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    Posted: 23 Mar 2013 at 10:13pm

As our kids have grown they've begun to complain about their room on the dinette at night.  It was time to give each of them their own bed.  I decided to add a bunk above the dinette.  I wanted to be sure I could still get to the storage under the seats, and maybe even remove it to use the table.  In the end I can get to the storage by lifting up on the front edge.  However, it ended up being a little too big to just remove as I hoped.  The tolerances are so tight I had to put one of the legs on with a ratchet through the front window, so no easy-out.  The towel is there to protect the wall and the front ledge.  It just sits on the ledge and the legs slip between the wall and cushions.  I made the bunk smaller than the dinette to leave a place to step up and a place to sit.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 7:03am
Hey that is pretty cool...  You guys are natural engineers.  Had I not seen yours, I would have tried a type of pipe berth, sitting on the ledge on one side like you did, but suspened by a chain on the front corners. This would then fold up out of the way during the day. 
 
I don't know enough about the pod structure to know for sure how to find solid attachment points.  Yours is solid.  You are a lot like me and if a 2x2 will carry the load..  put in a 2x4... ha.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 10:52am
  That's really neet!
     I see it now.......the fighting begins for ownership of the top bunk.
        I know because my brother and I had trundle beds when we were young.    Goose
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 1:22pm

Amazingly, no fighting from the kids - one wants the top, the other wants the bottom.  I did expect to mediate a full schedule of who gets what on which day.  Happily no.

The front rail is actually a 2 x 3, I was surprised to find that.  I expected to have to rip a 2 x 4 to make it a little less high to climb over.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 2:34pm
   What are you going to use as a mattress on the top bunk?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 3:05pm
How about a waterbed?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:31pm
I have several backpacking mattresses so probably one of them.  I'm sure they would love a waterbed!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:47pm
Looks great!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:53pm
Looks great..

and, I love my Merrells.. Wink


(another forum I am on, people take a lot of pictures of objects laying on the ground that end up with their feet in them, so I notice these things... lol)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 9:54pm
Probably the 12th pair I've owned, its all I've worn for about a decade.  Clap 
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