[fabricode]

Cute & fun, but not engineered very well. In order to have the sunken bed:

  - he's raised the floor (effectively lowering the ceiling)
  - cut his floor space dramatically
  - made the center of the room unusable (stairs)
  - introduced a dependency between electricity & sleep
    (though there's probably a manual override)
  - made it harder to change his sheets
  - annoyed the neighbors (power drill to open the bed)
  - made moving day a royal PITA

I think a bunk bed w/o a lower bed would be a better, cheaper, and less problematic solution.

[citricsquid]

Yes, the electrical component is unnecessary. He could have quite simply built a raised floor (as he has done, maybe 1ft off the ground) cut a hole in the middle, stuck in a mattress and then during the day had a board that covers the top to create a complete "floor". Definitely cute and fun, but impractical and over-engineered.

[stephengillie]

How would you feel about sleeping on a sunken bed, which would be under a removable section of floor during the day?