While you can enter any furniture store and purchase a bed frame - wood or metal - sometimes styles in stock may not be what you're looking for. So if your personal tastes are retro, country or contemporary, build a wooden bed frame yourself to match what you have in mind.
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Instructions
1 Choose the size of your bed. Consider the size bed you have now. If you have a queen and you want to upgrade a king, make sure it will fit in your bedroom before proceeding with its construction.
2 Look for bed frame templates. You can find step by step instructions for building a wooden bed frame in your home improvement store, or you can design your own plans by using your imagination and dimensions in step 3.
3 Buy your construction materials. You will need 2 of 8 boards for the entire width and length of your bed. For a double bed, you will need boards 80 inches long on both sides and 60 inches wide for the head and foot of the bed. The standard dimensions of extra-large beds are 76 inches wide and 80 inches long.
4 Gather supplies to build your bed frame. In addition to your 2 by 8 boards, you will need wood screws, a drill, a circular saw, MDF (medium density fiber) or plywood, as well as stains, polyurethane or paint for finishing.
5 Connect your frame with wood screws in the corners. Turn your frame over, face down, and attach the MDF or plywood to the base, which will sit on the floor. If the template requires a pedestal bed frame, this is the place to place the MDF and support structure, along with the reinforcement brackets and wood screws.
6 Light the frame of the wooden bed in an upright position. Attach the MDF or plywood to the top of the wooden bed frame. This will keep your mattress and / or spring base.
7 Finish the construction of your wooden bed frame. Stain the wood or add a layer of polyurethane to protect the wood. If you want to paint your bed frame, you can do that too.
Tips and warnings
- You can rent a circular saw to cut the plywood and / MDF boards to your size, or you can make the pre-cut wood in your home improvement store.