I will have to play with it once I start building and see if I have any other suggestions :) make the drawers an overlay design instead of inset, and/or add some wood blocking inside the drawer box behind the face trim to have something to mount the slides to. Otherwise, you could just fiddle with the design a bit to be able to use more common (and cheaper) drawer slides - i.e. I have no idea if they will work, but I can post back here if I find a way to do it. I ended up just buying the frame-mounting slides for overlay drawers because it was a superrrr deal ($18 for 10 pairs, including S&H). I narrowed it down to three undermount slides that were within my budget - one claimed it was for overlay drawers (mounts to the inside of the frame), one for inset drawers (was unclear what that mounted to), and the other for overlay drawer (but mounting to the side wall this time). What it seems to come down to is that all the hassle with this particular set of drawers comes from the trim on the front making the drawer so far from the side panels (so it's difficult to side-mount your slides) AND because the drawers are inset (aka flush with the frame, as opposed to an overlay, where the drawer face is on the outside of the frame). Jeff, any luck on figuring out the undermount drawer slides? I just spent far too many hours scouring the internet learning all about drawer slides (my head hurts! omg there is so much info and so many options and so many little idiosyncrasies amongst all the different was so confusing, so all I could do was read read read read more.and hope they weren't all SOOO expensive). If you have a California King mattress it might be best to add a headboard that attaches flat behind the head of the bed and doesn't push forward much at all or create an upholstered headboard that fits just above your mattress. If you have a regular king mattress and want no lip at the end then creating or buying an upholstered headboard that the mattress sits up against and will push the mattress forward a little may solve your problem. One last thing I'd like to mention is to keep in mind what kind of headboard, if any, you are adding. Remember the Pottery Barn Stratton bed is made to accommodate both King sizes, and as this bed is mirroring that design so will it. If you don't want a lip you should adjust accordingly- that's the glory of making your own bed. That lip will also come in handy should you use a box spring, which we will, because it makes the bed high. This also means the bed will leave you with a little lip either lengthwise for a regular king mattress or in the width for a California King, which I like. So no adjustments other than correcting the length from 22 3/4" to 23 1/2" long for the sides of the foot bench as stated earlier no matter what king size mattress. The bed as shown, says it fits a mattress up to 84" long and 78" wide. It will also fit a California King Mattress, the standard dimensions for which are 84" long x 72" wide. And what about a bed frame that lets you flip up the bed base, so you can use the entire space underneath for storing your things? Even if you opt not to go with a double bed frame with storage solutions, a lot of our bed frames are high enough to slide boxes beneath.I've been reading all the posts and just wanted to let you ladies know - based on the dimensions of the finished bed it fits a regular (Eastern) King Mattress, the standard dimensions for which are 80" long x 76" wide. This clever feature means you don’t have to compromise on space – and ensures important belongings are always within reach of your bed!įor example, a full bed frame with built in draws underneath could be practical for storing bedding sets, duvets or even clothes. But have you considered full, queen or king bed frames with built-in storage solutions? It’s exactly what it sounds like – your bed frame doubles up as storage space either in the headboard or below the mattress in the form of draws or shelves. We get it – space is precious, and a standard sized full bed takes up a lot of it. We don’t all have the luxury of space in our homes! For those of us with more compact living quarters, and cosier sized bedrooms or studio apartments, it sometimes feels like we must make do with a smaller bed to save on space.
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