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Craft Flip-Over Legs and Slats

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BUILDING A MURPHY BED

What happens here

For the bed platform's legs, trace a radius on a piece of plywood using a paint can or similar circular object, then cut it with a jigsaw. These pieces will serve as the legs that flip out when the bed is lowered. Next, cut multiple 1x2 wooden strips to fit across the width of the bed platform. These slats will provide mattress support. Create an L-bracket structure from 1x2s to reinforce the bed frame and prevent bending. Secure the slats and L-brackets to the bed platform frame using wood glue and screws. The presenter uses a Ryobi drill for pre-drilling and a Ryobi impact driver for driving screws.

Goal: Create the flip-over legs for the bed platform and assemble the internal support structure (slats) using 1x2 lumber.

Tools and materials

  • 1x2 Lumber
  • Brad Nailer (Ryobi AirStrike)
  • Cordless Drill (Ryobi)
  • Impact Driver (Ryobi)
  • Jigsaw
  • Miter Saw (Ryobi)
  • Paint Can or Circular Object
  • Plywood
  • Wood Glue
  • Wood Screws

What they say

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down it has the legs to flip over so we need to create a little radius based on what they have online so i'll take the old paint can trace that sucker around cut that with a jigsaw and i think that should clear that now the rest of the two pieces these are the side rails uh this is the foot part so once i create my little radius cut this will be there and the last thing is this is the the head part basically of the mattress it's 7 inches wide 56 inches both of these and then these are what they're like 76 and a half based off of a full-size the uh platform basically done i think we'll find out when the hard work shows up i did it all right uh and then now we're gonna do slats that will go in here the slats they're not gonna have a reinforcement on the ground right like a normal bed would instead we have to make our own structural support we're going to take one by twos create an l bracket and then secure it in and obviously frame that in as well that should keep it from bending down and messing with the front cover of this bed thank [Music] so to build the carcass the cabinet itself was two sheets of plywood 120 bucks ish with today's prices especially all in all my goal with staying in everything is to get under 700 now you think that might be a little steep but google it there's a lot of really expensive stuff out there you can spend almost like 2 500 bucks on [Music] all right what the heck is going on so we need to create the face of the murphy bed when it's closed right the pretty cabinet side so as wasteful as it sounds we have to divide it in half a sheet of plywood can't cover a full-sized bed maybe a twin uh this is one half 29 inches wide and i'm cutting the other half i will then glue it on pretty side out and secure with screws on the inside super wasteful two sheets of plywood with excess i don't like it one bit but hey

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