We added a wooden board to fill up the remaining space of the frame. This will later be used to build a head rest with some storage options. We then screwed four wooden blocks on the walls that support the bed once it is in sleeping mode. The next step is figuring out a way to lift the bed to the ceiling when the night falls.
Then we found a long heavy blue stone that we cut in two pieces. We drilled two holes on top of each stone and used plugs to secure hooks onto the stone. We then used steel cables to connect the stones to the four bed corners (one stone connects with the left corners and one with the right).
We first build a bed frame out of repurposed wooden beams. We made it so we could ‘click’ two steel mesh bed frames into the wooden frame. These were necessary since our matras is made entirely from sheep wool by ANKVA, which needs good ventilation. In 10 years we can go back to them and have them take apart the matras, wash the wool and put on a new fabric so we can last another 10 years.
To do this we first attached pulleys on the ceiling that are hovering above each of the four corners of the bed. We then added two more double-pulleys on the ceiling, towards both wall corners. Next we screwed hooks on the four corners of the bed.
Because the bed is almost the same weight as the stones we can easily lift it up and slide it down without breaking our backs.