<p>I've been thinking about raising my dorm bed for several weeks. My room is ridiculously small and I have no room to put my stuff. As a result everything is on the floor. I feel really bad for my roommate because she has to put up with my mess. I'vebeen looking online at what I can do to raise my bed but the options don't look too good.</p>
<p>There are these plastic bed-risers that are cheap and affordable but they only raise my bed 6 inches max. I want something that can get it up there to 2 ft. </p>
<p>I looked at lofts online but I'm a bit confused. The ones that I saw already have the bed on it, but I just need to poles or whatever to lift it. Plus they're expensive and I have to wait for shipping.</p>
<p>I thought about assembling it but I don't know where to start. If anyone can give me suggestions that would be great. </p>
<p>Someone suggested cement blocks, but those are heavy. I live on the 3rd floor of my dorms and there are no elevators. </p>
<p>If anyone can give suggestions or ideas that worked for them I would greatly appreciate it. :-)</p>
<p>Bed risers are good, but they can be really annoying because beds have a tendency to fall off one of them, and then its a pain in the rear to put it back. Lofting-wise, ask your RA about it.</p>
<p>My school says no lofts, no bed rising, no nothing. It's just not allowed, period. </p>
<p>So I hung a hammock :) </p>
<p>You could always buy four 4"x4"x8's and four 2"x4"x8's and build yourself a bed frame. From scratch. Cut the 4x4's down to whatever height you want the bed to be, cut two 2x4s the length of the bed, and two of them the width, screw those to the sides of the 4x4s, then use the scrap pieces to construct supporting angles at the corners and whatnot. You'll need a drill, scrwedriver, hacksaw, and someone who knows how to cut and screw together wood. </p>
<p>Then dissassemble your bed frame and store it in a corner. You might need to get a board to lay across your new frame to support your mattress, in that case put a few 2x4s across, parallel to the "width" part of the thing, to keep it from breaking. </p>
<p>Simply loft, will cost you about $40 and will take about three hours to build if you've never cut wood in your life before.</p>
<p>Don't get plastic bed risers. As bazcat mentioned... they can make your bed unsturdy & they can if one leg falls off then it's a pain to put back.
I used to own 2 sets of plastic bed risers. Although they might look like tough thick plastic, I still managed to break an entire set (one at a time, replaced with other set). It's quite fun laying in bed & all of a sudden <em>crack</em>, now you're sleeping on a slant.</p>
<p>Now I own bed risers of solid wood. They claim you could by multiple sets & stack them - but yeah, tried that, bed was incredibly wobbly, highly don't recommend that.</p>
<p>Cement blocks sound the best... heavy, tacky but really strong, and inexpensive. Have a buddy help you carry them upstairs., probably stackable also.</p>
<p>Cinder blocks could break too. If you want to be really smart, jam 2x4s or 4x4s inside of them to give the concrete more support. Or, lay them on their sides and position the legs over the centre support piece thing.</p>
<p>JahJahwarrior had good information on building the loft. I built a loft a few years ago similar to what he described and it is still standing today. </p>
<p>Tip: If you draw out he plans and have all the measurements, you can go to Home Depot or Lowes and they will cut the wood for you (for free if you buy the wood from them). Then all you have to do is put together the pieces.</p>
<p>My home depot at one point would only offer so many free cuts, if memory serves correct. Of course, I brought a full toolkit and assortment of power tools to college....and we can't build lofts. I used 2x4's to hold the bed in one corner, and suspended a hammock from the bed frame and a door hinge. The beds in my dorm are "junior lofts," you can have the mattress anywhere from about 1 foot from the floor to 4 feet from the floor. I have it up high, the hammock hangs below the bed diagonally across my room. </p>
<p>It was a nice alternative to a loft...</p>
<p>Go to Dormbuys.com, click "bedding", then click on "other accessories" in the middle of the page should be an item named "Rackraiser" priced under $80 and can handle up to 1400 pounds of pressure. Also look around the site they have great deals on many dorm essentials. Good Luck.</p>
<p>Has anyone ever tried using the wooden bed risers with a bed on wheels? It seems like the hole in the bed riser is too big and shallow because the wheels kind of wabble and roll around. Suggestions? Thanks.</p>