Building a floating pallet bed with LED lighting

Palette bed - what do you need?

We show a short, suitable guide for the structure of how in just a few steps the pallet bed can be built together as a floating construction and provided with LED lighting.

What does a pallet bed cost?

Euro pallets are available in different variants. Coarse, undilated pallets are available for most industrial and commercial companies for 5- 6 euros each. However, these are mostly used and splintered or must first be sanded extensively. If this does not matter or switches the pallets or clad with other types of wood, you can get a complete bed construction for little money in this way.

New and polished euro pallets can be purchased in specialty shops, in online shops or simply on Ebay classified ads. Here the prices are usually between 15 and 30 euros / pc. This also depends on whether the euro pallets are already sanded or painted. If you want to implement a pallet bed with indirect lighting, you have to decide which type of lighting you want to use. Should the lighting be only warm white or should colors be able to be switched (i.e. an RGB control)? After this decision, the next step is to choose from the right product under the LED strip sets. 

Which LED strip set is the right one?

As a specialty shop with more than 400 lighting planning in private, hotel and gastronomy area annually, we basically advise against hardware store strips at lowest prices. If you want to have reasonable quality in terms of brightness, durability and security, you also have to invest something. It's just like that. But it is better to invest properly and enjoy the realization for a long time than if after a very short time the joy is over due to a defect, right? ;-)

Which transformer  I need for mine LED strip ?

There is a simple formula here: Each LED band has a certain wattage per meter (Strip picture below: 19.2W per meter. This 5 meters strip: 19.2 watts (w) x 5 meters = 96 watts. There. For RGBW LED tapes, the performance is never exhausted via different chips (different colors). ) covered. Trafo with a correspondingly greater performance than would actually be calculated for the LED strip.

If you solve more LED tapes together or use another band: You can find more (stronger) transformers for your compilation here. If you have any questions about the right compilation, our service team will help you directly. Just write us your project and we will tell you which LED strip is the right one or what exactly you need.

In our project shown, lighting or installation is required: 1x 5m LED-RGBW Strip

• 1x transformer (100W)
• 1x LED controller
• 1x control panel (either for wall or as a remote control)
• 1x cooling profile, into which the LED strip is easily clipped
• In addition: assembly adhesive (Pattex or other special adhesive) & corresponding WAGO terminals for easy jammernization of the cables.

Construction instructions

Usually we always have these products in our lighting online shop or with a short delivery time of 5-7 working days. So you can start installing your dream bed immediately within a week :-)

Construction instructions: In 7 steps to realize the floating pallet bed. Pallet treatment: Set the case that you do not dress up the pallets, grind the pallets outdoors in the outdoor area (borrow grinding machine?) And stroke or impregnate the wood accordingly. If the pallets are disguised, you can fundamentally save this step (but coarse grinding cannot hurt if you want to avoid wood shavings or falling pieces of wood).

1. Placement in the room: Now carry the pallets into your bedroom / wellness room / party hut / garden house or wherever you want to build the bed
2. Bed size: The dimensions of a euro palette are 120x80x14.5 cm. This measure fits perfectly to create a bed with the standard mattress dimensions such as 160x200 or 240x200. In the example shown, a floating bed with 160x200 cm is built.
3. Beds back: Set up two pallets across and write them together using a flat angle. These serve as the back and complain the entire bed construction later.
4. Floor scaffolding: A floating bed is characterized by the fact that of course no load -bearing feet are seen. Therefore, place a whole and half a pallet on a shock in the middle of the bed back pallets on the floor to form the basic structure. Connect them to each other and screw them with the back.
5. Lying surface: In the next step, you can see the pallets of the night boxes or the lying surface on the pallets lying in the middle and support them using books or other support utensils of your choice.
6. Screwing: Using angles from the hardware store, please screw these pallets together. It shouldn't be saved with screws here.
7. Trag-Test: If everything is screwed, you can check the load capacity of your bed. As a rule, the floating bed does without wall attachment. Here the two pallets on the back are very helpful, since they also serve as support and complaint. In addition, fluffy pillows can be placed very well (...).

Assembly of the indirect LED lighting for the bed

1. Shorten cooling profiles: Create the cooling profiles once and make sure that they do not survive on the underside of the bed. With a flex or pliers you can easily shorten them
2. Stir in the cooling profiles: Put on the cooling profiles with the assembly glue with the assembly glue and glue them to the underside of the bed
3. Connect RGBW-Strip set: Install using screwdrivers in the following order: cable wall outlet or socket -> Trafo -> RGB controller -> RGBW LED -RGB -Strip. (In the event of a socket, the tafo must be connected to a socket plug. You can get one of them in every hardware store)
4. To learn RGBW strip: Now you have to properly train the light strip: 1. Power. 2. 3x "on" press on the desired zone of the remote control / panel. The strip flashes 3x in a row and is trained. (Note: Who was too fast: Of course, more detailed information is included in the instructions in the product packaging of the remote control / panel)
5. Insert the LED strip: Now remove the adhesive film step by step on the underside of the strip and clip it into the cooling profile
6. Juhuu: When you're done, you can switch on the strip and the indirect lighting is ready. Thumbs up!