Monday 5 November 2012

I've been a clever boy again!

More DIY ing today.

Now that I have cleared my spare room by getting a lot of the excess into the new loft space I wanted to get a spare bed for guests. Obviously I didn't really want to buy one! I had a matress that I had aquired for free, but it wasn't really nice to just have a matress on the floor in there.

I looked into bed bases but the cheapest one I found that would fit was £65 and said 'suitable for children or light adults', to me that says, will fall apart in 3 months.

I was a bit hampered by having too much in the room and was running on a very exact amount of room for the bed, one cm over here and there and it wouldn't have fitted.

So I did the best thing I could in the circumstances and made one myself.

It needed to fit in the corner by the wardrobe so I took very careful measurements and made a nice simple design that I thought I could follow myself and so took myself off to the shop to buy some wood. I had some in the garage so just needed a few extra bits.

Spent the first half of the afternoon cutting up the lengths of wood to the right size and beginning to assemble them in the way I thought would work.




It was a lovely sunny day, so I had the doors open and had breaks outside on the deck.


I had a nosy visitor mid-afternoon.



Made it in two halves so that it is easy to move about (unlike so many beds). Here it the first half with legs on.



In position. Perfect fit.



Second half made and a job well done. It is very very solid and will take more than a child or small adult.



Ready for visitors. It's very comfortable too.

All together it cost me £35 so as a single bed base, made to measure, not bad going at all and a lot less than buying one would have cost me.

17 comments:

  1. Wow, great job. I love the fact you made it in two pieces - very smart. Any guest should be very happy!

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  2. Well thats just bloody brilliant.

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  3. Well done you, have you tested it?

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  4. Excellent design - you can easily compact this when you want to move it or clean or decorate!

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  5. Another job well done!
    Love from Mum
    xx

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  6. You've made a fantastic job of that, very clever. I'm 5ft 7ins and 8 stone, ha ha

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  7. wow that is excellent ! well done

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  8. That is an excellent solid bed. Well done. Whats next on your DIY agenda :)

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  9. Great DIY, I remember my Dad making my brother's bed when we were young. I got the z bed!

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  10. Is this a new vocation? Bedzagogo. Well done, looks great.

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  11. That`s just utterly brilliant! I like the two section base. Neat idea for moving the bed around. Well done to you!!!

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  12. Thanks everyone. I am just really proud when I achieve something in DIY because I really am making it up as I go along.

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  13. What a great solution! Very well done!!!

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  14. That's a really neat solution, well done.

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  15. Oh my! That is awesome, you are so clever! You have inspired me to seriously think about building my own bookcases - I got a book from a charity shop but then chickened out. Thanks!

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  16. You have done a grand job on your bed base and should last a long time.
    We built our daughters 4 poster bed when she was 4, she is now 13. recently we had to replace the original metal matress base with some wooden slats so now should last for ever.
    Keep up the good work.
    Carolx

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  17. Wow, thats really clever! you could even put hinges on it and use it as a type of chair :)

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