Friday, September 09, 2005

Opinions, Please

My kid wants a bigger bed. He's tired of waking up with arms and legs hanging over the sides of his twin, and I'm pretty tired of him trying to weasel his way into my queen. Would it be feasible to get a full-sized loft thing (like from Ikea), and put that over his existing bed? That way he has a place for his friends to sleep (now they sleep together on the futon in the TV room, but they're going to be too big to want that/fit there soon).

Any thoughts?

8 comments:

Peg said...

Doesn't sound like an unreasonable request if he's hanging off like you describe.

I just hopped over to ikea.com and found 7 loft beds but they all appeared to be twin-size. I would maybe consider having a friend (or a trusted friend-of-a-friend) build you one to spec, if you have trouble finding a full-size. Good luck with that.

BabelBabe said...

i think you are going to be hard pressed to find a full-size loft. peg's suggestion is good.

although i slept in a twin bed till i was twenty-something so perhaps i am the wrong one to ask : )

Katy said...

In fact, IKEA does have full size loft beds. They only show the twin size ones on their website, I think, so you have to go to the store. They won't be in the children's furniture area, though, they are aimed at 20-somethings in miniature studio apartments.

They also make bunk beds with a twin on top and a full size on the bottom, both with and without desks and such integrated. Probably not available at IKEA though.

Gina said...

I did see the full-sized lofts at Ikea, and that's what I had in mind. My question is whether it will be stupid-looking and cumbersome to put a loft over a regular bed...

Sarah Louise said...

I think it would be cool--sort of like a fort. I had an actual loft as a child (we had a great house) and the loft was the one place noone else could go without permission. I think it's a great idea, Gina.

Gina said...

We shall see . . . if anything hinders this, it will be the cost of the mattress--ouch!

I'll post a picture if we do indeed end up with a fort. :-)

Joke said...

Um, why don't you put the twin OVER the full? Is the "footprint" of the thing an issue?

-Joke

Gina said...

Putting the twin over the full is much more expensive. I ended up getting a full-sized loft from Ikea and putting it up over the twin. Luckily, we have high ceilings--the bed's about six feet high--so it feels really huge up there.

Sadly, it took me four hours to drag the thing into the house (I was able to bring it home in my Toyota Corolla--I tied the mattress to the roof), hoist it upstairs, and put it together. The boy was out cold long before it was ready for sleeping, and he's staying at his dad's tonight. All that work, and he won't even get to try it out until tomorrow night.