Homemade Bamboo Bed Frame Under $20

So recently my hubby had the awesome idea of making a bamboo bed frame for our guest room! As many of you may or may not know, we moved to Puerto Rico in August 2012 and have been living here ever since (I'll tell you more about that later). Anyway the point is we live in Puerto Rico! Anyway, I personally didn't know this until I moved here, but Puerto Rico is full of bamboo. It is practically everywhere! Oddly enough, it is illegal to cut it down (who would've thought). Fortunately for us, in an area near our home, some bamboo was already cut down because parts of it were burned by a fire that got out of control. Of course my crafty husband jumped at the idea! He looked up a link on how to make it (http://www.guaduabamboo.com/how-to-make-a-bamboo-bed.html) and we got to work.

First we had to convert all the measurements to inches because his measuring tape didn't have the marks for centimeters. We also had to calculate how much bigger we needed to make it widthwise since the measurements on the website were for a twin bed and we wanted to make it full. Once we calculated the sizes and how much we needed we set out to find our bamboo.

You might think that the challenging part was cutting the bamboo. Absolutely not! Although this part wasn't easy, finding the exact width for the bamboo was a serious task. To pick the right size we had to take the hole saw we bought and put it up to the bamboo to see if it would work. Needless to say we took a couple of hours cutting, labeling, and sorting out all the bamboo.

That night we got home late and decided to rest until the next day. It only took my husband about three afternoons of cutting and drilling (with my supervision of course hehe) to put the bed together.

Before showing you the finished product I want to remind you that this bed frame was practically free! Below are the costs of the materials used in making it:

Hole saw (67mm) -$14.99

Drill bit (6mm)- $4.47

Bamboo-Free!

Drill (borrowed from neighbor)- Free!

Total Cost- $19.46

And there it is!