How to make a home made canopy bed?

Just put up a bug net

go to one of my favorite websites, there have just so much good stuff, you will find something. . .

http://www. diynetwork. com/

Have you ever seen those Mosquito nets . . . Gottschalks used to carry them! (big round bamboo hoop with netting)
And if you have blacklighting the white netting glows. . . cool!

You can also use some small PVC pipes, using the elbows, make a rectangle with the same measurements as your bed. You can paint them and either hang them from the ceiling using decorative chains or use the 3 sided fittings on each corner you can add 4 pipes and fit them in between your mattress and the bed frame.

The courtains will easily fit on the pipes if you choose the thin ones.

I hope you get the idea.

I was going to give you the idea with the PVC pipe as well. Very cheap and a great way to make a canopy over any bed. You can also use hooks in the ceiling with a strong fishing line to make it appear to be floating. The cool thing about this idea is you can do it anywhere. A friend had a tub that was in the middle of the bathroom and I did this for him over his tub. It is so cool. If you need any help with it or more of an explanation email me

Yeah and you can use decorative curtain rods as well if you are unable to paint the pvc making it look better or to disguise it.

Sure! You don’t really need the wood on the ceiling; it’s the fabric that makes it a canopy bed. There are several ways to do this; here’s the easiest.

You’ll need:

– Four eye bolts suitable for the ceiling you have (if it’s a drywall ceiling, you’ll need molly bolts, the kind that push through the drywall and clamp on the back when you tighten them)

– A few feet of decorative chain, cord or rope

– Two curtain rods adjustable to the width of your bed

– Fabric for the canopy

Install the bolts over the corners of your bed. Hang the decorative chain or cord a suitable distance, then suspend the curtain rods across the headboard/footboard. Drape the fabric over the two curtain rods and adjust the hanging ends to suit; if necessary, use pins to hold the fabric in place on the rods.

What you get: a canopy over the bed, with the fabric hanging down at the foot and the headboard.

If the fabric “droops” too much in the middle, you can add curtain rods between the head and foot; adding two or three (plus the ones on the ends) would give it a sort of Roman-shade look.

Alternative ideas: You can make a half-canopy by hanging one rod directly over the headboard and the other rod only a few feet out from the wall. Then drape the fabric so that it covers the part of the bed where you’d have your pillows and bolsters, but leave the back long so that it hangs down behind the headboard, giving the bed an “installed” look. This is also useful for rooms with ceiling fans, like our bedroom; we can’t have a full canopy or even the hang-from-the-ceiling version, but we’ve talked about doing a half-canopy like this.

The other advantage to doing a hanging canopy is that you can change the look of the room by changing the fabric and a few accessories. You could, for example, use batik as your canopy and find Indonesian or southeast Asian accessories (Balinese dancers, Indonesian shadow puppets, Thai teakwood carvings, etc. ). Then you could change it to a floral print, add some silk (or real) plants, and you now have the English country garden look without redoing the entire room. Want to go renaissance? Get a detailed gold-and-scarlet print for the canopy and a few ink-drawings of castles and Tuscan villas, or tea-dye some sheet music to make it look like parchment and mount it in a nice matte and frame. (Just give some thought to your choice of music — you probably don’t want “Sympathy for the Devil” if you’re really trying for the sixteenth-century Italian look.

Even if you like the style, having different fabrics to use as your canopy lets you change the feeling of your room easily and quickly. We’ve gone with the Indonesian look in our bedroom and it’s amazing what a difference just changing the bedcover makes; we have three cotton printed Madras-cloth covers plus several batik quilts (that’s my wife’s main art form, quiltmaking). Just changing the color and print on the bed makes the whole room look different. The canopy is going to have an equal or greater effect on your room once it’s in place.