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Low cost loft bed

This is yet again a distraction from working on setting up the shop... Not an unappreciated one but still... I get to play with the GIMP drawing program to make a scratch design for a very cheap and minimal loft bed.  This is designed for a twin long mattress or a twin normal length bed and a space for a built in desk underneath.
 
 
The desk size and the rail size is not well defined but are sufficient for a build with little guessing. The head board and the back board have cauls glued in place to hold the desk top in place.  The subpanels themselves are glued and screwed together in order to ensure solidity and rejection of racking. All subpanels are screwed together in place to make the full structure disassemblable to allow it to fit through doors .   The following shows the general structure and the subpanel geometry.  I will eventually get a general cut diagram up here and included is the current cost study as of 09-19-2017 from Home Depot.
 
1 loft
(2x)32.00 3/4” Fiberboard 38 3/4” x 57” head and foot panel
(1x)32.00 3/4” Fiberboard 57” x 80” back panel
                  48” x 80”, 6.5” x 80”, 1” rabbit bottom stretcher
(1x)32.00 3/4” Fiberboard 38” x 80” top panel
(2x)10.00 1 1/2” x 5 1/2” x 80” top stretchers
                 7.6” @ $5.00 ea
(4x) 7.00 1 1/2” x 3 1/2” x 35” 2 in 8’ top and bottom purlins
                8’ @ $3.06
(2x) 5.00 1 1/2” x 5 1/2” x 35” 2 in 7.6”
                 7.6” @ $5.00 ea
(1x) 4.00 1 1/2” x 3 1/2” x 80” bottom stretcher
                 8’ @ $4.00
(4x) 12.00 1 1/2” x 3 1/2” x 50.5” 2 in 10” uprights
                   10’ @ $6.00

$134.00
 
 
 
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  1. dichotomyoneSeptember 19, 2017 at 6:45 PM

    I find I do not like working from scratch in a drawing program. I much prefer to use paper and pencil. I may just ink my old pencil drawings instead of using the GIMP program. Not sure if it will actually work better... sigh!

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  2. dichotomyoneSeptember 19, 2017 at 6:48 PM

    Well it all looked good until I got the close up pictures and all the editing shows up as black... not sure if I will get this corrected but at least all y'all can see the drawings above.

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