Loft Bed with shelves

 

Steve and I, live in a small home and we have limited space for all of our interest.  We are always in a quest to find or shall I say, create more space with the limited space we have.  Sometimes with sustainability it isn't about getting more space it is about doing with what you have and making the best of it.  Steve and I decided on building a loft bed for our spare bed room.  This room is a small 9 buy 10 foot room with high 8 1/2 foot ceilings.  There are many options out there for loft beds but none that really met our needs or what we wanted to spend.  This is what we came up with. 

 

The bed is made out of 2x6's, 2x4's, 1x6's and 1x10 for the book shelf at the foot of the bed.

We also used a paneling for the back of the shelf on the head board.

You may notice the steps on this loft bed are angled, we felt this would make it easier to get up and down rather then a ladder straight up and down.    This bed cost us less than $200.00 including the mattress.   If you were going to purchase a bed if this type you would spend over $1200.00, what a savings.