How Do You Build A Queen-Size Bed Frame?
Building a queen-size platform for a mattress is not as difficult as you may think and is much less expensive then buying one from a furniture store. It does not involve many materials or even much time. You can use the experience of building a queen-size bed to build bed frames for all the bed sizes in your home. Make sure to have the measurements of the queen mattress you are going to put on the bed frame. Queen bed frames are usually about 5 feet wide by 6.5 feet long. Set up the outside structure of the bed frame in the place you will set up your mattress. Lay the two 5-foot-long and 6.5-foot-long boards in a rectangle, standing up on the most narrow sides. Screw these 4 pieces together at the 4 corners. Lay the three 4.5-foot-long boards to create the top support system of the bed frame. Starting from the bottom of the frame, lay one of the boards flat on its wide side, 1.5 foot up and nail each end to the rectangle base. Lay the second board flat on its wide side, 3.5 feet up fro
