Mum creates floating bed by herself in five hours and it cost just £160

It appears far more costly than it's (Image: Jam Press)

A DIY savvy mum constructed an unbelievable floating mattress by herself in simply 5 hours – and it solely value £160. 

Jade Toyne, 35, from Lincolnshire was researching floating beds on-line for her daughter, Mia, 12, however discovered there was little or no selection on supply. 

The mum, who lives together with her daughter and husband Michael, 38, determined to take the venture on herself after having picked up some DIY expertise by watching YouTube movies. 

Prior to now, Jade has tiled her personal kitchen and loo, made a kitchen desk and created a cabinet out of scaffolding boards to cover her ugly fuel meter. 

And now, her newest creation has left social media customers wanting extra, with an unbelievable 14,000 likes on her floating mattress submit. 

‘My daughter requested for a floating mattress and I did a fast Google search however not a lot got here up,’ Jade says. 

Jade is a bit o a professional at DIY (Image: Jam Press/Jade Toyne)

‘She went to her nan’s on a Sunday and I did it as a shock. It solely took 5 hours.’

For the mattress, Jade used leftover wooden from a earlier loft conversion and acquired some timber, screws, wooden glue and LED lights.

‘Firstly, I brainstormed concerning the measurement on the bottom since you wish to make it sufficiently small you could’t see it, however large enough that it gained’t tip,’ she explains. 

‘We knew we wished it to be a double mattress. Subsequent, we made the body to suit the mattress. I made slats for the mattress. It was a double mattress body, however cut up in two and measured at 800 x 600mm.

Mid-build(Image: Jam Press/Jade Toyne)

‘Every part was screwed collectively individually. First base in, second base on high. 

‘I additionally added strengthening beams down the centre and positioned items of wooden on both aspect.

‘And I put off-cuts within the inside to assist strengthen it and screw it collectively, like batons.

Mia is delighted together with her new mattress (Image: Jam Press/Jade Toyne)

‘Then I put a 3rd layer (slats) two sections on the frames and screwed them down.’

With the bottom accomplished, Jade positioned LED lights round it. She simply fastened them onto the wooden because of the sticky strips on the again of the product. 

Unsurprisingly, Jade’s daughter was overjoyed together with her new mattress.

‘She had tears in her eyes,’ Jade remembers. 

‘She thought she could be getting a standard bog-standard [bed], she loves it and had a pal spherical immediately, and hasn’t actually come out of her room.

‘She sits in the dead of night with the [bed] lights on.’