February 2024Oak / Steel / LEDFloating, integrated nightstands
I'm 6'3" and sleep on a 7'2" mattress. I wanted a floating bed. With a headboard. With nightstands that don't wobble. In my dimensions. That doesn't exist. So I stopped searching and started building.
I
Floats.
I saw the idea online and it was simple: pull the legs so far inward that you can't see them anymore. So I built V-shaped struts — angled inward into the frame, across the floor, and back up at an angle on the other side. From the front you can barely see them, except from a distance. Cleanly set in, nothing in the way, a dream to clean under.
The whole bed works like Lego. Threaded inserts and bolts everywhere — you can assemble and disassemble it alone. Connect the frame, attach the headboard, mount the nightstands, done. Or take everything apart and set it up somewhere else.
Plus an LED strip — sometimes under the bed, sometimes on the headboard, depending on how the room is currently arranged.
II
Modular.
With the old bed I already had a headboard with a shelf on top — I wanted that again. This time the nightstands were added too. Bolted directly to the frame , top edge exactly at mattress height — one level, no reaching up or down. They never shift, vacuuming is no problem. With Blum Movento slides and push-to-open: push in, the drawer slides out.
None, one, or both — freely configurable. The headboard is removable, carries the nightstands, has the shelf on top. Everything can be disassembled and recombined.
III
My first piece.
Winter 2023/24, three months of building, somewhere between 50 and 100 hours. Solid spruce, in my self-built room. My first Signature Piece. Not everything perfect — I'd split the drawers differently today, I had less experience with lacquering, and there are a few small spots where you can tell this was my first piece at this level.
But I've been sleeping in it for over two years and there's nothing where I'd say: that annoys me. Nothing I'd fundamentally change. It fully serves its purpose. And if the slat base ever breaks — it's happened to me before — that's 15 minutes of work, because I built that myself too.
When I look at Signature Piece 02, I can see what changed since then. Build quality, finishing, thoughtfulness — a completely different level. But if this one didn't meet a certain standard, it wouldn't be Signature Piece 01. It's 01 because it was the best I could do at the time. And it's still damn good.
— angled inward into the frame, across the floor, and back up at an angle on the other side. From the front you can barely see them, except from a distance. Cleanly set in, nothing in the way, a dream to clean under.
, top edge exactly at mattress height — one level, no reaching up or down. They never shift, vacuuming is no problem. With Blum Movento slides and push-to-open: push in, the drawer slides out.