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[matesol]

600 000 won. It cost me well over 1 million won to make, buy the mattress and bedding.

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 600 000 won, delivery at cost. I am going to Canada at the end of August. 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.

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.)


If you buy the bed, you can also have my tools as I am leaving: electric drill, electric sander, compound mitre saw. The saw blade rotates on two axes.

Saw looks similar to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miter_saw.jpg

[Ekuboko]

I recommend you PM Kitekid -- wasn't she asking about it the last time you posted?

[kitekid]

uh...thanks for the bump, Ekuboko. hope you are who i think you are, or i guess i'm being stalked.

already told matesol to pm me if he/she is willing to come down to 500,000 (since that's what i was quoted to have it made, to my specifications, by several DIY places between hapchung and hongik).

guessing the OP wants to hold out for a better price.

[matesol]

Frankly speaking, I don't believe you that you could get it made for 500 000. The bedding itself was 125 000. The mattress is new. Even if the materials were 500 000, no one shop in town is going to make it for free. Labour costs money. No, I'm not going to give it away. The price is 600 000 plus shipping. Lumber in Korea is even more expensive then what it is in North America. Real furniture that is made of solid wood, such as dining room tables, etc usually sells in the thousands of dollars range.

I'm happy to take a loss on it, but I'm not going to give it away. That would be like working for hagwans and not getting paid, something many people rightly get very irate about. If I can't get a reasonable price for it, I will give it relatives.

[Tony_Balony]

I'm a hobby carpenter here too so I've done many of the things the poster has done. He did a fine job with the bed, it looks good and the numbers add up.

[kitekid]

[Emark]

I have never encountered such cheap tightwads in all my life. This is worse than 5 kids fighting over 6 gumballs.

600,000 won is a fine price and matesol is taking a HUGE loss. Damn, Costco (where he probably bought the mattress), sells queens for a mear W700,000. He said he was going to incluse the tools. WHat's that W180,000 to 220,000? He said the bedding was W120,000+

If you want to get a mattress for free, pick one up at the trash area of an apartment. That crappy mattress was W200,000 new and screwed up adjuma's back... thus it hit the trash.

If I can get my van empty of the junk I have in it, I will pick this bed up after my wife goes back to Canada. She can comeback to a cool surprise; that is a cool bed that is worth every "shipwon" of the W600,000!

Bonus: I get some nice tools!

MATESOL: I WILL TAKE THE BED. CALL ME SO I CAN DEPOSIT THE CASH INTO YOUR ACCOUNT VIA MY PHONEBANKING.

(mod edit--phone number deleted from this post and forwarded to Matesol)

[kitekid]

[hanguker]

funny stuff.

I'd like to see if Emark really comes through. I wouldn't want him/her to look silly if he/she doesn't buy it after that heartwarming salute to the DIYer!