Making A Bed Frame For A Van

I made the bed frame itself 180 x 121 x 50 cm.

Making a bed frame for a van.

1 sheet of plywood 4 feet by 8 feet 1 piece of 2x6 lumber 84 inches in length used for the pillars. The support frames are 24 tall which matches the height of our kitchen unit. The platform is created from three rectangular frames with supports. Designing the bed frame.

I chose to have the bed frame slightly smaller than the mattress because it doesn t need 100 percent support to stay up. Make pocket holes and assemble. Home depot only makes straight cuts not fancy cuts. This post is about our first sprinter van which we bought in may 2016 converted lived traveled in and sold may 2018.

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. Before you do anything else you need to determine what size your bed platform will be. 3 pieces of 2x4 lumber 84 inches in length used for the bottom platform ribs. Each support frame consists of a crossbar that runs across the width of the van with two legs holding it up from underneath.

We tried to make the bed as high off the ground to maximize storage space underneath it. The frame consists of a long 2 2 which the skorva brackets are attached to supported by three. 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.

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. It was a rush deal and some of my van build didn t happen until i actually moved in to my home on wheels. We attached the legs to the support frame using pocket holes on one side and 1 angle brackets on the other side. Bunch of wood screws about 2 inches long.

Unfortunately i didn t take pictures as i was building my camper van bed frame back in 2015.