DIY Plumbing Pipe Bed Frame
We combined wood boards with galvanized steel pipes to make this twin bed. It's a match made in heaven, with a different type of build requiring very little tools except your hands to screw the pipes together. Inspired by both the Pottery Barn Owen Bed and RH Baby's Industrial Steel Pipe Bed, we married the two designs for this DIY version.
COSTS
steel pipe $466
lumber $54
MATERIALS
- (2) – 1x8x8 pine boards
- (1) – 1x8x6 pine board
- (2) – 2x4x8 studs
- (8) – 1x3x8 furring strips
- 2” wood screws
- 1 ½” wood screws
Galvanized Steel:
- (2) – 1” pipe @ 75”l
- (4) – 1” pipe @ 18”l
- (5) – ¾” pipe @ 36”l
- (14) – 1” nipple @ 8”l
- (4) – 1” close nipple
- (14) – 1” threaded tee
- (4) – 1” 90 degree elbow
- (4) – 1” x 1 ¼” coupling (feet)
- (2) – 1” threaded coupling
- (10) – 1” x ¾” bushing
- (20) – 1” split ring pipe hanger, cut to length and threaded at hardware store
TOOLS
- measuring tape
- square
- pencil
CUT LIST
- (5) – 1x8 @ 37 ¾”l (wood slats)
- (2) – 2x4 @ 74”l (platform supports)
- (16) – 1x3 furring @ 41 ¼”l (mattress supports)
Notes
- No glue was used on any pipes or pipe-to-wood connections.
- Hand tighten pipe connections until you are confident of pipe placement, this allows you to unscrew if necessary - that’s the beauty of working with pipe.
1. The most difficult portion will be connecting the siderails to the footboard and headboard since the pipe screws together in the same direction on both ends (if you’re screwing in one end essentially you are unscrewing the other end simultaneously). Follow the step by step instructions carefully.
2. Start with one footboard leg:
3. Then begin the other leg, foot portion only and connect the siderails.
4. Do the same for the headboard except opposite, completed headboard leg attaches to siderail with footboard foot portion only leg. Completed footboard leg attaches to siderail with headboard foot portion only. This allows you to screw siderail completely into tees by swinging the foot portions around and around.
5. Then begin connecting the horizontal pipe support section using 1" close nipple.
6. Prepare the wood slats, I stained my boards using Minwax weathered oak.
Attach the split ring clamp hangers:
7. Then place wood slat on footboard and screw in 1" x 8" nipple:
8. Add next horizontal pipe and tee section:
9. Screw clamp into position centering board between horizontal pipes:
10. At the top screw two 18" pieces together using 1" coupling:
11. Build the mattress support:
12. Add mattress and bedding!
Thanks, That's My Letter!
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