The Floating Platform Beds We Handcraft

A 60 second Primer

Choose from Black Cherry, exotic Bubinga, Rock Maple and Red Oak


As Mies van der Rohe practiced, "less is MORE"


and MORE



is less.



"Floating" because it floats on all sides



Options are large hidden storage drawers with removable dividers
     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 low bed has twice as much storage as a 6 drawer chest and our high bed has three times as much storage.



The drawers disappear when rolled underneath



The bed looks great without drawers, too.


Choices: Classic hardwoods, hand oiled and polished.


Red Oak [Quercus rubra]


Black Cherry [Prunus serotina]


Rock Maple [Acer saccharum]


Bubinga [Guibourtia demeusei]


Choices: Our Inclined Headboard (6" Deep & 23" above bed deck)


Most headboards are decorative, not functional. You could lean your pillows against the wall instead. Our 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.


Choices: Our Bookcase Headboard (84"L. Its height depends on your bedframe height and mattress thickness. We custom-make it to rise 15" above your sleeping surface)


     Our "6-in-1" 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 fits perfectly behind our Floating Platform Bed.

     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.



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 15.5" x 15.5" 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:
     "My father is a furniture maker from Como, Italy, one of the furniture making capitals of the world. I grew up learning the trade from him, and I understand quality built furniture. Your floating platform bed is a masterpiece of form and function. The design is brilliant, the materials are beautiful, and the workmanship & build quality are superb. Bravo!"          - Victor Pozzani



History: Bedworks started handcrafting our Floating Platform Bed 33 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, and its softly-curved frame makes sheets & blankets easy to tuck in.

Our Floating Platform Bed Sizes:

Sizes: We make our Platform Bed in all standard sizes. And we make it in two deck heights: 12" deck height [with 8" H drawers] and 16" deck height [with 12" H drawers] .

	Mattress Dimensions	Bedframe Dimensions		8"H* Deck Ht	12"H Deck Ht	16"H Deck Ht
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

                *8"H model is too low for drawers and therefore has a fully enclosed base.

Boxsprings? By design Platform beds do not need boxsprings. They eliminate boxsprings. What are boxsprings? Boxsprings are simply cloth-wrapped pine-and-cardboard boxes made to raise innersprings to sleeping height. Boxsprings are misnamed: they normally contain no springs inside them. They are bulky and their size is a problem, especially in older towns like Boston and Cambridge. They don't fit up many staircases. They waste valuable under-bed storage space. They look boxy. And they sag! We began making the Floating Platform Bed 30 years ago, intentionally to escape boxsprings and their problems.

Best Mattress? Bedworks specializes in four related mattresses that work superbly on platform beds: 1) futons, 2) Swedish Memory Foam, 3) High Resiliency foam, & 4) 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.

[from Wikipedia] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969) was a German architect. Mies, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post-WW1 contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras.

He created an influential Twentieth-Century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strived towards an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space.

He called his buildings "skin and bones architecture. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, and is known for his use of the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details."