Making A Bed Frame For A Van

Building a bed frame for your sprinter van in this post we will cover the basics of building a wooden bed frame with simple lumber construction in our sprinter campervan.

Making a bed frame for a van.

I chose to have the bed frame slightly smaller than the mattress because it doesn t need 100 percent support to stay up. Before you do anything else you need to determine what size your bed platform will be. The first step to build a bed frame for a van is to see what s possible with your van s size and design. We tried to make the bed as high off the ground to maximize storage space underneath it.

It was a rush deal and some of my van build didn t happen until i actually moved in to my home on wheels. Designing the bed frame. The support frames are 24 tall which matches the height of our kitchen unit. Materials needed to build a van conversion bed frame 2 3 s wood screws 2 sheets of 1 2 plywood depending on the size of the bed circular saw miter saw kregjig pocket hole triangle straight edge measuring tape.

Home depot only makes straight cuts not fancy cuts. Building our removable bed frame for camper van conversion height of the bed. Unfortunately i didn t take pictures as i was building my camper van bed frame back in 2015. Dimensions of inside your van.

1 sheet of plywood 4 feet by 8 feet 1 piece of 2x6 lumber 84 inches in length used for the pillars. We attached the legs to the support frame using pocket holes on one side and 1 angle brackets on the other side. Each support frame consists of a crossbar that runs across the width of the van with two legs holding it up from underneath. I had 260 x 80 x 150 cm of space in total for the bed frame.

But with a simple bed frame all you need is straight cuts. Make pocket holes and assemble. Bunch of wood screws about 2 inches long. The frame consists of a long 2 2 which the skorva brackets are attached to supported by three.

The platform is created from three rectangular frames with supports.