I can't tell from the pictures, but these almost look too small to sleep in. Would people curl up inside them? I'd like to see a human for scale
People were also smaller.
Reasons medieval people slept in cupboards
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#12I would love this. I've never understood why humans waste square footage on large bedrooms. Seriously, I could sleep in a closet and be perfectly happy.
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#13I would love this. I've never understood why humans waste square footage on large bedrooms. Seriously, I could sleep in a closet and be perfectly happy.
In the current culture bedrooms are more than simply a place to sleep. In multi-member households, a bedroom is typically a person's only personal space.
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#14Wasn't the average human slightly shorter than today?
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#15It looks like a wooden version of Tokyo capsule hotels.
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#16Wasn't the average human slightly shorter than today?
yes, through it's mostly unrelated to the "cupboard bed" design. Today you "just" would make them a bit bigger, as they in the end replace your bed they don't consume much more space then your bad.
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#17I would love this. I've never understood why humans waste square footage on large bedrooms. Seriously, I could sleep in a closet and be perfectly happy.
Some issue with bringing this design into today:
- air quality (especially if closed off), less air volume means the air gets bad faster
- air humidity, raises faster through sweat in a cupboard setup, for the same reason the inner tent of good tents tends to be made of a fabric which allows air humidity to go out of the inner tent (I think, haven't bought a tent forever)
- fungus mainly due to the higher humidity/reduced ventilation the chance to have a fungus infection in your box (and also/especially the bottom of you mattress)
All of this where issues back then too, just so much smaller then the risk of freezing.
A risk we currently tent to not have in apartments due to better heating, insulation (even on non insulated housed due to better closing windows and better thermal isolating glass). Not being in a short little ice age also helps.
Capsule hotels are somewhat of an modern version of this. They tend to have some form of AC in every capsule to fix the air quality issue and hugely reduce the humidity and in turn fungus issue
If you are stuck in a situation where idk. heating is broken and its dam cold creating a similar setup by e.g. butting a tend on your bed can still be a grate idea.
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#18I would love this. I've never understood why humans waste square footage on large bedrooms. Seriously, I could sleep in a closet and be perfectly happy.
In the current culture bedrooms are more than simply a place to sleep. In multi-member households, a bedroom is typically a person's only personal space.
“Personal space” for anyone below the rank of, say, a duke is a very recent trend
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#19When I was young and had a bunk bed it was pretty normal to box the lower bunk in with sheets, cushions from the couch — whatever — just to make it into a cave-like thing. Suddenly I want something like this again.
Bed-tents are a thing
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#20When I was young and had a bunk bed it was pretty normal to box the lower bunk in with sheets, cushions from the couch — whatever — just to make it into a cave-like thing. Suddenly I want something like this again.
We called that, among other things, "making a fort." Do today's helicopter kids not do that?
as kids, we used to call it "making a den" :)