Cover Your Box Spring...Without Using a Bed Skirt This one didn't take a genius, but the results are genius, and we plan on covering the box spring in our guest room today thanks to this tip. Benita at Chez Larsson offered a great how-to for a streamlined bed skirt, and the following idea from Martha Stewart is an even more basic solution: From Martha Stewart online: If you want to dress up your bed but find dust ruffles a bit fussy, consider slipping a fitted sheet over your box spring for a streamlined look. Even a mismatched fitted sheet could work -- spicing up the color or pattern combos on the bed. Anyone been using this trick for a while now, liking or disliking the results/effect?While it may not top your list of moving concerns, your mattress is actually one of your most important possessions. If your mattress helps you sleep soundly, it should be treated with care when it comes time to move: get mattress covers! To take care of your bedding, consider purchasing mattress covers or bags prior to your move.
While bags or covers aren’t required by all movers, they’re a hedge against any misfortune befalling your mattress. The peskiest problem mattress covers can help to prevent is contamination from bed bugs. Most movers make every effort to offer a clean and sanitary environment during your move, but these parasites are tough to exterminate. If any bugs make their way into your mattress during your move, you will have an acutely more painful problem than just the hassle of unpacking. With these pests on the prowl in big cities across the country, the problem shows no signs of a slowdown. Heed this advice: If you are moving to or from any densely populated city center, make sure to get mattress covers prior to your move. Should you cover your box spring too? Well, if you’re springing for a cover for your mattress, you might as well lay down a few dollars more for a box spring cover. Mattress covers don’t just stop insects: they also help prevent dust, pollen and dirt from getting into the mattress fabric during the move.
And if you are sensitive to smell, a mattress cover can help keep out any odors lingering in the back of the moving truck. When you take your mattress off the truck at your new place, make sure to remove the cover so the mattress can air out. Let any residual plastic odor from the cover fade away before you put your sheets on.FREE SHIPPING ON QUALIFYING ORDERS $49 OR MORE Prices, promotions, styles, and availability may vary. Our local stores do not honor online pricing. Prices and availability of products and services are subject to change without notice. Errors will be corrected where discovered, and Lowe's reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been submitted. Blue Hawk Plastic Queen/King Mattress or Box Spring Item # 377073 Model # 0377073 for pricing and availability. Tough material protects against dirt and dust Fits most California king and pillow top mattresses
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Product Ratings and Reviews You must be logged in to add and read reviews. Please click to here to login. 3 yards stretchy fabric Buy three yards of fabric. The one selected here feels like a stretch pique cotton. It might be polyester. There was no clear description. Trim the fabric into thirds to create long strips. For me, each strip was 15″ wide (for no other reason than what my fabric width allowed). Two strips will run the length of the bed, wrapping around the back, while the third was cut to the width of the bed to run along the front panel (5′ for me, my bed is a queen). Sew all three together at the short ends to create a long fabric band, and then pull a Hercules and hoist your mattress against the wall. Just for a minute. Put the long fabric band in place around the bed, just to make sure your seams hit right at the front two corners for that “completed” look. I tucked mine under and let them drape over too, just to see how much overhang I’d have in width.
Theoretically, at this point you could pull your still-fully-dressed mattress back down onto the box spring and call it a day; the mattress would hold it in place. But I took it a few steps further to create a really finished look. I took a close look at each of the corners of the bed. With the overhang that fell on top of and below the box spring, I proceeded to hem the corners in the same way I would wrap a birthday gift. I sewed each corner in place so that the box spring band would wrap securely in place the same way a fitted sheet would. When all four corners were completed, it was already showing signs of polish. Make the wrap fit really snug; cutting one yard of 1-1/4″ sports elastic in half, I attached it to the part of the wrap that remains hidden behind the head of the bed, against the wall. Yes, it stretched enough to span that 30″ gap between the ends of my fabric. Like the elastic on a fitted bed sheet, it gives a little stretch to allow you to slip the box spring cover on (and off, when you want to wash it if your dog snuggles against your bed like mine does).
The corners should fit securely, the elastic should keep it from popping off, and your bed should look all fresh and clean (so clean, clean). See what I mean about it almost looking like you have an actual platform bed now? If you didn’t know I had just covered the box spring would you guess that there was no real bed frame? Sign up for weekly project ideas and advice from experts Privacy Policy Sign Up for More We love to DIY. You love to DIY. See the latest DIY projects, catch up on trends and meet more cool people who love to create. Make It. Fix It. Learn It. Find It. Get quick inspiration from Made + Remade each week. Try These Plants and Groundcovers The Essential Steps to Landscape Design 10 Things You Must Know About Landscaping Lush Landscaping Creates Major Curb Appeal Top 23 Makeovers From America’s Most Desperate Landscape Groundcovers and Plants to Use As Lawn Alternatives America's Most Desperate Landscape 2015: Round 2 Vote Results