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Lovely
This turned out beautiful! Your bedroom is lovely, and I love the wall color!
Beautiful!
It turned out beautiful! Great job.
Gorgeous!
This looks fantastic! I love it! This looks better than anything I have seen in the stores and a fraction of the cost! Your room is beautiful too, so peaceful and serene- looks tres' chic!
Love it! Have a question though...
Now that you've slept on it for a bit...does it creak when you move? I know, I know, odd question (and a little invasive, perhaps :P ) but I'm SO tired of my bed creaking when we get in or out so I would totally build this tomorrow if it's quiet LOL
So far this bed is rock
So far this bed is rock solid, so no we haven't had any creaking. I say build it! We love ours.
I'm in love with it!
One question, I can't tell if you used a boxspring with your mattress or if it just the mattress on top?
No boxspring
No, there's no boxspring on our bed. We wanted to try out the memory foam mattress/platform bed combo. I laid pegboard across the 2x4's to create a "floor" so the mattress wouldn't sag in between the studs. (I chose pegboard instead of plywood so the mattress could breath a little better. The pegboard is plenty rigid with all the studs supporting it). I'm rambling...
Gorgeous
This bed is absolutely gorgeous! Fantastic job!
assembly
sorry can someone tell me where the directions of the assembly of the foot and head board are?
also what connects the head and foot together?
i mus be missing something.
Plans
The plans are linked at the very top of the article. The links on this site are bold and brown, which looks nice but can be trouble to figure out sometimes.
The means of connecting the head and foot boards is shown in the first photo on this article. I don't remember if it's described in the plans, but it's pretty simple to do on your own. It looks like 1x6s bolted to the head and foot, using two bolts at each end of each board.
2x4s are then stretch across. They can be nailed in, or you could use a joist hanger. You'll have to use a pretty substantial nail, 8d 3" nail or so, a couple of nails in each end of each 2x4. Either way, it's going to be important to buy a good hammer if you don't have one. Fortunately they aren't very expensive and they're quite useful.
King Bed center support
Did you need to put any center support in under the 2x4's in order to support the king mattress? That is my main concern with the king frame. I was planning to just build the rails around my metal frame, but then I realized the metal feet are going to be quite unsightly. It would be nice to make it a platform like you did, but it scrambles my brain when I start thinking about how to build a center support. If the crosswise 2x4's are enough, that would be so much easier!
No Center Support
No, I didn't do a center support. I've got 9 2x4's across and it's been rock solid so far. If your concerned about support you could throw in a few more 2x4's and space them closer together.
King Bed Side Rails
What size stock did you use for the side rails? 2 X 8's?
Thanks!
Side Rails
Sorry, I didn't initially reply directly to your post so just in case you didn't get my reply...My side rails are actually 2x12's. Our mattress is only 8" thick, no boxsrping, so I needed a larger side rail to get my mattress up to a good height but still extend low enough to hide some of the storage under the bed.
4x4 posts
Where did you get untreated 4x4 posts and do you know what kind of wood they are? Locally HD and L***s only have treated 4x4 posts. A local lumberyard has yellow pine and douglas fir 4x4 - but i'm not sure which is better to use. Any suggestions?
Untreated 4x4s
Either the yellow pine or the douglas fir will be fine. I have a particular affinity for douglas fir, but grab whichever one looks the best to you.
4x4 Posts
I got my 4x4's at HD and if I remember correctly they're doug fir. I don't know much about yellow pine but I do believe it's a harder wood than doug fir. Really my only suggestion is to get posts that have a good straight grain and are dry. Stay away from the green stuff if you can especially with the doug fir as it's prone to splitting as it dries out.
Relative hardness
Doug Fir is slightly harder than yellow pine. This is not to trivialize yellow pine. Stuff plays heck with my tools. Folds chisel tips and pushes plane blades out. Other writers have also commented on it's ability to wreck tools. But good sturdy stuff to work with.
Side Rails
My side rails are actually 2x12's. Our mattress is only 8" thick, no boxsrping, so I needed a larger side rail to get my mattress up to a good height but still extend low enough to hide some of the storage under the bed.
Finishing
Wow! This is beautiful - so inspiring! I was wondering about the finish....you painted then sanded areas to distress it and then rubbed in stain on top right? I just want to understand the process so I coulod maybe try this myself. Good Job! Love the the entire design from the colors to the decorative details like the old window frame on the wall. :)
Finish
Sorry for the delayed response but yes...painted, sanded then stained (a glaze would be beautiful too). I was pretty heavy handed with the sanding. It's an easy way to finish a project because the less perfect you are, the better it looks!
Kingsize Farmhouse Bed
I just finished building our new king size farmhouse bed frame. It looks amazing. My wife absolutely loves it!
It was very easy to build and I plan on building more things to compliment the frame.
Thanks for providing the idea and the plans.
Kingsize Farmhouse Bed
I LOVE this bed. It is gorgeous. What is the color on your walls? Is it a Behr color also? And did you build the nightstand in this picture too? We are expecting a surprise 4th baby and I want to redo our room for more space before the due date! Thanks! Sara
Thank you, Sara! We love our
Thank you, Sara! We love our bed too, thanks to Ana's fabulousness. The wall color is Curry, it's from the Eddie Bauer collection from Lowes. It was scary painting it on because when it was wet it looked battleship grey. I did the nightstand too, it's Ana's farmhouse bedside table plan. Congrats on the upcoming little one!
I see where you used this as
I see where you used this as a platform bed. We recently bought a Sleep number bed there it has a "box" like system under the mattress. Do you think this would still work?
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