Bolding bed with rope base

Glaukos the Athenian · Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:50 am

I saw this in an ad for an auction. I have no time for woodworking, but I thought someone may be interested....

Glaukos

[img]http://207.56.206.235/03.01.08/Folding.bed.jpg[/img]

Rasper77 · Post by **Rasper77** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:47 am

Interesting idea, but from my experience.. that cross piece is in horrible place.. interesting though.

Milan H · Post by **Milan H** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:05 pm

I concur on the cross brace location.

Edit: never mind... i get things

Sean Powell · Post by **Sean Powell** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:41 pm

Might make for a good trundle bed but with 4 legs sticking out like that at both ends it would hardly be smaller then the original bed, just vertical instead of horizontal. The cross brace could be modified into a ) shape to be more comfortable.

Sean

InsaneIrish · Post by **InsaneIrish** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:39 pm

Is it some kind of old school Murphy bed?

That is the only reason I could think that someone would put a hinge on the upper 1/4th of a bed like that. Raise up the bottom 3/4th so that the bed folds away into a wall wardrobe or something...

Baron Conal · Post by **Baron Conal** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:01 pm

It's the same style as some of the beds in.....

( don't feel like googling right now )

...the maroon painted house close to the windmill
at Colonial Williamsburg and they are sticklers for
authenticity there.

If the ropes are tightened properly that support
should not be an issue....

I may be alone in the world, but a properly tightened
rope bed is very comfortable.... I think rope beds are
suffering from bad press. I've NEVER had an issue with
mine loosening up.

Baron Conal · Post by **Baron Conal** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:01 pm

InsaneIrish wrote:Is it some kind of old school Murphy bed?

That is the only reason I could think that someone would put a hinge on the upper 1/4th of a bed like that. Raise up the bottom 3/4th so that the bed folds away into a wall wardrobe or something...

yes... exactly.

Glaukos the Athenian · Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:45 pm

Someone with a square marquee or other similar type of tall, straight sided tent could use something like that to save space.
Alas, I have a round tent

I guess I need a bed the shape of a slice of pizza.....

Glaukos.

InsaneIrish · Post by **InsaneIrish** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:24 am

Baron Conal wrote:
InsaneIrish wrote:Is it some kind of old school Murphy bed?

That is the only reason I could think that someone would put a hinge on the upper 1/4th of a bed like that. Raise up the bottom 3/4th so that the bed folds away into a wall wardrobe or something...

yes... exactly.

huh, that is kind of cool.