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HANGING BED. How to make a bed that hangs from a ceiling. Making a swinging bed.

What happens here

Before beginning construction, collect all specified materials: eight pieces of 1x8 pine lumber, five 2x4 studs, 55 feet of 3/4-inch manila rope, four 3/8-inch x 7-inch eye bolt sets (for the frame), four 3/8-inch x 4-7/8-inch lag eye screws (for the ceiling), a box of 3.5-inch deck screws (for the frame), a box of 2-inch deck screws (for the top slats), eight 5/16-inch quick links, and four 5/16-inch washers. Essential tools include a miter saw for precise cuts, a drill/impact driver, a carpenter's square, a tape measure, and an orbital sander with sandpaper.

Goal: This step involves identifying and gathering all the necessary lumber, hardware, and tools required for constructing the hanging bed frame.

Tools and materials

  • Carpenter's Square
  • Impact Drill/Driver
  • Miter Saw
  • Orbital Sander
  • Snap Knife
  • Stud Finder
  • Tape Measure
  • 1x8 Pine Lumber
  • 2x4 Studs
  • Deck Screws (2-inch)
  • Deck Screws (3.5-inch)
  • Eye Bolt Sets
  • Lag Eye Screws
  • Manila Rope
  • Quick Links
  • Sandpaper
  • Washers

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the idaho painter we've got a really cool project we're doing here on the weekend and we're making a hanging bed i'm going to show you the process how you can make a really cool hanging bed and so we went down to our local hardware store bought the wood in the lumber and all you need to make to make this hanging bed is wants to be hanging from the ceiling from with rope uh we needed eight pieces of one by eight pine we bought eight or five two by fours to actually build the frame right here and then the rope that this thing's actually going to be hanging from the ceiling with is this right here this jute rope right here we gotta suspend the thing from the ceiling hang up on the ceiling so we had some nuts and bolts here here just got these like uh eye i guess you call them let's see screw eyes right here and these things are gonna screw into the two by four into the ceiling and that's what the bed is gonna be hanging from so we purchased four of those and then we actually had uh four of these right here they are called i bolt with knot right here that thing right there we got four of those and then we got some deck screws to screw this thing together with we just purchased some two inch deck screws to screw the the top down and then to screw the frame together we've got i think they're what size they are three and a half inch dextrose just a simple deck screw self tapping screw makes it easy to screw together some of the tools that we're gonna be using to build this project we got a miter saw set up here so we can get some really straight good good straight cuts we got our drill um definitely you'll definitely need a tape measure to measure all your cuts we've got a square to just uh draw our cuts to make sure they're nice and straight and i think that's we've got a sander set up over here hemi the sander we're gonna be sanding this thing when it's all put together to make it look nice and so stay tuned that's all the stuff that we purchased to make this hanging bed this is gonna be a really cool project so stay tuned

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