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The Best Bed for a Minivan Camper

The bed is the most important item in a minivan camper. The 22" wide wedge pillow allows for the bed to have a couch mode and lounge mode. It's also nice that the couch mode and lounge mode don't use the entire width of the bed. I built the bedframe by modifying an REI Kingdom Cot 3. To widen this cot, I cut the cot in half. Then I used 4' wide unistrut sections to attach the left and right halves of the cot back together. The panels that fit on top of the bed frame were contructed from 1" pink insulated foam. Then I glued window screens to the top and bottom of the foam. These panels are lightweight, and the panels can be moved while inside the minivan. There are several youtube videos that describe this construction process. I hope my bed provides you with some good ideas!