20 Contemporary Modern Platform Bed with Storage Designs

20 Contemporary Modern Platform Bed with Storage Designs - The hardware for our bed is sourced from the big box store. Nothing fancy but I do have carriage bolts, washers and some threaded rod. We're going to make some modifications to this hardware to make it more appropriate for our application. First we're going to paint the carriage bolt heads matte black. A quick file. A little sanding. And some paint is all it takes to transform the bolt heads into something that doesn't look awful. Next we need to flatten out one end of our washers using the grinder. This will make for a better fit in the flat bottomed nut access holes and since so many of you got a kick out of this last time I will say it once again, nut access holes. To give the washer a curved profile I am using a small press that I made from scrap wood. Finally the threaded rod needs to be cut to size using a hack saw. The center support rail is held by a modified French. This is made from few pieces of scrap with the center piece receiving a slight angled cut. The center rail itself will receive a series of notches to accept the cross supports. The notches are made at the table saw using a quick jig that resembles a box joint jig. When it's all said and done it should look something like this. It's pretty cool. The ends of the rail receive a notch and the French cleat angle is chiseled by hand for a perfect fit. Beauty. The brackets are then glued and screwed to the foot board and head board. Alright let's see how this works. It should be a snug fit. The key is to get both sides in at the same time. There we go. I like it. For the maple support slats, I'm cutting notches that will meet perfectly with the center support notches. The maple pieces simply drop in place resting on the center support and the side rails. And speaking of rest, I was ready for a nice nap by this point. For additional support I'm making two block feet that will sit under the center rail as you see here. With all of the wood working done, the only thing left to do is scrape and sand. For the customer requested oil finish, the wood is sanded all the way to 320 grit.

Platform Bed With Storage Twin The finish will be pure tongue oil diluted 50% with mineral spirits and heated with a double boiler hot plate setup. I'm not a huge fan of pure oil finishes but this is what the customer wants. The finish is applied with a brush and then wiped back clean with a cloth. For the rest of the day I will come back and check on the piece and wipe back any standing oil. Now it's time for assembly. The threaded rod is screwed in to the foot board and the rails are dropped in and bolted down. The rails are then pushed forward into the headboard mortices and secured with the hardware. Now for the center rail, the support feet and the slats. And here it is beautiful, solid, bubinga with a wenge raised panel. I hope you enjoy the free version of this build. If you would like to see the full version, which clocks in at about 6 and a half hours of high quality video instruction, head to TheWoodWhispererGuild.com for all of the details.

Where I've been living for 20 years. Modern Platform Bed With Storage When I first moved in, I had two kids and two dogs, going through elementary school, high school, dogs on the furniture, dogs off the furniture, the whole bit. It never looked that cluttered until one day I guess I had been on vacation or something I came home and I thought, yuck, this place is packed. My name is Clare Ferraro. Thank god I hired a designer. It was time to get rid of a lot of stuff. And if I was going to get rid of a lot of stuff, I wanted to make some structural changes in the apartment. LAURA MANNES: Clare's apartment was it was too much going on in the size of the space. All the energy was just sucked into this enormous cabinet, which she had filled with books, because my client is a book publisher. CLARE FERRARO: It was really there as a media cabinet, I guess, and also a storage area. And it was very cluttered. And when you were sitting in the living room, you had this overpowering feeling that something could fall down on you. I remember saying to her, do you think we could paint this or how do we fix this? And her way of fixing it was remove it. It goes. LAURA MANNES: We're taking down a massive bookshelf in the foyer. That was a big concern. Where are my books going to go? You know, form follows function. This space is going to be used primarily now as an office. However, the sofa in that room is a bed. We needed a sofa bed. And I thought it would frame it out really nicely. CLARE FERRARO: The emotional thing that I wanted to come out of this whole project was I wanted a feeling of serenity here. The phase of my life that I'm about to enter into is a different one than I was when I was a young mother and raising young kids.

Modern Storage Espresso Queen Size Platform Bed With Bookcase Headboard So I wanted to have a different ambiance in the whole apartment. I wanted to feel differently when I walked into this apartment. LAURA MANNES: We talked a lot. Clare loves modern design. The challenge was to have this piece of furniture accommodate a lot of these needs that this other piece was serving, but make it streamlined and a lower profile, scale wise. It's difficult sometimes because, as a designer, you have an idea. CLARE FERRARO: I won't say that they were battles. I think we did have arguments. There were certain things that she would hold her ground, and I would think, well, she must really feel strongly about this. LAURA MANNES: She didn't want to do such a large scale renovation necessarily. When I brought my design scheme over, I realized the best thing to do was to open up the entry area, knock out some walls. I felt it had to be done to have the rest of the design work. CLARE FERRARO:

Some of the hurdles were I didn't want the soffits in the living room or in the office The Capri Modern Platform Bed With Storage Space. I didn't like overhead lighting. I didn't think I wanted it. I prefer lamp-lit rooms. The one thing I wanted to keep in here, my grandmother's oriental carpet. And I said, I don't care what we do or where we put this, I'm not particularly fussy, but this rug has to come back in this apartment. She found my favorite piece of furniture in this apartment, which is the coffee table. That is my absolute favorite piece of furniture. LAURA MANNES: Not that many elliptical-shaped tables, and one of my favorite tables is the Saarinen Tulip Table. And she's a lover of modern design. She got it. She totally understood that. CLARE FERRARO: She advised me about the chairs. I originally wanted Ghost chairs. She persuaded me that these would be the more practical choice. They'd do better in this apartment. I think that's part of the fun of a project. You have a lot of ideas when you're going through it or when you're picking out things. But the real proof is in how do you live it? The truth is, I have a very busy job. And I don't have time to go running around and getting the best object. And I certainly don't have that sense of how practical and beautiful things can be meshed together and both work great and look great. So thank god I hired a designer.