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Furniture Design

Space-saving: making a bed-shelf in the IKEA style

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The pull-down bed allows you to turn any room into a guest room. We provide a detailed instruction on how to make such a bed yourself without extra effort

A pull-down bed hidden in a cabinet is an excellent idea for a guest room, a small apartment or studio. Such a bed is much more convenient than a roll-out sofa: it comes out already made up. Beds of this type are not very popular on the Russian market yet, but building such a structure yourself is not as difficult as it seems. See how this American couple handled the task. They left sketches with exact dimensions: you can use them or make your own calculations.

Step 1. Purchase materials

The project authors needed 12 sheets of plywood. The bed frame was made from poplar strips 3 cm wide. Shelves required boards of arbitrary size, and gas springs were needed for the lifting mechanism. Edge banding tape, hardware, primer, paint.

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Step 2. Bed frame

First, cut all the plywood pieces to the required size. The instructions include diagrams with hints on how to do this most economically.

Assemble the support structure from poplar strips 2 cm wide. The mattress for this base should not be wider than 150 cm and thicker than 30 cm.

Attach a 2 cm wide plywood sheet to the support structure. Ensure that there are no nicks or scratches on the side of the plywood that will become the front of your bed-shelf. Sand and prime it if in doubt.

Step 3. Base-cabinet

Assemble the shelves according to the instructions. You can change the width of the shelves as needed. Apply edge banding tape to all external edges of the plywood.

You can decorate the front part of the bed as you wish: make a simple artificial facade to look like two large doors, or, as in the instruction, create an illusion of a full cabinet system using decorative panels.

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Step 4. Assemble the construction

Paint the shelves and the front part of the bed and let them dry. Once the paint is dry, you can start assembly. Attach the bed base to the vertical support structure and then assemble and install the headboard.

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Don't forget to place a cover on the floor so that no scratches remain on the front. Attach gas springs, which allow the bed to lower and raise.

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Install wooden strips on the wall to which the cabinet with a pull-down bed will be attached. Don't forget to remove the baseboard on that part of the wall where the bed will be mounted.

Securely attach the bed to the wall and add adjustable feet to it, and place a plywood sheet on the base that will serve as a support for the mattress.

Attach the shelves to the side panels of the bed box. Cover the top part of the resulting construction with decorative moldings, and the bottom — with baseboards. You can use baseboards that were used to finish the entire room, or choose baseboards that match the decorative moldings.

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All that remains is to place a good mattress on the base and make up the bed — now you're always ready for unexpected guests.

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On the cover: Inessa Ternovaya Design Interiors project