From design to built
The sleeping boxes became real: a wood-lined retreat for each of them
7/10
likeness to the winning design
The winning idea, raised wooden sleeping boxes with built-in storage, steps up to the bed and windows looking out to the shared room, was built in warm plywood in the room with the arched window. The photos show the boxes taking shape and being lived in, with the cozy all-wood interior, shelving and fold-down desk the design imagined. Some details took a simpler form, and the build looks partly in progress in several photos.
What was kept
- The central idea of self-contained sleeping 'boxes' inside the big room, each giving privacy while sitting within the shared space
- A fully wood-lined interior on walls and ceiling, very close in feel to the warm wood render of the inside of a box
- A raised bed platform reached by built-in steps beside the storage front, as in the render where stairs appear behind the cabinetry
- A storage wall on the outside of each box with cupboard doors and handles
- A sliding window set high in the box, linking the sleeping space to the room
- Open shelving beside the bed, upper cabinets near the ceiling and recessed ceiling lights inside the box
- The low unit with three round openings in front of the box, matching the row of circles drawn on the plan
- The arched window and pale walls of the room, which the renders were built around
What changed
- The box exteriors are plain plywood with a visible grain rather than the smooth pale-oak finish of the renders, and some faces may still be awaiting their final finish
- The front storage wall is simpler, with a few large cupboard doors instead of the many slim drawers and long vertical pulls
- The high window is a single white-framed sliding window rather than the wide dark-framed glazed band with curtains
- Inside, the upper storage is boxy sliding-door cabinets, and a hinged fold-down board serves as the desk in place of the little bed tray
- The soft bedding is peach rather than the render's bright green, and the botanical art isn't seen in the photos
- The rooms are carpeted rather than the pale stone-look floor of the renders
Highlights
- Lying in the finished box with the laptop on the fold-down desk: the 'room within a room' idea clearly works as a private nook
- The wood-wrapped interior with glowing downlights feels as snug as the render promised
- The front view of the box beside the big arched window, steps tucked to the side, reads just like the design's elevation
- Seeing the boxes go up piece by piece with family hands on the panels
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