Toots, as always, you are KILLING it! That second one, is that the same color as the competition orange Mustang main body color?
It's been a long few months, and in the last 2 or 3 weekends, I've gotten no sleep, trying to get the bed done before the move. With all the stuff going on with the move, and the little bit of work I still have to do on it (mostly small alignment/adjustment issues), I decided to hold on so as not to rush it, but here's where I'm at right now with my bed frame:
The boards won't actually stick out like in the bottom picture, that was just to see how they all line up. I wanted a platform-style bed frame that would be easily movable, and this is what I came up with. All 5 sections are completely separate. The tops and bottoms of each have a 5.5" gap (3.5" in from the edge on the tops, 9.25" in from the edge on the bottoms) to fit a 1x6 board that will be fitted with cleats, to hold the sections together from the inside of each box.
Each section also has a 1x4 on each inner edge, which will be a rail, for homemade crates that I build to slide on, which will have all my clothes in them, except the stuff I have to hang up (nice clothes, jackets, etc.). One cool thing that I intentionally wanted with the rails is that they're just open from end-to-end. So, if it's just me, I could have the bed with one side up against the wall, and pull all the crates from one side, or if I met a woman and she moved in with me, I could have the bed in the middle of the room, and the crates could be pulled from either side.
I sized it for a queen-size mattress. Most of the body of each section is ACX plywood, with the ends and other visible sections being oak. There will only be about 2" on the left, right, and bottom (foot) edges that will show, so, you'll never see the plywood. I'm planning for a headboard (haven't started building yet, but the plans are pretty much done) that will just slide into 2 slots on the side of a box on the one end. The box will be screwed into the head-end section shown here, and is already built.
So, whenever I need to move, mattress comes off, I'll remove the 2 top boards with cleats, and then each section can be removed and carried separately. Each section is 14.5" tall x 17" wide, by 65" long, so SUPER easy to move (through doorways, up/down staircases, and with their solid rectangular shape, could sit on a hand truck nicely). In a truck, they could stack, etc. It's not perfect, but for what I want, I think the design is pretty cool! It's been 2 years since I bought a good mattress, but I've never had a frame for it. I'm really starting to chomp at the bit to get it done
In the next couple weekends, I'll get the final adjustments finished, everything will be sanded to a final grit, stained, and clearcoated. Then I get to have fun building the crates!