How-To: Cheap Low-Profile Bed Frame

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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April 10th, 2010

Eric Wilhelm @ Instructables writes:

This is how I made a low-profile bed frame cheaply from wood slats.

We want our mattress low to the ground so if our daughter ever falls out of bed, she doesn’t have far to go. We learned the trick of putting the family bed on the ground from Christy’s parents, and wanted to give it a try. However, the floor in our bedroom is uninsulated, and putting a mattress directly against a cold floor is a great way to grow mold. This frame raises the mattress 1.5 inches; just enough to ensure airflow.