How Do You Make A Platform Bed For Less Than $100?
Platform beds can make your bedroom look stylishly modern. Built low to the ground, platform beds are sturdy and can provide excellent back support. They don’t usually have headboards, which saves precious space. You can build your own platform bed with materials that can run you less than $100. After you are done building it, purchase a mattress for it, but remember, a box spring is not necessary for any platform bed. Prepare the bed ends. Using the rabbet plane, make a groove cut that is 2 inches wide by 1-inch deep into both ends of each of the 76-inch planks on the 10-inch sides. Then cut a groove at the centers of both bed ends, also on the 10-inch sides. Position the 78-inch planks so they are sitting on their 2-inch sides, at 38-inch intervals from one another so that the two outer ones become the bed sides and the third is between them. Place the bed ends from Step 1 over the ends of the outer 78-inch planks and fit the ends into the grooves. Put wood glue along the grooves and
