Things You May Consider When Building A Bed.
When your child is growing there is not much left that separates them from being a boy and being a man. However while trying to be adult like they still cling to endearing childhood items like toys, but want more adult like things. You can quickly run out of room for them and then the problem becomes how to give them storage while allowing them to have room to express themselves and grow.
We considered many things, although perhaps the best solution was a loft bed. It would allow him a place where he could sleep, a place to hang out beneath it on a folding futon, as well as a place where friends and family could sleep if they needed to spend the night. And at the foot of the bed we would be able to put a desk for all his homework assignments. It was still young enough to be cool, and allowed quite a bit of growth with the impending transition into teenager.
There are some important things to note when building your own bed. Accurate measurements are extremely important. Getting an idea of how high the ceiling is, as well the size of the mattress. For our means we were planning on giving him a queen-sized mattress.
With many things that can go wrong, you do not want to have bad measurements waste all of your expensive materials. Once you have the materials you can head to the hardware store and begin shopping for wood. My son loves the smell of cedar, it reminds him of camping outdoors, so we decided we would spend a little extra for the top rail surrounding where he would sleep.
One of our neighbors came over to help, with transporting the materials in his truck and even offered to bring his saw over. We were more than happy to accept his help. Of course we had thought he was bringing over a table saw, imagine our surprise when he pulled out his chainsaw. Note to self, husqvarna chainsaws do not make very good table saws.
We checked the measurements again before cutting the wood, honestly it could not hurt to make sure everything was accurate. We could have always bought more wood, but really no one wants to have to. Better safe than sorry. Our son even got wrapped up in helping out with the project. He enjoyed helping me measure and then helping the guys nail everything together.
The frame was built with supports to keep it from wobbling. We also added a desk at the foot of his bed a place where he was able to put his homework. We placed the ladder to climb up into his bed beside his desk at the foot as well. Because we have family that visit from time to time and he enjoys having friends over we wanted some place that could act as seating and bedding should it be needed as such.
A wooden futon was a great addition to the place under his bed. We had decided simply going out and purchase an affordable futon frame and spend the extra on a nice mattress that was thick and comfortable to lay on was perhaps the best course of action. All that was left was to buy the bedding, I had to make him put back the nice army motif king quilts that he chose. We still got queen-sized bedding in his army colors, however they did not have the army motif in the queen-size.
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