Guide 100

Platform bed with storage

20 h, 2 weekends★★★materials 413 – 849 €

A 2 400 × 2 400 × 450 platform for a small bedroom or studio: the mattress on a ventilated slatted base and ≈ 1 140 l of storage in boxes on castors without runners, no drilling into walls. The bearer section is calculated (45 × 95, 78 % utilisation), plus a cutting plan for 7 OSB sheets with the cut order and details that think of fingers and children.

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27 pages A4 1 140 l under the bed dimensioned drawings shopping list

What's in this guide

Cutting plan from OSB sheets: strips, sections, cut order, 15 % waste
Section from a calculation: why 45 × 95 and not 45 × 70
Box on castors without runners: 6 mm play, fixed stop, two teeth
A mattress without mould: slatted base, gap at the wall, airing
OSB that doesn’t creak: main axis across, joints on supports, 2 mm gap
Fingers and children: hingeless lid, 25 mm gaps, R 6 edges, anti-slip

PDF, 27 A4 pages to print for the workshop · dimensioned drawings and illustrations · shopping list on a separate page so it can be torn out and taken to the store. You download it right after payment, access is for life.

Before you start building

This guide is informational material, not construction documentation or a professional assessment. Follow the instructions of tool and material manufacturers, safety rules and local building regulations. A piece built at home is not a certified product, even where the guide follows a European standard. Structures that carry people — beds, swings, decks, pergolas, children's equipment — should be checked by a qualified person before use. To the extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for the result of your build, property damage or injury arising from the use of this guide (Terms, section 9).