Do It Yourself Bed Frame Risers

How to raise your bed for storage and how to raise your bed safely.

Do it yourself bed frame risers.

You need to make the right decision. Once you have made all of your cuts you will need to use a 1 inch hole saw to make your middle hole cuts to place the metal bed frame without the wheels attached down into. It s much easier to place the risers into position of you flip your mattress and box spring up first. You don t have to be precise just use what you have in your scrap pile and make sure the space the wheel will sit in is accurately measured.

Bed risers are simply a way to extend the legs of your bed. You cannot just pick any material to make a bed riser. Anyway i cut four 4 pieces for the bed risers. We took the wheels off because frankly they were stupid.

The bed post fits about 1 2 to 3 4 inside the riser to give it stability. We cut our bed risers to 6 inches each. Make sure at least one end is as flat as you can get it because then it will sit better on the floor. Before you can make a bed riser you need to know the height that you need to add to your bed.

They are positioned under the raised bed leg and the leg is lowered onto them. A very simple method to elevate your bed and the shape of the bed riser prevents the bed being pushed off the risers by a sideways impact of pressure. You will need to measure it well. You want to figure out two things.

Many of them look like inverted plant pots or stacked ash trays. Basically sliced our 2 foot post into four equal parts. I didn t have a drill bit big enough for the bed post to go into so i made 3 smaller holes to form one big one. Chop down all your risers don t forget the middle support beams as well.

Measure the right size. This is a bit cumbersome but you can do it yourself.