King size bed

[eddie bee]

I want to upgrade from a king to a queen. This board was so helpful when i built my built in closets, which i documented with pictures on this site.

I live in NYC so i dont have a work space but i can just have the lumber yard cut the wood to my specs, which means i need to have a good detailed plan.

I need some advice on if its worth building my own bed. i see all these beds for sale for like 1500-2k and i dont like any of them. i'm not a fan of box springs so i just wanted a nice platform bed, but the ones they sell in stores sit too low.

Is it cost effective to build a simple platform king bed with 4 legs - and basic wood rails. i would like to use real woods and quality matterials so it looks great and is of good quality.
http://www.simplyplatformbeds.com/platform-beds/wood-platform-beds/orchidplatformbed.cfm

similar to this bed but with real wood beams and one that will sit higher off ground and not stick out as much so i dnt kill my knee every time i try to get in and out of bed.

any thoughts?

[Gary Max]

Heck ----I am buildig two queens right now---just came in for a bite of lunch.

[eddie bee]

i have no sense of what matterials will run...

i have a pretty basic design in mind

[Gary Max]

If you punch my name---Gary Max----go to my homepage----you can see some of the beds I build.
Go to Serta.com and they have the mattress sizes----or I sent them a email and they gave me the info.
Queens are easy compared to kings---queens will fit through a doorway.
Hope this helps

[Larry Fox]

http://www.amazon.com/Beds-Jeff-Miller/dp/1561582549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244833267&sr=1-1

I have built a couple of them and, depending on the design, they are pretty straighforward. Might be tough to do without a workspace simply due to the amount of room building them requires (but that could just be y work habits).

Very rewarding project actually. My kids sleep in the ones that I built.

[eddie bee]

i know this is hard to guest-imate but i was thinking some think wood posts for the legs and rails and then either buying the headboard or just a simple wood panel... the hardest part will be to rent the equipment to install the hardware...

[Art Mulder]

Here: http://woodgears.ca/projects.html

He's got plans and pictures for a Queen bed, and also a single bed.
And as a bonus, the single bed is built using 2x lumber, and still comes out looking pretty decent.

(personally I would use bed bolts to attach things, but you can decide that for yourself.)

...art