Jolly Green Giant

pishta said

I'd take that queen bedframe and cut it in half and fold up the sides to get a huge floor space available for a dining table. Bolt some fold down benches to the underside of the fold up halves and you got yourself a picnic bench space. Put a receiver on the floor for the table post and possible cut the table top to fit in one of the fold up bed frames as the mattress base. A permananet queen mattress back there is just dead space when you aint sleeping or....? Fold down one side for a single nap. Id pick up camping again if I got a flat bed to sleep on. I'm so done tent camping on a saggy/bumpy air mattress or worse, the floor. A pool noodle sliced through one side captures a plastic bag when placed onto the lip of a 5 gallon bucket. Sit and ****. Port-a-jon for a paint bucket and a buck noodle at Dollar General and the bag just lifts out, tie it off and chuck it in the dumpster.

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I had thought of maybe some sort of fold up bed, but my old construction worker body needs a comfortable bed . We are getting a 6" mattress and I am not sure how foldable it will be. It does take up a lot of space that is for sure.

The bed frame is made out of a couple of frames that were in my scrap pile. I bolted them together instead of welding, so it will be easy to change things up if we want.

It has been about 20 years since we have camped, and that was in a tent with the kids. We never could get an air mattress that would hold air all night.

We have an easy up tent 10x10 that Jenny used to use for selling in craft shows. It fits under the bed, and will give us a little more room to sit and eat in, at least in decent weather. We set it up by the green giant, and it is just tall enough that the side doors will open into it.

Thanks for the ideas and keep em' coming!