Pedestal Beds with Drawers
I make four-drawer pedestals to support a bed frame. Each drawer typically measures 30 by 20 by 9 inches deep. These trundle drawers are supported with a side mount steel ball-bearing slide, with a 100 pound capacity. Each drawer has a ¼ inch plywood bottom and again, is screwed and glued. King-size beds also offer a foot door for accessing center storage – skis, rifles, fishing poles. Cedar lined drawers are optional. More customers than not prefer drawers to dust bunnies.
This solid Sugar Pine bed features several unique storage solutions, some in the headboard, some in the sides of the pedestal, and one between the two sides. The door and cabinet faces feature finger-pulls instead of protruding hardware. For the two weeks working on this platform bed, the clear select Sugar Pine made my shop smell like the sugar cane fields of Cuba. ‘Not’ free and costing as much as Oak, this ‘knot’ free Sugar Pine is a pretty but soft wood and well suited for bedroom furniture!
This shows all of the drawers and cabinets open. The central cavity runs the full length of the bed, and allows for storage of large/long items. As with most of my work, the drawers feature full-length ball bearing slides for smooth action and high capacity, and the cabinet doors are on hidden Euro-style hinges.
This 5-piece solid Oak bedroom suite with Sticknee handles is mission style. The four-panel head and foot board frames a waterbed mattress with a drawer pedestal beneath.
Notice the grain on the pedestal and dresser drawers. The side-by-side drawer faces are cut from the same board, giving a continuous grain – that’s my attention to detail and gift to the customer.
This pedestal bed features an Alder headboard with backing Cherry panels. It is stained in a deep, deep brown, and built in a sleigh-style, but without the typical footboard. This was a full bedroom set, with dresser and side tables.
This shows the deep brown of the deep brown of the stain, and the drawers. These drawers are 32 inches deep, with 28 inch full extension slides. The side tables are 3 drawers also on full extension slides, with matching hardware to the bed.
To match the other pieces, this seven drawer dresser is done in Alder with the deep brown stain. The pieces all feature the same style, with feet and mouldings around the top and bottom, joined at the back to keep the visual flow of the piece.
The tallboy dresser matches the rest of the bedroom set, with flush drawer faces and overhanging top, and integrated backsplash. This isn’t quite up to standard tallboy height, but it also isn’t waist height like a typical dresser.
A customer in Scottsdale, AZ requested a platform bed to match his headboard and nightstands, with a large drawer at the foot of the bed for comforter storage. To meet his expectations, I designed a 3 section storage pedestal, with two drawers at the head (to open clear of the night stands), and the large drawer at the base. The three sections are assembled with overlay trim, to give a seamless effect to the pedestal.
The solid Alder bunk bed actually accommodates three mattresses, two in the frames, and one hidden in the trundle drawer. To ensure the longevity of the trundle feature against abuse by children, the bottom mattress is on wheels instead of a drawer slide.
This bed has two tiers of drawers, the bottom for bulkier items at nine inch depth. Made of wormy Maple, it features my usual construction techniques of finger pulls and euro full-extension drawer slides for longevity. The two-tier construction raises the mattress height to twenty-eight inches.
Another unique feature for this project is this two-tier pullout tray between the two banks of drawers. It rides on a thirty inch full extension slide, and features a slight slope from the edge to the center, keeping the shoes from sliding out and jamming the tray in place. To have room for a feature in the center between the drawer banks, the bed must be King size.