This was super fun to see once it was built. There's a piece of furniture in our bus! Matt designed and built it with a touch of mid century modern in mind because we plan on using some of our current decor in the bus eventually. We have this super cool lamp that will go on a floating shelf next to the sofa. We wanted a place for guests to sleep but also to function as our entertainment space. We also decided we wanted to store our battery bank inside the bus away from the outside elements. With that in mind, we needed the couch to have three purposes: a sofa, a bed, and provide storage. A rough sketch was drawn then the cutting began. The carcass was cut from 3/4" sheets of birch. The front rail, arm rest, and top rail are cut from maple. The armrest functions as storage with each top being hinged with full overlay hardware. The back rail of the couch seat is stationary from front to back but is hinged up and down. We attached every other 1x2 to the back rail with screws. We did the same process to the front rail, keeping all the 1x's spaced evenly using an upright 1x as a spacer. The slats that are fixed to the front rail were then fastened on the back to a 1x that sat just in front of the back rail on the underside. This proccess is a bit tricky to explain but not that hard to build.
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