Probably the most overbuilt bed in the human history. Our full-grown special needs child sometimes wants to land on his bed with a somersault. He has great body awareness; learned to run when he was 7 months old. Didn’t bang into furniture then, nor since. But uses them for take-off and landings, and has annihilated many a bed, and sofa, both home and away. After fixing his last store-bought bed for the n’th time, I took matters in my own hands and built this monstrocity. The weakest link is clearly the slats, and they are 1,5 x2 inches solid oak. Supported from four points each. If they break, I will replace them with solid steel slats.
I had to assemble / disassemble the bed several times during the build, to make sure the dominoes and the bolts all line up perfectly. The components don’t bend - at all - so if anything would have been even slightly off, the whole thing would not have gone together.
I was hoping the bed would be heavy enough for our son not to push it around as a sled. I was wrong on that count, so after a while I attached some brackets to the wall, and now two wooden pieces compress the bed towards the corner of the room.
Despite the military-grade strength, in my view it doesn’t look overly heavy. What say you, fellow woodworkers?