How We Measure

 

 

 

 

We custom resize each bed to standard contemporary sizes, but modern mattress manufacture is still not making mattresses to exacting standards. Please let us know your mattress measurements if we are converting a bed for you.

 

 

 

 

 

We nearly always remake siderails for your bed because they need to be lengthened for modern mattress sizes. The bed shown above upon which perches our cat Sweetie has these dimensions....

The bottom of the siderail is 10 1/2" from the floor.

Siderail is 9 1/2" tall and from the ledge on the inside is 7 3/4".

Siderail is 77" long.

The mattress is 8" thick and is resting on a box spring on a metal frame. If you wanted to rest your mattress on the ledges on slats then an 8" mattress like this one would be exposed by an inch. Perfect!

Interior width of this bed is 39".

The top of the mattress is 25" from the floor. If you placed this mattress on slats, without the box spring and metal frame, then it would rest an inch or so lower.

 

 

Mattress or mattress/box spring combo?

We need to know the thickness of the mattress and box spring you are going to buy. I will try and explain!

 

 


Headboard/Footboard

Option One...mattress only

Here my husband is holding the tape measure and the infamous stick. This is an option if you would like a lot of the headboard exposed.

The stick shows the height of a mattress only of a standard 8" sitting on a siderail ledge and slats. You will not be able to use a dust ruffle of course unless you put the mattress on a metal frame, then it would also be harder to move the beds but not impossible if you buy metal frames on rollers, easily available. If you decide to do this we do need to know the height of the mattress because we will want to make sure that the siderail height will be slightly below the mattress height. When you push the beds together you will want the mattresses above the wood of course.

Headboard/Footboard

Option Two...Mattress plus box spring or mattress combo (mattress and box spring in one piece)

These photos of the stick show where a 16" total of mattress plus box spring would be when placed in the siderails on the slats. Again, we would like to know the height of the boxspring because we would make sure the siderails were exactly the same or slightly lower so that you could opt to have a dust ruffle.

Option Three...If you bought a combo mattress/box spring then of course you could not easily have dust ruffle so that is not a good option.

Option Four...the overstuffed puffy mattresses! Please let us know if you buy one of these because generally they are much thicker and also shorter, sometimes narrower too. We will have to size the bed properly for these mattresses. In fact, sometimes they are so much narror than the usual 38" width that we might not have to add on to the headboards!

 

 

 

Here is a youth bed with original side rails....

 

 

You can also add sleigh rails to a Queen bed....