DIY Floating Bed Frame

DIY Floating Bed Frame: Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Own

Learn how to build your own floating bed frame with this easy, step-by-step guide. Create a stylish and modern bed frame on a budget!

Introduction

Building your own floating bed frame is always a fun activity since it will give you full control over the design of your new floating bed frame, as well as putting to use some of your carpentry skills to make your bedroom look more contemporary, elegant and minimalistic. 

Still, we will take you through each of them to ensure that you can master how to begin and how to go about it in case it is your first time to venture into the foray. 

Are you looking for a few tips on how to make your bedroom stand out? Let’s get started!

1. Gather Your Materials and Tools

To begin, ensure you have the following materials on hand:

  • Frames for the planks (select good quality and hard ones preferably from woods)
  • Drill and screws
  • Wood glue for added stability
  • Tape to get the right measurement for the height, and level to ensure symmetry.
  • Paint or wood stain as preferred

All of the mentioned items are crucial in order to construct a strong and well secured floatation bed frame. This makes the process of assembly to be easier when all the things are brought together.

2. Measure and Cut Your Wood

First, decide a size of the bed frame than you measure your mattress, to avoid the probability of buying unsuitable size of bed frame. Next:

  • Saw the wood planks in order to make the shape of the outer frame.
  • Cut supports a little longer and shorter than main piece for additional support inside the frame.

Measurements matter so much here because they will dictate the extent to which your mattress will fit the frame.

Also read this Wood vs. Metal Floating Bed Frames: Which Is Right for You?

3. Assemble the Base

Make a firm surface that will effectively bear the frame load. Here’s how:

  • Lay the wood planks in a way that forms the rectangular base and nail them down, with the aid of screws.
  • Install perpendicular girders inside the rectangle in order to enhance loading bearing capacity.

This base will not only hold the mattress but also make it to look like it is floating on air once finished.

4. Construct the Top Frame

Now, build the top frame that will hold the mattress:

  • Place and fix the planks to/from which the outer frame is to be made.
  • Fix the wooden cross beams at the interior part of the frame construction to counter balance weights.

The aim is to reach the sort of frame that will remain firm not to let the mattress move or bend to a certain extent of usage.

5. Attach the Top Frame to the Base

Carefully place the top frame over the base:

  • Screw and glue the top frame to the base at the joints where the top frame is positioned when the completed shelf is upright.
  • Ensure that to remain as floating as possible it is level for a second time.

This step makes it possible for a head of the bed to seem like it is not touching the base while in fact it is well fixed for safety reasons.

6. Add Finishing Touches

To personalize your new bed frame:

  • It is also very good to sand down any rough surface, so that to make the finish very smooth.
  • In the event, paint or stain it with the choice paint color that is appropriate for the room.

The following ones will give that professional and finished look to your DIY floating bed frame.

Conclusion

Floating bed frames are easy to construct and can be done individually so it is not only cheap it also gives the room that stylish look. 

Here’s how you can put together a floating bed frame step by step, along with some tips from me, and voila – a functional and stylish piece of bed furniture that will light up any bedroom, or, at the very least, be a cozy nightstand.

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