When you live in a house with limited closet space you really have to use every nook and cranny! With our king-sized bed placed on risers, I can fit several storage boxes under there that hold out-of-season clothes and my kids’ school mementos from each year. I LOVE having these items out of the way but easily accessible.
I used store-bought bed risers in my son’s room and it’s been a great solution for storage in his room.
You can find bed risers in various sizes, but if you have scrap wood in your garage it’s super easy to build your own. This is a great project for a novice woodworker who is learning how to use a saw.
The casters on my bed were really difficult to remove, so I decided to just leave them on. I measured the width of the wheels and built platforms for them to stand on.
I simply cut scraps of wood to form the base and side pieces to hold the wheels in place.
After I created a base, I measured the space for the wheel to sit into, marked it,
and attached the pieces together the old fashioned way (too lazy to drag out the compressor and nail gun for this little project!)
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.
It’s much easier to place the risers into position of you flip your mattress and box spring up first. This is a bit cumbersome but you can do it yourself.
The bedframe, before risers….
….and the frame on risers, adding 2″ to the storage space under the bed. I placed a piece of non-skid rug underlay around each wheel so they would fit in there nice and snug.
Now I know some of you are thinking that with movement (get your mind out of the gutter!) the wheel could pop out sideways and the bed will come crashing down. With that in mind I put my risers to the test and invited three (surprised and delighted) offspring, ages 14, 12 and 10, to take turns doing the old run-jump-land onto my bed to ensure it’s sturdiness, and I’m happy to tell you that the bed didn’t move a centimeter. The wheels are in their risers nice and tight, but if you are concerned you could add another piece of scrap wood to the sides.
