own custom bed headboard. To make it more special, choose an equidistant button as if it were a tufted upholstery.
TOOLS
- Needle
- Cutter
- Flexometer
- Manual stapler
- 60W heat gun
- Marker pen
- Drill
- Scissors
MATERIALS
- Buttons
- Foam
- Wadding
- Thread
- Wooden board
- Cloth
STEP BY STEP
1. MAKE THE HOLES
To start creating this homemade headboard you have to make several holes in the wooden board, which will serve you to later attach the buttons to the headboard and imitate the upholstered capitoné. To do this, divide the wood into a grid with the help of a flexometer and mark the position of the buttons at the intersections between the squares. When you have it, use a drill and a spade bit to make them.
Marking the position of the holes in the wood to put the buttons
Drill making holes in the wood
2. PLACE THE FOAM AND WADDING
Put the wooden board, already bored, on a foam board and mark its outline. Cut the foam to that size and, with the foam still underneath, pass a marker through the holes in the wood to mark the same holes in the foam. Remove the wood and use a cutter to open the holes in the foam: you will need them to pass the buttons. When finished, stick the foam on the wood with the help of a heat-set gun.
Once you have made that step, place the headboard over the wadding and cut a piece enough to cover the entire surface. Staple the wadding on the back of the headboard with a manual stapler and cut the excess with scissors.
The wadding will help you to soften the edges of the upholstery.
- Cutter cutting the foam
- Marker marking the position of the buttons in the foam
- Cutter cutting the foam
- Thermofilm gun by applying hot glue to stick the foam
- Stapling of wadding
- Scissors cutting the excess of wadding
3. STAPLE THE FABRIC
Repeat the operation, but with the fabric. Put the headboard over, cut a piece that covers and staple with a manual stapler, cutting the excess.
Stapler fixing the fabric to the wood
4. FIX THE BUTTONS
To finish this project, you have to fix the buttons to the headboard. Use a needle to attach them to the headboard. The first thing you have to do is cut pieces of thread and pass them through the buttons. Then, pass the needle through a hole, from the front to the back, without passing it whole, leaving the hole out. Pass the two ends of the thread through the hojal and pass the needle. Take the threads on the back of the headboard and pull hard so that the button is slightly sunken. To finish putting the button, staple the threads to the wood behind the headboard. Repeat the operation by placing a button in each hole you have made.
Result of the cabiner
Ready! What do you think of the result? Make a spectacular headboard is quite simple, as you see ... Dare!