Fix for a small bedroom with a queen canopy bed?

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My bedroom is TINY, about 10x11, and I have a queen sized bed.

I was thinking that rather than ditch my incredibly comfy mattress and spend a small fortune on a new bed set, I might need to get creative. My bed is a wrought-iron canopy with straight bars, so the rails at the top form a perfect rectangle. I was thinking that done correctly, the rails might serve as support for a storage platform.

What I want to do is get a piece of wood, about half the width of the bed and slightly longer, with semicircular cut-outs at the corners on one side - such that when I set it up on top of the rails on one side of the bed, it will sit firmly on three bars, and the cutouts will let it sit flush on the bars without having the corner posts push it off. I'm thinking if I get semicircular brackets, I can fix them over the bars on the underside of the board in such a way as to prevent slippage. I'll paint it black to match the iron of the bars, then affix lace or a beaded trim to the exposed side over the sleeping area, and maybe hang some mini-lights from it.

My question is: for lightweight items, will this work? I don't want to put books up there or anything like that, but I'd really like to maximize the space I have so my room isn't so crowded!! I'm thinking stacks of sweaters, extra blankets, hats, wrapping paper... things like that.

What do you think? Could that work?
Thanks Jesse :)
I haven't seen the brackets, but envision them as a perfect semicircle with a small flat area on each end through which to drive a nail or seat a screw, such that it could be affixed directly to the board in such a way as to encase the bar on the underside of the board. Now that you mention it, I suppose measurements would have to be exact to prevent the bar from slipping when there is movement, like if the bar is 3/4" in diameter, the bar would need to encase an area exactly that height... I don't think it could come loose, but thinking on it, it does seem items falling off could be a problem unless the board is totally secure, not just prevented from falling but actually from moving at all, is that right?

RE: 2x3... Just on the length of the underside not resting on the bars? So if the board is 82", then the 2x3 would be 78" or so, so it would along the length of the board from just inside one bar to just inside the other, preventing sagging

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Without seeing what brackets you are planning on using to prevent slippage I won't say. Sounds like you planned this out pretty good though, only thing is measurements. If it is going the length of the bed the board will sag on one side just from its own weight. I would run a 2x3 along the unsupported side to support it. The slippage concerns me, little movement could make it fall unless brackets hold it well.



feel free to bug me if you need any advice

TTFN

Jesse

What is the origin of the words kingsize and queensize?

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To better appreciate the minimal king size platform beds; consider a brief history of its evolution, and that of its American cousin, the mysterious box spring.

The Egyptian pharaohs of 3500 B.C. were the first known people to sleep on dedicated pieces of elevated furniture. Before that time, king size platform beds were essentially portable – all-too-organic constructions of straw, leaves, fleece, or animal skins spread out on the hard ground. In Europe, king size loft beds weren’t common until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and seventeenth centuries; stationary but adjustable, their king size platform bedroom sets and wooden frames held grids of ropes that could be tightened as needed.

Queen Mattress Dimensions Around the World?


• Americas, New Zealand, and Australia - queen size standard is 60x80 inches

• Latin America and Continental Europe - queen size is 63x79 inches

• Norway - queen size is equal to 2 single or twin mattresses at 60x79 inches

• United Kingdom and Ireland - queen size mattresses are also called standard doubles and are 60x78 inches

A California queen, most often found in the U.S., is 60 inches by 84 inches, offering more length for taller individuals. Simmons, a mattress manufacturer in the U.S., makes an Olympic/Expanded Queen size bed that is 66x80 inches. It's primarily a novelty bed.

King size platform beds suspended sleepers over a cushion of air, which was far warmer than a cold, damp floor. It kept floor dust off the king size bedroom furniture, bed linens and discouraged pets and critters from nesting. Height also made it easier to change bed linens and climb in and out of bed.

The earliest modern king size beds mattresses were simple sacks of straw or down, and eventually of cotton and wool. But in 1871, industry spawned the innerspring mattress, a bouncy entity filled with a field of vertical steel coils; its companion, the box spring, was invented soon afterward.

The box spring literally is a box: a wood frame king size platform beds with drawers holding a series of heavy steel coils, upholstered with an outer layer of foam and fabric. Its purpose is simple: to ventilate the king size platform beds and lift it to a convenient height. Manufacturers claim that it also prolongs the king size leather platform beds life by absorbing some of the sleepers’ weight and movement, and they insist that each king size platform storage beds be supported by its companion box spring and no other. If you buy king or queen size platform beds without its box spring, its warranty is invalidated.

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