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Os voy a contar la historia de "mi cama balinesa"....
Yo tengo el síndrome de "el obrero en casa", y mi casa parece que nunca se termina. Pero me parece que este rincón ya lo tengo resuelto!!
I´m going to tell you the story of "My Bali Bed"
I have "The handy man always at home" syndrome, and it seems my house is just never quite finished. But I think, I´ll consider this one corner, as finally done!

Cuando mis hijos eran pequeños, tenía toda la piscina rodeada de un muro para que no pudieran entrar, cuando crecieron, fui tirando el muro, por partes, y me quedé con este espacio que veis en la foto, que nunca me terminaba de gustar. Primero puse tumbonas, luego puse la típica casita de niños, que quité cuando la destrozaron los balonazos, luego madera...(perdón por la foto, es la única que he encontrado)
When my children were little, I had a brick wall sorrounding the pool and when they grew up a little, I started demolishing the wall, by parts, and left this space, which I never really liked. At first I put some hammocks, then a children´s toy house, which I took out after they tore it appart shooting the soccer ball, etc.. (sorry for the picture, but it´s the only one I found)

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Y a lo largo de todos estos cambios, mi amiga Eli me decía: "aquí tienes que poner una cama balinesa" Pero no me decidía porque me imaginaba las camas con techo de paja, como la de la foto que os muestro abajo, y me daba miedo que me quitara vista. Pero la de la foto, la probé y sucumbí...
And, throuhgout all these changes, my friend Eli always said: "you must put a bali bed here!" But I had in my head a Bali Bed with hay ceiling, like the one in the picture, and I was affraid it blocked the views. But I tried the one in the picture and then I could no longer live without one...


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Y un día, navegando por los blogs que tanto me gustan, vi esta cama, y pensé que era una estructura muy ligera y que podría funcionar para mi espacio desapovechado.
And one day, surfing through the blogs I love, I found this bed structure, which I thought was very "light" and could work well for my unfinished space.


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Así que me puse manos a la obra e hice un diseño propio, que os muestro. La idea es que, aunque la base es ancha, porque me gusta que el colchón esté embutido y que parezca una sola pieza, la estructura sea ligera y sobretodo, la cubierta plana, para que no quite la vista.
Hice la estructura de hierro galvanizado y la rodeé de bloques de 20 revestidos de porcelánico, dejando un hueco en el interior ajustado al grosor del colchón de espuma de alta densidad, tapizado de cuero náutico que resite perfectamente a la intemperie. La cubierta de chapa marina tintada. Las coritinas son de loneta tratada para exteriores que hace que el agua resbale y no empape.

So I created my own design. The idea was that even though the base is thick and very strong looking (which I wanted because I really like the built in mattress), the rest of the structure is very shallow, and the flat ceiling doesn´t block the view at all. 
I made the structure in galvanized iron, and sorrounded it with 20 cm wide hollow bricks covered with porcelanic tiles, leaving a hole in the inside with the same width as the matress, made of high density foam, upholstered in nautical leather, which is waterproof. The ceiling is made of marin plywood tinted in black, and the curtains are made of sailcloth specially treated for using in the exterior so water slips and does not soak in the cloth.

[Image][Image] Bueno, ¿qué os parece?
Gracias Eli, por tu idea.
Aquí os dejo con más fotos que me sirvieron de inspiración!

So, do you like it?Eli, thanks for the idea.
And here I leave you with some more pictures that really inspired me.



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