<p>I asked this on college life, but I thought some of you might have personal experience from your children. My room is very small next year, so I would like to loft my bed. However, I can only seem to find whole lofted beds for sale – does anyone know if any sort of kit or set exists to raise a pre-existing bed to a level high enough to put a desk underneath (not that high - the bed in its current form is already about 3.5-4 feet off the ground, so I only need to raise it about another 3 feet)? If not, is there a way we can do it ourselves without having my bed collapse while I’m asleep? Any info would be very welcome.</p>
<p>Many colleges (or organizations within the school) will offer lofting kits that you can purchase/rent. Check into that first.</p>
<p>do a google search on the words “college loft bed design” and you will have many choices.</p>
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<p>I don’t beleive that the school will allow you to loft your bed. The most you can do adjust the height of the matress using the mechanisms already in place on the bed. If you still have your welcome home book regarding housing on campus, they specifically state any kind of loft are amongst the things you should leave at home.</p>
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<p>Since the rooms are checked should you decide to loft, you will you fined for having it and will be asked to remove it.</p>
<p>We got the loft information from S’s school last summer. He rented a loft. It was all metal (so a lot lighter than homemade wooden systems). It required you to take apart your bed frame and only use the mattress. He stored all the bed parts behind his chest of drawers(which fit under the loft) because at the end of the year he had to take down the loft and return it and put his bed together in its original condition. The rented loft was very easy to put together and if you could rent one like that I would do that over building it yourself.</p>