Fitted bedroom. Bed won't fit!

Mark_Mark

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Just had a quick google and there are quite a lot of old-fashioned width beds still available and being called "double beds".

However, I did find a link:



in which it states:

"double" beds ......were the most common for two to sleep in UNTIL THE 1960's"

(having earlier on in the article said that these old-fashioned size beds are still being described as "double" and modern standard size beds are still being called "queen").

Errrrm.....has that "designer" of theirs actually looked at many people these days and seen the standard size difference between 1960s size people and 21st century size people?
I wouldn't employ someone who was so totally visually unaware myself...or maybes just sit him down in a standard British High Street for an hour or two and tell him to come back to me and describe the average size/shape of people he has spotted walking down it these days:cool:

The OP states a KING SIZE.

tyllwyd

Most of the websites I have looked at have said that a kingsize bed is 5 foot wide or 150cm. As the OP has said, 5 foot is actually slightly more than 150cm.

It makes me wonder if king size beds are usually manufactured to metric sizes nowadays and 150cm is the standard size rather than 152.5cm. It might be worth ringing around a few bed shops to find out.

cyclonebri1

Mark_Mark wrote: »

I don't see what old or new stock has to do with it. A 600mm cupboard or 1000mm wardrobe will always be that size. It's the customers room that is the variable.

The cheaper end of the market will always be the same stock sized units. Spend a bit more and you'll see that a 400mm unit can be replaced by a 350mm one.

What I do find strange is he fitted it without seeing the plans. Yes, I know he had and idea of the end result but pros don't fit without plans. The first step should have been measure, check the plans then measure again. That way he would have got round this and that's why he's kicking himself now.


I note you say 1500 is now standard size for a mattress, yes and they work on a divan bed. How can you expect a leather bed with 300mm overhang either side to fit?
That said 1500mm is too small for a divan bed if you ever want to make it. Error by the designer but what paperwork does the customer have?

He has already said he doesn't have any, so unfortunately you aren't helping him.

Try to help or criticize, your choice.

Mark_Mark

tyllwyd wrote: »

Most of the websites I have looked at have said that a kingsize bed is 5 foot wide or 150cm. As the OP has said, 5 foot is actually slightly more than 150cm.

It makes me wonder if king size beds are usually manufactured to metric sizes nowadays and 150cm is the standard size rather than 152.5cm. It might be worth ringing around a few bed shops to find out.

Won't solve the issue the OP has. 1500 gap is still too small to make the bed.

because

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Just had a quick google and there are quite a lot of old-fashioned width beds still available and being called "double beds".

However, I did find a link:

http://interiordec.about.com/od/buyingabed/a/a_bedsizes

in which it states:

"double" beds ......were the most common for two to sleep in UNTIL THE 1960's"

(having earlier on in the article said that these old-fashioned size beds are still being described as "double" and modern standard size beds are still being called "queen").

Errrrm.....has that "designer" of theirs actually looked at many people these days and seen the standard size difference between 1960s size people and 21st century size people?
I wouldn't employ someone who was so totally visually unaware myself...or maybes just sit him down in a standard British High Street for an hour or two and tell him to come back to me and describe the average size/shape of people he has spotted walking down it these days:cool:

I think the above website is American and the American bed sizes are different to UK

cyclonebri1

Mark_Mark wrote: »

Won't solve the issue the OP has. 1500 gap is still too small to make the bed.

He ain't trying to "make the bed", just to fit it ????????????

Mark_Mark

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

He ain't trying to "make the bed", just to fit it ????????????

Keep up.

You don't design a bedroom for a 1500mm bed and leave a gap of 1500mm. There is no room for bedding and any designer should know this.

Some of the big companies employ surveyors to prevent such things like this happening.

I don't see you picking on the new boy as helping the OP either.

Dan-Dan

Rodney ?!?!

moneyistooshorttomention

tyllwyd wrote: »

Most of the websites I have looked at have said that a kingsize bed is 5 foot wide or 150cm. As the OP has said, 5 foot is actually slightly more than 150cm.

It makes me wonder if king size beds are usually manufactured to metric sizes nowadays and 150cm is the standard size rather than 152.5cm. It might be worth ringing around a few bed shops to find out.

I've just checked Wikipedia and 5' wide is described as "queen-size" and not "king-size".

Add the fact that evidence of eyes confirms statistics that at least 50% of British people are overweight to one extent or another...be it plump, fat or grossly obese...but they are.....and I guess hence why beds named "queen-size" are now "normal double beds".

Again...I'm right back to that "designer" should have had their eyes and ears open and realised that 4'6" beds have now joined 4' beds as "old-fashioned". Old-fashioned size "single beds" are 2'6" and modern single beds are now 3' wide after all.

It is the "designer" that is clearly responsible for this mess-up/not being up-to-date and therefore the firm concerned carries the can.

tyllwyd

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've just checked Wikipedia and 5' wide is described as "queen-size" and not "king-size". ...

No, I think you are looking at US information not UK - in the UK 5 foot is described as king size
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_size
http://www.bensonsforbeds.co.uk/specifications