Paired with a foam mattress this will make a perfect bed for tweens or guests. The three drawers at the bottom lets one use up lost space as a built in dresser.
Assembly requires a masters degree of Walmart Furniture Assembly, as once you assemble enough of these types of manufactured furniture the instructions become irrelevant. First timers should stock up on spirits and prep the coffee pot for a long weekend.
Im going to defend this bed.
All right. Im about to go into depth about my entire experience with this bed so that people can get a fairly honest picture of what this bed is like because based on the reviews, I was skeptical of getting something good for the amount of money I was paying for. If youre expecting a bed fit for the gods, then I might suggest shopping for furniture in person rather than online. This isnt to imply that the bed isnt good quality//its actually pretty nice, but more on that later.
Within three days of my order, I received it in the mail. I was a little worried about the rumors of it being the weight of a thousand elephants because I knew this was going to be a solo project. Not being the strongest of twenty/year/old girls, I was a little intimidated by own expectations. Now, I live on the first floor of my apartment, but there are about five stairs before getting to my door, which whoever delivered my bed still managed to bypass and settle the long package in front of my door (that was nice of him/her). The package was taller than I was (seven/eight feet maybe?) and skinny, but yes, it was heavy, but not holding/the/world/inside/of/it heavy. With a little maneuvering and some geometric guessing, I pushed the package inside my apartment. It would have been easier with a friend, probably, but rest assured, you can do it by yourself if need be. It certainly felt like 108 pounds of wood, but not much more.
Packaging was done well, I have to say. I had to dissect the box open in order to get the pieces out, so keep scissors handy. Not a piece was damaged. There will be three long, recycled/wood pieces inside and they might be broken, but worry not, consumers! They are not part of your bed. Theyre for cushioning. You can promptly keep recycling those recycled/wood pieces and spreading the recycled joy as you begin the journey of building your bed.
You will need a tool kit. Dont expect this bed to provide you little screwdrivers or hammers because they wont. Youre an independent person. You should have a tool kit. Its essential in life. With that said, if you DONT have a tool kit, you might want to purchase one (involving some good screwdrivers and a decent hammer, at least) while you purchase your bed. This is not a screw with your fingers and hammer with a hardcover bookproject.
Now, as for the comments of the bed having more parts than furniture, thats a little silly. You have to build three drawers and the frame. For wooden pieces, you have nine for the main frame (headboard, footboard, long board for the right side of the frame, two skinny boards from the left for the drawers, two inside the frame to secure the two boards that will hold your mattress) and five wooden pieces per drawer (basically, to make the square frame and bottom of the drawer). There are a good amount of screws of all sizes, which the instructions give you a number of. Heads up: Not all the same types of screws will be in one neat little package. Youll have four screws of one type in four different bags. So, dont worry about missing parts; theyre probably in another bag. This means you might want to organize your pieces before building anything to save time. They provide you this little rectangular thing to help with the hammering, which works really nicely. I saved the piece for later projects.
Considering I did this aaaaall by myself and I was distracted numerous times, it took me five hours. So, if you have a friend or two, the time will cut in half (two/two and a half hours, in theory). The instructions were simple though. Perhaps one diagram had me puzzled, but once I held the pieces in question in front of me, I realized what the diagram was referring to. Its pretty simple.
The drawers arent THAT flimsy, if flimsy at all. If you nail everything properly and tightly, theyre fine. As for weight, I keep 23 books in the middle drawers, 15 in the right one, and my laptop and electronics in the left. So, a good amount of weight in each. Clothes, in that sense, should be much lighter than 23 books. If youre storing bricks in the drawers, thats your business and everything, but perhaps a little odd for drawers.
I just use a mattress on the bed frame, no box spring. My sleep has been aming thus far, but people are different, so if you would like a box spring, it should be able to handle it. I just dont prefer having one is all, except for one thing: The box spring might add to the secureness of the bed. See, sometimes the bed sinks a little (just a little) when I sit in the middle of the bed, so Ive put some stuff under the panels holding the mattress for support. Its not enough to make me think, Oh no! The bed is gonna break!But it is enough that I would like a little more support. If you have a box spring as opposed to just a mattress, this problem should immediately go away. If you add some support to the middle of the bed, then this also avoids sinking doom, which is what I have done, and I am sleeping amingly. For any worries if your mattress wont fit (as I had because this bed kept referring to children and, I dont know, when I think of children, I think of tiny beds), youll be fine. It fits a regular size bed, with a little extra room (about an inch all around, perhaps?), which works GREAT for me because I leave my phone and glasses in that little space as I sleep.
It looks great. The blue adds pizz to my room, which is barren because I just moved in and everything. So, I would recommend the bed. It does everything I need it to do. Its not a bed I think Ill have forever, but for the time being as a college student in her first apartment wanting something to make her feel a little more at home, this bed frame is a lovely one. Hope my incredibly detailed review gives you more insight on what your future purchase might be like.
I bought this for my 2 yr. old to transition into a bigger bed. He loves it. Easy enough to put together. I did it myself, at 5 months pregnant, with the help of my 2 yr. old.
Only dislikeis when he slides off the bed, the inner boards are a bit sharp, and scratch his legs. My plan is to pick up a pool noodle and slide it open to cover the boards until he is big enough to reach the floor.
Love the color. Box was extremely damaged upon arrival, but the bed had minimal damage.
Would buy again!!
UPDATE: 11.28.2012 //A year and a half later, this bed is still solid. Sliding off the bed is no longer an issue/ since my child is now 3.5 and tall enough to reach the floor. This bed has endured several violent jumping on the bedsessions, room re/arranges, stickers, spilled drinks, sleeping parents, and ly animals; with minimal wear tear! Im planning to buy another on for my other son once he is out of his crib.
Drawers all still slide. Only small repair Ive done is re/screw the handles with my own screws, to keep them in place more securely.
WELL worth every penny Ive spent. BUY IT! Its probably the BEST, least expensive bed you will find.
Update 9/23/2015: This bed is still going strong. Over four years of jumping, wrestling, multiple people sleeping on it, moving the bed from room to room //the bed is still in great shape.
This is a decent bed for children, I dont see it lasting 10 years but overall I am happy with my purchase. My biggest problem with the bed is that the drawers do not pull out smoothly and the bottom of the drawers is a little flimsy. The color is great and its low enough for my 22 month old to climb in and out of. If I could only get him to sleep in it is the problem know!
For under 140 I ordered this bed off and it arrived less than a week later. The UPS delivery left the box on my front porch and I had to unpack it there and bring it in pieces because it was so heavy. It took a couple of hours to put it together. It really wasnt too bad to put together. There were more directions than you would have gotten on pieces. The drawers are flimsy but I used glue to help put them together and glued in the drawer panel. I dont believe the drawers can be used for anything other than underwear and socks. The drawers only take about 1/2 of the space in the base, so there is some space behind the drawers to store stuff that dont need to be accessed regularly. The bed is cute and I do like it. We really needed something small for a small room. We only bought the platform portion to keep it compact and it really works. I found a similar bed at for about 50 more and beds on Craigslist were still over 100 for used beds. This is not a piece your kid will be handing down to the next generation but it should get through a few years without any problem.
I read all the reviews and I didnt have high expectations for the beds (I got 2), but I put them together with some help from my sister. The directions where clear and easy to understand, the bed looks just like it does in the picture and for the price you cant beat it. I would totally recommend it. If 2 chicks can put it them together (with no experience in this area) then I think just about anyone can do it.
I was a little concerned also about the sturdiness but there still all put together, and my kids jump on them all the time.
We purchased two of these beds for our 6yo and 4yo boys. They arrived quickly without any damage. The packages are very heavy and needed to be unpacked before they could be brought up the stairs. They were very easy to assemble, our 6 year old put together the drawers nearly solo. The directions were easy to follow, all the boards were marked with letters so there was no confusion about what piece went where. Two beds took no more than 2 hours with two adults. They are very solid pieces, even the drawers look like they will remain intact. The product looks very nice, exactly as pictured.
This is a nice, sturdy bed we bought for our 3 1/2 year old as an upgrade from his toddler bed. It matches a small dresser we had bought for him a couple years ago from one of the big name furniture companies (which cost more than this bed did). If we had bought the matching bed, it would have cost us almost three times what this bed did. Based on some of the other reviews, I had prepared myself for a three hour assembly. But my son and I managed to put it together in less than an hour and a half, which includes the extra time required for him to help me with his little plastic tools. I think the trick was that we took about 15 minutes before we got started to lay out all the parts in a logical manner in the hall outside my sons room. The bed was easy enough to move into place on the hardwood floors in my sons room. I could see how it might be difficult on a thick carpet, as the bed is quite hefty. The bed is sturdy and looks good but the drawers are of questionable durability. They are good for holding sheets and blankets and a few toys, but if we plan on putting more than that inside the drawers, I plan to add reinforcing to the bottoms, an easy enough fix. Overall, were extremely pleased with the bed and our son is extremely proud of his big boy bed!
I realized after moving the bed 4 times its best to have an idea of where to place it. It is huge and heavy without the drawers or mattress. All in all my 4yr old loves it and its blue. The color brings so much life to the room. Try to be home when the HEAVY bed is delivered in an ackwardly shaped box. The UPS guy had a hard time carrying the box. This item is deserving of a giftcard for the driver.
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Great bed for a toddler
We got this for a 2/year/old, and he loves it. Because it is so low, it is easy for him to get in and out of.
Great (blue) tween bed.
Paired with a foam mattress this will make a perfect bed for tweens or guests. The three drawers at the bottom lets one use up lost space as a built in dresser. Assembly requires a masters degree of Walmart Furniture Assembly, as once you assemble enough of these types of manufactured furniture the instructions become irrelevant. First timers should stock up on spirits and prep the coffee pot for a long weekend.
Not sure what all the complaining is about. The bed is fine.
Im going to defend this bed. All right. Im about to go into depth about my entire experience with this bed so that people can get a fairly honest picture of what this bed is like because based on the reviews, I was skeptical of getting something good for the amount of money I was paying for. If youre expecting a bed fit for the gods, then I might suggest shopping for furniture in person rather than online. This isnt to imply that the bed isnt good quality//its actually pretty nice, but more on that later. Within three days of my order, I received it in the mail. I was a little worried about the rumors of it being the weight of a thousand elephants because I knew this was going to be a solo project. Not being the strongest of twenty/year/old girls, I was a little intimidated by own expectations. Now, I live on the first floor of my apartment, but there are about five stairs before getting to my door, which whoever delivered my bed still managed to bypass and settle the long package in front of my door (that was nice of him/her). The package was taller than I was (seven/eight feet maybe?) and skinny, but yes, it was heavy, but not holding/the/world/inside/of/it heavy. With a little maneuvering and some geometric guessing, I pushed the package inside my apartment. It would have been easier with a friend, probably, but rest assured, you can do it by yourself if need be. It certainly felt like 108 pounds of wood, but not much more. Packaging was done well, I have to say. I had to dissect the box open in order to get the pieces out, so keep scissors handy. Not a piece was damaged. There will be three long, recycled/wood pieces inside and they might be broken, but worry not, consumers! They are not part of your bed. Theyre for cushioning. You can promptly keep recycling those recycled/wood pieces and spreading the recycled joy as you begin the journey of building your bed. You will need a tool kit. Dont expect this bed to provide you little screwdrivers or hammers because they wont. Youre an independent person. You should have a tool kit. Its essential in life. With that said, if you DONT have a tool kit, you might want to purchase one (involving some good screwdrivers and a decent hammer, at least) while you purchase your bed. This is not a screw with your fingers and hammer with a hardcover bookproject. Now, as for the comments of the bed having more parts than furniture, thats a little silly. You have to build three drawers and the frame. For wooden pieces, you have nine for the main frame (headboard, footboard, long board for the right side of the frame, two skinny boards from the left for the drawers, two inside the frame to secure the two boards that will hold your mattress) and five wooden pieces per drawer (basically, to make the square frame and bottom of the drawer). There are a good amount of screws of all sizes, which the instructions give you a number of. Heads up: Not all the same types of screws will be in one neat little package. Youll have four screws of one type in four different bags. So, dont worry about missing parts; theyre probably in another bag. This means you might want to organize your pieces before building anything to save time. They provide you this little rectangular thing to help with the hammering, which works really nicely. I saved the piece for later projects. Considering I did this aaaaall by myself and I was distracted numerous times, it took me five hours. So, if you have a friend or two, the time will cut in half (two/two and a half hours, in theory). The instructions were simple though. Perhaps one diagram had me puzzled, but once I held the pieces in question in front of me, I realized what the diagram was referring to. Its pretty simple. The drawers arent THAT flimsy, if flimsy at all. If you nail everything properly and tightly, theyre fine. As for weight, I keep 23 books in the middle drawers, 15 in the right one, and my laptop and electronics in the left. So, a good amount of weight in each. Clothes, in that sense, should be much lighter than 23 books. If youre storing bricks in the drawers, thats your business and everything, but perhaps a little odd for drawers. I just use a mattress on the bed frame, no box spring. My sleep has been aming thus far, but people are different, so if you would like a box spring, it should be able to handle it. I just dont prefer having one is all, except for one thing: The box spring might add to the secureness of the bed. See, sometimes the bed sinks a little (just a little) when I sit in the middle of the bed, so Ive put some stuff under the panels holding the mattress for support. Its not enough to make me think, Oh no! The bed is gonna break!But it is enough that I would like a little more support. If you have a box spring as opposed to just a mattress, this problem should immediately go away. If you add some support to the middle of the bed, then this also avoids sinking doom, which is what I have done, and I am sleeping amingly. For any worries if your mattress wont fit (as I had because this bed kept referring to children and, I dont know, when I think of children, I think of tiny beds), youll be fine. It fits a regular size bed, with a little extra room (about an inch all around, perhaps?), which works GREAT for me because I leave my phone and glasses in that little space as I sleep. It looks great. The blue adds pizz to my room, which is barren because I just moved in and everything. So, I would recommend the bed. It does everything I need it to do. Its not a bed I think Ill have forever, but for the time being as a college student in her first apartment wanting something to make her feel a little more at home, this bed frame is a lovely one. Hope my incredibly detailed review gives you more insight on what your future purchase might be like.
Overall good bed!! No, really, it is GREAT!
I bought this for my 2 yr. old to transition into a bigger bed. He loves it. Easy enough to put together. I did it myself, at 5 months pregnant, with the help of my 2 yr. old. Only dislikeis when he slides off the bed, the inner boards are a bit sharp, and scratch his legs. My plan is to pick up a pool noodle and slide it open to cover the boards until he is big enough to reach the floor. Love the color. Box was extremely damaged upon arrival, but the bed had minimal damage. Would buy again!! UPDATE: 11.28.2012 //A year and a half later, this bed is still solid. Sliding off the bed is no longer an issue/ since my child is now 3.5 and tall enough to reach the floor. This bed has endured several violent jumping on the bedsessions, room re/arranges, stickers, spilled drinks, sleeping parents, and ly animals; with minimal wear tear! Im planning to buy another on for my other son once he is out of his crib. Drawers all still slide. Only small repair Ive done is re/screw the handles with my own screws, to keep them in place more securely. WELL worth every penny Ive spent. BUY IT! Its probably the BEST, least expensive bed you will find. Update 9/23/2015: This bed is still going strong. Over four years of jumping, wrestling, multiple people sleeping on it, moving the bed from room to room //the bed is still in great shape.
good for price
This is a decent bed for children, I dont see it lasting 10 years but overall I am happy with my purchase. My biggest problem with the bed is that the drawers do not pull out smoothly and the bottom of the drawers is a little flimsy. The color is great and its low enough for my 22 month old to climb in and out of. If I could only get him to sleep in it is the problem know!
A Deal for the Price
For under 140 I ordered this bed off and it arrived less than a week later. The UPS delivery left the box on my front porch and I had to unpack it there and bring it in pieces because it was so heavy. It took a couple of hours to put it together. It really wasnt too bad to put together. There were more directions than you would have gotten on pieces. The drawers are flimsy but I used glue to help put them together and glued in the drawer panel. I dont believe the drawers can be used for anything other than underwear and socks. The drawers only take about 1/2 of the space in the base, so there is some space behind the drawers to store stuff that dont need to be accessed regularly. The bed is cute and I do like it. We really needed something small for a small room. We only bought the platform portion to keep it compact and it really works. I found a similar bed at for about 50 more and beds on Craigslist were still over 100 for used beds. This is not a piece your kid will be handing down to the next generation but it should get through a few years without any problem.
Plain, simple, cant beat the price!
I read all the reviews and I didnt have high expectations for the beds (I got 2), but I put them together with some help from my sister. The directions where clear and easy to understand, the bed looks just like it does in the picture and for the price you cant beat it. I would totally recommend it. If 2 chicks can put it them together (with no experience in this area) then I think just about anyone can do it. I was a little concerned also about the sturdiness but there still all put together, and my kids jump on them all the time.
Two great beds
We purchased two of these beds for our 6yo and 4yo boys. They arrived quickly without any damage. The packages are very heavy and needed to be unpacked before they could be brought up the stairs. They were very easy to assemble, our 6 year old put together the drawers nearly solo. The directions were easy to follow, all the boards were marked with letters so there was no confusion about what piece went where. Two beds took no more than 2 hours with two adults. They are very solid pieces, even the drawers look like they will remain intact. The product looks very nice, exactly as pictured.
Nice, sturdy bed that our son loves!
This is a nice, sturdy bed we bought for our 3 1/2 year old as an upgrade from his toddler bed. It matches a small dresser we had bought for him a couple years ago from one of the big name furniture companies (which cost more than this bed did). If we had bought the matching bed, it would have cost us almost three times what this bed did. Based on some of the other reviews, I had prepared myself for a three hour assembly. But my son and I managed to put it together in less than an hour and a half, which includes the extra time required for him to help me with his little plastic tools. I think the trick was that we took about 15 minutes before we got started to lay out all the parts in a logical manner in the hall outside my sons room. The bed was easy enough to move into place on the hardwood floors in my sons room. I could see how it might be difficult on a thick carpet, as the bed is quite hefty. The bed is sturdy and looks good but the drawers are of questionable durability. They are good for holding sheets and blankets and a few toys, but if we plan on putting more than that inside the drawers, I plan to add reinforcing to the bottoms, an easy enough fix. Overall, were extremely pleased with the bed and our son is extremely proud of his big boy bed!
Daughter loves it.
I realized after moving the bed 4 times its best to have an idea of where to place it. It is huge and heavy without the drawers or mattress. All in all my 4yr old loves it and its blue. The color brings so much life to the room. Try to be home when the HEAVY bed is delivered in an ackwardly shaped box. The UPS guy had a hard time carrying the box. This item is deserving of a giftcard for the driver.
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