finished bed??

Sorry it's been so long since my last post, it's not my fault...seriously I got caught up in everyone else's fabulous blogs. I had 1,000 + blog posts to read. Without further ago here is the finished bed.

The first photo is what it looked like with the mattress and box spring. Remember it's high enough to put rubbermaid containers underneath it for storage.


For a 6 foot something man, this bed is obviously too high. What's a girl to do, but remove the box spring.


And that worked only to a point. It's shorter now, I still need to a step stool to get up on it though. And now I have another problem...the mattress is falling through the cracks of the support beams.

Now I need to get a board so the mattress doesn't fall through anymore. More on that as it progress's.

diy bed frame

I originally was going to make a farmhouse bed from knockoff wood, but I wanted the space underneath the bed to be able to fit a rubbermaid container that measured 16 inches. Adding that to the headboard and foot board length and current legs would make it a very high headboard, too high for my room at the moment. However, I was able to use the same plans to make a frame for my bed without a headboard and footboard. Slightly modified, we added length to the legs and since we didn't have a headboard or footboard we didn't need to leave 3.5 inches on either end.





Seperating the headboard, footboard, side rails, and the inner support boards.





After measuring I squared the lines



Travis cutting the boards



Made the outter frame



Again squaring lines, this time marking for the inner support boards. These boards were supposed to be 16 inches apart occording to the plans I was following, but with 3.5 inches left on either end for the headboard and footboard, since we weren't doing those we started from the foot board and marked 16 inches from the foot board for ever support board for 4 boards. That did leave room after the 4th support board, but since all it is supporting is our heads we didn't find a need to modify the plans to space out the support boards any more then what the plans called for.



Painting the all put together bed frame.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of the bed frame with it all put together with the bed all made up.