Designer Tobias Wong made due from 1998 till 2003 in an apartment where space was at such a premium, he decided to fashion a bed out of a simple piece of plywood, five steel filing cabinets and a futon mattress. There's something admirable about small space solutions like this, where spaces and surfaces play dual role naturally. [via LifeClever]
Alexis' Modern Glass House 
Before & After: A Bathroom Goes From Pinky Peach to Sleek and Chic
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Tom Black Espadrille
20 Scrumptious Brunch Recipes 
Easy Pitcher Cocktail Recipe: Strawberry Basil Margaritas
Comments (11)
made do
I wonder if those filing cabinets were actually full?
My childhood bed was similar: my dad took a bunch of cardboard bankers box drawers, slapped a piece of plywood on top and then the mattress.
http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=&webid=13721&affixedcode=WW
My bed for years was a mattress on a sheet of plywood over 10 or so plastic milk crates--storage and support, handy! I stapled a linen skirt around the edge of the plywood, looked great.
For a long time that's what I used for a desk--plywood on top of file cabinets, with space in the middle for my knees.
When the BF and i first moved to Montreal our bed was a futon frame up on milk crates.... stacked 4 high! It was also bolted to the walls, but was seriously an accident waiting to happen. Also, the BF and I are each only about 5'4" (he claims to be 5'5") We literally had to use a step ladder to climb up. So romantic....heh.
Couldn't wait to move into a bigger place (we have since, don't worry!)
mmmm, nothing says 'rest and relaxation' like a board placed on top of a vast array of paperwork you should be completing....
that irony is not lost one me!
what, no feng shui devotees piping up to tell us how bad it is to sleep on top of all this???
c'mon kids, what's this site coming to?
its a clever small space solution!
...but it looks horribly uncomfortable. No?
my back is hurting just looking at this setup - I can't even imagine sleeping on it for years.
As far as back pains, how is this different from a futon on the floor?