My next problem - how to make a sunlounger shorter?

[ricc]

ive been thinking about a tempory bed for my lwb transit.....ive got an old pine bed... i think ill use the slatted base with headboard and legs chopped off. a wooden storage box each end for it to sit on... the storage boxes will be movable and can remain in the van when its in use as a van, the actual bed base can store verticle along one side sat on top of the wheel arch. i did contemplate using mattress straight on the floor but really want storage space under the bed. the bed base also needs modifying so the front end by the side door can convert into a settee. bit like a wooden futon base. just needs a few of the slats towards the middle on a subframe to pull up for the seat back...has to be made to fit the seat/bed cushions from me old caravan.

actually made a start yesterday by chopping off the top of the metal bulkhead behind the seats, knocking up a shelf unit accross the bulkhead that the 2 ring gas burner will sit on top of.... porta potti will slot under the bottom shelf. its strong enough for me to clamber over to drop onto the front seats if i need to ...and i can now find me small tools without having to root in a big heap on the floor.

 

[daz]

I did wonder about using 2x2 instead of broom handles but that would mean that I wouldn't be able to use the base with the sunlounger if I ever needed to ie as a spare bed - it's an unlikely scenario but with having only the curtain pole sockets on the bottom of the base it means it doesn't eliminate that possibility as there's enough sag in the fabric of the sunlounger to allow for them. And the poles would only need to be the height of the wheel arches which is probably only about a foot high so it should be fairly stable and I could sink the bottom of the broom handles into blocks of wood to make them more stable and so that they wouldn't make round marks in the carpet. And the ends of the head and feet boards could clip or hook onto the ply when in bed mode which would again stabilise it.

But I could also make a frame with legs with 2x2 that the base would sit on, it could attach to the base with clips/hooks rather than being fixed to it, again it just means that the boards could be used with the sunlounger.

Hmmm, more thought needed.

Keep the ideas coming, it helps me think things through.

How about a couple of lengths of 3x2 resting on the wheel arches with the boards sat on top of them? then you only have 2 small lengths of wood to move

or some of these sat on 2 lengths of angle iron, angle iron costs a few pound from scrap yards

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wooden-Sl...52?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Beds&hash=item2ec5b131a8

or keep your eyes open on freecycle/gumtree/ebay for a single/double wooden slatted futon picked one up for the garage from ebay for £5, to be used as a thinking chair to sit down, take 5 minutes to try & figure out why that thing I'd spent hours designing/making didn't work, it ended up being used as punch chair when things went wrong, think of a punch bag but substitute punch for hammer & bag for chair

 

[ricc]

all the pine futons ive seen dont have much in the way of legs....theys too low to the ground for my old bones to use as a chair , and no storage underneath when used as a bed.... but sat/fixed ontop of a subframe its a possibility.