I have a beautiful antique iron bed and the side rails don't support my mattress and box spring. I have a Hollywood frame but it's too high and doesn't allow attaching a headboard and footboard. Where can I find a low frame that will let me attach a headboard and foot board?
By dicoach from ME
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Those side rails are meant to have boards or some people call them slats running between the rails. Most of the ones that I have seen are about 1" thick and 4" wide. You have the boards cut to the exact width to fit inside the rails. Most of the people use 3 or 4 of the boards, but I think I would use 6 of them.
Redhatterb is right. You just place the slats from side to side and set the mattress on it. All these old beds called for slats.
I wanted to keep my iron bed but wanted a queen-sized bed. We solved the problem by attaching 2x2 boards, cut to a length to accomidate the side rails, to the bottom of the bedsprings with screws.
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