Rebuilding/renovating the basement after the flood (still not bike related)

[Sidecar Bob]

Oh look, another side project:

I think I mentioned that daughter Chrs is moving from our guest room (used to be her room before she moved out) to the nearly finished doll room. She bought a bed at the ReStore: mattress (new in wrapper), headboard & footboard and wooden side rails but no foundation for the mattress to sit on. Apparently the upholstered box springs that were standard since the '50s are on the way out, superseded by European style thicker mattresses on slats but they didn't have a slat system to fit so either getting or making something would be up to me.
It arrived on Tuesday and I set it up in the room I'm working on to figure out what I had to do and then spent way too much time learning about the various types of slats, whether they should be rigid or move and enough other stuff to make your head spin.

01 - Bed as delivered..JPG

In the end I figured out that if I added a 2x2 to each of the side rails (glued & screwed on the inside above the strip of 1" plywood that supported the original foundation)(probably a box spring) I could use 2x4s for the slats, with a screw in each end to keep them from shifting and the sides from spreading.
We picked up a dozen select structural 2x4s Saturday morning and after lunch I cut them and sat them in the bed frame to dry out overnight. Yesterday I gave them a quick sand, pre-drilled them for the screws and installed them

02 - Slats installed.JPG

It sounds like a mattress on top of this 3" thick setup would be pretty low compared to a box spring but with the 12" thick mattress it actually ended up being about the same height as the mattress & box spring on steel angle frame that's in the guest room.

03 - With mattress.JPG

I still haven't tackled that wiring. Today I get to decide how many ceiling tiles I have to take down to convert from fluorescents to a row of LED fixtures....