OMG - i want that!!

You can BUILD this! The plans are so easy! http://ana-white.com/2010/08/easiest-hanging-daybed.html

So, so cute.

Love. Love. Love. We have 3 kids very close in age, and right now the girls are in one room and our son in another, but he sleeps in between their beds almost every night as they adore each other. We have played around with the idea of moving them all into one room, but functionally haven't figured out how it could work. This room is a source of amazing inspiration and a genuine piece of art. Bravo!!!

How cool! I'm inspired by Ana White every day, too. I love this room.

This room is amazing. We are having twins in February and have already started to worry about how to fit them in one bedroom. Our house is 100 years old and the bedrooms are wee. Great source of inspiration!

So much nicer looking than bunk beds!

AWESOME. I love everything from the bed to the paint color on the walls....

LOVE it!

Gorgeous and clever. The entire room looks fantastic. Those lucky boys...

@ angela maria:

Would it be safe to say that you also do not allow your children to eat a snack in the car because they just might choke on a Cheerio and die right there in the backseat?

@ angela maria: Turn off your caps lock. People automatically dislike you when you type as though you are yelling at them. It's annoying. Especially when you're the lone dissenter among folks raving about this room (your opinion and concern are appreciated of course, no internet posting in the history of the web has ever had a unanimously positive response I'll bet).

Love the room, I feel like my walls wouldn't support the weight and it wouldn't be worth my being nervous, but it looks absolutely awesome and if I knew what I was doing code-wise and safety-wise I would TOTALLY go for it!!

I am WAY too neurotic to appreciate anything about this... I have this fear of being crushed from above, even if this bed is secured with something more than rope it stills scares me.

The original post mentions they have bed rails, to prevent the kids from falling out. But they are not pictured. Can we see what it looks like including the safeguards?

Very IKEA-ish; not my thing; however, artistically, LOVE IT!

I agree with some of the safety concerns; my kids are very adventurous, and I can imagine them bouncing from one bunk to another; I agree with angelamaria; dangerous.

@mimee25; play nice, national caps lock day was Oct. 22; maybe angelamaria just got the memo late, or just plain forgot to cancel all CAPS.

@burnttoast; so sarcasitic; seriously? For the all the talk of ettiquete, why is everyone being flamed around here? How about a little discretion?

@Angela Maria, @dmperfection101, you don't need to be on Apartment Therapy, you and your kids should be in REAL THERAPY. If the decisions you make are based merely on fear, changes need to be made, otherwise you're not really living. ;)

@arcamp- i'm with you on this one!! :) i AM a bit paranoid, i confess.

@Djluckyonline- that is WAY too mean. maybe YOU should crawl under your rock.

I'm sorry to add to the negative comments but whilst I think this looks wonderful, alarm bells should have been ringing before it passed concept stage. I work in a large children's hospital and we regularly see trauma caused by furniture and other home fittings that have fallen or toppled from walls after being fixed by homeowners. This quote from the homeowners' own blog says it all.

"....They are not allowed to jump on the beds, jump from one bed to the other, and Jeremiah is not even allowed to sit at the end of his bed, just in case. My husband and I have both climbed up on the beds and they haven’t budged, so they are sturdy, but we do not want them loosening up over time."

I'm sorry, but if you aren't confident enough in the fixtures that you won't let your youngest kid even sit on the end of his bed "just in case" well, what remains to be said?

Wow, seriously strong opinions on this one. I think the idea is fabulous, and honestly I'm jealous of these kids that get to sleep in these. I would have absolutely loved one of these as a kid. As to the safety concerns, I think a lot depends on the individual kids and the ground rules you set up. These are beds, not trampolines. I know kids are kids and trust me, my own daughter jumps on just about everything. But there's a reason why we didn't get her a loft bed when she was 3: she wasn't old enough for it. Now that she's 8, I'm fairly certain she could be told what not to do and she would be smart enough to not test it. After all, she's got a playroom (with a trampoline) and a backyard for that. All the same, the engineering involved with making this happen in my home makes it pretty much out of the question. Still, I dig it.

And the flaming comments have got to go, sheesh people.

p.s. I didn't mean that as a flame either. My point is it depends on the kid.

I forwarded the photo of the hanging bunks to my SO … his response was not “ooooh, look at the beds” it was “OMG! That’s the WRONG KNOT for hanging things one’s children will be using!”

The overhand loop that is shown clearly in this picture is not meant to be a load-bearing knot. It WILL work loose under a load, especially when the loose end is clipped short and left frayed like this.
http://thebumpercrop.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/dsc_02502.jpg?w=490&h=453

He says that a knot known as a “figure eight followthrough” is the best knot for the bed. It is an easy knot, and the one that rescue workers use for for tieing weights (themselves, victims, equipment) onto lines because it is really secure.
It’s a prettier knot, too, when you have the loops laid correctly.
http://www.chockstone.org/techtips/f8knots.htm
http://climbing.about.com/od/climbingknots/ss/Figure8FollowTh.htm

I'd have to see how the other end of the rope was secured to be truly happy with these beds for anyone ... if the top anchor gives way it could be ugly. It's what engineers (like my SO) ca;; "catastrophic failure". Things look great and then suddenly BOOM!

An anchor bolt through a correctly sized stud, with a large washer to prevent pull-through can hold an amazing amount of weight. Done wrong, it can pull the whole ceiling down.

If anyone is interested in doing this we actually have 3 boys in a room and this summer we built hanging beds similar to these http://furniture-for-small-spaces.com/how-to-build-a-ceiling-hanging-bed.html The ropes are fun but I would also be concerned about safety. Ours are bolted into the wall studs, then a steel cable is secured to the bed corner, then through the ceiling into the attic and around the rafters of the house! So, if you like this idea but safety is a concern there are ways to make it look fun and still be safe! My kids are up in their beds all the time and I don't have to have restrictions about bouncing or sitting on the edge because their beds are rock solid.
Anyway, I actually found the pictures to this room when I was looking for lights to put on the walls for my kids lofts. Does anyone know where the cool lights are from?
Thanks!

This is really cool looking, but I would be afraid to do it. I guess if your kids will actually follow the no jumping rule it would work, but there is no way my kids could resist the temptation.

That is so cool! I would have loved to have something like that in my room as a kid. I kind of did with my treehouse. It had a cable holding it up with hinges on the wall so I could fold it up by day. That was fun...

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Jerry
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