The Living Bed

This is a bed with live vines growing from under the bed, up the four posts, and covering a trellis acting as a canopy.

I envision this bed made out of either drift wood or rough hewn wood. Artistically, I would like to carve wood sprites, fairies, and wood gnomes very lightly into the wood grain of the post, the foot and head board. Subtlety is the key there.

The canopy will be a wire trellis that has a seam down the middle, perpendicular to the way you would sleep on the bed with hinges to where they attach to the posts. This will allow the the bed to be taken apart without having to kill the plants growing on it, as they will fold down toward the foot or head of the bed so they can fit through doorways as needed.

The ivy( not poison) will be grown in two aeroponic tanks that include pumps at the head and foot under the bed with a nutrient water tank in the middle of them. The tanks are hidden under the bed and the water tank is removable, again allowing the bed to come apart for easy (well, mostly) moving.

Why aeroponics? The research shows that plants that are grown in such a system grow better, faster, stronger than those in soil. Something about more oxygen being available for the roots. You won't have soil to mess with- no creepy bugs, no changing when it gets impacted, and no heavy wet dirt to lug around.

You will need grow lights or skylights above the bed but the whole thing (pumps, lights) can be operated on a timer or a pressure switch under the mattress that keeps everything off while you are in it.Optional are white holiday lights to emulate the stars among the leaves.

So enjoy sleeping under stars flickering past the forest roof with creatures of the woods peeking through the leaves, right in your own bed, right in your own room.