Are 15-month-old daughter starts out in her crib at night, and then I bring her into our room onto the mattress in the floor with me when she wakes up around midnight. This way, we all get some sleep. She's never slept through the night on her own in her crib.She doesn't sleep so well in our room though, because my husband coughs and moves around at night, and gets up very early to leave for work in the morning. He consequently also gets very little sleep, because he's afraid to wake her up.I'm thinking of taking the crib down, as we've only really used it for a laundry basket, and my daughter naps in my arms, not in her crib. And then moving the full-size mattress to the floor of the nursery, so at least she's in her own room, is not disturbed, and I can just go in there when she stirs awake at midnight, to nurse her, and we can all go back to sleep.I do have concerns that she'll roll off the bed into the floor, but I'm not sure what else to do. If I put the toddler mattress in the floor, it's much smaller, and then I couldn't lie down with her if she needed me, but she does, because she's still nursing at night.
My husband isn't thrilled about the idea, but I think his concerns are mostly aesthetic. He's never put her to sleep at night, he's never gotten up in the middle of the night, he doesn't really have a sense of what her sleep is like.Can you ladies help me with the pros and cons on this? I'm concerned that my daughter's not getting the sleep she needs, and I'm also exhausted, and my husband is tired too, and his crankiness is more than I can deal with while handling a toddler who is developing her independence. eBooks from Mommypotamus The Busy Mama’s Guide to Getting Dinner On The TableSubscribe to my newsletter and receive this FREE GUIDE along with exclusive coupons, links to recommended products, and much more! I'm Heather, aka The Mommypotamus. I’m a wife, mom, real food lover, research geek, and amateur homesteader. Don’t miss these popular posts Why I Ditched Meal Plans For Real PlansSafe Essential Oils For Babies And ChildrenMTHFR Gene Mutations: A Beginner’s GuideHow To Really Increase Happiness In 5 Minutes A Day15 Ways To Be Kind To Your Adrenals
One example of simple space repurposing would be to utilize the unused area under a staircase, like this cozy double bed set up. The custom made platform bed fits snugly into the under-stair alcove, and the design also incorporates under-bed and over-bed storage that runs straight into the side of the stairs too.The under-stair area also works great for hideaway day beds/reading nooks like this one. Bunks under a sloping roof, like in this loft space, are a great solution where precious floor space is eaten by a central stairwell. This particular example also incorporates a set of space saving storage shelves in each bunk cubby.Bunk beds make full use a rooms vertical space, and make better use of the floor space than a set of twin beds. This elegant set takes on the characteristics of a four poster bed complete with canopy, and transforms into a double decker of day beds during the daylight hours.Bunk beds are a great layout hack for getting more sleeping space out of a lesser floor area, but these bunk beds take up the least space of all: a shallow wall panel acts as the holding dock in which the beds can be folded away with ease when not in use.
This bedroom harbors four beds but still looks to have masses of floor space. The centrally placed ladder becomes a design feature rather than a hindrance, and the clean crisp lines of the bunks almost become moment of contemporary architecture.Generally, when you move the bedding space up, you are be able to find room for a lot more things. Storage shelves, a clothes rail and even a wash basin find a home under this high shelf-bed; the arrangement here also makes nice use of the high placed windows.This adult cabin bed makes room for a home library and media cabinet, which allows the extra gained floor space to become a lounge and entertainment area. A dual use makes a small bedroom feel like a much more luxurious suite. Get Free Updates by Email Or FacebookAND GET THIS EBOOK FREE We will email you the download link for the book Click this button and visit here for the download link Another variation of moving the bed ‘up’ is to completely conceal it within the ceiling, where you might not even notice, or recognise it.
This suspended bed designs appears almost as an architectural feature, whilst the solid staircase leading up to it gives the sleep space a permanent and sturdy appeal. The skylight would make this a very bright place to wake up in the mornings, but if those window panes are made of clear glass then the view of the stars would be mesmerizing. Sleeping up in a nest like this may feel a little strange to some, but as there is a bath tub in the dining room of this home, we don’t suppose the homeowner minds a little touch of the extraordinary!A mezzanine level is a winner in double height homes for all sorts of uses, but a bedroom hidden in the rafters is one of the best.Even a half mezzanine can be more than big enough for two.This one is like a room within a room.The ultimate in luxury hideaway beds has got to be this elevating design…Another alternative to hiding beds in the ceiling is to put them under the floor, like this roll away trundle.With a roll-away bed, a teenager would have to find somewhere else to hide their dirty dishes and laundry!
Now you see it, now you don’t.Raising the room above the bed, rather than the bed above the room.A very different take on the sofa bed.We have explored hiding beds under the floor and up the ceiling. What is left now? The walls, of course! One big name that keeps popping up when looking for murphy beds, or space saving multi-purpose furniture, is Resource Furniture.Though the concept of Murphy beds has been around for a while the newer designs are sturdier, sleeker and pack in multiple features.They can pop out of anywhere!Who needs a guest bedroom when any wall will do?Even the most slender of spaces offer a solution.These twin doubles are disguised as attractive closets with faux door and drawer fronts.Here’s another quick alternative, featuring a concertina design, which you can hide into other pieces of furniture like wall units.Flipping the mattress takes on a whole new meaning with this Work Bed that turns over to reveal a desk.Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutTwitterGoogle+LinkedInPinterestPosted!
A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. HOLLYWOOD—Philip Krim greets a visitor in the new Casper showroom here, designed for locals to come up and check out the Casper mattress, which is only sold online.What's it look like? How does it feel? Is it as comfy as online fans have said?That's all well and good -- but come on, what we really want to do is open up that big box and see what happens.Does a big king b ed really pop up right out of the box, like a jack in the box?Krim slices open the top and grabs the folded mattress, which truly does expand once we pull it out of the box.But how did they get the bed, a combination of memory and latex foam, in there in the first place?"We have these giant machines that compress the bed, and fold it up into a sleeve that puts it into a box," says Krim, a Casper co-founder and CEO.Casper's unique bed-in-a-box proposition has taken off in a big way, selling $20 million worth in 10 months, with no marketing beyond $50-off social coupons and young fans singing its praises online.
/nW2kQNpMiv— Parker Hills (@parkerhills) January 29, 2015Besides traditional retailers like Ortho Mattress, Sit N' Sleep and department stores, Krim competes with other online mattress sellers, including Tuft & Needle and Signature Sleep, and touts longer guarantee periods.Casper this week opened the new L.A. showroom, stocked with with millennial favorites like Xbox games and a Sonos sound system, along with a Casper king bed, simply as a way to "interact with customers and get them to know us," says Krim.The new showroom follows the original in New York City, where Casper is headquartered.Krim and four friends started Casper in 2013 as a way to remake the $13 billion mattress industry, and bring it into the tech age. Instead of walking into a showroom, and having to choose between memory foam, pocketed coil, firm or plush, Casper has fewer decisions. There's one kind of mattress — a combination of memory and latex foam, available in twin through California king size, starting at $500.
A king sells for $950.Krim says his beds are a fraction of what they would cost at retail. (For instance, a Memory Foam King from mattress reseller Sitnsleep is advertised at $2,600.)"It was simple," says Lee Hoffman, a recent Casper purchaser from New York City. "I went to Bloomingdale's and Macy's first, and there were so many options. Mattresses are complex and there are too many decisions. With Casper, you order the mattress and don't have to think about it."Check out YouTube, and you'll find dozens of unboxing videos, of young customers filming their experiences on smartphones and spreading the word on their social feeds.First night sleeping on a @Casper mattress. The unboxing experience was fun (yes, it comes suction packed in a box)! https://t.co/3sZPqDVdzr— Kate Kendall (@KateKendall) February 12, 2015It is the customer response to the bed-in-a-box that Krim says produced $20 million in sales, way higher than the $1.8 million in sales he and his partners had originally projected."
It speaks to the demand that was out there for a new option," says Krim. "It really connected with people."Krim won't make any projections for 2015. "I've learned that predicting the future is not something I do very well," he says.Some $15 million was raised from a variety of venture firms, led by New Enterprise Associates, which has backed Evernote and Box.NEA general partner Tony Florence says he was inspired to invest because of the size of the bedding market. Everyone sleeps, and at some point in their life, they buy a new mattress."Nobody I know who buys a bed has a good experience," he says. "It's an obvious category for a new way of doing business."Sales so far are tiny in the overall scheme of things, "but we see tons of innings for growth," says Florence.Just ask Trenni Kusnierek, who got her new Casper mattress last Friday.The Boston resident lives in a four-floor walkup, where getting a mattress up the stairs is quite challenging. "Getting a box up four flights is a lot easier," she says.