<p>What's everyone's opinion on lofting beds in the dorm room? If permitted at your school, of course. I'm not sure if I want to or not, because it does free up tons of space but it seems like a lot of effort to build it and have to climb up every night.</p>
<p>I always lofted my bed, and I never had a problem getting into it at night. There was a lot of space to store stuff underneath it, and I would just jump into it at night. Or you could just use a chair as a stepping stool, which I need when I was tired.</p>
<p>Freshman year I was in a triple, and my bed was lofted high enough that my wardrobe could fit underneath it. That was too high to jump into, but there was a ladder that you could use. Alternatively, I could also climb up the side of the bed because their were rungs.</p>
<p>So I never had a problem with it, but it might depend on how your bed is made. You could only raise it a little, so that you get more storage space but you’re also able to climb into it easily.</p>
<p>To put a loft together is not that much effort in the grand scheme of things. That’s like an hour’s work over the period of nine months.</p>
<p>Climbing my bed every night was no big deal. I never got hurt or anything.</p>
<p>It was worth it imo, because of all of the extra space.</p>
<p>Does the bed squeak more tho? And is there enuf space to do it?</p>
<p>I’m lofting my bed. Much more room and if I wanted to I could make the space under into a second closet. </p>
<p>At my university, maintenance builds it. </p>
<p>It’s not that much effort. It’s like climbing stairs…except not.</p>
<p>A lot of people did this at my school with PVC pipes. My first semester roommate wanted us to do it, too, but it kinda’ freaked me out!</p>
<p>I may consider it this year, even though I have a larger room. You pretty much find the right length of PVC pipe and put the legs of the bed on them. You can put your bed up high enough to slide your desk under it, which save a lot of space.</p>
<p>Climbing up is a little hard. If you put your dresser, a chair, or your desk under or beside your bed, you can use it to climb.</p>
<p>At my school, the res halls hired an outside company to loft our beds. Most people choose too because the advantage of having more space definitely outweighs the hassle of climbing in bed (which really isn’t a hassle, just something you get used to).</p>
<p>I highly recommend doing it, especially if your room is on the small side.</p>
<p>“The first time you try to climb into your loft drunk, you’ll wish you never lofted your bed.”</p>
<p>That was the advice of an upperclassmen on our FB page to a girl asking whether she should loft her bed or just put it on bed risers.</p>
<p>I’d be concerned about falling out of it hahahahha… maybe I just move around too much :P</p>
<p>^My advice for that is always that if you don’t fall out of it when your bed is a normal height, you’re not going to fall out of it if the bed is lofted. If you do normally fall out of your bed, well then, maybe you shouldn’t loft it.</p>
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<p>My roommate told me once that she was listening for a loud thump when I came back late and had to climb into my bed, but apparently, I’m really good at climbing into bed drunk. My friends were impressed =D YMMV.</p>
<p>The only reason I was really against lofting my bed was because of the ceiling height. I would only do it when the ceiling is high enough that I can still sit up straight in bed. I lofted one year and not the other.</p>
<p>The year I lofted, I did have an incident where I went to get out of bed in the middle of the night while half asleep, and I stepped right down like the floor would be there instead of using the ladder. My ankles have never been the same. That was really just a freak incident, though.</p>
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I am so sorry, but this made me laugh! </p>
<p>This make my idea of laying out body pillows at the foot of my bed look sane!</p>
<p>Niquii, nothing you do will ever be sane</p>
<p>A lot of schools will require maintenance to build it for you due to liability issues if you get hurt (or another student gets hurt) by your homemade loft.</p>
<p>One year I was lofted and it really wasn’t that bad. A few times I woke up while kinda rolling out of bed and had to cling on while I got my bearings, but wasn’t ever hurt. </p>
<p>My favorite option was having a bed that was raised about four feet off of the ground. It gave me enough room to put my mini-fridge, laundry hamper, and a bunch of other things I didn’t use often underneath my bed.</p>
<p>Lol niquii-- it is a funny story, but I do think I fractured one or both ankles. I landed with my legs straight and my knees locked. Still didnt wake up properly until the next morning. Maybe lofts aren’t a good idea for heavy sleepers.</p>
<p>I like the idea of lofting because I have no clue how I’m going to fit my mini fridge and hamper, but at the same time I like sitting up in my bed and buying one that’s just raised up above the fridge is a ridiculous price because it’d be one of those custom made kind of things. (at least from what I’ve seen online) >.<</p>
<p>Check with your school before you go out and buy anything. They’ll often have those things available for free if you’re living in the dorms.</p>
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<p>Depends which hall I end up in. One hall has free lofting supplies, but the other requires you to buy your own. And I won’t have my room assignment until mid August, so it’s cutting really close and I’m not sure I’ll even have time to buy a loft if I need to.</p>