About 2 weeks before Christmas, I got the crazy idea to attempt to build a "murphy bed" for my son's room. His room is so tiny (only 7' wide to be exact) with double doors that open up into our family room - the one and only living area, so his room is always open for viewing. Plus, we get most of our natural light from his window, so I usually want to keep the doors open. His twin bed literally took up more than half his room.
[Solution]: Build a wall bed.
It just so happened that a while back my dad acquired a wall bed mechanism kit from "Create A Bed" (the hardware is supplied, but you have to build the bed out of wood from the plans provided). He found it on Craigslist
It just so happened that a while back my dad acquired a wall bed mechanism kit from "Create A Bed" (the hardware is supplied, but you have to build the bed out of wood from the plans provided). He found it on Craigslist
for super cheap (normally retails for $300) but never ended up using it. When he generously gifted the kit to me, I couldn't wait to build it - though I admit I was a bit intimidated at first.
From start to finish, this bed took me about 1 week. A few days for
cutting, a couple more to build, a couple more to paint, and then a
couple hours to assemble in the room. During the same week, we painted my son's room too.
Good thing I had done my Christmas shopping early or this would have been the only thing out on Christmas morning!
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