uilding a bed for your home gives you a true sense of belonging, a feeling that you have helped create things inside your house instead of just buying them. Because building a bed is much more affordable than buying one, try to build beds for each member of your family and save a substantial amount.
High Rise Metal Bed Frame with Headboard Brackets (Queen)
Instructions
1 Set a 1-by-24-by-38-inch birch board down with your most attractive face down on the work surface. Place a 35-inch birch 2-by-4 parallel with one of the long sides of the large birch board, which is the footboard. Adjust the 2-by-4 6 inches of one of the long sides of the floor plate, which will now be the underside of the floor plate. Space the 2-by-4, which is a short support plate, evenly on the stirrup, and drill a 6-inch wood screws on the short support board.
2 Position another short board supporting parallel to the first and above it, leaving a space of 3 1/2 inches between the two plates. Fix the short support plate to the bracket with six 2-inch wood screws.
3 Repeat these steps to create a header with a 1-by-36-by-38-inch birch board and two short support boards, the spacing of the support boards at the same distance from the bottom side of the header, since they are in the stirrup.
4 Place the header and foot up on its bottom edges with the help of an assistant. Set short support tables against each other. Place a 2 by 4 77 inch table between the headboard and the footboard, with each end resting between the two support plates on both the headboard and foot.
5 Slide the 77-inch plate, which is a long support plate, until the outer surface of the joint is even with the ends of the short support boards. Drill wells through both short support plates at the head and foot and on the long support plate. Place the long support plate in place with 5-inch wood screws. Repeat the procedure to add another long support board at the other end of the short support boards, leaving a gap of 32 inches between the long support boards.
6 Position six of 35 inches of 2 by 4 boards at the top of the long support boards, with their large surfaces below. Drill two holes in each of the 35-inch plates, which are the mattress boards, and down the long support boards. Join the mattress tables with 3-inch wood screws.
Tips and warnings
- Stain the bed to get the best color from the wood.
- Add additional stability to the bed by piercing the screws through the headboard and feet and into the ends of the long support boards.