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Martin Tithonium
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28 January 2011 @ 07:58 pm
 
Anybody want a hand-made solid wood very-nearly-king-size bed frame?

I built it myself (with [info]loree's help) for the soft-side waterbed. Due to a minor error between design and construction, the platform area itself is a couple inches too short for a king mattress. It's worked well enough for the past five years, with the foot of the mattress hanging off the bottom of the bed. It's designed to put the top of the mattress just below hip height. It's got a three-tier headboard (only the first tier was installed when the pictures were taken). The platform is built in four pieces, two pieces for the legs, two pieces for the platform itself, all bolted together, each movable by a single person (or, at least, by me). The headboard bolts onto the platform, and each tier stacks on top and bolts on. Some of it is stained, some isn't.

Pictures from right after it was built:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/themartian/sets/72157619680560943/

We've got a new bed arriving tomorrow, and no longer need the platform. Want it? It's yours, come and get it.

If nobody takes it, I'll probably end up tearing it apart, and recycling what material I can into something else. But I'd rather not do that.
 
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Ingredient Not Found In Butter[info]dianthus on January 29th, 2011 08:29 am (UTC)
I think I may want this. Of course, this would be the weekend I am away at Conflikt and can't measure my mattress, etc. I'm not sure I can make it work without losing too much space. How would you feel about sawing off the side of one of the headboards?
To use the space efficiently for a queen (assuming that I have a standard 60 x 80 mattress, and that this is long enough for it, i.e. your mattress is a California King and 84 inches long), I would probably need to put one side up against a wall and store things between the mattress and the wall. I already have a habit of doing this at the head of my bed, so it actually works out well, except for the part where the headboard sticks out. What are the length & width of the platform?

Edited at 2011-01-29 08:40 am (UTC)
Martin Tithonium[info]tithonium on January 29th, 2011 04:21 pm (UTC)
The mattress in it is an Eastern King, I'm afraid. 76x80. A queen at 60x80, you'd have the overhang at the foot, and a 16" space to the side.

At present, the headboard's first tier is 96" wide, and the rest are as wide as the platform, which is 78". The platform, including supports for the headboard, is 90" long.

Edited at 2011-01-29 05:03 pm (UTC)
Ingredient Not Found In Butter[info]dianthus on January 29th, 2011 08:48 pm (UTC)
Too space-wasting for me, then.
Martin Tithonium[info]tithonium on January 29th, 2011 09:02 pm (UTC)
For what it's worth, the headboard could probably be cut down to be the same width as everything else AND there's enough room underneath for /me/ to crawl thru.
Ingredient Not Found In Butter[info]dianthus on January 29th, 2011 10:13 pm (UTC)
Why do I need you to crawl through?
Martin Tithonium[info]tithonium on January 30th, 2011 01:08 am (UTC)
I'm implying there's a lot of storage space under the bed.
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