Do you need a new bed?  Do you want a new $5000 platform bed for a lot less?

Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own platform bed from scratch.

I sincerely do love this DIY since I own a platform bed myself.

The last step to completing my bed was upholstering the entire particle board box. I purchased enough sheets of one-centimeter-thick foam from a local foam store. The foam store employees agreed that foam thicker than 1 cm is difficult to upholster using just a simple staple gun. Using a regular staple gun from the hardware store, I covered the four box sides of the bed. I tried to not staple anywhere that would be visible or touchable on the top or side of the bed. Instead, I stapled on the inside edge of the boxes where the mattress would hide the staples and under the lip of each empty-bottomed box side. The bed in it’s partly upholstered state is shown here below.

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Tags: box sides, boxes, centimeter, DoItYourself!, hardware store, mattress, particle board, platform bed, scratch, staple gun, staples, thick foam

This entry was posted by max on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 11:54 am and is filed under A+Featured DIYs, Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Educational, Furniture, HOWTO, Projects, home.