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>>I turned a metal platform bed into a very high platform bed for my son in a room with very high ceilings
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>>Screwed the bed frame to the wall in the corner above the door (so two sides where fixed to the wall)
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>>Cut a leg up and dropped one leg into the cut off part of another to get a very long leg in the corner away from the two sides screwed to the wall .
>>So the bed was above door height and he had all his floor space clear.
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>We will not start that or Michel must set up a woodworker forum. On such beds I don't trust ikea. I have done 3 single layer and one 4 layer bunk beds. Handcrafted. No power tool at all. All chisel, saw and hand drill. I loved to have done it metall free, but found not enough room for the joints. (I'm not a japanese master and only pine wood at hand)
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>But a lot of reworked IKEA stuff. In the days of yore IKEA catalouge was full of idea how to rework stuff, so we got ideas.

I'm terrible at woodwork so I'd rather cut up metal and bolt thing together.