We have a New Bed!

They say that it's important to get a good night sleep!  I'm sure a good bed goes a long way to making that possible.

Our New Bed - we are really excited!!

We have been using an air mattress which has been good, but it keeps us pretty close to the ground which makes for a pretty long "spring out of bed" in the morning (not to mention in the middle of the night).  There’s also all the creepy crawlers who live down at ground level and like visitors - even when the visitors don't like them.  So, we were in the market for a new bed.

This is the air mattress being deflated for removal!

We actually wanted a platform bed so that we could have some storage space underneath for plastic boxes with our clothes.  We only found one platform bed for sale, it was rather high off the floor, had a huge black lacquer headboard, and was almost $500 for just the frame (or platform). 

We opted to buy a mattress, some wood, stain and polyurethane, and make our own!

We had a couple building parameters:

The height of the headboard was limited to 36” by the window.

The plastic boxes are 10.5” and so the space underneath should be about 11.5”.

We wanted a pretty normal height for the bed which should be about 24” to 26”.

We didn’t have a lot of money for this so we planned on no more than $100.

I made the design myself... well, actually there were vestiges of ideas from the waterbed we had early in our marriage.  I was a little concerned about strength but it has turned out to be rock solid!

We are very happy with the final outcome and the total expenditure for the platform frame was actually under $85!

You can view the movie of us setting up the bed!! (It's only 3 min 20 sec)