<p>Are there any places to buy lofts from that don't cost over $200? The only ones I've seen were $250 with shipping included or $180 with $60 shipping (great deal huh?). I would love to save the space if my roommate and I could loft our beds but I'm not going to spend that much money for a bed loft I'll use for a year.</p>
<p>you can use cinderblocks to raise it a little, and then you can throw a bunch of stuff under your bed. If you were looking to put it all the way up so like your desk could fit under it, good luck.</p>
<p>I got an idea,.</p>
<p>keep desks, get rid of beds, keep matresses.</p>
<p>Put matresses behind desks, when its time to sleep. Pull those out and sleep on the floor,</p>
<p>Head over to home depot. With some basic woodworking and engineering talents (like the ability to use triangles in your design), you should be able to build something sturdy and safe.</p>
<p>My dorm actually doesn't permit the use of cinderblocks.</p>
<p>Permission shmermission. Come on.</p>
<p>My dorm doesn't allow the use of space heaters or cinderblocks, and there are none of either recorded in my room inspection sheet from the beginning of the year, but mysteriously, after the inspection, a space heater and four cinderblocks may have materialized out of the closet.</p>
<p>Check out IKEA. My friend has a really nice twin loft that she got there for around $150, I think.</p>
<p>How would one go about raising a bed high enough to fit a desk underneath?</p>
<p>With a bed loft!</p>
<p>my school will loft beds for you... I think they charge like $100-$150</p>
<p>you should check your school's policy on lofting beds. some do not allow it at all, and if they do chances are they already have the equipment to loft it for you (probably saving you much money). cinderblocks and bed risers are also sometimes frowned on. you can always bunk your beds.</p>
<p>and to vincentperricone...you generally have to keep all the furniture that comes with the room, in the room. schools do not have the storage to put furniture that you decide you just don't want. (and sleeping on a concrete floor is not that comfortable. i wouldn't want to do it for a whole year.)</p>
<p>I've already checked...my school allows lofting but the dorm I am in does not have already loftable beds (as in just raise the legs and screw in place) but are just normal beds. They recommended a company for bed lofts that will install it for you but I looked online and the company charges $250 for a cheap looking loft made out of untreated 2x4s (or maybe 2x6s but you catch my drift).</p>
<p>heh. untreated 2x4s...sounds kinda sketch to me.
but anyway.. one of my best friends lofted her bed at the beginning of the year and ended up undoing it because all the "extra space" (there wasn't much) wasn't worth all the trouble of climbing up and down.</p>
<p>good luck in your search though.</p>