Will posted:SantaFe158 posted:Will posted:Very nice. Am I correct that this layout lives under the bed? Is this a guest bed or your bed? I would worry a bit about dust and dirt- you know how it is under a bed. I wonder if you could rig a sort of bed skirt to protect it when the bed is down.
Thanks! Yes it's under my bed. It might be hard to tell in the video but the wooden bed frame actually goes down all the way to the carpet and has three MDF board panels that cover the floor inside. I have a low pile area rug on top of all that. The mattress sits on a separate frame up higher in the main bed frame and that mattress frame is what swings up within the main box of the bed frame. Although there is a slight gap around the perimeter between the mattress frame and the main bed frame when lowered, my bedding covers that so it's been pretty reasonable as far as dust containment goes.
Genius. Can you post some pictures of the whole bed/set up both up and down?
I just went back to look- the black is the MDF on the floor. Hey you sould add scenic panels to the MDF. It's a secret world under there.
What size is the mattress? I may have to consider this.
I'll see what I can do for pictures. It's the queen sized "MALM" storage bed from IKEA and they do have pictures of it on their website if you wanted an idea of what it looks like in various configurations. It looks like it comes in a double/full size as well. For safety purposes I'd recommend coming up with some sort of safety prop to keep the mattress in the raised position while working under it. I haven't done that yet but I'm most likely going to in the future since the lift mechanism relies on gas struts to hold it up. They're very powerful struts, but things happen and I wouldn't want it coming down on me unexpectedly.
The MDF panels are actually white on on the top side and aren't visible in my photos/videos as they're underneath the area rug I have in there. What I think you're seeing is the actual bed frame which is about 2 inches thick on each side and comes all the way down to the floor. You could certainly make some form of scenery panel to cover the MDF board panels (or do without the MDF completely).
