Cognisant
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Has anyone done this before, does anyone know how to do it?
I have this idea to make a combined bed & desk using cardboard sandwiched together like the chair in the picture below.
This is for people living in share houses where noise is a constant issue, be it either the noise of one's flatmates (who are often shift workers doing irregular hours) or from a nearby road, construction site, train line, whatever, after all the whole point of being in a share house is to save money and the cheapest places tend to be in shitty locations. As you may have already guessed the bed encloses the occupant and their mattress and the 20cm or so thick walls of corrugated cardboard serve to muffle noise, not entirely of but enough to make sleeping and not murdering one's flatmates easier.
Another issue faced by people in share houses is a lack of space, almost everyone has their own computer and they want to use it in the privacy of their own room, but cheap places tend to have small rooms and trying to fit a full sized bed and desk into a room is going to be a tight fit even if the room is quite large. With the bed being enclosed the top of it (about 110cm high) can be used as a standing desk space, it's not better than having a proper computer desk but it's quite a large surface and by combing the bed and desk you get a lot more space in the room as well.
Which brings me back to my opening question, if I'm going to sell these things I'm going to need to have it manufactured and I've tried contacting Chinese companies through Alibaba but the replies have been less than encouraging. For example I ask for the maximum length and width of cardboard sheet that the company can currently make, they reply that they do custom sizes, that doesn't help. They gave me the dimensions of a pallet of cardboard but either it's extremely small or they don't know the difference between meters and millimeters. I still haven't got any kind of indicative quote out of any of them.
I have this idea to make a combined bed & desk using cardboard sandwiched together like the chair in the picture below.
This is for people living in share houses where noise is a constant issue, be it either the noise of one's flatmates (who are often shift workers doing irregular hours) or from a nearby road, construction site, train line, whatever, after all the whole point of being in a share house is to save money and the cheapest places tend to be in shitty locations. As you may have already guessed the bed encloses the occupant and their mattress and the 20cm or so thick walls of corrugated cardboard serve to muffle noise, not entirely of but enough to make sleeping and not murdering one's flatmates easier.
Another issue faced by people in share houses is a lack of space, almost everyone has their own computer and they want to use it in the privacy of their own room, but cheap places tend to have small rooms and trying to fit a full sized bed and desk into a room is going to be a tight fit even if the room is quite large. With the bed being enclosed the top of it (about 110cm high) can be used as a standing desk space, it's not better than having a proper computer desk but it's quite a large surface and by combing the bed and desk you get a lot more space in the room as well.
Which brings me back to my opening question, if I'm going to sell these things I'm going to need to have it manufactured and I've tried contacting Chinese companies through Alibaba but the replies have been less than encouraging. For example I ask for the maximum length and width of cardboard sheet that the company can currently make, they reply that they do custom sizes, that doesn't help. They gave me the dimensions of a pallet of cardboard but either it's extremely small or they don't know the difference between meters and millimeters. I still haven't got any kind of indicative quote out of any of them.