BUILDING A FLOATING BED FOR A CAMPER VAN! | with PDF PLANS! 

3 things. 1. Team blue all the way! 2. This is the best unofficial garage tour! 3. Love the simple laid back not afraid to post mistakes mindset when building something. It really makes taking on projects where you think you’re not experienced enough, to having the confidence to try!

Nicely done! I like the design and it seems relatively straight forward to build. I appreciate that you show that you too make mistakes and how nobody is perfect.

First time watching your channel and I must say I am impressed! Seen quite a few variations on the pull out bed but I have to admit yours seems a lot cleaner and smoother operating. Thanks for sharing and you have a new fan from the UK. 👍👍

Brilliant. I don’t need a van for full time living or traveling. Just a weekend camper. This (and the rest of your work) is a perfect fit for my needs… and probably most others who don’t have 100k to spend on a van

Outstanding! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! I've been looking for sliding bed plans. Perfect.

Perfect inspiration for my build! Im building out an old vanagon, and want to repurpose this concept for the size of my van! Thank you!

Great to see build detail videos--plase do many more! Ditto selling plans. Thank you for sharing the benefits your valuable experience! 👍👍

I’ve got a craftsman cabinet makers table saw that I purchased at a garage sale for 75$ that does everything that expensive saw does and it’s a cast iron table,belt driven beast!

Great video ... really well done. I've been looking for ideas on just such a bed/drawers plan. My only critique: Safety glasses... Be safe!

Good video. Good review of the Laguna Tools cabinetsaw. Liked the feature highlights and yes to the 'one tool to build them all' style video. If you don't own a table saw, you likely know somebody who does. I've loaned take saws out to friends and family. I actually keep a portable contractor saw handy just so I can keep people out of my personal workshop and let them make their mess at their own place. 🤣 Also my liability is zero if they cut something off they shouldn't have... Been thinking of a new cabinet saw purchase recently and Laguna Tools is getting a thorough once over because of this video. Really like that fence... The digital blade tilt angle display feature is neat too. I was particularly impressed with the lack of time wasted fumbling for a tape nature to check each setup and how seemlessly you moved from cut to cut. Yes it's an edited video, but you still did several in one shot and it was a good display of the saws capabilities in practical use. Like the clean modern design and smooth operation of your bed design. Very much like the double bed pull out bench in our vintage Airstream, except your design is sleeker, smoother/easier to operate and legless so no scratches on the hardwood floor we installed. Well done.

Your skills are insane. Love this. 💛🇬🇧💛

Awesome design. I learned a lot from this project!

Awesome! Amazing craftsmanship!

I’d totally buy a kit, pre cut and ready to assemble based off my Astro van measurements.

You are amazing, your builds are beautiful and so space conscious. Thank you for sharing!

I think this is exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you!

Looks awesome man , better than my first “one piece slide out plywood” build. I’ll have a crack at it tommorow. Have a couple sheets of 18mm bb ply, just waiting to get used up

Great video with a beautiful fnished product, cheers man!

Hey, you make the table saw look SWEET.

Toda una obra de arte Muchas gracias !!!

Beautiful work, looks tidy as!

The best van bed I’ve seen yet!

Very cool! Great job and thank you for sharing! 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎉🎉🎉

Love this build! 👍

Damn you are talented. Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing.

contractor saw ... hand down from grandpa... Thanks guy, for making me feel REAL old today ... I have that saw !!! :D

I’m absolutely thrilled you have released this video and these plans! You do the finest work of any of the RU-vid van pages. I plan on doing an NV200 in the spring and will definitely be buying these plans. Another $20 coming your way if you release plans for the kitchen cabinet on the other side as well! Keep up the good work

Nice video, love the table saw.

A great video for what I needed. Thanks from Herbie Herbert South Wales UK

Excellent design Thanks 👍

great design, Im going to be converting a uhaul in the next couple years and think that couch/bed would be perfect, just going to modify it to a L-shape couch

I enjoy bench table bench splitting extending bed. Top🎉🎉

You are good, I built cabinets for about 10 years, before my wife said I had to get a job with health insurance. Our first child we payed out of pocket. So in 1979 I went to work for Union Pacific Railroad. I was a pilot in Vietnam so I became a corporate pilot for Union Pacific Railroad.

Enjoyed your video, production, instruction, etc... Got me subscribed... YUP hit that like button!

This is what I’m thinking for a secondary bed. Waiting to see what Van I get when ready lol

Nice cabinetwork man

very good your videos. I'm building a camper and the information is very important.

This is great, thank you so much for showing this, because, I'm thinking to buy a Van, I'm in South Africa, I will have to have someone ❤❤❤

Awesome! I have learned so much from your videos. I also wonder if there needs to be a thin sheet of ply under the mattress... Thank you!

Beautiful work & love your shop! Trying to figure out how to make a storage based convertible bed for my 4 door wrangler. Just discovered how very little I know about wood working. 🤦🏻‍♀️

u don't think u like to saying that is the best simplicity true way to earn, trust your intuition, bravo

Love this!

I love this style for a camper bed and definitely plan to incorporate it. Couple of questions. when putting a mattress/sleeping pad on this, when its extended, are the slats enough support for keeping the pad from sagging in between the slats. they look like they might be pretty far apart. I'd consider moving them very close without binding, maybe 1/4" apart, so only a couple inches wide when opened. next, the fact that there is no solid "top" covering the drawers, do you find much dust, dirt or debris getting into your drawers? is there a justification to add a solid board under the bed slats and above the drawers to block that out, or is it just overkill? thanks much.

Nice build.

Love the video! ❤

Love your videos and your build, Josh! I just bought the plans and am wondering how the dimensions change to fit into 2013 transit connect.

Very helpfull sharing thanks a lot.

Great build. I am on year two of my Walmart Futon sofa bed. It is heavy, takes lots of room though is comfortable and tough. There is a local company in Las Vegas doing van bull outs so I guess five years from now if I finish the interior I will look at having them do it. The brief finished van photos you show look great.

Josh you're an absolute legend! I've just finished the build for our VW Caddy Maxi with a few modifications for the wheel arch and 1/3 2/3 independent pull-outs so it can also be an L couch, but the DNA is 100% Briarwood Vans. All I ask now is can I buy some of your sweet leather handles? 🙏🙌

Very cool!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘🤘

Bruh it’s beautiful

Nice build

Josh, What kind of wood did you use for the front of the bed? It’s beautiful. Your skills in designing and building are amazing. Great video.

It looks super cool! (as the table saw ;). I was looking for something like this as a proyect for me and my dad, Thank you for the plans! On the other hand Im the only one who thinks he looks like Devon Werkheiser?

I would’ve liked to have seen the “deflection” on the expanding side from someone laying on it. Super clean looking build though 🤘🏼

So stoked for this! Thank you!! Question - what are the dimensions of the finished bed?

I like the bed and how you grain matched all the from pieces. A simple step but one many forget. Nice if you decide to leave with stain instead of paint. I also really like your handy swinging hose arm. Wish my kreg jig had a vac port.

well done 👍👍👍

Legend!!

O RU-vid me mandou este vídeos, talvez porque gosto das duas ideias: marcenaria e camper embora esta última esta mais latejante no meu coração posto que estou prestes a trocar minha Spin/GM de 7 anos por uma Van Iveco/Fiat, de 18 anos. Uma loucura diz meu marido mas é meu sonho andar sem destino e contemplar a natureza. Amei seu vídeo, embora já tenha visto essa forma de fazer esta cama aqui no Brasil mas detalhadamente, nunca vi, por isso agradeço muito por compartilhar. Outra coisa, fiquei encantada pela sua organização, show. Mas, se aceitas uma sugestão (I am shame😅) colocas uma música calma, de fundo, no lugar do estarrecedor som da máquina cortante de madeiras. E por último, não menos importante, obrigada por compartilhar seus conhecimentos você nos ajuda, em muito, só o som da máquina cortando a madeira que me deixou maluca😅. Thanks for share. I'm brasilian woman.

About drawer pullers/handles, making them from a soft material (leather/nylonstraps) will save you a ton of bruises in a small space like a camper. I would never use anything else.

Hey Josh Great video and great bed ! What van did this fit in ? Would it fit in a L1 (SWB) Transit Connect ? Thx Kev

You had me for 12:40. I could just tell you're awesome and share that with you. There you go, it's the top of the compliment sandwich. And then the negative meat: "But we're not going to do that." Hey, it's your build, your bed, your video, your voice, and respect. So good on ya. However, if you're trying to appeal to me and people like me, tell me (or us) WHY you don't want to use a bolt [with recessed nut], or a lag bolt but instead use screws. TELL US WHY!! Not "We're not going to do that." WHY NOT? Do you want to teach? Then teach. And to finish off that sandwich, I'll watch the remaining 4m.

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awesome and inspiring !! \

Totally dope you're selling your bed plan. Get a patent, too!

Since I will be building out for a 2017 Ford Transit 250 Medium Roof van and locating the bed in the back left side over the wheel well, I'll be changing the width of the bed and won't be installing a full middle drawer. My finished bed frame will be 27" x 74" and high enough to clear the wheel well which I will have to measure later.

It’s AMAZING build bed! I wonder if this will fit in my Metris Mercedez Van since it have the tire shape half way up from the floor and I see your bed is complete straight on the back. 😢

No comment! $20. Wow

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sick!

Love the bed how do you make this without all the big tools

This is superb. My only observation is that those slats are too far apart. I think a cushion is going to have issues over time with that much of a gape when open. Brilliant though. Thank you.

Great

I strongly suggest adding crosscut sled, much safer more accurate

Gracias

This is super great! Love the build plans! What was the build cost?

Does the ball catch replace the locking mechanism built into the drawer slides? In terms of how your bed locks in?

Very nice build. One suggestion is eye protection and a mask. Thanks for the video.

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Parabéns

Great build, I’m mid build but eyeballing the video makes calculations difficult for me. Does the pdf allow an input of desired size and alter everything accordingly ? Does it also have metric options (no biggie as I can convert) ? There’s only two things we still use the imperial option in Australia . New born baby weight, and measuring our……😂

Table saw is the best thing for you because you got it for free

I love your video where are you located i would like to have you make one of this beds

Is this sturdy enough to convert a 27" bed to a full, for 2 people to sleep on? or should I add some front legs... I'll obv modify the accordingly...

is there any reason why you couldn’t use pocket hole joinery for the slats , for a cleaner look ? Curious you are using push sticks over a grr-ripper . Just personal preference?

Hi Awesome job where do I purchase fully assembled ?

I really like to buy one for my suv(hyundai palisade)

Planning on buying the build plans but was curious how many sheets of plywood are needed for this project?

Have you done any Toyota Sienna build?

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Step 1: Become a cabinet maker.

Since the bed extends to the kitchen cabinet when open, instead of the 500 lb. drawer slides, why don't you just use some cleats built onto the kitchen cabinet to support the movable bed? You could build angles into the cleats and bed bottom, ala French cleats, to keep the movable bed from sliding off the cleats at night. You could make the cleats rotatable (bolted to the uprights) so they could be rotated to prevent the drawers/doors from opening when driving!

I'd rather have seat belts then a few sock drawers. I used a Toyota space van folding seat that I restuffed and covered. Maybe $120 and three hours bolted in.

Really nicely done. What type of plywood are you using?

Attempted this without the plans , bought the plans as I couldn’t get the mechanism working smoothly . Still having trouble getting it perfect and I’m 6 years experience in woodworking . As he mentioned , if you don’t have a table saw it’s going to be difficult . I believe This is the sole reason I’m having difficulty. 1 or 2mm out in one panel can throw everything out of whack. My advice- *dont attempt this without a table saw at all unless you have a proper plunge saw ( not an accucut or cheap jig) *ensure all pocket hole joins are flush , especially the base joints. Again, 1mm or 2 out throws everything out of whack. * ensure work surface is level prior to building. I put a level on my floor where I built most of it , but didn’t go all around the room. Use a spirit level , and double check by measuring before moving on to the next part , especially when it comes to drawer slides. Even when I used spacers as suggested, I was out 10mm on one side of the drawers . The plans themselves were very easy to read , but can I suggest a few things to consider adding to them ? *metric conversions added and to imperial (for Australian and Uk customers) * the reference or formula for custom modification ( I.e. if you want to make 600mm wide instead of 500 then list the pieces that need to be altered and the adjustments . I worked it out ; but forgot to alter a couple pieces and had to recut. * extra measurement info. The plans say to install drawer slides flush to the top. The drawer slides I purchased are the most common heavy duty in Australia, and aren’t a square top (they curve) if I knew the height of installation it would have saved less time. Thanks mate , keep up the good work Luke, Australia .

Great video, but I didn’t see how you left space for the wheel well humps.

Could this be expanded to be wider -- probably 54" would work as a double. Thanks.

I Love your Designs, it is sad that I am from Germany, I would Love to have Build my Van from you! How Long does it take to Build that Nissan Van? Perhaps you come to Germany and make 2 or 3 Months Holiday here☺️… you find definitly More People to make something here…

When the bed is pulled out, how does that front section get supported?