Loft Bed + Makita Loft

H214: My Dorm Room Home Improvement Game Through The Ages (2 Years)

After volunteering with the EC REX Build 2021 (a St. Augustine inspired fort!), I was ready to try my hand at building something of my own with the wood I earned. (Build volunteers get first dibs on wood afterwards).

So, inspired by my hallmates on Putz, I built my first loft bed! If I could do it again, I would do a LOT differently- but this is just part of the learning process.

Ladder 1.0

My hard-earned wood.

Making the frame sized for a twin mattress. If I could do this over, I would not have screwed the joists in this way- first, the screws are in the same direction as gravity (should be perpendicular), and secondly, the joists should be flipped 90 degrees for less beam bending.

I added the legs upside-down, and then rolled it upright. Questionable engineering, but it worked.

Coming together! I should have actually cut the cross bracing to the right size.

Finished product... with a backwards ladder that I never could be bothered to fix since it worked fine.

In fall '22, I decided I was tired of having a loft bed and wanted something fresh...

Before the shop-vac.

Building the frame (hardest part, tbh).

I did not learn from my engineering sins of putting in joists the right way.

So- using the same wood from my loft bed (except for a few pieces), I rebuilt my loft as a "Makita" loft (normal bed on the ground), named after my across-the-hallmate, makita, who had a normal bed on the ground that he had built with enough cross bracing to survive the apocalypse.

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