<p>S1 will be moving in summer to his college apartment. Not sure if it makes more sense to buy him new bed and bedroom furniture, or just send along his bedroom set from home. What did you do?</p>
<p>Our D1 moved into an apartment her Sophomore year and we purchased a new bed. As a transfer student during a housing shortage she was unable to live on campus. Having her bed at home when she arrived on college breaks and holidays made her feel at home. The transfer year was a difficult transition and breaks and long weekends in the comforts are her bedroom was much needed. She moved onto campus second semester and we now have a bed in storage, but I wouldn’t have done it differently.</p>
<p>P.S. Check out consignment shops for great deals on hardy furniture for dressers, etc and ask about student discounts at Sleepy’s and other mattress stores.</p>
<p>We won’t be sending any beds with kids. We will be converting their rooms into guest rooms for when they come to visit us :). Our kids have queen sized beds and it will just be easier to buy the a twin size for an apartment if need be.</p>
<p>Do you intend to keep his old room as a bedroom? If so, I’d have him buy a set in his new town and get it delivered straight to his apartment. Otherwise you’ll have to pay to ship his old set from home and you’ll still have to buy replacements for his old room.</p>
<p>If, on the other hand, you’d like to repurpose his room, this is a good pretext to clear it out.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback. Not sure if he will be coming home for long breaks anymore, he is hoping to stay and work year-round, but of course, you never know. Having a set delivered right to the new place sounds like a no-fuss option. He did say the last time that he was home how comfortable his bed is…</p>
<p>I’m trying to figure out if we send our piano with our D!</p>
<p>^^Now that’s the more interesting question. Will be interested to know what you decide! I can’t imagine that D will be ready for our piano for at least 10 more years, sadly.</p>
<p>The short story: We put our son in his first unfurnished apartment with an air mattress. After a few months he got tired of that and called 1800mattress or one of those places and had a bed delivered. </p>
<p>The longer story: We bought several pieces of furniture on Craigs List a few days before move-in (chests of drawers) , and on the day before move-in we roamed the streets of Boston and picked up a few nice items off the curb! We recently returned several of those items to the curb as my son moved out of the apartment. He sure got his money’s worth! :D</p>
<p>Sop14, my husband’s piano teacher willed him her beautiful 1916 Steinway grand. DH’s parents kept it for us until we had a house. We’ll probably do the same thing for D, since she’s a serious jazz pianist. She’s only 13, so it will be awhile!</p>
<p>When my D graduated in May and was relocating in a new city w/new job, she took her whole room - bed, mattress, dressers, desk , etc. It was HER room and this was to be HER new home - it’s what she wanted (her things she was used to) and quite honestly I was happy to replace her stuff (wrought iron full size bed she had had for years) with new stuff once we reshuffled rooms and set up a “guest room” - or as we prefer to call it, her room when she comes home. She didn’t have the $$$ to buy new stuff off the bat and her relocation was just a couple of hours away.</p>
<p>So it really depends on your situation - how much room does S have, how much $ does S have to replace (or you), will you be redoing this room once he leaves, etc.</p>
<p>My kids did not live in unfurnished apartments at college, so I have no practical experience.</p>
<p>But maybe it would be a good option to send the bed with the kid and buy an air mattress for his room at home, so that if he does come home for breaks, even for a few days, he will have a place to sleep.</p>
<p>We have done the bed thing all different ways and no matter whar we do it ends up a mess. D took her bedroom furniture, including mattress, to first apartment. Mom and Pop Moving and Storage (her dad and me) were called on to move it to the second apartment, and then the third. At the fourth we decided to get a new mattress and have it delivered. After a year she moved overseas and sold nearly everything she owned, including the almost new mattress that we had no way to store. She will return this summer and my bet is we will move her to her next place and most likely give her one of our older sets and replace it with a new one for us. </p>
<p>What I have learned is that I don’t buy expensive ones and now lift them a little and try to find a light one since I will no doubt be carrying one end at some point.</p>
<p>We went to ikea to furnish D’s off campus apt.</p>
<p>We’ve done it both ways - for the campus about 2 hours away we brought a bed and stuff from home (but not the bed from the room) but for the campus on the other side of the country we did what EK4 did - went to Ikea and bought a pretty inexpensive bed including the mattress but with a memory foam mattress topper purchased elsewhere to make the cheap Ikea bed tolerable. </p>
<p>For the OP, the variables to think about are -
- Will you want to end up with a bed in that room at home and if so, would you want to buy a new one?
- Will he come home for visits on breaks? If so he’ll probably want to have the bed in his room at home.
- How much hassle will it to bring his bed to his apartment? If the apartment is relatively local it’s not too much hassle to get the bed there if you have a truck/SUV it fits in but if the apartment is a long ways away it’d be hard to get it there. Shipping it is cost prohibitive I’ve found - cheaper to buy a new one.</p>
<p>S1 took his old full-size bed to his off campus house at the beginning of soph. year. We replaced it with a nice queen size in his room at home. When he graduates in May, the old bed will be trash. He’ll prob. be living at home for awhile. When he moves out on his own, we’ll give him the queen bed to take with him. We won’t need it anymore because we are selling our house/downsizing.</p>
<p>MaineLonghorn, wow, that must be quite the piano. Ours is a good upright, but D is a vocalist and cellist, not a pianist, and I would like to downsize in a couple of years. It will probably make better sense to sell it.</p>
<p>We let our kids figure out their furniture. Never made sense to ship much to them due to costs of mailing from HI. S bought & sold much of it on CraigsList & gave lots to D. Both bought their mattresses from Ikea. Not sure where he bought the new mattress for his DC apartment, as he threw out his old Ikea one; said it was no good after 2 years.</p>