This is the saddest looking kids bed. It looks like it's for a mini-hobo. I think if they would have painted it a glossy bright red/orange/blue/green it would be really great!

That bed is cool! It looks like something the 'Little Rascals' would make!

I agree with karotts5. It needs a paint job.

I too think it looks weird and depressing. Talk about a desire for style overriding comfort! But some paint would improve matters.

I think it's great. The colorful quilt brightens it up. I like it.

Yeah, I'm with the previous commenters. It's a cool concept, but it really does look like something that a hobo would sleep in. It's so dirty and sleeping-in-the-boxcar-of-a-train-during-the-Great-Depression looking. I think a coat of paint would go a LONG way toward making it look more cool and funky and less like something you need a tetanus shot to sleep in.

With shipping pallets, isn't there also a need to worry about pests (termites, those weird tree-eating beetles, that sort of thing) that have set up home in the wood? Or worse, laid eggs in it? I seem to remember pallet-turned-furtiture was a trend 5-10 years ago, till everyone realized they had infested furniture. Not a chance I'd build anything for indoors with shipping pallets, least of all someplace to lay my child to sleep!

Casters on a bed would also be an ENORMOUS problem at my house, but then again, I don't think everyone lives with a combination Spider-Man/Buzz Lightyear/Superman/monkey like we do.

creepy, especially for a little girl's bed.

I'm glad to read on her blog that heat treated pallets were used (this kills the pests in the wood). Hopefully these pallets were also not originally used to ship any toxic chemicals.

Do they use pesticides and chemical treatments on pallets? I know they do on things like telephone poles...not trying to be Debbie Downer---I really am wondering.

I actually like this aesthetically--it looks rustic and cozy but practically thinking, I also kind of find it gross and creepy. I agree with others--a nice coat of paint would be great.

Splinters.

My first thought, too, was splinters. As far as looks go, I think it's great. Looks more like something for a tween or teen room to me. Junkyard chic?

Cool idea, I think. I liked the post a little while ago with a pallet platform bed - I liked that a little more than rubbing up against the edges.

All that said - I love it when moms are creative for their kids, so props for that. And I'm glad to hear she used heat-treated pallets.

I really like this. Its rustic, wearhouse, tree house, little hiddy places. I love it!

I think its CUTE! And such a inexpensive, easy project. I was a bit worried about it being rough, but the sanding seems like it would mostly take care of that. If not, I think it would look great painted, too.

I do worry a bit about the quality of the wood -- if its chemically treated or not (she said hers were heat treated, not chemically treated) and about the bug issue someone has mentioned. I'll look more into those issues if we decide to try this, at some point, for sure.

I say put a glossy paint job on it my vote is bright glossy white and repost it.

Otherwise as is i think it looks horrid, sorry but just sayin'

It's ugly. Maybe it's cool in that it's recycled and they made it themselves, but that doesn't change the fact that it's ug-lay. If my parents had presented me with that bed, I would have burst into tears and refused to sleep in it. Besides the fact that as a parent I would never feel that I had sanded the thing enough--a toddler will find the *one* spot on the entire thing that's rough enough to give her a splinter.

Maybe not as a toddler, but I would have loved this bed once I discovered The Boxcar Children series. I so wanted my own boxcar to live in, but this might have helped that odd fantasy a little. I'm not sure it's cute, but I really like the idea.

No offense to the artist, but this looks dirty and scary.

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I was all for the platform bed made with pallets, but the walls on this one remind me of a jail- a dirty, splintery, chemical and bug laden jail. In a third world country.

I would have just stuck with the headboard and platform and it might have looked cool....

Strongly detest!

I think she should paint it white, then distress it, and then let the kid graffiti paint all over it, and glue on flowers and rhinestones and glitter and ric-rac. That would be AWESOME.

ick.

Yeah, this is definitely a frightening "people under the stairs" look.

Yep, this is uber-depressing. Cracking up at the 'hobo' references....

I love design sponge, but this is awful. it looks like they put a lot of time and effort into it, but just bad. Maybe for something other than a child's bed it would be a more interesting concept.

Interesting concept. It doesn't appeal to me but am glad she found non-chemical wood. We once attempted to save money on camping firewood wood by breaking up some wooden pallets; until it dawned on us they're usually treated with formaldehyde. Imagine cooking smores in that flame. Eck.

It's so cute its ugly? LOL I'm on the fence about this one...I do think paint would keep it from looking "hobo-ish." I have that same rug, its from Target!