Box room bedrooms?

Spendless

I would also advise against a slidestore divan. Whilst mine was used for storage, within a short space of time the bed developed a 'dip' in it. Talking to the owner/manager of a local bed shop he said he refused to sell them for this reason. I think he said it was due to the lack of support. I don't think the drawer ones have the same problem.

I'd really think about your furniture. I'm a fan of 'double up' items that take up the same footspace eg a wardrobe that has drawers underneath it. Am also a fan of hanging things on walls to make more floorspace, so DD has a shelf that she can hang her dressing gown and bags from rather than a stand on the floor. Her toys go in pull out underbed storage containers. And she just has a wardrobe as described for her clothes. When she was younger I had a slim tall chest of drawers to put her clothes into instead of a wardrobe.

Mummy_to_L,K_and_C

osian wrote: »

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002451&langId=-1&searchTerms=SHORTY+DIVAN

Would any of these be suitable?

Your link isn't working.

I got DS a bed from argos, a shorty one and it was a decent bed, the only thing I would suggest is getting a decent matress for it rather than a cheap spring one x

mcmanlyn

I had the box room as a child...and the bed situation was ridiculous!!! The room was long enough for a bed technically but there's a box built into the room hiding pipes meaning a bed wouldn't fit along the floor...

So my parents just put the bed ontop of this box & balanced the other side on some old kitchen cupboards :0 Naturally I loved my 'sky bed' but looking back I can't believe my parents did such a dangerous thing!!!

pulliptears

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

Forget Ikea, their quality is terrible (especially the mattresses).

Personally from experience I found the Ikea Junior bed and mattress to be brilliant. It cost around £50 all in and lasted for eight years until we had her room built in (I designed a higher bed with drawers and storage, even has a bookcase in the headboard!). The bed is still happily being used by a friends child now.

Feisty_Fairy

We have the same problem and so we bought a midi sleeper off ebay in pine, cost around £400 but came with pull out desk, and storage underneath too, we have maximised by adding some extra storage underneath, is chest of drawers, a small cupboard from argos and extra bookcases, we also have a trofast unit from ikea, which DS2 who is 7 keeps all his bits n bobs in.:D we are unlucky enough to have a step in his room too so are really short of space:eek:, we wanted the bed to fit in the space between the step and window but it wouldnt so we have the trofast unit in the space whe it wont quite fit if thats makes any sense?:o we also have a wardobe and a small table next to thats with tv on so cramped but most of his toys are neatly hidden behind the bookcases underneath and he seems happy as still has a little floor space to play in!:D

bof_3

We have a tiny box room and I tried everywhere to find a bed that also had some storage but they were all too long. I paid about £500 (so not cheap but the quality is excellent) and got bunk beds with drawers & cupboard space from the childrens bed centre (can't post link because I'm new) we also ordered a narrower matteress to give a bit more floor space.

Tim_Deegan

osian wrote: »

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002451&langId=-1&searchTerms=SHORTY+DIVAN

Would any of these be suitable?

I wouldn't buy any divan beds from Argos, as they only sell low quality ones, and they are very expensive when not reduced to clear. However that is the sort of thing.

As I said earlier, most independent manudacturers will make special sizes for very little extra cost. You can down size in multiples of 3", because that is the size of the spring coils. So for example the standard length is 6'3", so you could go down to 6', or 5'9".

Tim_Deegan

Spendless wrote: »

I would also advise against a slidestore divan. Whilst mine was used for storage, within a short space of time the bed developed a 'dip' in it. Talking to the owner/manager of a local bed shop he said he refused to sell them for this reason. I think he said it was due to the lack of support. I don't think the drawer ones have the same problem.

The shop owner was half right. Low quality slide store beds can have a problem due to the lack of support on one side. This is because it is missing a support half way along the length of one side of the bed. However with a decent brand you shouldn't find this a problem.

Tim_Deegan

pulliptears wrote: »

Personally from experience I found the Ikea Junior bed and mattress to be brilliant. It cost around £50 all in and lasted for eight years until we had her room built in (I designed a higher bed with drawers and storage, even has a bookcase in the headboard!). The bed is still happily being used by a friends child now.

Be honest. it may have suited the purpose, but no Ikea products are brilliant quality.

Unfortunately most of us are guilty of buying budget mattresses for our children, that we wouldn't sleep on ourselves. I actually felt guilty last year when I realised that you could feel the springs on my 5 year old son's mattress. So I quickly got him a 10" deep top of the open coil sprung range one. So although the Ikea mattress may have served it's purpose, it wouldn't have been brilliant, because no Ikea mattresses are.

olivetree2010

is the box room over the bulk head of the stairs? if so what i did a few years ago was divide the big bedroom which also had the box room (OF which already had a window) in to 2 bedrooms, hence gaining a little bit of length on to the box room, and using the bulkhead to fix a tallboy wardrobe storage unit if you can understand that, i know what i mean but hard to describe