![]() ![]() I wanted some form of floating nightstands Nicole has a special ability of being able to bump into the corner of the bed hurting herself so I wanted to find a way to reduce that Also, I wanted to switch to individually addressable RGB strips just becauseīeing built entirely with pocket hole joinery and bolts, the previous bed was susceptible to creaking, I wanted to try using more thoughtful joinery and hopefully by using glue, the creaking can be minimized While I don’t plan on moving/disassembling this, I’d like to do a better job of this. I wanted to have a cleaner power, lighting, cables and USB setup - the previous bed had lights around the base and running up the back of the headboard which looks great but if you ever had to disassemble it, it was a huge pain. I made the subframe on the original a bit too short: the majority of the time, nothing would happen but every so often, it' would be possible to cantilever the bed a bit: by making the subframe longer, we can virtually eliminate this After living with the previous bed frame for a few years, there were a few things I wanted to improve upon: ![]() Now that we have a home, Nicole got us a fancy king bed so this was a good opportunity for a ‘Mk II’ bed frame. ![]() By leveraging pocket-hole joinery and dimensional lumber, it was super easy to build - I was able to sleep on it on the first night. At our previous house, I built a floating bed frame for a queen bed over a weekend and it’s been an awesome bed: it looks great, was fairly sturdy, was modular enough to be moved and reassembled and has some ‘cool factor’ elements. ![]()
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