Queen Size Platform Bed Frame with Storage Drawers

Build this Queen sized platform bed frame with storage drawers. Pair it with your favorite headboard for an attractive AND functional storage piece.    Material is 3/4″ plywood with a 2×4 base.

Queen Platform Bed Frame with Storage Drawers

Materials:

• Use 3/4″ plywood or MDF
• Wood glue
• 1 3/4″wood screws
• 3″ construction screws
• 2×4 lumber for base

Step 1: Build Drawer Boxes

Build 6 identical storage boxes.

• Attach bottom to sides
• The bottom is attached 3/4″ from the bottom of the sidepieces.

• Attach a back to the box

• Attach top

If you put all the compartments together this is what you should have.  If your measurements are slightly different, adjust the next steps to fit YOUR compartments.

 

Step 2:  Build the Platform Base

• Use 2×4’s and 3″ constructions screws to assemble as shown below.

Step 3:  Secure Storage Compartments to Base

• Attach a 2×4 cleat to bottom of each storage compartment

• Each cleat should fit INSIDE the base.

• Set the storage compartment inside the base and secure the compartments together by driving 1 1/4″ screws into the sides.

 

Step 4:  Head and Foot pieces

Add “head” and “foot” to the bed frame. These should be 64″ x 13 1/2″ if everything is perfect.  However, things are almost never perfect.  So adjust the dimensions of your head and foot pieces to fit your actual bed frame.  The width should be exactly the same.  The height of your head and foot pieces should be 1 3/4″ taller than your bed frame.

• Use 3/4″ MDF or Plywood for your head and foot pieces
• Attach using 1 1/4″ screws driving through from inside the cabinet compartments.  (You might have to climb inside to get enough screws in there.
• Each board extends above the platform by 1 3/4″

 

Step 5:  Build and attach Faceframes

• Use 1×2 and 1×3 poplar.
• Build and attach with 1 1/4″ pocket hole screws.
• refer to post on building and attaching face frames for basic instructions
• Faceframes match height of head and foot
• side face frames go on first
• Footer faceframe extends to the edge of the side face frames

Step 6:  Add filler strips

• Add a 1×2 to the inside of the two sides and then the foot
• Glue and nail (from the inside)  the 1×2 flush with the TOP of the face frame and “foot”

Step 7:  Add Top Face

• Add another 1×2 to the top of the U-shaped bed platform

Phase 4:  Drawers and Drawer Fronts

• Build and install drawers and drawer fronts using relevant instructional posts

1. How to build drawers
2. How to install drawers
3. How to build drawer fronts
4. How to install drawer fronts

Finish with paint or poly and enjoy!

 

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