Australia’s Most Awarded Bed Frame
Eva’s award-winning Timber Bed Frame pairs thoughtful engineering with sustainable materials, offering a clearer, smarter take on flat-pack design—made to be assembled and reassembled with ease.
Words HANDE RENSHAW Photos COURTESY OF EVA
The Eva Timber Bed Frame can be assembled (or disassembled) in five minutes flat—the most argument-free piece of furniture!
‘There was also big focus on the product fitting seamlessly into peoples lives by considering a simple aesthetic.’
Eva’s Timber Bed Frame features integrated cable management and a spot to store your iPhone or iPad.
A big part of the brief was also to eliminate any unnecessary fixings and the use of an Allen key.
“I think what makes this product unique is the way that it challenges people’s perception of the world of flat-pack furniture. We wanted to create something that was not only affordable but made to the highest quality.”
Eva’s Timber Bed Frame takes the familiar language of flat-pack furniture and pares it back to something lean, durable and quietly resolved. Winner of both the Good Design Award and the 2021 Red Dot Award, the frame has become Australia’s most decorated bed base.
The original design brief by Eva set a high bar: create a flat-packed bed base that customers could assemble and dismantle repeatedly without compromising structural integrity. No cheap shortcuts, no dreaded Allen key, and no sense that flat-pack must mean flimsy. It demanded a design process led not by aesthetics alone, but by manufacturing intelligence, a reverse-engineering of what makes furniture genuinely durable.
From day one, the team turned to CNC manufacturing, using the precision of computer-controlled cutting to remove labour-heavy processes and unnecessary cost. This became central not only to affordability, but to consistency. Each piece is cut with exacting accuracy, allowing the frame to lock together without excess fixings. The leg became the quiet hero, a refined form that, paired with a lap joint, carries the structural logic of the entire bed.
Material selection followed the same discipline. Every component was audited for environmental credentials: FSC-certified timber, low-VOC glues, and a natural oil finish emitting zero VOCs. Waste was treated as a design problem rather than an afterthought. Offcuts were channelled into other production streams, creating a near zero-waste system that honours the quality of the raw materials.
For Tom Shaw, Eva’s Head of Design, the intention was always to challenge the default expectations of flat-pack furniture. ‘We wanted to create something that was not only affordable but made to the highest quality,’ he explains. ‘A lot of brands in this market lower costs by compromising on materials or components. We took the opposite approach—we used the best materials we could find, then removed any manufacturing steps that added unnecessary cost. As you scale, production becomes more efficient, and your supply chain benefits too.’
The result is a bed frame that slots easily into contemporary life without shouting for attention. Integrated cable management, a small ledge for a phone or tablet, and a simple, honest aesthetic speak to Eva’s ethos: thoughtful design that works quietly in the background, built to last far beyond trends or quick fixes.
Paired with Eva’s Good Design Award–winning Premium Adapt Mattress, a fully customisable hybrid system, the Timber Bed Frame becomes more than a piece of furniture. It’s a small, deliberate shift toward better living: sustainable, streamlined, and made with care from the inside out.
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