Matthias, It's good to see you slowly catching up with the woodworking videos as the kids are growing. I am really glad to see more videos from you. A unique combination of engineering, woodworking and purely common sense. Best of luck, dude. 👍
This is really cute! When I was growing up, my sister and I shared one of these right angle bunk beds. A tip: My dad built a custom bookshelf to fit under the ladder area to act as more storage
I've been watching you for years. Years and years of over-engineering problems and "Honey, do's"... I will never, ever get tired of watching! Cheers, good sir!
Nice to see how you reuse old things. 👍 We had the same setup for our kids some years ago. I guess it will not take long until they figure out that it is a lot of fun to jump from the upper into the lower bed 😉 Greetings from southern Germany.
My kids took one day before they figured to jump from upper to lower. I had to reinforce the plywood platform of the lower, because they broke the first one.
Of all the woodworking channels out there, it's the oldest and best established where we can still get ideas on how to get roadside trash back in service.
As an older brother who shared a bunk with his younger brother i appreciate the dynamic at the end between the kids saying "that one's yours!" "No....well... ok"
@@matthiaswandel my little brother tried the top bunk for about a month but probably rolled out of bed about 4 times in that time frame so we had to switch.
When I was younger my big brother and I had a right angle bunk bed like this, except the top bunk was higher, maybe 6 feet. I had the top bunk. The first morning after we got it assembled I wasn't used to waking up 6 feet in the air, so I got outta bed like normal. But this time I fell ~5 feet straight down and landed on my peacefully sleeping brother! He was NOT happy to be woken up by my accidental body slam!
Another nice bit of work, thanks for sharing. I had one little thought, maybe it would help the kids get into the top bunk if the ladder sides were taller for them to hold onto until they were in the bed.
I'd say you've got two fairly happy sons there buddy lol the wife just asked me what the tool was that you used for the fixings, I told her it's called a pantorouter. It impressed us both.
nice. strongly propose adding cross braces to the underside of the rails of top bunk to prevent slats from slipping off the ledge. happened to me when kids lay across the width and kicked the other side. this widened the distance between rails. other option - screw down a slats to the ledges
even just one brace in the middle will do it, a number of years ago I built an elevated double bed in this style, after a couple of months the sides shifted enough that the slats fell through, added a brace to tie the sides together and never had another issue.
@@IIVQ dowels will stop them moving in the head/foot direction, what we're talking about here is the siderails splaying out enough that the slats fall through, for that you need something strapping the two siderails together (or some really beefy side rails).
@@SomeMorganSomewhere Ah. My (2person) bed has beefy side rails and a nonbeefy centre rail, but the dowels keep the two slats butted up to each other so there is no reason for the centre rail to move lateral. It did twist, so I made some "gusset plates" at the end to stop that from happening - and as an undesigned feature stop my cats from crawling into the space between the drawers and then into the drawers to nap on the no-longer clean sheets
What a great tools you have there... amazing. I planned to make a bunk bed for the kids few years ago, and prepared a DIY cross dowel jig for this project (I made a video about it), but finally I didn't build the bed, since we got a used loft bed 😀. Now due to lack of space, I plan to extend the loft bed height to a bunk bed in about 50cm, and I wonder if using wooden dowels to connect extension, will be safe enough? Or I should replace the legs completely...🤔
Hi Matthias! Those bolts are usually pointy for screwing into inserts. Helps align the insert with the bolt. Maybe it's possible to chuck it in a drill a sharpen on a belt sander like you did with the dowel? Regardless, that make-shift tool works 😁
@@natalieisagirlnow Sure, but next time he does something like this he has other options. Besides, if he's anything like most woodworkers I've met (including me), that makeshift tool probably disappeared about five seconds after he didn't need it anymore.
@@jeffspaulding9834 and he literally made it from a soda can 30 seconds before he used it, which he could again, if he happens to find that exact bunk bed on a trash pile again
I hope you fixed down each board of the duckboard (I hope that is the right term) while assembling my first bunk bad, my mum fell down because it wasn't fixed down, nearly killing me in the process because I was down there playing arround. Well I say nearly but I was lucky I was there in my wodden babybed which saved me from getting crushed.
Getting from the ladder onto the bed looks difficult. Extending the ladder rails a little higher would make it easier . Also safer for descending. Though just bailing over onto the lower bed would also work.
Only a matter of time before one of them does a 'Macho Man' style elbow drop from that top bunk 😂 great bit of repair work though to get this piece of furniture back into working order 🙌
Thank you (again) for another great and creative video. 👍 Btw. : As a Camper, I wonder how a creative genius like you will convert a Car or Van into a Micro- or Mini-Camper. Maybe an Idea fon a 2-3 Week / Episode Project? 😍
Huh. No massive fight over sleeping rights of the "top bed." Come one now...we all know the top bunk is way way cooler. Unless, unless the bottom bunk can be covered completely with the sheets from the top bunk creating a cave like structure. Then the coolness calculus would flip, of course.
thanks for the video i would put a 1x4 across bottom of the slats on top bunck and screw every other slat so they cant be moved and or pinch little ones fingers. like the shape of a humans back but flat
It’s worth noting that if you have ikea furniture and you’re missing some hardware, you can fill in a form on their website and they’ll mail you the parts, free.
@@matthiaswandel I'm guessing Jysk. We have an almost-identical single-over-double bunk that our kids shared at our vacation home when they were younger.
Matthias, It's good to see you slowly catching up with the woodworking videos as the kids are growing. I am really glad to see more videos from you. A unique combination of engineering, woodworking and purely common sense. Best of luck, dude. 👍
Tell him, not us 🤣🤣
Absolutely right. I edited the post
15 years later, Sturdy Cricket bat to ward off boys chasing after my daughter.
@@JOSEPH-vs2gc hahahahahahahahahaahahaah
I am from Pakistan i am your big fans i like your wood work i also carpenter
Mee too brother
He's a genius
This is really cute! When I was growing up, my sister and I shared one of these right angle bunk beds. A tip: My dad built a custom bookshelf to fit under the ladder area to act as more storage
I've been watching you for years. Years and years of over-engineering problems and "Honey, do's"... I will never, ever get tired of watching!
Cheers, good sir!
I love how you turn old stuff into something useful again. I liked your red cart video too, that was awesome ingenuity.
Absolutely love that even though he is the goat on yt in the woodworking community he still finds scraps to mak his projects.
Great video. The last 10 seconds are pure gold. You’re awesome!
Nice to see how you reuse old things. 👍
We had the same setup for our kids some years ago. I guess it will not take long until they figure out that it is a lot of fun to jump from the upper into the lower bed 😉
Greetings from southern Germany.
My kids took one day before they figured to jump from upper to lower. I had to reinforce the plywood platform of the lower, because they broke the first one.
Of all the woodworking channels out there, it's the oldest and best established where we can still get ideas on how to get roadside trash back in service.
I like to use a telescoping magnetic part picker-upper tool to hold the barrel nuts while I thread the bolt in. Great video :)
I'm in love with these videos of you making things better for your kids! And out of reclaimed materials!
I just love how Matthias is holding his laugh in the end, with the brothers conversation 😂
Tiny humans working out their differences!! It truly warms the heart!
That pantorouter depth stop is a great idea
Children.... what a lovely gift humanity have. Beautiful job. Thanks for sharing.
Always amazes me what contraptions he's come up with! You see that dowel shrinker!? Amazing
As an older brother who shared a bunk with his younger brother i appreciate the dynamic at the end between the kids saying "that one's yours!" "No....well... ok"
There was a lot more of that, but rachel made me cut it out
@@matthiaswandel my little brother tried the top bunk for about a month but probably rolled out of bed about 4 times in that time frame so we had to switch.
Excellent video and great solution for beds placement! 👍
Looks cool! Nice, that this bed didn't go to lumber, but was updated and fixed!
and elevated.😜
Good insertion tool... I got inspired by you, to use magnets more often in my work flow... So I used magnets for this insertion job recently :)
Hadn't even thought of magnets. That would be good if the hole is not oversized.
Or just glue the opennings shut with dowel and screw with frickin deck screw, and be done with it 🤔👍😇
It's great to see you back making stuff Matt
I love your up-cycling videos. It's amazing what you can do with someone else's trash.
Pretty cool to see how the pantorouter has evolved. The t slot system with those clamps in particular seem like a nice addition.
Your solutions amaze me every time (after all these years!) Rob
I always enjoy your style of woodworking and tips you use to overcome problems you make it look effortless.
I hope to be like yourself when I become a father. You are more than just a woodworking role model
When I was younger my big brother and I had a right angle bunk bed like this, except the top bunk was higher, maybe 6 feet. I had the top bunk. The first morning after we got it assembled I wasn't used to waking up 6 feet in the air, so I got outta bed like normal. But this time I fell ~5 feet straight down and landed on my peacefully sleeping brother! He was NOT happy to be woken up by my accidental body slam!
"accidental"
@@monstertrucklt The voiceover inside his head sealed the deal "Rage in the cage '89 right here at the bunkbed dome"
Growing up, we had a small house, so my dad made a bed with 3 bunks. I'm glad I wasn't the one on the "nosebleed" top bunk.
I think you are getting your terminology mixed up. That would be called “going off the top rope” .
Matthias, you are a wonderful dad.
Always satisfying to watch your work. Been subbed for years now!
Thank you for your wonderful videos, you are always so cheery and you make me smile 😊 Best wishes to you and your family from Scotland 🌿🌿🌿
Great find and customisation. Looks like the customers are very happy with it.
Thank you for sharing, your kids are wonderful
Awesome modification to the legs. Wasn't it nice to not have to build the whole bed this time?? 😉💕👍
I enjoy watching your videos
Great job, dad!
Beautiful kids!
Nice work. Loved the way you used the sander to slim that dowel to fit.
Brilliant, Matthias! Fantastic work! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Nice kids, and warm family!
That is almost exactly the constellation I slept in as a child. Being the oldest I had the upper bed ;)
imagine tossing out your old bunk bed only to see it being repurposed like this !! love it
Another nice bit of work, thanks for sharing.
I had one little thought, maybe it would help the kids get into the top bunk if the ladder sides were taller for them to hold onto until they were in the bed.
Lovely kids, Mathias.
Meticulous Mathias, what a pure joy to watch!
I had a right angle bunk bed as a kid. It had a built in dresser on one end and behind it was a little reading nook.
Nice technique for narrowing the dowel diameter. A belt sander, a handheld drill and jig to hold the dowel in place. Nice!
Nice video and build process!
I'd say you've got two fairly happy sons there buddy lol the wife just asked me what the tool was that you used for the fixings, I told her it's called a pantorouter. It impressed us both.
I like the design. It's simple to build, but modern and sturdy with minimum material.
It surprises me to be the first to comment you video! I have been following you for over 7years. You are always producing miracles ! with wood.
Might be worth getting a piece of pipe insulation and sticking it on the bottom corners of bunk over the other bed to avoid any future 'head impacts'.
You can get babyproofing "edge guard" made for this purpose.
Or swimming pool noodles.
I did the same thing in my shed. It's now a less angry place 👍
@@kwizmon oooh that's a great idea..
Pool noodles were recommended at my dorm
As usual, creative, Matthias
nice. strongly propose adding cross braces to the underside of the rails of top bunk to prevent slats from slipping off the ledge. happened to me when kids lay across the width and kicked the other side. this widened the distance between rails.
other option - screw down a slats to the ledges
even just one brace in the middle will do it, a number of years ago I built an elevated double bed in this style, after a couple of months the sides shifted enough that the slats fell through, added a brace to tie the sides together and never had another issue.
I put small dowels inbetween the slats (around the end ones and then every 3-4 slats) so they can't move far.
@@IIVQ dowels will stop them moving in the head/foot direction, what we're talking about here is the siderails splaying out enough that the slats fall through, for that you need something strapping the two siderails together (or some really beefy side rails).
@@SomeMorganSomewhere Ah. My (2person) bed has beefy side rails and a nonbeefy centre rail, but the dowels keep the two slats butted up to each other so there is no reason for the centre rail to move lateral. It did twist, so I made some "gusset plates" at the end to stop that from happening - and as an undesigned feature stop my cats from crawling into the space between the drawers and then into the drawers to nap on the no-longer clean sheets
What a great tools you have there... amazing. I planned to make a bunk bed for the kids few years ago, and prepared a DIY cross dowel jig for this project (I made a video about it), but finally I didn't build the bed, since we got a used loft bed 😀. Now due to lack of space, I plan to extend the loft bed height to a bunk bed in about 50cm, and I wonder if using wooden dowels to connect extension, will be safe enough? Or I should replace the legs completely...🤔
50 cm is quite an extension, might be ok if you use four 3/8" dowels in the legs.
@Matthias Wandel Thanks!! ❤️
@@XDIY definitely add some cross bracing if youre going up that high.
@@ionstorm66 Thanks. I think I will replace the legs... (result probably be at my channel one day, when I have time for this project 🙂)
Its lovely to notice how your kids growing! Itms im old viewer 😀
Excellent redesign & retrofit for a real upcycle! Can't redesign toddler genetics though. The fight for the top bunk is hardwired in us.
These videos sure have come a long way since your bachelor days of making marble machine videos.
Oh my goodness your kids are growing up so fast! You're gonna have to start making tiny roll up desks for them. Lol
Always a joy to watch Matthias 😊
Great video, so cute!
Hi Matthias! Those bolts are usually pointy for screwing into inserts. Helps align the insert with the bolt. Maybe it's possible to chuck it in a drill a sharpen on a belt sander like you did with the dowel? Regardless, that make-shift tool works 😁
steel rod with a magnet might work as a tool to insert those threaded inserts as well. Insert should stick to the end of the rod well enough
@@krahaborowski or he could do what he did because it's done?
@@natalieisagirlnow Sure, but next time he does something like this he has other options. Besides, if he's anything like most woodworkers I've met (including me), that makeshift tool probably disappeared about five seconds after he didn't need it anymore.
@@natalieisagirlnow sure, but for me, big bolt and a HDD magnet would be easier to find in a workshop. And that would work in a tight hole too
@@jeffspaulding9834 and he literally made it from a soda can 30 seconds before he used it, which he could again, if he happens to find that exact bunk bed on a trash pile again
lads are class, obviously the older boy gets to pick the better bed.
Good work, I'm just waiting for the first jumping contest from the upper to the lower bed though :D
Very inventive!
Your mortice and tenon joints look incredibly precise. I wonder what kind of designs you cut out for fancy and unique joinery.
Nice job. Good Daddy. 👍
Oh boy, angling the beds guarantees they'll be jumping from one to the other.
Is that a new style of clamp on the pantorouter?
EDIT: I mean the black one. Looks like it's just to set the depth.
A new stop, not a clamp.
@@matthiaswandel that stop is brilliant!
The ultimate in reuse!
Now that’s a great dad!
Cool project
very clever working
I hope you fixed down each board of the duckboard (I hope that is the right term)
while assembling my first bunk bad, my mum fell down because it wasn't fixed down, nearly killing me in the process because I was down there playing arround. Well I say nearly but I was lucky I was there in my wodden babybed which saved me from getting crushed.
So much room for activities!
Awesome!
I too always wanted the top bunk. Now I'd rather sleep on the floor than climb a ladder.
Matthias doing a quick bed conversation/ assembly, still in the same clothes he wore to the morning’s job interview.
Wait, he's hiring!?
Mathias, if you put a nut on a bolt before cutting it, it acts like a thread chaser, and makes less work in the long run.
Sooo good!
The Wandel army is growing- we must protect Rome!
The kids are so cute.
Nice work very professional.. those clamps that fit the extrusion table..how do they called?
Quick Release Ratcheting Table Clamps. Sometimes marketed for multi function table (MFT) systems like what you see in cnc routers or laser cutters.
@@DullPoints can't find it on amazon .. maybe in stores. Thanks
A genius!!!!❤❤❤❤
what i love most about all of this is he doesnt measure shit. its all based on reference
I would say the committee approved the bed upgrade.
Getting from the ladder onto the bed looks difficult. Extending the ladder rails a little higher would make it easier . Also safer for descending. Though just bailing over onto the lower bed would also work.
Yes, brother, you're cool.
7:06 pure joy
Only a matter of time before one of them does a 'Macho Man' style elbow drop from that top bunk 😂 great bit of repair work though to get this piece of furniture back into working order 🙌
There's definitely going to be some wresting moves coming off that top bunk
So fun, so cute...
OMG! Maybe we’ve seen them before, but a FESTOOL clamp! Tell me it’s not true. Maybe Mathias found it on the curb!?
Reminiscent of my (tiny) college room mod. Put bunks in same configuration & conserved space by using 1 of 2 desks to support upper bunk.
very cool idea to meet the space. However, I agree with your children that there should have been two top bunks
I used your aff link at ecoflo for a delta max, hope you got the credit
Thank you (again) for another great and creative video. 👍
Btw. : As a Camper, I wonder how a creative genius like you will convert a Car or Van into a Micro- or Mini-Camper.
Maybe an Idea fon a 2-3 Week / Episode Project? 😍
Good Dad!
Huh. No massive fight over sleeping rights of the "top bed." Come one now...we all know the top bunk is way way cooler. Unless, unless the bottom bunk can be covered completely with the sheets from the top bunk creating a cave like structure. Then the coolness calculus would flip, of course.
“That’s one’s yours!”
“No! …. Actually that makes sense”
thanks for the video
i would put a 1x4 across bottom of the slats on top bunck and screw every other slat so they cant be moved and or pinch little ones fingers.
like the shape of a humans back but flat
It’s worth noting that if you have ikea furniture and you’re missing some hardware, you can fill in a form on their website and they’ll mail you the parts, free.
if its an ikea product, and you have the product code for it. neither of which is the case here.
@@matthiaswandel I'm guessing Jysk. We have an almost-identical single-over-double bunk that our kids shared at our vacation home when they were younger.
In the case of 2:45 the "proper fastener" appears to be a binding barrel.