The Tables Are Turned Bed is the name given to a new spare bed range especially made for the modern apartment that's the size of a shoebox and has no room for both a spare guest's bed and a decent sized table.
In this case, the table has the extra mattress built into the space underneath the actual top surface. All you need do to convert it into a fabulous comfy bed is to flip it over with the legs now pointing skywards, and use the table cloth as a screen that fits over the four legs, providing privacy and darkness to the person sleeping under its cover.
The Tables Are Turned Bed only comes in one size - long and narrow.
Deluxe version plugs in to provide a heated mattress surface.-- xenzag, Sep 05 2020 Contact IKEA https://www.ikea.co...service/contact-us/Their Nazi owner died already, so there's no problem anymore [pashute, Sep 06 2020] // heated mattress //
Unnecessary if the family dog makes an unsolicited visit in the night-time...
[+] for an interesting new space-saving device; a sofa-bed, but without the sofa...
For tables smaller than the 2000 x 500 form factor, an additional mattress segment or segments could hinge out from the end(s) when the equipment is deployed, thus permitting a 1200 x 500 table to become a usable single bed.
What exactly about this idea is halfbaked, tho ? The only odd part is that Ikea don't already sell these...-- 8th of 7, Sep 05 2020 I forgot to include that it's spring loaded, and at the flick of a switch, bounces itself into its inverted posture, flinging whatever was on the table top in every direction.-- xenzag, Sep 05 2020 But that would be a precursor to nothing less than a combined table and trebuchet, an innovation which your planet has awaited for far too long...
Think of the children ...
<Thinks of the children, particularly the ones that were late to dinner, and then didn't eat up all their vegetables/>
<Manaical cackling/>-- 8th of 7, Sep 05 2020 Yes... I knew this was you posting from the title [xen]. At least I would have placed a fairly large bet on it anyway.
True story.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 06 2020 [+] because its baked. Prooves the idea is good.-- pashute, Sep 06 2020 [kdf] Show me the table with a mattress attached to the underside of its table top, so that when you flip it over it becomes a bed, with the 4 legs now pointing upwards.-- xenzag, Sep 06 2020 I never knew that - the things we learn here at hb school are brilliant.-- xenzag, Sep 06 2020 //that sadly point out a possible flaw in your idea// You do realise this the Halfbakery and not The Practical Sensible Householder? I wear my flawed ideas with pride.-- xenzag, Sep 06 2020 What you do in the privacy and comfort* of your own home is of interest to us only if someone will pay us for the details. As Michael Palin so elegantly stated it, " ... we don't morally censure, we just want the money."
And you should note that we have already bestowed a positive vote for the idea, and merely await its evolution into the Table Trebuchet; springs can fatigue with repeated duty cycles, but gravity is forever. Just remember to grease the axle pivots.
*Obviously if you are a sick, twisted pervert whose first thought of a four poster bed is not comfort and elegance but something involving straps and chains, your concept of "comfort" may diverge more than a little from the accepted norms.-- 8th of 7, Sep 06 2020 It's certainly a superior option than being down and out, like [xenzag] is ...-- 8th of 7, Sep 06 2020 Brought to you by Procrustes Beds Co-- not_morrison_rm, Sep 06 2020 random, halfbakery