What size bed????

[sunshine's mama]

Dh and I are moving next weekend and I can't wait to stop sleeping on this futon...it's been 4 years and that's enough..it's just not comfy anymore, esp when you are 7 months pregnant..

We found a great furniture store up the road where we just got dd her first big girl bed (even though she'll prolly sleep with us for a bit longer..she's going back and forth btwn wanting her own bed and staying with us.....I'm not ready for her to move but if she is....then I guess I have to be ready too...) and got a great deal and she's all excite about it....it's VERY comfortable...

So, we figured, since we are moving, it's a great time to get a new bed for us...and are trying to decide btwn a queen and a king. Our futon now is btwn a full and a queen if that makes sense...

Our new bedroom is 14'9"x12'. When you walk into the room from the hall you look at the window. To your immediate right is the big closet, to the left of the closet is a part of the wall that is big enough for our tall dresser and then right next to that is the door to the bathroom (love the soaking tub...whoo hoo....)...So that wall is basically bathroom door and closet door...at that corner next to the bathroom is the wall with the window....

I know the difference btwn a queen and a king isn't all that much as Dh taped the corners of it on the floor so I could see but I am not good at spatial things..I am a very visual learner but just can't picture things in my head of where they should go etc....without them actually being there...

Dh thinks that if we get the queen that a month or two down the road we'll (read: he"ll) regret not getting the king...The difference in price is $100. I don't think we need the king..I would rather have more space in the room since we are moving from a smaller room now...We plan to cosleep with this one like we did with dd#1 but there will also be a bassinet in there until she outgrows it for naps (if she naps..her sister didnt..lol) and then the crib will go in there for naps when she outgrows the bassinet....Our futon was pushed up against the wall and such with dd so she napped on our bed until she started rolling and then rolled off a few times so....

Anyways..that got longer than it prolly needed to be....

Which would you get and why????

The plan is to put whichever bed on the one long wall across from the bathroom/closet doors with the head against the wall and the foot, well, at the opposite end....

A king would be nice, don't get me wrong, I just don't think we need it as I want to have space in the room....I personally can't afford the 50% of the cost of it he wants me to put forth....I SAH and make a little bit of spending money caring for a couple of little girls but that goes to savings for dd since it's the only way we can do that (70% of it) and the rest as spending money for me for us to go out and do things etc.....I can give a bit of it to him for our bed but not the amt he is wanting without going into her savings or taking my account below the limit where I start getting fees charges...

My daycare familes aren't following me to the new place after we move bc it's alot further out and I didn't expect them to. I am not going to advertise for new families being as pregnant as I am as it doesn't make sense to have children come and get used to me only to have them leave for a bit while I have the new baby so I expect to be out of work until just before or after Christmas....

Ok, rambled again..sorry..thanks so much ifyou are still reading this....

[zo's ma]

Keep in mind the difference in price of bedding too!

We have a king, It's SO big, I wish it were a queen.

[sunshine's mama]

I did mention the price of bedding.....decent bedding that won't pill or feel rough after a few washes....he didnt seem to mind...

I still think that a queen is enough and am wishing the price difference where he wants to buy was more than $100 it is....

He already sleeps on the edge most nights these days and I am afraid I'd feel like we were in 2 separate beds rather than in one bed if we get the king....Right now, dd's bed is sidecared to ours so there is king size room from our calves up..she just started sleeping sideways and rolypoly so we put her crib together at age 2.5 and butted it up against ours...LOL

I have a few days to convince him that a queen is just right sizewise for us right now....SIGH

[thriftyqueen]

I would go for the king. There will probably be times when both kids want to sleep with you and it would be nice to have the space. I have a queen and only one child. When he wants to sleep with us, it get crowded at times. I would love a king, but our room is almost too small for a queen!

[Laggie]

We would want a king because neither DH nor I like anyone to be touching us while we sleep.

But, our queen just barely fits in our room and a king wouldn't fit up our stairs. We don't cosleep but I would LOVE a king sized bed.

[Leta]

If I had to butter the doorway and make sheets out of floursacks to do it, I'd STILL get a king.

[rainyday]

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I think a king is one of those things (like high-speed internet ) that once you have it, it's hard to go back. We used to have a double, and thought a king would be excessive. Now we'd never go back.

Also, kings are easier to fit than queens a lot of times if you have tight corners in a hall or stairway. To fit a queen set in, there has to be enough room to get that queen-size box spring around corners and so forth. Kings come with two box springs, like two long twins, so they fir around corners way more easily. Split-box-spring queens are available, but they're pretty uncommon.

[Flpnspn]

King all the way

My Dh and I both sleep very differently. I just lay in one spot and stay there, he moves all over and ends up rolling up in all of the covers and diagonal. With a King size we can sleep together, with minimal waking. He sleeps like a log. I wake up when he pulls the covers off of me. I'll often grab a down throw to put on my side of the bed. Our DD sometimes still sleeps with us and we started with the 3 of us in a Queen and even though the king takes up so much room, we LOVE IT!

My DD often sleeps on the floor next to our bed. Sometimes in her own room. We've tried making her sleep in her room once she wanted her own bed, sometimes she's fine other nights she comes into our room in the middle of the night. She's 3 and finding her own space, sometimes she needs more cuddling and that's ok.

[sarahwpen]

oh, I love a king size bed.
But I totaly understand the price problem. and the space problem ( but I usually give up the big room for the big bed since i figure that is what the room is for anyway).

I don't know how you feel about used furniture, but if you look up used building supplies in the phone book, they will sometimes have furniture as well. I know that down here in ft. lauderdale there is a Habitat for humanity store that sells building supplies and furniture and they always have lots of beds that are like new for really decent prices. Like 140 for a king and 120 or so for a queen. That isn't with a mattress of course, but they are nice bed frames with head and footboard. Goodwill and craigslist.com and moving sales in the newspaper are the only places I will even consider shopping for furniture any more. You just get so much more for your dollar.

On mattresses, I am not very happy about buying a used mattress and would rather have a new one (seems kind of like used underwear to me ) But a good way to get an awesome mattress for cheap is to find an upholstery and foam supplier in your area (yellow pages, look for "foam") and you can either
A. get a cheap used mattress that looks clean and in decent shape and then get the foam place to cut you a 3 or 4 inch thick mattress topper out of a good quality foam (lots of places even have memory foam) and you will never know it is a cheap mattress.

B. get a full foam mattress cut out of whatever firmness and quality foam you like.

If you go straight to the foam and upholstery place, they will cut it whatever size and shape you want it out of whatever type material you pick out and are usually MUCH cheaper than mattress places. If you want you can even custom build your mattress with different layers of materials if you want and they can glue the layers together for you so you can have soft on top, hard on bottom etc. You just have to decide what you want and then make all the measurements and tell them exactly what to cut and how to put it together.

We did this for our kids bunk beds in our RV because they were custom built and were about 4 inches to narrow for a regular twin size and we got them for about $60 per mattress and I have to say, they are more comfortable than my $800 king size pillowtop in my bedroom.

[dachshundqueen]

Well I only spent $15.99 on sheets at HomeGoods and they haven't pilled or felt itchy.

We have a king after years of sleeping and cosleeping for 1 1/2 yrs on a full......so......I vote for a king.

Liz

[CandyApple]

I think a lot of it depends on how your family sleeps. My dh can handle the boys all over him and still get a good nights rest. I, on the other hand, can't sleep well without space.

So for me, I love the king. We've got a queen because it fits the room better, and I lie awake at night dreaming of a king!

[UberMama]

While we'd love a king, it just wouldn't fit well into our bedroom (it'd fit but not well..). We have a queen - it works well. Our twins co-slept when I was 9 months pg with DD and we fit comfortably. Yes, it would have been nicer to have the king then, but the queen worked.

[pixiepunk]

we just finished debating this ourselves - exactly the same situation as you, sleeping currently on an inbetween full and queen futon on the floor and wanting to buy a new mattress. only DH and I were on opposite sides of the argument. i felt that with 2 kids, and probably more in the future, a king would allow everyone to cuddle in if we needed/wanted to. and i remember being pregnant with DS and feeling crowded in a queen even though there were only three of us then - so that skewed my perspective too.

but we have a gorgeous queen sized bed frame that DH and I refinished/embellished before we had kids (just haven't used it since we moved a year ago) and he doesn't want to buy a new bed and ditch the frame we spent so much time working to make nice.

soooo.... we're getting a queen. just bought it yesterday, picking it up on friday. i'm so tired of being on that stupid futon i came to the point where i didn't care anymore so long as we were in a real bed off the floor with a little bit more space!

if i were you i'd go with the king, obviously, but i'm sure you'll be perfectly happy with a queen too

[RiverSky]

King all the way!

Originally Posted by hopeelise

I would go for the king. There will probably be times when both kids want to sleep with you and it would be nice to have the space. I have a queen and only one child. When he wants to sleep with us, it get crowded at times. I would love a king, but our room is almost too small for a queen!

I totally agree. We bought a queen years ago and totally regretted it. Now that we have an 8 year old and a 5 year old who still occasionally want to both sleep in our bed at the time same, we are so grateful that we now have a king. An extra hundred dollars is not that much, plus if you buy say, two king size sheet sets, that might add another $20 or $40 to the difference but that's way cheaper than what we did, which was to have to buy another mattress set entirely.

Start off with the king and be glad you did it.

[tamagotchi]

We love our king bed... and our bedroom is only 10' x 11'! With a 14'9"x12' bedroom you have PLENTY of room for a king.

[cuttiebearmom]

King all the way. Most likely there will be 2 kids in bed with you at least some of the time. To me there is a big difference between 1 kid in bed with 2 adults and a toddler and an infant in bed with 2 adults. If it were a bigger price difference the queen would be fine I'm sure but if you can swing it get the king !

[KMK_Mama]

KING for sure.

[mightymoo]

I love my king size bed. We actually have our king with a twin next to it for DD when she comes in. If we were buying a bed at a time in our lives when we knew there wouldn't be frequent visitors to our bed, I'd go back to a queen, a king is really big for two people. But with all the little munchkins in there, its perfect - we can all fit in one bed if need be, and DS has lots of room to roll around.

[e.naomisandoval]

So dumb to have bought a queen. I looked at the difference in bed prices, all those many years ago. DH said King! King! I thought it Too Much. Was used to a full so the queen seemed so huge. 2 kids later, and I've never lived it down. A king would really have been so much better. I look forward to the day my 3yo chooses her own bed but who knows when that will be.

Maybe it's like Minivans; they are simply great for a few years when you have a small child, but then you'd be fine again with something smaller. Maybe, 8 years later, we're almost there? Or maybe it will be another 2-3 years. By that time we might buy a new bed!

[KariM]

You know, if someone had asked me what size bed to get when my DS was a baby, I'd say I'd never need anything larger than a Queen (we were all three sleeping in a full).
Well.....my DD has me wishing I had a King! She's a major bed hog and sleeps sideways. She and I had to move out of the family bed and sleep alone (DH has to sleep in another bed) in a bed made of two twin mattresses.

Our next bed WILL be a king!

I'd say if your room can accomodate it, a king sized bed is a great investment for a family that co-sleeps.