{"id":570,"date":"2009-03-01T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T03:51:42","slug":"putting-together-a-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/01\/putting-together-a-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting together a bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all began with me leaving my bed at my old house. It was an Ikea Lillehammer $90 bed for the frame and $30 for the slats. And I thought, I’ll just get another. But Ikea had replaced it with a brown coloured equivalent called Eina ($139) which was of even lower quality.<\/p>\n

Then I got the wrong sized sheets – super single instead of single and thought of upgrading a few more centimeters.<\/p>\n

Looking at the Lillehammer, which was a four sided frame on four legs, I thought, this shouldn’t be too hard.<\/p>\n

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Naturally, I used the Internet to do my research.<\/p>\n

I vacillated between the Pipe Dream Bed<\/a> at Instructables<\/a>, David Nunez’s Meat Cart Bed<\/a> which seemed like a lot of fun, to the Floating Bed Platform<\/a> from the book Hand Made Modern<\/a> that I didn’t have to buy to make this bed, thanks to Martha Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I actually drew out the plans for my Pipe Dream Bed in my dimensions with modifications. to make my bed exactly the way I wanted.<\/p>\n

\"Plans<\/a><\/p>\n

In the how-tos of making various metal beds, the topic of cheap kept coming up. But the structural fittings they used (from KeeKlamp<\/a> and Nurail<\/a>) were quoted to me at $75 a piece. I hadn’t even asked for the price of pipe.<\/p>\n

What was going to be a cheap bed started to move into the range of $500. Yes, you get a metal bed, which will be the hardiest of beds, and it could be extended by adding more pipe and joints if you moved up to a King. But it was more than I was willing to spend.<\/p>\n

The Meat Cart Bed<\/a> would’ve been the last resort. Putting together wood would be possible. But there were two things I didn’t quite like. We can’t get really nice wheels in Singapore. Getting lockable wheels is another issue. Getting lockable cool wheels<\/a> is yet another. But I really did like the idea of a handle on my bed. If I had carpet in my room, it would’ve been a stronger maybe.<\/p>\n

So, my bed design search ended where it started. With the Floating Bed Platform.<\/p>\n

Well, I finally did it. I constructed my bed as I wanted. It took 6 – 9 months of thinking, weighing pros and cons, studying, but it is done. And simply, it is a platform on legs.<\/p>\n

It’s so simple, no one wants to sell something like that.<\/p>\n

The options on the market were unacceptable because I didn’t want:<\/p>\n