[![IKEA NORDLI storage bed assembly in a London flat](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/assemble-bed_london.png.webp?itok=aRdLEGu9)](/london/ikea-assembly/nordli-bed-with-storage) # IKEA NORDLI Bed with Storage Assembly in London ## IKEA NORDLI Bed with Storage Assembly in London The NORDLI bed frame with storage is not a normal flat-pack bed. It is two independent three-drawer towers with a slatted section bridging them, six drawers on handed runners, and a frame manual that runs to 29 numbered steps before you even open the separate drawer manual. IKEA UK currently sells it in 140x200 cm and 160x200 cm, with or without the wall-hung NORDLI headboard. It is the flat-pack bed that most often defeats a confident DIYer halfway through a Saturday. Two facts shape everything about this job. First, it is built in its final position and cannot be carried out through a door afterwards. Second, the drawers pull out sideways from both long edges, so a NORDLI shoved against a wall loses three of the six drawers you paid for. Both are decisions made before the first box is opened, and both are far easier to get right the first time. TaskMan of London is a first-party handyman company, not a marketplace — our own DBS-checked, insured fitters build it. Send us photos of the room and the boxes on WhatsApp and we confirm everything before you book, and the work carries a 12-month workmanship warranty. We cover all of London inside the M25. Part of our [IKEA assembly London](https://taskman.london/london/ikea-assembly) service. ## Which IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage sizes we build - NORDLI bed frame with storage, white, 140x200 cm — art. 403.498.47. 5 packages with a combined package weight of about 120.3 kg (22.35 + 22.35 + 22.70 + 26.45 + 26.45 kg). Fits mattresses 130-140 cm wide and up to 202 cm long. - NORDLI bed frame with storage, white, 160x200 cm — art. 003.498.49. 5 packages with a combined package weight of 123.5 kg (22.35 + 22.35 + 25.28 + 26.75 + 26.75 kg), two of them 39 x 10 x 207 cm. Fits mattresses 150-160 cm wide and up to 202 cm long. - NORDLI bed frame with storage and headboard, white, 140x200 cm — art. 092.414.20. 7 packages with a combined package weight of about 154.7 kg. - NORDLI bed frame with storage and headboard, white, 160x200 cm — art. 692.414.22. 7 packages with a combined package weight of about 157.9 kg. - NORDLI headboard, white, 140/160 cm — art. 103.729.76, sold separately. 240 cm wide x 84 cm high x 4 cm deep. 2 packages of 28 x 11 x 155 cm, with package weights of 17.60 kg and 16.80 kg. Includes 2 shelves and 2 boxes. - NORDLI headboard, white, 90 cm — art. 803.727.65, sold separately. 130 cm wide x 84 cm high x 4 cm deep. 1 package, package weight 18.50 kg. - Frame-plus-mattress bundles are also listed on ikea.com/gb in double and king, paired with Vågstranda and Valevåg mattresses in firm and medium firm, and in a with-headboard version. Not discontinued. As of August 2026 the NORDLI bed frame with storage is listed and sold on ikea.com/gb in 140x200 cm and 160x200 cm, in white, with no "last chance to buy" label on any of the listings we checked. Two points of confusion worth clearing up: the anthracite colourway shown on IKEA's US site is not a UK option, and there is no 90x200 cm NORDLI bed frame with storage on ikea.com/gb — the 90 cm NORDLI product is a headboard only. ## How long IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage assembly takes Both current UK sizes (140x200 and 160x200) are the same build: 90-150 minutes for our two-person team, or 150-240 minutes for one fitter working alone. Add 30-45 minutes for the wall-hung headboard, and more again where it lands on plasterboard and needs cavity fixings. These are TaskMan of London's own field times across London jobs — IKEA does not publish assembly times for this product, and anyone promising you a one-hour NORDLI is describing a different bed. Difficulty: hard. Long builds are exactly what we are set up for — message us and we will confirm everything before you book. ## Where IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage builds go wrong The parts of this build that cost people an afternoon: - The drawer runners are handed and there are twelve of them. The drawer manual lists 3x part 139163 and 3x part 139164 per copy — mirror-image left and right slides that look almost identical loose in the bag — and you get one copy per drawer package, so twelve runners in total. Fit one on the wrong side and the drawer will not run or latch properly. Because the drawers go in at the end of the build, a runner mistake means stripping a tower back down. Sort all twelve into handed pairs by part number before a single screw goes in. - NORDLI is not one frame. It is two independent three-drawer towers with a slatted section between them, and the outer frame is the only thing holding them parallel. Fully torque each tower's cam locks while it stands on an uneven floor and the two towers set out of parallel, so the drawers on one side rub for the life of the bed. Leave every cam a quarter-turn shy, bring the towers together, check the diagonals across the whole footprint, then go round and tighten. - The cam locks take a flat-blade screwdriver, not the hex key — and the frame manual alone drives 54 of them, before the drawer manuals add their own cam fittings. This catches out people who reach for the supplied Allen key out of habit; that key is used for four bolts near the end of the build, not the cams. A cam is home at roughly a quarter turn and should stop firmly. If it keeps turning easily you have spun it in its socket and chewed out the board, and that joint will never pull tight again. Some of the large panels are board-on-frame — particle- and fibreboard with a recycled honeycomb paper filling — so there is very little material to forgive an over-torqued cam. - The bed has no adjustable feet. NORDLI chests of drawers have them; the bed does not. It sits straight on the floor with no levelling adjustment at all. On the sloping, springy floorboards of a Victorian or Edwardian London conversion, the only chance to correct level is to shim under the frame during the build — once the slats, mattress and bedding are on you cannot lift a loaded bed to pack anything underneath. Level across both towers with a long spirit level before the slats go down. - There is no drawer-front adjustment on this bed, so all the alignment work happens earlier than people expect. The drawer front is a structural panel of the drawer box, joined with dowels, bolts and cam fittings in the first steps of the drawer manual, long before the drawer ever meets the frame. Unlike a MALM or a kitchen unit, you cannot slacken the front off and slide it to even up the gaps. The only alignment control you have is where the runners sit on the tower — get the runner heights matched and square before the drawers go in, because afterwards there is nothing to adjust. - It has to be built in its final position and cannot be moved afterwards. Assembled, it is a rigid box the full size of the bed — a shade over two metres long and 140 or 160 cm wide — and it will not pass through a standard UK internal door, round a landing or turn a corner. Choosing the bed's position after the build is the hardest error to put right on this product, because taking cam-locked fibreboard apart permanently weakens every joint you undo. - The drawers open from the long sides, three per side — not from the foot. Each drawer box is 51 cm deep inside, so you need a little over half a metre of clear floor on BOTH long sides to pull one out and get a hand in. IKEA does not publish a required clearance figure, but in practice budget around 55 cm. Push the bed against a wall, as people do in a narrow London bedroom, and three of your six drawers are gone for good. Settle this before the first box is opened. - The headboard is a separate wall-mounted panel that never touches the bed. It does not bolt to the frame; it hangs on rails fixed to the wall, at a height you choose. For a 140 or 160 cm bed it is 240 cm wide — far wider than the bed itself — so it needs 2.4 metres of clear, flat, fixable wall. A chimney breast, a radiator, a boxed-in soil stack or a window reveal anywhere in that span and it simply will not fit. Better discovered before the boxes are opened than at step one. - Do not try to put your own screws into the middle of the large board-on-frame panels. Those are a honeycomb paper filling between two thin skins — there is nothing in there for a screw to bite into. Fixings only hold at the factory-specified points in the solid edging. ## Safety and wall fixing - The bed frame itself is a low, floor-standing platform and is not a tip-over hazard. IKEA supplies no wall-fixing hardware with it and the frame manual carries no tip-over warning. If a company tells you this bed must be strapped to the wall, they are describing a different product. - The NORDLI headboard is genuinely a wall-mounted item and is not optional. IKEA's wording on ikea.com/gb is: "To be mounted to the wall. Different wall materials require different types of fixing devices. Use fixing devices suitable for the walls in your home, sold separately." It is a 240 cm panel — shipped as two packages with a combined package weight of 34.4 kg — carrying shelves and boxes, mounted independently of the bed. If it is not fixed properly it can come down. - Be clear about what is actually in the headboard box: IKEA supplies two mounting rails that the headboard hangs on. It supplies neither the wall screws nor the wall plugs. There is no anti-tip strap in this pack — nothing about the headboard is 'already sorted' out of the box. - TaskMan of London's own trade practice on the fixings: on London plasterboard we use heavy-duty cavity anchors or spring toggles, or we fix back to the studs. Generic plugs from a household drawer are not adequate for a panel this substantial hung above a bed — its two packages alone have a combined package weight of 34.4 kg — and we bring the correct fixings for your wall type as standard. - TaskMan of London's own trade practice on drilling: we always use a cable, pipe and stud detector before drilling for a headboard. Bedroom walls commonly carry the ring main to sockets behind exactly where a headboard lands, and in flats a party or chimney wall may hide heating pipework. - IKEA's chest-of-drawers tip-over rule is a separate matter and does not come from this bed's instructions. If your order also includes NORDLI chests of drawers from the same series, those ship with a restraint that IKEA requires to be fitted and secured to the wall. That applies to the chests, not to the bed. - This is a heavy, awkward, two-person lift and not a solo carry. The 160x200 frame has a combined package weight of 123.5 kg across 5 packages, two of which are 207 cm long at 26.75 kg each; the 140x200 frame's combined package weight is about 120.3 kg, also across 5 packages. The headboard adds two 155 cm packages with a combined package weight of 34.4 kg. - Re-tighten after a few months. IKEA's own care instruction for this bed is: "For increased stability, re-tighten the screws and other connectors when necessary." It matters more here than on most flat-pack, because the two drawer towers carry the whole sleeping load. ## IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage assembly in London homes In London the NORDLI is defined by three things: the boxes, the walls and the floors. Getting it in is the first hurdle. The 160x200 frame arrives as five packages with a combined package weight of 123.5 kg, the 140x200 at about 120.3 kg, and in both cases two of those packages are 207 cm long at roughly 27 kg each, with the headboard adding two more at 155 cm. A 2.07 metre box does not fit the small lifts common in ex-local-authority blocks and mansion flats, and it is genuinely difficult on the dogleg staircases with half-landings found in almost every Victorian and Edwardian terrace conversion. We check stair and lift access by WhatsApp photo before booking, and we will say up front if delivery should be scheduled for a day when someone can help get boxes off the pavement. Second, the walls. The 140/160 headboard needs 2.4 metres of clear, fixable wall — a span that a chimney breast, a boxed-in soil stack, a radiator or a bay window reveal will comfortably break in a typical London bedroom, so we sanity-check it from your photos before we confirm the booking. On solid London stock brick the fixing is straightforward; on plasterboard studwork, or the dot-and-dab found in newer conversions and new-build flats, IKEA's two mounting rails need to be paired with heavy-duty cavity anchors or spring toggles that IKEA does not supply and we bring as standard. Third, the floors. London period floorboards slope, spring and cup, and this bed has no adjustable feet at all, so the only opportunity to get it level is during the build — we shim both drawer towers before the slats go down, because once the bed is loaded nothing can be corrected. We cover all London inside the M25, and for upper-floor flats without lift access we will be honest about access on the phone rather than at the door. ## Before we arrive - Decide the exact final position of the bed before we arrive. It is built in place and cannot be carried through a door once assembled. - Confirm you have roughly 55 cm of clear floor on BOTH long sides, or three of the six drawers will be unusable. If the bed has to go against a wall, tell us on WhatsApp first and we will talk it through before you commit to the purchase. - If you are having the headboard, check you have roughly 2.4 metres of clear, uninterrupted wall — no chimney breast, radiator, boxed-in pipework, window reveal or corner anywhere in that span. The 90 cm headboard needs 1.3 metres. - Tell us the wall type behind the headboard: solid brick, plasterboard on studs, or dot-and-dab. A WhatsApp photo is fine if you are unsure. This decides which fixings we bring, and IKEA supplies neither the screws nor the plugs. - Clear the room completely, including anything stored under the existing bed, and have the old bed dismantled and out of the way. Ask us on WhatsApp about old bed removal and we will confirm it before you book. - Check every package has arrived and is undamaged: 5 boxes for the frame, 7 if you ordered the headboard with it. Two of the frame boxes are 207 cm long, so make sure they actually reached the flat and are not still sitting in a communal hallway. - Have the mattress on site but keep it out of the room until the frame is finished. If it is roll-packed, unwrap it as early as you can so it has time to regain its shape. - Let us know about parking, loading bays, permits, lift access and the stair layout, and whether the flat is above ground floor. - If the floor is bare boards or a delicate finish, say so and we will bring dust sheets and floor protection. ## IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage assembly FAQs ### Can the NORDLI go against a wall to save space in a small bedroom? Only if you accept losing half the storage. The six drawers sit three per side and pull out sideways from the long edges, not from the foot. Each drawer box is 51 cm deep inside, so it needs a little over half a metre of clear floor to open properly — call it 55 cm. Against a wall on one side, three drawers become unusable. In a tight London bedroom this is the first thing we check before we confirm your booking. ### Can you move the bed once it is built? No, and this is the most common regret with this product. Assembled it is a rigid box a shade over two metres long and 140 or 160 cm wide, which will not fit through a standard UK internal door or round a landing. We build it in its final position, so please have that decided before we start. Taking cam-locked fibreboard apart to move it later permanently weakens the joints. ### Does the headboard bolt onto the bed? No. The NORDLI headboard is completely separate from the frame — it hangs on rails fixed to the wall, and you choose the height. For a 140 or 160 cm bed it is 240 cm wide, considerably wider than the bed, so you need about 2.4 metres of clear wall. It arrives as two packages with a combined package weight of 34.4 kg, on top of the frame's combined package weight of 120-123.5 kg depending on size. ### Does this bed need to be anchored to the wall for child safety? The bed frame itself does not. IKEA supplies no wall-fixing hardware with it and its manual carries no tip-over warning. The headboard is a different matter: IKEA's own wording is "To be mounted to the wall. Different wall materials require different types of fixing devices. Use fixing devices suitable for the walls in your home, sold separately." What ships is two mounting rails — no screws, no plugs, no anti-tip strap. And if your order also includes NORDLI chests of drawers, those come with a restraint that IKEA requires to be fitted to the wall. ### What mattress fits, and is a mid-beam needed? No mid-beam is needed — IKEA states the slatted bed base is included and a midbeam is not required. The 160x200 frame fits mattresses 150-160 cm wide and up to 202 cm long, so a UK king at 150 x 200 cm is fine. The 140x200 frame fits mattresses 130-140 cm wide and up to 202 cm long, so a UK double at 135 cm wide is within range on width. The catch is length: a UK 190 cm mattress in either frame leaves roughly 10 cm of gap at the foot end. ### Why does this take so much longer than a normal IKEA bed? Because it is really several builds in one. The frame manual runs to 29 numbered steps, and then the six drawers are built from a separate 8-page drawer manual, one copy per drawer package. There are 54 cam locks in the frame manual alone, twelve handed drawer runners, and well over a hundred individual fittings once everything is counted. A MALM bed is an hour; NORDLI is a genuine half-day. ### Will the boxes actually get into my flat? Worth checking before delivery day. Two of the five frame boxes are 207 cm long and around 27 kg each, and the headboard boxes are 155 cm. A 207 cm box will not go into most small London flat lifts and is awkward on a dogleg staircase with a half landing. Send us a photo of your stairwell or lift on WhatsApp and we will tell you honestly whether it will make it. ## Book IKEA NORDLI bed frame with storage assembly in London Send us a photo of the boxes or the product name, your postcode and when suits you. We will come back with everything confirmed before you book — no obligation, no call-out surprises. [WhatsApp us to get started](https://wa.me/447700170070) or call [07700 170 070](tel:+447700170070), 7 days a week. 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