I used
several non-bed items as a bed during my teenage years. It was my own
choice, I was offered a new bed. I preferred a mattress on the floor,
garden lounger with doona on top, and then to act carpenter and make
my own bed from a pile of wood.
I
worked out the surface size and ordered a piece of hardboard with
wooden boards to go under it. I also allowed for legs – and a bit
spare. When the wood came, several nails, one hammer, a saw, a pencil
and some weird noises occurred and I ended up with a 5-legged bed. I
used the fifth leg to support the 4 wobbly legs - as extra
security...
After
a time, I preferred a mattress on the floor again, so used my bed as
a giant table – and began doodling all over it. A lot of hippie
cartoon style doodles and the names of favored friends appeared. That
is how it was left when I migrated to Australia. On my return, I had
to use it as my bed again – mainly because there was no other space
to place a mattress!
Currently,
I have taken off the legs and placed them flat on the floor below the
sticking out nails that once held them in place. I was using it as a
five legged bed - until one morning when I sat up in bed 2 of the
legs collapsed under me. Since then, I decided a low-to-floor bed to
be preferable to banging the legs back on and risking it collapsing
during the night.
A
thin small mattress lies under a proper single bed one. I was used to
a double bed in Australia – but having to move a bedroom, study,
and Yoga room into the space of one bedroom I do not have room for a
larger bed even if I wanted one, here. It does – I sleep....
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