Making A Bed Frame For A Van

Dimensions of inside your van.

Making a bed frame for a van.

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. 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.

The platform is created from three rectangular frames with supports. 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. The first step to build a bed frame for a van is to see what s possible with your van s size and design. The frame consists of a long 2 2 which the skorva brackets are attached to supported by three.

Bunch of wood screws about 2 inches long. I made the bed frame itself 180 x 121 x 50 cm. This post is about our first sprinter van which we bought in may 2016 converted lived traveled in and sold may 2018. 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. Home depot only makes straight cuts not fancy cuts. 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. Make pocket holes and assemble.

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 chose to have the bed frame slightly smaller than the mattress because it doesn t need 100 percent support to stay up. Designing the bed frame.

The support frames are 24 tall which matches the height of our kitchen unit.