Construct Your Own Platform Bed Plans With Drawers

To have your platform bed with drawers to work effectively, you must never forget that the drawers are going to slide outside of the bed area into the usable space. You need to place your bed the place where the drawers can easily slide open without distraction of other things. If you don't leave any space on all the drawer slides then your platform bed will become pointless!

Remember that the location for your platform bed is crucial. You need quite spacious area to place your platform bed with drawers. So make sure you have enough space available on all slides of the bed before you thinking to construct one.

First of all, you will need to start to measure the mattress that you will be using for the bed and then to make sure that your base board will need to be an inch or 2 inch larger than your mattress. This is to make sure the drawers are easily accessible.

The next step is to construct the drawer first by using 4 piece of wood slabs. Screw AND glue them all to ensure stability of the drawers.

Once done with the drawers, you will need to start constructing your base of your bed where the drawers can slide into. To do this, you will need a wooden frame that will support the mattress. Use at least four thick and sturdy pieces of wood to hold the drawers. Make sure all of these are taller than then drawers for the ease of slide movement. Take a look at the diagram to have a better understanding here

It is very important for you to have your own plans for your proper planning before constructing the platform bed with drawers. You wouldn't want to have a bad ending after all the hard work that you have devoted. You will get frustrated if you have to re-do those bed when only you know you have missed one simple step! Planning is crucial in every steps. Every steps missed could cost you disaster in terms of your own safety. Having your own plan can save you alot of time, energy and money.

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