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The Stretch Bed
A flat-packable, washable bed made from recycled plastic, heavy-duty canvas, and galvanised steel. Designed in community for the conditions that break ordinary furniture: heat, dust, freight, and crowded houses. A good bed is health hardware, not furniture.
Specifications
- Weight
- 26kg
- Load capacity
- 200kg
- Dimensions
- 200 × 95 × 57cm
- Assembly
- ~5 minutes, no tools
- Design life
- 10+ years (design intent)
- Plastic diverted
- 20kg HDPE per bed
- Price
- $750
How it goes together
Two galvanised steel poles thread through the canvas long-edge sleeves and the top holes of two crossed-plank X-legs. Tensioning pulls the poles deep into the leg holes, so the canvas itself is structural: the bed will not stand without it, and nothing needs a screw or a tool.
Recycled HDPE plastic X-trestle legs
Two crossed-plank "X" trestles, pressed from community-collected plastic waste · Defy Design, Sydney (current) / On-Country (future)
Galvanised steel pipe
26.9mm OD × 2.6mm wall, 1950mm length · DNA Steel Direct, Alice Springs
Heavy-duty Australian canvas
Fully washable, quick-drying · Centre Canvas, Alice Springs
Every bed carries 20kg of recycled HDPE out of landfill, pressed into legs at a plant that can move to community ownership.