Is the room too small and does not have the desired amount of free space, but all the furniture in the room is necessary? If you do not have the opportunity to expand the living space of your apartment, except for moving to a more spacious, modern home, do not be upset, because there are many great ideas do your small home more comfortable to live in!

bed closet
A fold-out bed is a must for small apartments, when you need to fit everything in, but not clutter up the space.
lift bed in the bedroom
Successful camouflage of furniture makes a bulky structure aesthetically pleasing and suitable for any room.

What takes up a lot of space in a room? Most people will answer that it is a sofa or an old couch. If this is the case for you, then after reading our article, you will not only learn how to save space by installing a sofa in your room foldingbed, but you will also learn how do her with her own hands.

lift bed
Vertical orientation is the most economical option for placing a sleeping area against a wall.

An additional advantage in favor of creating a new sleeping place will be getting rid of old, long-out-of-fashion sofas. At the same time, a new, modern, comfortable folding bed will soon become a source of pride for you, because you will be happy to show your creation to friends who come to visit!

bed cabinet vertical
In this design, furniture can be of any size: single, double, non-standard.

Manufacturing and assembly

The folding bed looks like a regular compact bed when assembled. closet for clothes, taking up a minimum amount of space in your small apartment, but thanks to the foldingnmechanism, the bed easily unfolds, turning into a real feather bed. Yes, that's right! The level of comfort of sleeping on a folding bed can be equated to the comfort of resting on a luxurious soft feather bed!

foldable lifting bed
A cabinet, a wardrobe with hinged doors or a sliding wardrobe serve as a niche for furniture.
folding bed
A wardrobe bed can be an independent piece of furniture, but most often it is part of a whole furniture set.

So, now that there is no doubt about the need for this thing to appear in your apartment, you can start manufacturing and assembling it, but first you need to decide on the design, as well as the external design of the folding bed.

bed closet
When folded, this bed takes up minimal space and does not harm the spine during sleep.

It can be vertical or horizontal, but it is worth considering that horizontal options are usually intended for children and teenagers, representing small single beds that turn into a shelf or chest of drawers, while vertical structures can be of any size.

folding bed
The chest of drawers bed can be used in a child's room or placed against the wall in the living room as a "spare" in case guests arrive.
black and white folding bed
Easy operation allows the design to be used in a children's room.

First, you need to create a drawing of the future product, which will help you navigate the assembly process much faster, having obtained the desired result. You will not need the skills of a design engineer, it is quite enough to prepare a simple schematic drawing of the future sleeping place, specifying the dimensions and configuration of the structure on it.

bed drawing
Drawing of a wardrobe bed.

The next important step is to select and purchase the necessary materials and tools. The highest quality construction will be made from chipboard panels, so we recommend using them as the main material. Chipboard panels should be purchased in specialized shopping centers, since the durability of your future bed will depend on the quality of the original material.

materials
It is better to make the bed base orthopedic.

You will also need:

  • Drail;
  • Shscrewdriver;
  • Ehelectric jigsaw;
  • Rflyaway;
  • Mscrews;
  • WITHamortizers;
  • ABOUTtkidnoh mechanism.
tools
Tools can always be purchased in specialized stores or ordered online.

So, you have prudently purchased the necessary materials, tools, prepared a drawing, and decided on the dimensions of the future piece of furniture. When everything you need is already prepared, we begin to make furniture with our own hands. We have divided the assembly process into 4 steps.

  • Step one. You need to assemble the frame. closeta, hiding a compact sleeping place. Such a box consists of several parts: a baseboard, a back wall closeta, as well as shelves for support. All parts are fastened to each other with screws or self-tapping screws, located approximately 25 centimeters apart. Assembled closet must be installed on a level floor only.

    bed transformer
    Assembling the cabinet frame.

    bed transformer photo
    Fastening the top panel.
  • Step two. We install the assembled structure, which will serve as a reliable support for the folding part of the furniture, and attach it to the wall.

    bed wardrobe photo instruction
    The "skeleton" of the wardrobe is ready.

    bed closet do it yourself
    We attach the “skeleton” to the main wall of the apartment.
  • Step three. Now we assemble the base. It is a frame made of boards, the height of which corresponds to the dimensions of the future mattress. At the same time, the base should ideally fit the frame of the one we have already assembled closetA.

    bed base
    We attach the slats to the frame.

    lamellas
    Thus, we obtain a structure where the mattress will be placed in the future.
  • Step four. Now that all the main parts of the structure are assembled, we connect the base to the box, fixing the parts together with screws. Then we fasten foldingoh mechanism in accordance with the attached instructions.

    bed wardrobe assembly
    Installation of a bed frame using a bed lifting mechanism and gas springs.
    bed cabinet fastening
    An important part of the bed – this is where the greatest loads are placed.
    wardrobe bed assembly
    It is better not to experiment at this stage and purchase a factory-assembled folding mechanism.

    This way, you can avoid unnecessary complications at the final stage of the work, saving a lot of time. At the final stage, we simply connect the body with other elements, after which it remains to cover the outer part of the box with boards so that it looks more like closet, and also paint the structure to your taste.

    bed wardrobe ready
    Once you have connected the folding mechanism to the mattress frame, you can safely use such a bed.

    cabinet bed do it yourself
    We install a facade in the form of improvised wardrobe doors. The bed will be moved into a horizontal position by the handles.

For a more aesthetically pleasing appearance of the finished structure, the entire product must be varnished to protect the wood from dampness and decay if the chipboard panels were not initially treated.

bed wardrobe made of wood
The price of high-quality German and Italian lifting mechanisms is quite high, but the safety is worth it.

We install the mattress and the compact sleeping place is ready! Now you can enjoy the new comfortable furniture and, of course, a large amount of free space in the room, which, it would seem, had nowhere to come from!

bed cabinet vertical
Furniture fittings catalogues specify the orientation of the bed, dimensions and weight for which the lifting mechanism is designed.

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