Build your own bed out of beer crates

What you need:

• 48 empty beer crates
• cable ties
• Neon light 60 cm long, with cable and switch
• Mattress 200 x 120 cm
• Folding rule

Build a bed out of empty beer crates

A bed made of beer crates looks great and is very original. You can build it yourself quickly and easily. If you build your bed out of empty beer crates using these instructions, you will soon be the envy of many people.

1. Obtain a total of 48 empty beer crates. The standard beer crate is 40 cm long, 30 cm wide and 27 cm high. From this you build your bed with a lying area of ​​200 x 120 cm.
2. Place 20 empty beer crates on the floor with the bottom surface up. There must be 5 crates of beer in length and 4 crates in width, so that you come to a total box size of 200 x 120 cm. After assembling the beer crates, check the dimensions with the folding rule.
3. After you have convinced yourself of the total size of the crates, connect all the beer crates that are directly next to each other with 2 cable ties each. Pull the zip ties as tight as possible so that the beer crates have no more leeway.
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Build the bed frame from beer crates as well

1. The bed frame is also built from empty beer crates. To do this, attach another crate to each beer crate on the lying surface. The bottoms of the beer crates, which you use for the border, must again point upwards. Fasten the boxes of the border about 12 cm higher than the boxes of the lying surface.


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2. Place the mattress in the beer crate border on the lying surface. The border from these now not only serves as a shelf for plates, laptops, books or other things, it also ensures that the mattress cannot slip off the lying surface.
3. Attach an upright beer crate with cable ties to each of the six beer crates at the head of your bed frame. Place these 6 boxes so that the open top of the box points towards the mattress.
4. Through the carrying devices of the two middle beer crates, which you can mount standing on the head side now plug in the neon light and fasten it to the with cable ties as well Beer crates.

Your bed of beer crates is now ready. Have fun with your new sleeping place.