I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements:
fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress
have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage
visually hide this space from the front (required) and sides (nice-to-have)
CNC-cuttable from a single sheet of baltic birch (2440 mm x 1220 mm)
maybe use Ikea LÖNSET slats
Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer bed is probably peak flat-pack brutalism:
I had a go at making a taller version for myself in CAD:
but it became clear that this minimalist design definitely won’t hide the multitude of boxes we’ll be storing underneath.
(Also, while I’m not a super Bauhaus fan, I am somewhat irked that this minimalist design relies on glued/screwed internal rails to support the bed slats, rather than expressing that core functionality externally.)
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