Stand alone twin beds - pushed together for a king as necessary.
1. Our suggestions for bed modification....
My husband is holding up a stick just as an example, of course we would
use a pretty piece of wood to match the bed, but the idea is to enlarge
the inside edge of each bed equal to the modling at the base. This would
give us just what we need to put on the siderails so that the beds could
be snug together and form a single headboard.
Here is the stick against the footboard...
So when we are done there will be an addition to the inside edge of each
headboard and we will retain the beautiful molding.
An example of before and after:
This is how these beds look pushed together. If you do not want the gap,
then I will ask my husband to add on a strip to the inside of each bed.
Then the beds will look like this...
These doweled wood pieces and little caps will fill in the gaps when
the beds are pushed together......
King Size to California King
From this....
To this....
Danish large bed to an American Queen size...
Headboard and Footboard:
Closeups of the conversion work: the receptacles for the siderail hardware have been moved to the interior of the bed.
Original receptacles...
Converted receptacles: nice and sturdy
Twin beds to King bed:
This pair of Danish 'twin' beds' were not wide enough for an American king of course, so add on a decorative board and molding.
and one more example:
Two narrow beds to American Queen bed size with sleigh rails:
Youth bed to American Twin bed
size:
If you look closely
at each bed post, you will see that a small piece has been added so that
youth bed could become a standard twin. In fact, I didn't even notice
this addition until my husband pointed it out to me! This bed only needed
an inch to make it wide enough.
Borge uses wood of the same time period to make the necessary addition
and it comes out beautiful.
Here is one more way that we have had a too narrow bed made must a bit bigger...
and on this bed we added wings to enlarge it Twin size:
From this
To this
With a small outside enlargement:
If it is not enough to add on a small board to an upright, then here
is another way to enlarge a bed...
You can see in the photos below how unobtrusive the addition to the width will be: