Repurposed Mattress Frames for Benches and Borders — Empress of Dust

Flip outdated mattress frames into actual backyard beds. See inventive methods gardeners repurpose metallic mattress frames to surround backyard beds, construct benches, and add appeal to their out of doors areas.

If you happen to love the thought of upcycling indoor objects to the backyard, additionally see how this gardener repurposed a sink, bathtub, and extra.

Collage of various bed frames used outside in garden

Mattress Body Backyard Artwork

When outdated mattress frames are not wished in the home, it’s time to ship them to the backyard.

This assortment of concepts comes from gardens I’ve visited.

Every provides a novel technique to give an outdated mattress a brand new life.

Mattress Body Backyard Bench

Garden bench made from old bed frame. — Backyard bench created from outdated mattress body

This primary thought is a basic and would require a welder. The outdated mattress body has been original right into a backyard bench with a picket seat added.

Old bench frame re-made into a garden bench — Bedframe backyard bench

With or with out the seat, this may look candy enclosing a group of potted flowers.

Dream Time

Old-fashioned bed with colorful quilt in outdoor sleeping area. — Out of doors mattress in a shady a part of the backyard

I photographed this mattress years in the past on a backyard tour. The mattress was underneath a raised backyard shed. The curtains have been gently billowing within the wind. I believe each visitor on that tour simply wished to put down and dream the day away.

Within the subsequent photograph they’ve turned an vintage kids’s mattress right into a flower planter.

Toddler bed used as a creative flower planter. — Vintage baby’s cot

Actual Mattress Veggie Mattress

White metal bedframe surrounding flower and vegetable garden — Brilliant orange nasturtiums gown up the actual backyard mattress

This gardener is so inventive. Right here the mattress frames are secured within the floor at both finish of the mixture flower and vegetable backyard.

And what’s a backyard mattress and not using a facet desk?

Detail of white metal bedframe in garden — Actual bedframe in backyard with facet desk

Brass Magnificence

Detail of brass bed in garden — Brass bedframe clothes up a vegetable backyard

This one makes a press release. What a inventive technique to gown up a vegetable mattress. These ornate mattress frames have been widespread years in the past, and, whereas they might not be essentially the most sensible selection right this moment, they appear beautiful within the backyard.