Bunk bed

It's a bunk bed on top. It's a closet with a chalkboard on the door. It's a workspace with a desk, chair, and storage compartments. All that and it's good-looking too. Which means it's basically a miracle.

Alas. It's not for sale.

It was designed in 1975 by Luigi Colani for a German company called Elbro and from what we understand, is no longer in production. So unless you happen to have a source on a vintage specimen (if yes, please share), we'll all have to wait for Ikea to make a knock-off.

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(It could really solve some of my small-space living dilemmas.)
Remodelista posted this just plain amazing yellow bed/desk/cubby number on Friday and I only saw it now. It is simply so many layers of wonderfulness (not a word, I know, but I am overcome). It took me straight back—yes, this is one of those completely self-indulgent and pointless posts we bloggers are noted for—to the waiting area of the Sears Portrait Studio in Oklahoma City where I used to have my annual portraits made as a child. This waiting area contained a similarly shaped cartoon-viewing cubby, which seemed like maybe the most awesome thing in the world at that time. I can't explain why watching old Merrie Melodies cartoons in that photo booth-shaped nook was so much more fun than watching them on TV at home, but it was. Anyway, on a practical note, isn't this sucker well-designed? Bed on top, ladder integrated into the desk, full-on work station inside with a chalkboard wall on the outside, and I think there's even a little closet in the back. Read More »