Got some time this week to get on with woodworking, and I’ve made something I’ve been planning for months at this time but couldn’t get to doing:

So yeah, it’s simply a pine wood structure composed of two 100x60cm2 boards, one of which is simply lying on the shotgun and rear seats when folded, and the rear board has a cutout for that weird grey shelf of the trunk, and I cut some mortises in it to fit the base I made for it.

Here you can see the mortises and tenons more in detail. I went with this instead of screws because it’s cheap and doesn’t require additional hardware, it’s easy to assemble and disassemble, and I honestly have fun banging mortises with the chisel and mallet

Here you can see it with the foldable high density foam mattress I picked up on AliExpress for like 45€, which is honestly more comfy than expected if you don’t mind a hard bed. I’m a super tall guy so the whole thing needed to be 2m long, and I made it 60cm wide, the same as the mattress.

The support structure for the bottom conveniently disassembles into three pieces and takes very little space in the trunk!

Finally, the whole thing disassembled and in the trunk. I’m quite stoked of how it turned out. The total cost hovers around the 80-90€, I spent essentially 45€ on the mattress (whose plastic cover will obviously be removed once I start using it) and around 40€ on the wood you’re seeing (I locally bought for 85€ a 22mm thick pine board of 240x120cm2 and used about half of it). There’s really not much more to it, since I used no hardware, and I banged it all using handtools on the roman workbench I featured in my previous DIY post.

Oh btw the car is a Renault Grand Scenic from 2006, an old diesel beater I bought for 2000€ with 200.000km some months ago with this idea of travelling around Spain with it. It’s pretty long so it’s nice for a tall guy like me to be able to lie down fully inside it, and also it’s quite fuel efficient, running at around 4.6L/100km in my experience over the past months.

Thanks for taking a look :)