Bed Frame

A double bed in solid timber whose structural load path is carried by wood-on-wood mortise-and-tenon joinery. Two tall head-end posts and two short foot-end posts are tied together by two long side rails, a foot rail, a deep (140 mm) head bottom rail at mattress height, and a slim head top rail high on the head posts capturing a row of vertical headboard slats. A longitudinal center beam, tenoned into the inner face of the foot rail and head bottom rail and supported at mid-span by a central leg, runs the full length of the bed at the bed's centerline. Two cleat beams run along each side, tenoned at both ends into the foot rail and the head bottom rail — real structural members, not glued strips. Each mattress support slat has a horizontal tenon at each end that drops into a top-opening slot on the side rail's inner-top edge (fixing it in X and Y); vertically the slat rests on the two cleats (no stub tenon into the cleat) and bears on the center beam at mid-span. No metal frame, no slat-pocket hardware, no fasteners on the visible load path. Sized for a 1900 × 1350 mm double (UK) / full (US) mattress with a few centimeters of clearance per side.