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Designing a flatpack brutalist bedkevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2025_07_flatpack/
213 sats \ 4 comments \ @deSign_r 22h Design
Moved into an unfurnished apartment and founded by a professional woodworker friend that just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, the author has been designing a bedframe inspired by Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer flatpack brutalist bed.
Why make it complicated, when it can be so easy? Siebenschläfer‘s individual elements are interlocked at lightning speed for assembly. Completely without screws or other connecting parts. Thanks to the asymmetric construction the bed also cuts a fine figure. Simply a dream bed!
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @endothermicdev 6h
I used to make a lot of stuff out of plywood - laser cut or CNC routered. I always thought it was a shame that these designs are never quite universal. That is, if you want a tight fit, each slot needs to be the exact width of the actual plywood it's slotting into. The process was always:
  • design
  • collect materials
  • update design with actual measurements (seldom are the labelled thicknesses of plywood or acrylic accurate)
  • layout tool paths
  • cut
Of course, if you don't mind sanding down the slot afterward, you can leave the dimensions slightly undersized, but I always thought that defeated the point of having CNC precision.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs 15h
It sure seems amazing to stub one's toes on... 🌝
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 14h
hahahhahahahahahahahaha
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 14h
I quite like how that looks. And the ability to pack it flat is pretty cool. Problem is nice plywood gets pretty spendy. I wonder how it would look with a more construction-grade plywood.
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