10 Awesome BED DESIGNS for your VAN CONVERSION 🛏 🚐

I'm a big fan of a fixed bed because mostly I just don't want to make a bed every single day every morning every night and it's also quite efficient of storage and it means you can use like a regular full-size mattress so this is like a standard nice ikea mattress so what I used to like when I lived in a normal house and I've got it in the van which is great with this fixed bed system I've got this these sloping cupboards which gives you a place to lean against cause obviously the downside of a fixed bed is that you lose like the social area which you might have otherwise so with a fixed bed if you've got a way to make it so you can comfortably hang out and sealed it then it kind of balances it out a little bit you actually have storage all the way through so I've got these um food containers here and then the back there's like again all the way to the back and I got my batteries so it makes a really simple efficient design in terms of storage because you don't have space which is I've taken up by foot well and then covered up by a bed so it's always dead space as you can see we have a lot of storage stuff under here I made the bed quite low so you can sit it at the front and doesn't kind of like have this huge drop-off into the small kind of like seated area in the front that means there's less height for storage but because it's fixed bed you've got a lot of it anyway tons of climbing gear I've even got a campus board in there which slides out it goes up the other bed system if you need it for guests my van I put these strength weighted I think 600 kilos very weighted I bought a hammer from levan do any to stop me hammocks are great and the great thing about having an attachment in your van so I've got one in each side and by the door it means that doesn't matter where I am if there's one tree I can just put the van near it and then I have a hammock tie-in point it's pretty glorious to chill in a hammock okay so this is obviously the sitting room and Stroke bed the the bed is a pretty standard design in that it does pull out to become a double bed if you want it so the main feature is pretty standard and simple and that is just that you've got this slotting system here which you see different variations of in a lot of vans with mine I chose to make it in such a way that you could lift it up easily to access all of the plumbing underneath it but at the same time it's got these little dolls here that's what means you're able to pull up the whole thing but as soon as you pull this out then becomes loose and that just comes all the way out see there you can then rearrange the cushions and you have got something approaching a double bed I wanted to try and make a bed that was as big as possible this is a medium wheelbase so there isn't going to be a lot of space in the back and I want to be quite a versatile space so I designed it so that you can remove the mid section of this bed in case for example I want to transport a large painting so if we just show you that then basically so these are all the support pillows for the bed and then you can remove the mattress and basically this in the mid section here just comes off so this bed consists of a removable table and you shape sofa with some black bits and tables also in a bit of a slider in and out to the seating turn into a bed it's pretty simple [Music] - and then you have a bed which is somewhere between the devil and the king some reading lights so to retain these cushions here and kind of create a back you see but this little flat just a lot of wood on the hinge just keeps these in perfectly when it's in certain mode let's make it back into a sofa again [Music] the first thing I built when I built this van was the bed before I even knew the layout I've designed the bed basically I wanted something that I could make instantly because I had an old van and every time you want to go to bed you had to move the seat with the table and rearrange the cushions and it was this sort of Tetris procedure so this one I've taken an old sofa bed taking the hinges off it and put one here and one at the other end and then this comes up in three sections we just don't do this lift it up here pop that up and you've got a bed in five seconds push this cushion down pull that out this one goes over here you get a super king sized sheet you've got one massive bed so great you know when you're really tired and you just want to go to sleep you've got your instant bed you can just jump straight in and then to put it back into a sofa we reverse the whole process flap pull the mattress away so he doesn't get snagged on the window frame like the mattress back up into place and bring the support back and then we have living space again there are these are called rock and roller beds which is generally what you find in this sort of size van we thought of building one but the fact that is a bed that can seat two with seatbelts and it's not only safe but legal that that's one it for us I was straightaway if this would this was the only option so to set the bed it's gonna wiggle these out after that it's as simple as that lever you just pull it out pull a little bit and just pull the bed out [Music] yeah yeah we have a memory foam mattress that goes on top I've had it go sleeping on it just with this with we want to put the memory foam mattress up the top to make it a little more comfortable the top and this is really nice and comfortable even without it but with it it's way more comfortable thing another thing with a short wheelbase is without the pop top it's quite low and everything then when you're in just becomes hunched over so putting the pop top in just gives you full Headroom even you know if they're really quite tall people you get a huge amount of headroom which is really nice and then when you do want to go to sleep [Music] literally just pull down and it's got the bed already set up up there climbing up you can step on everything except for two things you can't step on these because they break really easy and we've been told that they're incredibly hard to wear you just can't replace them and you can't step up on the wood apart from that you can step on everything else to climb up [Music] when we want to turn it into the bed to take this off first don't when you're gonna help me it's a bit of a two-man job with what - say what - woman dub shimmy up there we go oh you take one out already that's okay then take these out you hold that one as I found I'll take this one up and then I just open here and we literally just shove them in got it in watch your fingers okay it's one these spot onto here and then the last one here and these velcro on ready that one up there actually the velcro is really handy for keeping these in place and it's there and then we'll switch this down we do the same with the top do that one yeah okay these you've got three boards that go on yeah and then we would put the cushions on top of here they haven't actually been magics this is the new thing in the process and making them but they'll be exactly like their same fabric and everything is going to be stored on here with straps so when we're not using it none of these wooden bits will be here they're going to be up here and the other bits of mattress are gonna be on the top here so how we get up to your bed so my job is to hold it watch your head and it could take an adult as well so from where I often go away with friends and we've shared the bed down here but now one of them could go up here should be handy so it can take the weight of an adult so now we are coming to the much much important thing in the when a good bed and for us it was like really really important to have like enough space to move in but also to have a good bed for sleep and recover for the climbing days we have like this removable thing in the front so you can make the bed like 90 centimeters longer and we just moved the mattress toward to the top of the pet switch the metro zone because the mattress is exactly cutted on that place [Music] do you want to show them how the the whole seating and bed arrangement works so first of all we've got these bench seats and the table and this was kind of designed to fit us and our friends around at the time that we did the conversion and now haffley fits us and the three kids around for breakfast lunch and dinner and then we've got a pretty straightforward process to turn it into a super king-sized bed so the table's locked in and then david made this kind of fix-all piece which both holds the table in and also stops the cushions from slipping out and stops anything from falling down so that kind of replaced lots of different bits that we initially had anyway then you stuff the cushions into the middle and it is an unbelievably comfortable super king-size bed so yeah that's definitely one of the highlights and lots of people who go away in balla say they have the best night's sleep that they've had of their lives which is pretty nice feature there's a lot of people who really want a fixed bed and fast that was never a consideration because we wanted to have such a big table space so that was our priority [Music] back here we have a super king-sized bed one of the things about living a campaign in a bus is be able to have the biggest size bed you can and matching it to the size at home so you'll see a huge bed with a memory foam mattress which is super sweet first we have a TV on the wall if you get rainy days you can hide away in here it's really nice under the bed a huge amount storage lifts up under there I keep my paddle boards my wetsuits and stuff like that so we're on the road it's all tucked away and kind of sliding forward but tiger tiger likes a bit bit she's supposed to sleep there nope

Channel: Nate Murphy

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Keywords: van conversion, van conversion bed, conversion van bed, van conversion bed design, bed for van conversion, slider bed van conversion, slider bed camper van, table bed camper van, design for camper van conversion, how to make van conversion bed, how to build camper van bed

Id: 1aXUzZCDhm0

Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 21 2019