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This was part of a group that was designed for a small room. It had the Murphy bed with a built in folding desk, a corner desk, a corner bookcase, and a TV stand. I’m going to focus on the Murphy bed and corner desk combination today.
The design process took longer then expected. We had some other features that we wanted to incorporate into the bed, but with the size constraint, it just wouldn’t happen. We had to take the desk depth back as much as possible.
The Smithsonian Murphy wall bed is the first full size that I’ve built. I originally had it designed in a queen. With the desk folding there are a lot of variables. With time constraints I had to have the doors being built before the bed was built. This meant a lot of planning had to take place to make it work. There are a lot of variables on a folding desk that is mounted to a folding bed.
Sketch Up
I made a few sketches in SketchUp so the customer could better see the relationship of the pieces to each other. Here are a couple more sketches can be found in the October Archives.
Others in this project:
Building Pictures
I just posted a couple building pictures. Click on the picture to take you to the months picture archives
For more building pictures see my Current Projects link at wwbeds.com or poggyskids.com. See what we are doing live:
-- Watch live video from our shop. http://wwbeds.com/live.htm
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Lee A. Jesberger
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#1 posted 576 days ago
Hi Chris;
Well designed, completely functional, and nicely built.
This is a really great example of your work.
Maybe you could use it in some of your marketing.
Lee
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Chris Davis
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#2 posted 576 days ago
I should have taken some better pictures. Your right that would be a good one.
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Napaman
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#3 posted 576 days ago
your designs are so amazing…
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oluf
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#4 posted 576 days ago
The title of this project should have been “turning a small room into a mini-mansion” As always Chris, A great piece of work. Your costumers should be so proud and happy with the things you create for them.
-- Nils, So. Central MI. Wood is honest.Take the effort to understand what it has to tell you before you try to change it.
renners
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#5 posted 575 days ago
Fantastic job. Great use of space and a very nice finish. I really like it.
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Chris Davis
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#6 posted 575 days ago
Thanks everyone. The finish was a dye coat then the stain and clear. The customer just came in and said they wanted it just like a sample that I had. When I delivered it, it matched exactly to the kitchen cabinets, even though we didn’t intend to. That was luck.
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#7 posted 574 days ago
Very cool! I want one like that for my small apartment too )).
Matt Donley
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#8 posted 169 days ago
Do you ever use Sketchup to design the details of a project, or do you only use it to define the rough spaces and relationships of each component? That’s definitely a great way to quickly visualize the space of the project.
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a1Jim
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#9 posted 169 days ago
Another cool design,well done Chris.
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Chris Davis
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#10 posted 168 days ago
Matt, I am not real good with it yet. Haven’t had a lot of time to get real detailed or really to be fast enough at it to justify time spent on drawing details. So for now just really use it sometimes to help customers visualize proportions.
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