Space-Saving Bed Designs – A Tribute To Sarah Goode
The cabinet bed was patented by Sarah E. Goode in 1885. She was a freed slave who lived in Chicago, Illinois, and noticed that many of the apartments in her area did not have enough space to accommodate a bed. She was the first African American to receive a United States patent. Her design included a desk with storage compartments that folded out into a bed.
Here are a few more space-saving bed designs, as a tribute to Sarah E. Goode’s original.
This bed, like Goode’s, folds up to resemble a piece of furniture.
Like Goode’s, this design utilizes the bed frame for additional storage.
Loft beds are great for taking advantage of the space beneath a bed for storage, or for a variety of other uses.
This design uses the space above the bed, rather than beneath it, for a variety of uses as well!
This design forgets about above or beneath, and simply places the bed INTO the wall, a great way to save space!
And this design places beds on top of beds AND into the wall – Sarah E. Goode would probably be impressed!
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