Outdoor bedroom under the redwoods

For curling up with a good book, it's hard to beat this outdoor bed under the redwood trees. Inside the bed's mitered redwood frame, a recessed plywood platform rests on 4-by-4 posts and supports the twin-bed air mattress.

In the second example, San Francisco architects Cornelia and Derek Claudius used the low space under a steeply pitched second-story roof for an extra bed. They built a low stud wall with a framed opening that leaves the roof beams exposed behind the bed. Storage drawers pull out below the bed; low compartments open to the side.

Inset in the screen frame are panels of diagonal redwood 1-by-2s, with open triangles at the bases to add visual interest. Design was by landscape architect Jack Buktenica of Palo Alto, California, for Sunny Birkhead, Mountain View.