Modern captain bed

Presentation

This is a re-design of captain bed in a modern fashion.

The main design ideas :

• a nice wooden bed inspired by nautical captain bed
• massive amount of storage (about 2 m3!)
• Massive wood, traditionnal joinery for strength and durability
• fully dismountable into small pieces (one person carry)
• Can be build with reasonnably common tools/

warning : the original design documents are in french, I translated the essential parts

Here is a detailed presentation of this moder captain bed project.

Introductory presentation to the modern captain bed project (French version)

3D model

A conceptual 3D model, simplified (no joinery, no handles, simplified textures, etc.)

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Design

The design took several months as the project is mechanically complex to solve with traditionnal joinery wihtout loosing storage space. Moreover, the dissassembled bed has to be easy to move and store.

Clik on image to see other images The gallery of pictures for design contains many pictures about the design step.

The most recent version of the project design dimension are :

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Building

The project was built in 6 months using evenings and week ends. Overall, the project can be completed with common woodworking tools. Mixing power tool and hand tool is also possible.

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build-book

Beside the 3D model, the build book contains illustrated parts, nomenclature and measurements.

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template

Some joins are duplicated heavily, which make them lenghty to draw on wood. We propose numerical templates to be used with router or similar tools.

Assembly

The main design advantage of this bed is the traditionnal joinery that allows full assembly / disassembly.

Pictures of assembly

As shown in the assembly galleries, assembling bed is straightforward.

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Moving the bed

The bed can be dissassembled into small parts, such that no part is longuer than 2 meters, larger than 40 cm, and of more than 10 cm of thickness. Furthermore, each part is light enough to be carreid by one person. Overall, the bed dissassembled easily fit into a 2m x 1m x 0.3 m space. clik on image to see other images