bed i'm working on.
-they didn't have decent plywood, so i am treating this as a full scale mockup.
headboard is taller than i intended (full 4' as height, but worked out well in terms of where it fell on my body) and feels sturdy enough with no center support.
-i probably need some sort of mattress support up against the headboard, when you sit up all of your weight is on the very edge and the mattress slouches a bit.
-there is a little bit of racking, you have to "square up" the bed. but i'm not sure its worth putting any sort of diagonal bracing in.
-i need to play around with putting the slots in the headboard
-i could probably think of something more elegant than masking tape to hold the center 2x4 on its ledge.
-the long boards will be trimmed so that they align with top of the headboard.

everything went pretty smoothly, it gave me an excuse to use the 18v cordless circular saw that my dad passed on to me and i hadn't tried out. seems pretty cool.

any comments appreciated before i do it for real.

the proportions are noticeably different than the sketchup model views--it feels fine in person but the model view looks leaner. 12" vs 8".

and i guess i should probably sleep on it.