Make My Own Box Spring

Awesome thanks for the information on how to make your own box spring.

Make my own box spring.

Just for a minute. We purchased a bed mattress for our guest bed but didn t want to pay the additional 150 for the box spring. Hold the arbor in your hand grabbing the wire at the same time. If there s no wood frame pin the tape and fabric in place instead.

Place the two pieces with a lip on the outside. However what if you don t have a box spring. Sew fabric and wrap around box spring sew all three together at the short ends to create a long fabric band and then pull a hercules and hoist your mattress against the wall. Traditionally mattresses will sit upon a box spring which then sits on top of a bed frame.

Bend the rod at a 90 degree angle leaving an end as long as you need to create a hook after. Lay one long panel upside down on top of the box so that three sides of the fabric overhang the box s edges by about 1 inch. Box springs are manufactured in a wide array of depths and if you have a deep bed frame one option for increasing your box spring s height involves using a bunkie. Place a strip of upholstery tape about 1 inch in from the box s long edge and staple through the tape and fabric into the wood frame every few inches.

Expansion springs are ones that stretch like a spring in a screen door or a gate. Slip the end into the chuck of the drill between the teeth. January 3 2014 5 59 pm. I ll definitely be buying the wood today.

Thanks so much for putting this together. Place the two large wood pieces with rounded edges at the top and bottom of the box spring. Use three bolts on each side with a washer and nut on the other side of the wood. The final wood piece goes in the middle of the box spring.

Most bed frames aren t designed to carry the load of the mattress in the middle meaning that if you have a memory foam bed you ll wind up sagging all the way to the floor.