Make My Own Box Spring

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.

Make my own box spring.

Slip the end into the chuck of the drill between the teeth. I ll definitely be buying the wood today. Place the two pieces with a lip on the outside. Just for a minute.

If your mattress has no box spring as support for instance a foam or latex mattress designed for use without the box springs or on a platform bed designed for just a mattress plywood comes to. 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. Thanks so much for putting this together.

January 3 2014 5 59 pm. Traditionally mattresses will sit upon a box spring which then sits on top of a bed frame. 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. Bend the rod at a 90 degree angle leaving an end as long as you need to create a hook after.

The final wood piece goes in the middle of the box spring. 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. 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.

Put the long fabric band in place around the bed just to make sure your seams hit right at the front two corners for that completed look. Expansion springs are ones that stretch like a spring in a screen door or a gate. Awesome thanks for the information on how to make your own box spring. 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.

We purchased a bed mattress for our guest bed but didn t want to pay the additional 150 for the box spring.