Arrived quickly, not too difficult to assemble, and seems fairly sturdy. Had minimal damage during shipment, damaged parts replaced quickly and without hassle. very pleasantly surprised
My 5 year old LOVES this bed. I was able to put it together in 4 hours, would have been faster with another adult, I did use my 11 year old to help with some holding up while I put in screws. Came in 3 boxes, fairly quickly. And instructions are easy 5o follow. I did use a power drill, otherwise it would have taken much longer. Very sturdy bed. However the wooden slats to hold up the mattress are not as strong as Id like so I will replace those with some from depot. He loves the little fort he has made underneath. Easy to assemble just takes a while
I LOVE this bed! The one thing I had an issue with was some of the instruction diagram clarity, but once it was all said and done we are so happy with it. when the desk is pulled out, she even uses the space under the bed as a fort/play area. this bed is definitely heavy and when fully assembled it is sturdy. I may dread if i ever move though, as I will have to probably disassemble it to get it out of the house with everything. I recommend this bed for anyone looking for a space saver, or even just for an elevated bed for their kids. its not too high and there are guard rails all the way around. safety and security on this are definite bonus points! LOVE LOVE LOVE
I purchased with assembly. One month later I was notified by text the night before the morning assembly was scheduled that the technicians were not qualified to put the bed together. I figured how could I if they arent? I managed. The bed itself is nice, thus far. I like functionality and grey color. My lo loves it. This product is pretty decent for the price
My daughter LOVES her new bed! There is so much space underneath for storage or play! It was pretty easy for me to put together by myself but definitely time consuming! and came earlier than expected
My son wanted a loft bed, we needed a bigger desk for remote learning, and we needed to make the most of the space in his small room. A half loft was the only thing that was practical, and after looking around a bit I was surprised at how few options there were for a half/loft, and at how expensive they seemed to be (or on the other side, featureless). I was attracted to this bed for likely the same reason you were, because the price is high but not too high, and it seems to have lots of great features. Reading some of the reviews that mentioned the cheap materials, I was hesitant. However without many options, and trusting in my moderate woodworking skills to supplement the build if necessary, I decided to order it. For me this turned out to be a great decision, but there were a number of problems that could easily be deal breakers for people who are more discerning than me. Ill highlight those problems (there are plenty), talk about whats great (also plenty), and give a couple tips about what to do to make up for the deficiencies of the product.
First off, the materials are NOT cheap. It IS made of some sort of composite wood, but that wood is sturdy, straight, and tough. It will scratch if you scratch it, but it isnt soft like a lot of composites. It didnt gouged by tools touching it and it wasnt warped anywhere. Also, the pre/drilled holes were perfectly aligned, so everything fit together really snug and tight. Maybe they changed their supplier since those previous reviews were written, but it does not seem like they cut costs on the materials to meet the price point.
On the other hand, the hardware is of terrible quality (like literally every single piece of assembled furniture I have ever bought). For the most part, this does not matter, as super cheap screws are perfectly sufficient to keep something this small sturdy and tight. I only stripped one screw during assembly. A better screw would not have stripped out, but it was ultimately my fault as I didnt take the time to turn down the torque on my drill, and I didnt position myself to get the right leverage straight down into the screw. The one piece of hardware that should definitely be replaced is the casters. The bed uses a bookshelf to support the desk, and two casters are mounted underneath so that it slides under the bed. These casters are incredibly cheap. They may be sufficient to support stuff that should be put on a desk like books and laptops, but as soon as you put any amount of weight on it from even a slight lean, the caster breaks. Or at least ours did. Its not just how cheap the casters are, but their placement. Any force that isnt straight down is going to put a stress on its components that it is not designed to take. Ill go into more detail about what you can do below.
Another significant problem is that the instructions are awful. For most of the build this is really no problem at all, as the pieces are all well labeled with letters or numbers and the build is basic enough that its hard to do the wrong thing. However the instructions have almost no words and the 3d drawings are poorly made and poorly printed, so when there is any confusion, it is really tough to figure out what is going on. This was a particular problem for me when mounting the ladder. The ladder can be mounted to the right or left side, and so it has cavities for wooden pegs and holes for that hardware drilled into both sides, even though only one side receives that hardware. From the drawing of that portion of the instructions, it looks like one screw is supposed to go into one of these unused cavities, but this wouldnt seem to serve any purpose and would require drilling a hole into the ladder to reach that cavity. I spent a half an hour trying to figure out what I was supposed to do before I realized that the drawing was actually showing that screw going into a different space that was lower down and perpendicular to where I thought it was going. The instructions werent wrong, just really difficult to interpret.
The final thing that you should really consider is the size. I measured the space it was going into and made some mental pictures and had some plans, but even knowing the exact size the thing turned out to FEEL a lot bigger than I expected. It is really big. I ended up moving a dresser and a small bookshelf out that I had not planned on moving. I suggest taping out the footprint of the thing on the floor (including with the desk pulled out) AND the wall and then using a tape measure or some cardboard or string to mentally mark out the third dimension. Ultimately the size turned out to be a net positive for me, but it was something that diverged from the expectations I had when I bought it.
Okay, so now for some positives and smaller negatives.
As I stated above the size is actually pretty great. This is our first full bed for the kids and it is like an ocean to them. The dog (who can jump up top with no problem) also likes to perch and look out the window. Underneath, behind the dresser and the desk, there is also a massive space that every kid will love as a secret lair. The pictures I saw online made it look kind of like the dresser goes all the way to the back (which made no sense as it would be way too deep to be useful if that were the case). Theres actually a titch over 24 between the dresser and the back of the bed (more than that for the desk). Its too small for a toddler mattress but with a couple of firm couch cushions and some gullible children it could be used as bunk bed. Certainly its big enough for a sleeping bag for sleepovers. We just put down a mat, a couple over/sized pillows, and put in a touch light. Even shoved a couple boxes of hot wheels down there and there was still plenty of space for the lair. Still on the subject of size, the desk is absolutely perfect. A lot of full loft setups have these mini/desks that are barely even usable, but this thing is big enough for me to use it. It wasnt ideal, but one day when my son really wanted some company I set up my laptop behind his and used the opposite side of the desk with very little discomfort. As the desk was the main feature we needed for the short term, I was extremely happy with what we got. Another neat thing about the desk is that it needs to be cleaned off to be slid under the bed, which makes it a lot easier to get my kid to clean up his desk at the end of the school day. If he doesnt then he doesnt have as much room to play. This isnt a perfect incentive, he can find plenty of reasons that cleaning up the desk is just too high a price to pay, but sometimes it works.
Overall the three features, the desk, the dresser drawers, and the bookshelf are all great. The drawers are pretty small, but they slide in and out great, and the tracks can be adjusted easily so they teeny bit higher or lower to keep the drawer faces from scraping each other. The bookshelf on the back is sturdy and a good size. Its a perfect depth (most bookshelves are a little too deep in my opinion, but the shelves are a little short so over/sized books wont fit in them (thats on the books as far as Im concerned). The big problem with the bookshelf is that you need to be aware of the space needed to use it when placing the bed. If you want to place the bed in a corner, then that bookshelf will either have to go unused or flipped around so it can be accessed from the lair. The bookshelf that serves as the leg for the desk is basically unusable as a bookshelf because of how much motion there is. Its not rough to pull out and put away, but any books on there would just spill out to the floor unless they were wedged in really tight. You could DIY a small bungee around the front to hold books in too I suppose. We just put stuff on there that is heavy enough that it isnt going to fall out. Right now its a couple pairs of shoes and an abacus.
So finally, some simple ways to make it function better. I understand that for a lot of people it seems completely wrong to spend a lot of money on a brand new thing and then have to buy replacement parts. Yes things should work right out of the box. If thats something that causes you lots of frustration, then you probably shouldnt buy this bed. The way I look at it is that Im spending 500 on a bed and another 100 on a mattress so spending another 20 to make it work exactly the way I want to isnt a bad deal.
First is the casters. Casters are a weird thing to buy. They seem to be categorized by wheel size, but those sizes dont seem to be standard (eg. I found some categorized as 2 that were 2 and some that were 1 and 7/8). The total height is what is the most important measurement in this case (wheel and mounting mechanism). Too high and the desk will scrape up against the bottom of the bed and wont go in all the way. Too low and it will be a little bit slanted. The total height you need is 2.25. The ones I got are 2.3 and they work but the desk is really close to scraping the bottom of the bed. If the floor has ANY imperfections (or a dime gets in the way), you will might have an issue. Personally I also think the thing needs 4 casters located close to the 4 corners. Kids should under no circumstances be climbing on top of the desk but if (which of course means when) they do, or if (again when) they lean on it too much, or if you blamelessly take a hold of it without thinking while pulling yourself off the floor, then having two wheels will be unstable. The thing isnt going to go anywhere, but it might wobble or tilt, which could pop a mounting screw or something. If you have 4 located near the corners, then it will be pretty tough to do anything that would compromise them. The bed comes with eight mounting screws for the 2 casters, so dont forget that if you are going to use 4 then you will need to get some mounting screws too.
Anyway, here is a This is awesome!
It was easy to put together. The boxes did not arrive together. Which was annoying and why I wont give it 5 stars. My son loves it. It did have a weird or strong smell. Easy setup and sturdy!
Easy to assemble for me. Recommend drilling all your screw holes go deeper than they have it. Also clean out the dowel holes. For the steps at the end that dont have pre drilled holes make sure you make you own holes. One of my nuts wasnt threaded so I tapped it with my tap set its a 1/4/20 thread. Also I got a 10 mattress that left me with 3 to spare definitely not tall enough Id recommend a 6 mattress for this bed. I had nothing split when I assembled it only took me 4 hours to do it alone. I bought espresso doesnt match any of my other furniture Love this product. No issues.
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nice kids bed
Arrived quickly, not too difficult to assemble, and seems fairly sturdy. Had minimal damage during shipment, damaged parts replaced quickly and without hassle. very pleasantly surprised
Great bed, worth the money
My 5 year old LOVES this bed. I was able to put it together in 4 hours, would have been faster with another adult, I did use my 11 year old to help with some holding up while I put in screws. Came in 3 boxes, fairly quickly. And instructions are easy 5o follow. I did use a power drill, otherwise it would have taken much longer. Very sturdy bed. However the wooden slats to hold up the mattress are not as strong as Id like so I will replace those with some from depot. He loves the little fort he has made underneath. Easy to assemble just takes a while
Great bed! my daughter is so happy
I LOVE this bed! The one thing I had an issue with was some of the instruction diagram clarity, but once it was all said and done we are so happy with it. when the desk is pulled out, she even uses the space under the bed as a fort/play area. this bed is definitely heavy and when fully assembled it is sturdy. I may dread if i ever move though, as I will have to probably disassemble it to get it out of the house with everything. I recommend this bed for anyone looking for a space saver, or even just for an elevated bed for their kids. its not too high and there are guard rails all the way around. safety and security on this are definite bonus points! LOVE LOVE LOVE
Dont waste your money on assembly
I purchased with assembly. One month later I was notified by text the night before the morning assembly was scheduled that the technicians were not qualified to put the bed together. I figured how could I if they arent? I managed. The bed itself is nice, thus far. I like functionality and grey color. My lo loves it. This product is pretty decent for the price
Great bed for a great price!
My daughter LOVES her new bed! There is so much space underneath for storage or play! It was pretty easy for me to put together by myself but definitely time consuming! and came earlier than expected
A great bed for a great price with flaws that could easily be intolerable for reasonable people.
My son wanted a loft bed, we needed a bigger desk for remote learning, and we needed to make the most of the space in his small room. A half loft was the only thing that was practical, and after looking around a bit I was surprised at how few options there were for a half/loft, and at how expensive they seemed to be (or on the other side, featureless). I was attracted to this bed for likely the same reason you were, because the price is high but not too high, and it seems to have lots of great features. Reading some of the reviews that mentioned the cheap materials, I was hesitant. However without many options, and trusting in my moderate woodworking skills to supplement the build if necessary, I decided to order it. For me this turned out to be a great decision, but there were a number of problems that could easily be deal breakers for people who are more discerning than me. Ill highlight those problems (there are plenty), talk about whats great (also plenty), and give a couple tips about what to do to make up for the deficiencies of the product. First off, the materials are NOT cheap. It IS made of some sort of composite wood, but that wood is sturdy, straight, and tough. It will scratch if you scratch it, but it isnt soft like a lot of composites. It didnt gouged by tools touching it and it wasnt warped anywhere. Also, the pre/drilled holes were perfectly aligned, so everything fit together really snug and tight. Maybe they changed their supplier since those previous reviews were written, but it does not seem like they cut costs on the materials to meet the price point. On the other hand, the hardware is of terrible quality (like literally every single piece of assembled furniture I have ever bought). For the most part, this does not matter, as super cheap screws are perfectly sufficient to keep something this small sturdy and tight. I only stripped one screw during assembly. A better screw would not have stripped out, but it was ultimately my fault as I didnt take the time to turn down the torque on my drill, and I didnt position myself to get the right leverage straight down into the screw. The one piece of hardware that should definitely be replaced is the casters. The bed uses a bookshelf to support the desk, and two casters are mounted underneath so that it slides under the bed. These casters are incredibly cheap. They may be sufficient to support stuff that should be put on a desk like books and laptops, but as soon as you put any amount of weight on it from even a slight lean, the caster breaks. Or at least ours did. Its not just how cheap the casters are, but their placement. Any force that isnt straight down is going to put a stress on its components that it is not designed to take. Ill go into more detail about what you can do below. Another significant problem is that the instructions are awful. For most of the build this is really no problem at all, as the pieces are all well labeled with letters or numbers and the build is basic enough that its hard to do the wrong thing. However the instructions have almost no words and the 3d drawings are poorly made and poorly printed, so when there is any confusion, it is really tough to figure out what is going on. This was a particular problem for me when mounting the ladder. The ladder can be mounted to the right or left side, and so it has cavities for wooden pegs and holes for that hardware drilled into both sides, even though only one side receives that hardware. From the drawing of that portion of the instructions, it looks like one screw is supposed to go into one of these unused cavities, but this wouldnt seem to serve any purpose and would require drilling a hole into the ladder to reach that cavity. I spent a half an hour trying to figure out what I was supposed to do before I realized that the drawing was actually showing that screw going into a different space that was lower down and perpendicular to where I thought it was going. The instructions werent wrong, just really difficult to interpret. The final thing that you should really consider is the size. I measured the space it was going into and made some mental pictures and had some plans, but even knowing the exact size the thing turned out to FEEL a lot bigger than I expected. It is really big. I ended up moving a dresser and a small bookshelf out that I had not planned on moving. I suggest taping out the footprint of the thing on the floor (including with the desk pulled out) AND the wall and then using a tape measure or some cardboard or string to mentally mark out the third dimension. Ultimately the size turned out to be a net positive for me, but it was something that diverged from the expectations I had when I bought it. Okay, so now for some positives and smaller negatives. As I stated above the size is actually pretty great. This is our first full bed for the kids and it is like an ocean to them. The dog (who can jump up top with no problem) also likes to perch and look out the window. Underneath, behind the dresser and the desk, there is also a massive space that every kid will love as a secret lair. The pictures I saw online made it look kind of like the dresser goes all the way to the back (which made no sense as it would be way too deep to be useful if that were the case). Theres actually a titch over 24 between the dresser and the back of the bed (more than that for the desk). Its too small for a toddler mattress but with a couple of firm couch cushions and some gullible children it could be used as bunk bed. Certainly its big enough for a sleeping bag for sleepovers. We just put down a mat, a couple over/sized pillows, and put in a touch light. Even shoved a couple boxes of hot wheels down there and there was still plenty of space for the lair. Still on the subject of size, the desk is absolutely perfect. A lot of full loft setups have these mini/desks that are barely even usable, but this thing is big enough for me to use it. It wasnt ideal, but one day when my son really wanted some company I set up my laptop behind his and used the opposite side of the desk with very little discomfort. As the desk was the main feature we needed for the short term, I was extremely happy with what we got. Another neat thing about the desk is that it needs to be cleaned off to be slid under the bed, which makes it a lot easier to get my kid to clean up his desk at the end of the school day. If he doesnt then he doesnt have as much room to play. This isnt a perfect incentive, he can find plenty of reasons that cleaning up the desk is just too high a price to pay, but sometimes it works. Overall the three features, the desk, the dresser drawers, and the bookshelf are all great. The drawers are pretty small, but they slide in and out great, and the tracks can be adjusted easily so they teeny bit higher or lower to keep the drawer faces from scraping each other. The bookshelf on the back is sturdy and a good size. Its a perfect depth (most bookshelves are a little too deep in my opinion, but the shelves are a little short so over/sized books wont fit in them (thats on the books as far as Im concerned). The big problem with the bookshelf is that you need to be aware of the space needed to use it when placing the bed. If you want to place the bed in a corner, then that bookshelf will either have to go unused or flipped around so it can be accessed from the lair. The bookshelf that serves as the leg for the desk is basically unusable as a bookshelf because of how much motion there is. Its not rough to pull out and put away, but any books on there would just spill out to the floor unless they were wedged in really tight. You could DIY a small bungee around the front to hold books in too I suppose. We just put stuff on there that is heavy enough that it isnt going to fall out. Right now its a couple pairs of shoes and an abacus. So finally, some simple ways to make it function better. I understand that for a lot of people it seems completely wrong to spend a lot of money on a brand new thing and then have to buy replacement parts. Yes things should work right out of the box. If thats something that causes you lots of frustration, then you probably shouldnt buy this bed. The way I look at it is that Im spending 500 on a bed and another 100 on a mattress so spending another 20 to make it work exactly the way I want to isnt a bad deal. First is the casters. Casters are a weird thing to buy. They seem to be categorized by wheel size, but those sizes dont seem to be standard (eg. I found some categorized as 2 that were 2 and some that were 1 and 7/8). The total height is what is the most important measurement in this case (wheel and mounting mechanism). Too high and the desk will scrape up against the bottom of the bed and wont go in all the way. Too low and it will be a little bit slanted. The total height you need is 2.25. The ones I got are 2.3 and they work but the desk is really close to scraping the bottom of the bed. If the floor has ANY imperfections (or a dime gets in the way), you will might have an issue. Personally I also think the thing needs 4 casters located close to the 4 corners. Kids should under no circumstances be climbing on top of the desk but if (which of course means when) they do, or if (again when) they lean on it too much, or if you blamelessly take a hold of it without thinking while pulling yourself off the floor, then having two wheels will be unstable. The thing isnt going to go anywhere, but it might wobble or tilt, which could pop a mounting screw or something. If you have 4 located near the corners, then it will be pretty tough to do anything that would compromise them. The bed comes with eight mounting screws for the 2 casters, so dont forget that if you are going to use 4 then you will need to get some mounting screws too. Anyway, here is a This is awesome!
Decent buy
It was easy to put together. The boxes did not arrive together. Which was annoying and why I wont give it 5 stars. My son loves it. It did have a weird or strong smell. Easy setup and sturdy!
If youre not good with tools you might have problems
Easy to assemble for me. Recommend drilling all your screw holes go deeper than they have it. Also clean out the dowel holes. For the steps at the end that dont have pre drilled holes make sure you make you own holes. One of my nuts wasnt threaded so I tapped it with my tap set its a 1/4/20 thread. Also I got a 10 mattress that left me with 3 to spare definitely not tall enough Id recommend a 6 mattress for this bed. I had nothing split when I assembled it only took me 4 hours to do it alone. I bought espresso doesnt match any of my other furniture Love this product. No issues.
Excellent value!
Easy to assemble, perfect for a smaller space, very sturdy! Best deal for a very nice
Thanks for your good service!
Nice seller fast delivery and good service recommend it!Better you have some tools to assemble it more tight. This one was perfect
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