DIY Mid Century Daybed — We’re giving you the full scoop on our DIY Mid Century Daybed and tour of our guest bedroom!
I’ve been wanting to fix up the guest room for forever. I actually used to use it as my craft room once upon a time before moving to the first Sugar & Cloth studio.
I cringe at what this room used to look like! And it’s basically just been the place where random things go to live until they find a real home.
I also felt really bad when my Dad was here for almost an entire month trying to help us renovate the new studio space and was sleeping in this room with just a blow up mattress. (Yikes!)
So clearly this DIY Mid Century Day Bed and guest room tour was long past due! I really love the way it has turned out.Finding a few key pieces (thanks to my All Modern addiction!) helped make the space much more interesting.
This room also leads to the back patio so a daybed DIY was perfect for making it feel like a universal space as opposed to walking straight through a bedroom.
And it’s still small enough to not overwhelm the room since it’s barely a 10ft wide space!
Materials and Tools Needed To Make A DIY Mid Century Daybed
Set of four 5 1/2″ Waddell table legs
Set of four sofa or table leg mounting plates
Ikea Sultan twin size grey foundation and mattress — We used the Ikea Sultan Foundation in Grey Twin. The Ikea Espevar Slatted Mattress Base in Twin is also similar. Whichever foundation you use, just be sure that the bottom allows you to attach legs.
Drill and screws for mounting plates
Wood stain in Walnut — Or any color of your choice
Foam brush — For applying the wood stain
Ikea Hack | How To Make A DIY Mid Century Daybed
First things first, you’ll want to stain the unfinished wooden legs in the walnut color first, and let them dry completely.
While those are drying, screw the metal mounting plates to each of the four corner of the twin bed foundation.
The foundation actually is made of a wooden bottom and grey fabric cover, so it makes it really simple to attach legs to.
When the stain is dry, twist each leg into the mounting plate on all four corners, and flip it right side up, stacking the mattress on top.
Easy as that!
Guest Room Decor
For the top sheet, I used a dark grey pinstripe jersey sheet set from Target, and a Ferm living geometric throw, dotted grey Euro shams and pillows, geometric Ferm living lumbar pillow, and Ferm living star round cushion from AllModern for the rest of the bed setting.
I also wanted to make sure getting ready was an easy task for guests. So I picked out a simple mirror for the top of the dresser (which I have extra blankets, towels, shampoo, and a trinket tray to keep on hand).
I’m terrible at remembering to water house plants, especially ones tucked away in a spare room so I opted for air plants in these hanging vessels instead.
I know I mentioned it on Instagram already, but I’m still super obsessed with this crazy Flos lamp from AllModern! How freaking cool is this thing?
It’s also super bright which is perfect for letting guests avoid the funky overhead fan light.
Guest Room Sources
- Johnson Mirror from All Modern
- Ferm Living Blanket in Grey from All Modern
- Euro Shams in Pewter
- Euro Pillows
- Umbra Hanging Wall Decors
- Wooden Bathroom Tray in Brown
- White Ferm Living Vase
- Star Round Cotton Cushion
- Ferm Living Lumbar Pillow,
- Flos 15″ Table Lamp
- Hudson Dresser in White
- Jared’s photographs framed in custom Framebridge frames
- White Euro shams from Ikea
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Hi – i replicated the twin bed with the exact same furniture elgs and brackets. But when you try to sit on the box spring it newrly cracks in half. Im looking at the possibilty of having to add more supprort legs in the center. Did anyone else have this issue?
Hi Kristen! We didn’t have this issue. Are you screwing in the large metal plates for the legs to twist into? They should support it plenty!
Yeah i Used the plates. Maybe the boxspringg is just cheapy! Thanks for the feedback.
Sorry about the all caps in the last comment. The way the comments section shows everything in all caps meant my spell check corrected to all caps, haha.
You might want to put some POLYURETHANE or some other sealer on those legs to keep them nice looking and easy to clean :-)
I love, love, love the bed, sheets, lamp, small dresser….the room..It seems very relaxing
Question: Is the box spring covered with a fitted sheet also?
And what color are the walls painted?
Hi!
Has anyone tried this with as larger size bed? I have a queen and wonder if it be too much weight on the legs
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Beautiful!! Seems like a very peaceful area of the house! :)
I love this! I’ve used these legs on a coffee table, do you think they’re sturdy enough to hold up a king sized bed? Have you found they need any extra support to hold the bed up with people using it?
I love the clean lines of this space but the cozy pillows really complete the look for me!
Everything looks so perfect! How can you be so awesome in homedecor?! I love the pillows!
When I have a place with a guest room I want it to look exactly like this. Love it!
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love the space! that lamp is the cutest :)
Love that daybed!
Carrie
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I love the guest room! That day bed is awesome – I need one of them myself!!!
Love this whole room! How did I not know about “All Modern” before? Yikes, I’ve been missing out. I’d love to see a shot of the patio from this room because of what you said about using a day bed so that it doesn’t feel like you’re walking through a bedroom to get there. Sounds perfectly thought out!
Beautiful design and color scheme!
Looks awesome Ash! Love it.
I love this project! So simple, but it really changes the feel of the room. Also, where did you get your gold frames? Or did you paint them?
Hi Julia, Thank you! The frames are from Framebridge.