How to Make a Cheap, Low-Profile Wooden Bed Frame

Step 2 Layout and Nail the Frame Together

Lay all the pieces out, and nail it together.  I used one of the furring strips as a spacer as I attached the slats to the frame. 

Note that if you only put one nail at each intersection, the whole thing can rack like a giant pair of scissors or a folding trellis. 

Comments

[airfidget]

I was wondering about those three boards that are clustered together in the middle. Is that just a normal bed frame thing? Or was is a measurement error? Just wondering. I'm going to start making my frame tomorrow, getting the boards after work today.

[ewilhelm]

Please post a picture when you're done!

[ewilhelm]

The width of the frame wasn't divisible by an integer number of furring strips, so I bunched the ones in the middle closer to together.