Sarah recently came home with a lovely antique mahogany bedframe, with beautifully turned bobbin motifs. It was a great score, the problem was that it was a 3/4 bed frame. Though no longer manufactured, 3/4 was a common size in years gone by, just shy of a  full but bigger than a twin in contemporary sizing. It’s close enough to a full to look very nice with a full mattress, but still too small to just work. So what to do? We already had a standard-issue steel bed frame for the full bed in our guest room (the kind that comes free with the mattress), so we were interested in this for decorative purposes. Basically, we just wanted the headboard and footboard attached to the existing frame in a reasonably sturdy manner. As it turns out, this is simple enough to accomplish with nothing more than a few bolts and a board.

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