DIY Upholstered Bed Base – Addicted 2 Decorating®

Our new mattress is completed! I completed the upholstered mattress base on Monday, after which my mother came visiting yesterday morning to assist me get the headboard held on the wall, get the mattress base moved into place, and get our mattress moved into the bed room. I’m so proud of how this turned out!

I don’t just like the legs that I purchased for the bottom, so I’ve ordered new legs. They’ll be right here on Thursday, and I swap them out then. I believed the legs I ordered can be extra of an antiqued gold as a result of that’s what the image on Amazon confirmed, however they’re truly very vivid, shiny gold. I attempted to make use of Rub ‘N Buff on considered one of them, however that didn’t work out. So the brand new ones will likely be turned wooden legs.

So let me present you the way I made this matching DIY upholstered mattress base.

To construct the body, I used 3/4″ plywood and 1×3 lumber. I needed my plywood sides to be 10 inches excessive, and I wanted it to suit round a queen dimension mattress. So I ripped the plywood to 10 inches utilizing my desk noticed, after which I minimize two of the items to 62 inches lengthy and the opposite two items to 83.5 inches lengthy. I hooked up these items collectively utilizing Spax cupboard screws. After which inside these plywood items, I hooked up the 1×3’s on the prime and the underside. I minimize 4 of the 1×3’s to 60.5 inches lengthy and 4 items to 82 inches lengthy. I hooked up these to the plywood utilizing 1.25-inch 16-gauge nails. These 1×3 items didn’t serve any structural objective. They merely gave the mattress base extra thickness on the highest and backside edge, which I believed would look higher as soon as it was upholstered.

I couldn’t get the entire thing in a single image, so I made this diagram to point out how the items match collectively if you happen to take a look at the entire construction from the highest. The within items are the 1×3’s and the surface items are the plywood items. As soon as it was all put collectively, the bottom had inside dimensions of 80.5″ x 60.5″.

In hindsight, I want I’d have allowed extra space to have inside dimensions of 81.5″ x 60.5″ as a result of our mattress ended up becoming fairly tightly inside the bottom, leaving no room to tuck the comforter contained in the body, which I’d have most popular. However I’ll dwell with it.

Right here’s one other take a look at the body as soon as all of these items had been screwed and nailed collectively.

Subsequent, I wrapped high-loft batting round the entire body, wrapping it round these inside 1×3 items and stapling it into place on the underside fringe of the 1×3 for the highest, and on the highest fringe of the 1×3 for the underside.

Right here’s a take a look at the within. You possibly can see the place I stapled it utilizing my slender crown stapler that works with my air compressor.

I began on the head of the mattress (i.e., the half that received’t present as soon as it’s tucked beneath the headboard) and labored my round the entire body. As soon as it was all coated with batting, I went again and trimmed off the surplus batting (and, after all, forgot to take an image of that). However all of this extra batting was trimmed off earlier than I moved on to the following step.

With the batting on, I used to be prepared for the material. I minimize a number of strips of material, about 20 inches excessive, after which sewed them collectively, ensuring to match the patterns. I made this strip lengthy sufficient to go across the whole base with about 12 inches to spare.

After which I pressed al of my seams open and flat utilizing my steam iron. I used to be fairly relieved to see how nice this material hid the seams.

I pressed the seams on the entrance and the again, ensuring that the material was completely easy and flat.

After which, beginning on the head of the mattress once more, I wrapped the material round the entire base, ensuring that the sample was straight.

After which, beginning on the head of the mattress, I began stapling the material on similar to I did the batting. I labored my manner across the base clockwise and ending again on the head of the mattress. As I labored my manner round, I made positive that the sample was straight, pulled the material taut to the proper, and stapled it into place on the 1×3’s. As soon as I used to be all the way in which round, I trimmed off the surplus material for a clear look.

Essentially the most troublesome half was the corners, however I folded these over similar to wrapping a gift, ensuring that I had a crisp, clear fold.

After I obtained again round to the pinnacle of the mattress, I merely folded the material beneath about an inch, after which stapled proper on prime of the material. Once more, this will likely be to the wall and beneath the headboard, so it received’t present in any respect.

As soon as the entire material was stapled on and the surplus trimmed, that is what it seemed like.

For the within, I began by attaching a 2×4 to every of the lengthy sides. These went proper beneath the 1×3 that had been wrapped with batting and material. I hooked up these utilizing 2-inch wooden screws, and as you may see, I used numerous them.

Right here’s what it seemed like with the two×4’s hooked up to each of the lengthy sides.

After which I hooked up to extra 2×4’s to the within, spacing them evenly. I initially thought of utilizing my Kreg pocket gap jig to connect these, however I ended up going a unique path.

I ended up utilizing joist hangers to connect these to inside 2×4’s. Joist hangers are made to be used with 2×6’s or 2×8’s, in order that they had been too lengthy to suit my 2×4’s. So I simply used my grinder to chop off the surplus steel, after which I needed to drill two extra screw holes into the hangers to make them work with my 2×4’s. They had been truly very simple to chop and drill screw holes into. After which that allowed me to get these to inside 2×4’s proper beneath the perimeter 1×3’s.

After which I added 4 further legs to these inside 2×4’s. These didn’t must be fairly since they received’t present, so I used 2×2 lumber and hooked up them with wooden screws.

The ultimate step was so as to add the slats. For these, I take advantage of twelve 1×4’s. I haven’t nailed these on but as a result of I need to have the ability to take away them when the brand new ft arrive. It’s simpler to have the ability to take away this weight once I have to flip the bottom over to connect the ft. However after the brand new ft are on, I’ll come again and nail these slats in place.

And that’s it! That’s the completed mattress base. Effectively, I suppose it’s nearly completed since I’ll be swapping out these ft. However the arduous half is finished.

Right here it’s with the headboard held on the wall and the bottom in place.

I’m so enthusiastic about how this turned out. I can’t wait to get the entire bedding on!

I’ve made headboards earlier than, and I’ve even constructed a mattress base earlier than, however that is my absolute favourite. I’m so pleased with this venture.