Sunday 10 July 2011

Bed pictures

This construction is as yet aesthetically incomplete, however, as it evolves I will upload more pictures.
This project began as a necessity as my living situations changed in such a way that I needed my own bed, I wanted something large enough that I wouldn't feel displaced, going from sleeping almost exclusively in double beds, however it needed to be small enough that it would accommodate our already space starved apartment. It needed to be strong enough to support more than 2 people at once, infrequently, so that we could use it as a second lounge part time.
I remembered the bed I had as a child (A bunk bed, with the bottom bunk largely unoccupied) and thought: "There's no reason we cant have it above our current lounge, it would probably serve us better."
I went searching through furniture stores searching for a large loft bed, to no avail. All the stores seem to only have single loft beds, or double beds with a single bunk above.
Online I found a few however they were all way out of a students price range (and some unable to be shipped to "the land down under")
So I decided that it couldn't be that hard to build a bed and started thinking about plans. I looked online for plans (again, found some, no king singles), and went right ahead and used my own anyway.
I drew up basic necessities for it, (approx 106cm x 203cm), a tray not slats for extra support, leg lengths (I originally went with 180cm which turned out to be too tall), support for the tray, and which joins to use where.
The basic raw materials list I came up with was this:
1x 12mm * 2400mm * 1200mm Plywood (tray and gussets)
2x 42mm * 66mm * 1030mm DAR Pine (rails)
4x 42mm * 66mm * 1070mm DAR Pine (ends, inner supports)
4x 42mm * 66mm * 1800mm DAR Pine (uprights)
16x 70mm * 8mm stainless steel bolts and nuts (joining the ends with the rails, joining the gussets to the rails and ends)
30x 35mm * 2mm wood screws (screwing the plywood tray to the support frame, joining the gussets to the uprights)
1x bottle of AquaAdhere (for gluing the non removable joins)

A picture of the uprights, rails, end and inner supports, all cut to length.
More pictures will follow next post.

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