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[matesol]

For sale: Queen sized loft bed, custom made, by me!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8853267@N07/

I looked and looked. No one manufactures QUEEN sized loft beds. So I made my own. I bought the plans online. The plans were designed by an engineer. The bed is rock solid stable.

The bed was expensive to make. I had to buy:

1) Lumber
2) Two sheets of plywood
3) hardware
4) brand new mattress
5) brand new bedding.

The price is 1 500 000 won. That about covers my expenses. I'm not trying to make a profit on this. I just want to get what I paid for it. I am going to Canada at the end of August. I have only had the bed complete for less than two months. The mattress and bedding is less than 2 months old. Everything for the bed was bought new. The lumber was rather rough wood when I bought it. I sanded it all down and did all the work myself. 1.5 million is a reasonable price for a custom made, all solid wood piece of furniture like this.

I can deliver and set it up for you at cost anywhere in mainland Korea, provided you make a reasonable attempt to meet me in your city. For example, we could meet at city hall or the bus station, somewhere easy to find in almost any city in Korea and then go to you place from there.

The bed is easy to set up and take down as it is held together by bolts. The mattress supports, that support the plywood and the mattress are both glued and bolted. In engineering, redundancy means safety. Furthermore, the plywood and mattress are supported n the mid section of the bed by two steel pipes. (The plans only called for 2"x4"'s, but I made it stronger.)

[hanguker]

LOL...good luck getting that price for your bed

But that's an awesome DIY. Good job with the carpentry!

[fasequeira]

What kind of wood is it made of?

[kitekid]

[matesol]

I'm not sure what kind of wood it is. However, I'll hazard a guess and guess Mahagony. It looks like Mahagony. It's nice looking wood though. It smells nice also. Communicating that kind of thing is a bit hard in Korea. Pine is "So namu" in Korean. I have no idea how they say mahagony in Korean.

[stumptown]

Where did you find a place to do all the work? Seems like your neighbors would jump at the chance to report you for using power tools and making noise.

[matesol]

I only made noise during reasonable hours. I only made noise for an hour or so a day. There was a lot of work that was not noisy that I could in the evening. Marking off boards, marking where holes would be drilled, gluing the mattress supports and clamping them with C-clamps,etc.

[jay-shi]

That's a really nice piece of work.

Unfortunately, I'm not in the market for a loft bed. Although, I am curious about the price of lumber in Korea, how expensive is it?

I might have some free time on my hands in the future and would love to put something like this together.

[fasequeira]

[Samantha]

how tall is it? Also I'm really bad with measurements (remembering them at least) how long/wide is a queen bed?

I'm trying to see if it would fit in the space that I have available for a bed (tiny apartment).

[matesol]

Width - 70 inches/178 cm

Length 90 Inches/d228.5 cm

Height: From the floor to the bottom of the plywood is 57 inches/145 cm

- I'm 6'1". This is enough room to let me sit on my desk chair comfortably with a few inches of head room. If you put a sofa under the bed (with a TV against the opposite wall) you'd have a lot more head room since an office chair is fairly high.


Height: From the floor to the top of the mattres is 66 inches/168 cm

A standard Queen sized mattress is 60" x 80". So basically, the mattress sits on the plywood and you have enough room all around to tuck in a heavy quilt, or put a glass on the plywood between the beams and mattress


I'm not sure what you mean when you wonder if it will fit into your apartment. As long as you have the floor space, it will fit. The nice thing about this bed is that you still have the floor space under it. If you have a one room apartment, a normal bed would take up most of the floor space. With this bed, you can have a Queen sized bed, but still have a virtual living room, i.e. a sofa, coffee table under the bed and a TV at the other end of the room.

Only these parts of the bed are glued:

The two boards that join at a 90 degree angle to form the legs were first glued together. Only after the glue was dried were the 10 mm holes for 10mm dowel pegs drilled. Redundancy = safety. The legs would probably hold with out the pegs. Anyway, the weight is bearing DOWN on the legs. There is virtually no force that would stress the legs in such a manner as to detach the two boards glued and pegged.

The mattress supports (1" x 2") were glued and C-clamped to the horizontal pieces that support the weight of the mattress. Only after the glue was dried were the holes drilled for the small bolts which you see in the photo. Again, redundancy = safety.

The small boards with the notches, into which the steel pipes fit, i.e. the boards about a foot long with 5 10mm bolts in the form of a "W" were glued and C-clamped also, before holes were drilled.

Everything else comes apart easily just by removing the bolts. The biggest pieces are the legs and the 90" beams which run lengthwise and the boards for the X brace. You can load this in a truck easily. You can take it apart easily with a crescent wrench and a socket wrench.

All of the bolts do fit tightly. The big bolts are 10 mm and the holes are 10mm. I don't remember the size now, but the small bots also fit tightly. I bought the drill bit and the bolts at the same time so that they bolts would just fit.

The bolts that are in the mattress supports and the "W" bolts do not to be removed when disassembling the bed.