Building a platform bed

[phoenix]

Hi xubuckeye,

I’ve been doing research here and elsewhere and am leaning heavily toward the Tuft and Needle queen size to replace my eight year old innerspring mattress that is no longer cutting it.

You are certainly looking at a good quality/value choice.

I am considering simply building a platform to put the new bed on. It seems like a couple of sheets of plywood, some 2x4s for a frame, a 4x4 for legs, and some nice moulding for the edges would make as good a platform as any you can buy, and can be customized to match existing furniture. Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) with building a platform for a foam mattress? If not, is there any reason this isn’t a good idea? Thanks in advance for your help!

Carpentry certainly isn’t an area that I am particularly knowledgeable about but if you have a good design there certainly wouldn’t be any reason not to build your own platform bed. There are some links to some DIY platform bed designs at the end of post #1 here that should be helpful or at least give you some ideas. The only suggestion I would have is to use closely spaced slats instead of plywood for the support surface to provide better ventilation under the mattress (see post #10 here).

Phoenix