DD's mattress needed replacing not long ago, so we got her a lovely new one to st in her old Ikea bed.... when we got the mattress home, it became apprent that the old frame was a special ikea size, not standard single.
We are in the midst of deciding to move, not to move, to buy, tlo rent blah blah blah.... the idea was that we were going to buy a 2 bedroom unit and DD would get a loft bed in order to create her own space underneath - as sooner or later she will end up sharing her room with the baby. Now that I am in NEST NOW phase i really want to get her room all set up regardless of what we do, iinstead of waiting to buy her bed until after we move.
But - she often still gets out of bed for snuggles during the night. Do you think a loft bed is the best idea?
I am really tossing this one up.... thinking instead to get her a slightly raised bed with storage underneath - then maybe a loft bed when she gets older, and the baby can take that bed.
I guess I am asking for experiences with loft beds, age you started using, if it failed, etc?
My DD (now 10) has a cabin bed (half the height of a bunk bed but with a pull out desk and storage room underneath). She's been in it since she was 8 and loves it! It has a really long solid rail on the side (DH keeps telling me we should take it down but I'm not convinced). My DD gets out of bed throughout the night as well but has always been able to navigate down the ladder ok. We have another thin mattress, and scatter cushions, lamp etc underneath DD's so she uses it as a chill out/reading/napping space.
But I'm a bit cautious of having a higher loft. They are usually much higher than a regular bunk (safety worries, more tricky to make the bed, etc) plus it's hot up there near the ceiling in summer! I'm not convinced that the space underneath would be fully utilised unless it has very well planned storage features.
I bought ours second hand from a lady at work (it's a nice wooden one). I have seem similar, at Harvey Norman or Freedom or somewhere like that. They are definitely called Cabin beds. Have you looked at the Ikea site?
oh bugger, I thought I had found the easy way out and you were going to tell me exactly where I could get one!
Yes we have been checking out Ikea, but everything I like DD doesnt.
We recently went to harvey norman and yes they had a great one - but by the time we bought that, and a desk and a bookshelf/storage unit it would have been close to $2k. She already has a really good mattress, we just cant spend that much at the moment!
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