Floating Platform Beds We Handcraft
Choosing a Floating Platform Bed
History of The Floating Platform Bed:
Bedworks started handcrafting our Floating Platform Bed 34 years ago. Now it's our time-tested favorite. We still make it locally here in our Central Square woodshop. It comes with a lifetime guarantee that covers all wood and woodworking.Customers call it "Floating" because its deck appears to float when they are standing nearby. Its verticals and storage hide underneath, out of sight. Customers say this floating appearance makes their bedrooms feel bigger. Also, since it has no corner posts, they can't stub their toes. Its softly-curved frame make sheets & blankets easy to tuck in.
Pricing:
Double/Full & Queen Floating Platform Bed
King Floating Platform Bed
Single/Twin & Twin XL Floating Platform Bed
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| Wood Choices | Platform Height | Storage Drawers | Straight Panel Headboard |
| Curved Panel Headboard | Bookcase Headboard | Floating End Table |
1. Choose the wood
Classic hardwoods, hand oiled and polished
Choose from Black Cherry, exotic Bubinga, Rock Maple and Red Oak
For more dramatic photos of Bubinga click here and scroll halfway down.
2. Choose the height
8"H, 12"H or 16"H (12" queen cherry floating platform shown)
"Floating" because it floats on all sides
3. Browse the options:
Storage Drawer(s) for our Floating Platform Bed
We handcraft our storage drawers with matching solid hardwood fronts, invisible pulls, and two removable dividers. Our drawers are designed to disappear, to be invisible as drawers when rolled under the bed. Each is nearly 5 ft. long x 2 ft. wide. The 16" high Floating Platforms allow higher drawers with 64% more storage for a total of 15 cubic feet. Customers comment that underbed storage drawers, compared to chests and dressers, save money and precious bedroom space too. Our 12" high bed has twice as much storage as a 6 drawer chest and our high bed has three times as much storage. The drawers are completely detached from the bed, they roll on four wheels along the floor. Should one choose not purchase the drawers with the bed, this allows them to easily be added on later.
Note: Our 8" high Floating Platform has an enclosed base, so the drawers are not an option.
The drawers disappear when rolled underneath
As Mies van der Rohe practiced, "less is MORE"
and MORE
is less.
Add 1, 2 or no drawers
Classic Inclined Headboard for our Floating Platform Bed
Most headboards are decorative, not functional. You could lean your pillows against the wall instead. Our Classic Inclined Headboard is functional. It is angled back 15° from vertical. This allows you to watch TV or read comfortably in bed, with no crick in your neck. The headboard attaches directly to the platform of the bed. Each Floating Platform deck is predrilled with the holes needed to attach the headboard, just unwrap and screw in four bolts!
Curved Inclined Headboard
For softer lines...
Our Curved Inclined Panel Headboard
Bookcase Headboard
Our "6-in-1" Bookcase Headboard offers six pieces of furniture. It creates seven feet of bookshelf, four feet of hidden storage, two integrated end tables, plus two sliding angled backrests. Whatever you want at hand . . . seven feet of your favorite books, the New Yorker, or a snifter of brandy . . . this design obliges.
Our Bookcase Headboard is rock-solid. It stands on the floor, against your wall. Its recessed legs allow for your baseboard. It is free-standing and does not attach to the bed. It is designed to fit perfectly behind our Floating Platform Bed, but can be used with most existing beds. Its height depends on your bedframe height and mattress thickness. We custom-make it so that the bottom shelf is level with the top of your mattress.
Our Bookcase Headboard also works beautifully with standard boxsprings/innersprings bed sets. For queen and double-size beds, we handcraft our Bookcase Headboard 84" long and 14" deep. Our king-size Bookcase Headboard is 94" long. We make our Bookcase Headboard custom lengths to fit any alcove. And if you require, we custom bases to fit over your baseboard heating.
16" queen bubinga floating platform bed shown
with one matching underbed storage drawer
or two.
The drawers disappear, and the doors slide open to reveal . . .
Secret Storage . . . who knows what you'll hide?
Our bookcase headboard is freestanding.
It fits against your wall and allows for any baseboard.
Our Floating End Table
Our Floating End Table clips onto the side of our Floating Platform Bed anywhere you like. It provides you with a resting place for a book, newspaper or coffee cup without obstructing your underbed storage.
The table measures 16" x 16" giving you almost two square feet of surface area. The table floats 15" above the ground for the low bed and 19" for the high bed.
Up Close and Personal:
All edges and corners are carefully rounded and smoothed.
Our polished hardwoods glow with a hand-oiled finish.
One customer shared:
Our Floating Platform Bed Sizes:
Floating Platform Bed Dimensions Dimensions |
Dimensions |
Deck Ht |
Deck Ht |
Deck Ht |
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| Single/Twin | 39"W x 75"L | 40"W x 78"L | drws: | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Extra-long Twin | 39"W x 80"L | 40"W x 83"L | drws: | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Double/Full | 54"W x 75"L | 56"W x 78"L | drws: | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Queen | 60"W x 80"L | 62"W x 83"L | drws: | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Eastern King | 76"W x 80"L | 78"W x 83"L | drws: | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| California King | 72"W x 84"L | 74"W x 87"L | drws: | 0 | 2 | 2 |
*Custom sizes also available.
The Best Mattress?
Bedworks specializes in four related mattresses that work superbly on platform beds: futons, memory foam, high resiliency foam and high density foam mattresses. Customers can select the firmness, longevity and price range they prefer from nearly 20 different models. Latex, air and innerspring mattresses work well too but are not as popular in Boston.
Customers ask us, "What kind of mattress works best on a platform bed?" Feedback shows us that all these mattresses work well. Some just last longer and are more comfortable than others. Swedish Memory Foam and High Resiliency mattresses are comfortable the longest, often beyond 25 years. Customers' needs obviously differ. Customers face the Five "P" Challenge: the best mattress is the one that you find most comfortable, for YOUR posture, persona, partner, plans and pocketbook.
Choosing the right size mattress.
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