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chailey: Day 1: The empty room
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chailey: Day 2: The main bed board cut to size
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chailey: Day 2: "M-clamp Man" at Mackays
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chailey: Day 3: Battens around the boards
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chailey: Day 3: The bed base more-or-less finished
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chailey: Day 3: Close-up of the bed base and hinge
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chailey: Day 3: Close-up of the bed base and I-beam
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chailey: Day 4: Laying out the parts of the "hinge"
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chailey: Day 4: Finally a bed base that hinges against the wall
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chailey: Day 4: The bed hinged down and balancing on a small table
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chailey: Day 4: The bed hinged down and balancing on a small table
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chailey: Day 4: Detail of the hinge
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chailey: Day 5: Me wielding the circular saw in the garden
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chailey: Day 5: Adding the I-beams and foot-leg
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chailey: Day 5: The foot-leg and I-beams attached
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chailey: Day 6: Centre I-beam attached, and the foot-leg's wings
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chailey: Day 6: Testing the bed for levelness while doing the head end
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chailey: Day 6: Finishing off the head end
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chailey: Day 7: The bed up against the wall with its foot and beams in place
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chailey: Day 7: The bed up against the wall with it's foot and beams folded back too
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chailey: Day 7: Added clasps to hold the leg-wings in place
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chailey: Day 7: The head end folded up
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chailey: Day 7: The head end folded flat
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chailey: The wall bed in situ with bedding
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chailey: Cutting the corners off
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chailey: Cut-off corner with matress
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chailey: Matress pulled down ready for the wallbed to be put up
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chailey: Head end of the wallbed folded up and latched round the mattress
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chailey: Holding up the matress in the wallbed's folded position
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chailey: The bottom leg of the wallbed folded up and latched back