How do you put a dust ruffle on a bed with slats?

Question

I have an old bed with slats, how do you put a dust ruffle on? My bed is set up, not sure how to put it on. What is the purpose of a dust ruffle?

Answer 1

Put the dust ruffle on your box spring and let it hang over your side rails. It you have a board that runs top to bottom (like a king size) you can make a hole for it to go through. OR You can remove the decking fabric (the big white area) and either sew on velcro or just staple the skirt to the backside of your bedrails and footboard. The main purpose of a dust ruffle is decorative, it covers up your boxspring and hides any junk that you might have under your bed.

Answer 2

You can do one or the other or a combination of both as people have suggested above.
If you have a really high bed as I do, and you want to cover the box spring and hide what is under the bed, you may use 2 methods. Use a regular dust ruffle over the box spring and have it cover the sides of the bed rail.
It is usually difficult and expensive to find a REALLY DEEP dust ruffle that goes all the way to the floor, so you may also want to do the thing someone suggested of velcro or stapling a dust ruffle to the inside of the bed frame before adding the slats and bedding. A nice fluffy duvet, shams and coverlet tops it off.

Answer 3

It is obvious most people do not realize that you can't use a typical bed ruffle on a bed with slats. The only thing that has worked for me is to use velcro, cut out the center of the dust ruffle, and velcro the dust ruffle to the inside of the footboard, and sideboard. (now that you can buy sticky velcro it does make it easier.) This has to be done before the slats are placed. It's a lot of work.

Answer 4

NO, and that is a blasted mom thing you should never fall for. For heavens sake, put the ruffles on her bed ( who else has dust ruffles? I dont know anybody else who has one). It is her way of telling you that" I am too old to lift the mattress to put the bed skirt on the middle". If a dust ruffle is another name for a bed skirt, it is a very easy thing to do. (One man job) Lift one side up, arrange one side nicely, scrunch the other half in the middle of the mattress. Ok, next is go to the other unmade side, lift the mattress, find the scrunched side. Pull the rest over the unmade side. Just be neat and tidy. Total time needed -5 minutes (Two man job)- Lift entire mattress, put bed skirt on neat and tidily, put top mattress back on. Done in less than 2 minutes. --------------------------------------... Then buy her a real present. She will love nice smelling bath lotions( cheap gift), a trip, a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant where she has to dress up, all her hairdressing appointments paid for for a year etc. spa priveleges, take her shopping for a ccouple of outfits if there are some family celebrations in the horizon.

Answer 5

The dust ruffle goes over the box spring. Lift the mattress off the box spring and spread out the dust ruffle. It's purpose is to make the bed look PRETTY and you won't see the dust underneath.

Answer 6

a dust ruffle is just for decoration. You should get a wrap around dust ruffle. then you dont have to fight with it when your making your bed and such.

Answer 7

A dust ruffle is usually just used to hide box spring. You don't need one if your bedspread/comforter is long enough(almost to
the floor)

Answer 8

i use a dust ruffle so i can store things under the bed and they dont show the dust ruffle goes between the mattress and box springs

Answer 9

See above. It definitely goes between the mattress and box springs. You can use a thin ventilated plastic pad that is made to hold rugs to he flooring, between a mattress and box springs to keep the mattress from sliding around.