More Boy Room stuff...

Yesterday we drove to the middle of nowhere to have a look at the bed I was drooling over for Dawson's room...

Well, they didn't have it in stock... the did have another mates bed there so I was able to guage the height, and sadly I think it might be too high, and since it is meant not to have a boxspring the bedrails that you can buy for toddlers just wouldn't work. They also sell the bunk beds in the same finish, so that could be an option, just to use one of the beds for now.

So, my hunt continued.

I found this:

http://www.maxtrixkids.com/boys-bedroom-furniture.html

Which can be turned into this:

How much would the boys LOVE this idea?

Or This:

Then This:

Then this:

It's all made out of solid birch with good safety standards, and essentially one bed keeps transforming into other configurations by just purchasing the extra pieces. It seems quite ingenious to me... but then again the crib that transformed into a daybed and then a double seemed pretty cool too, and it's only ever been used as a crib. 

Convertible cribs were all the rage when I had Dylan, but frankly I don't see the functionality of them. If you take the rail off the side of the bed you get a small daybed, with no rail to keep baby toddler in. By the time Dylan was big enough to move from the crib, Dawson had been born so we needed the crib for him, and bought Dylan a set of bunk beds. Dawson's room is way too small for a double bed so that isn't going to work either...

So, while I like the idea of a bed that can grow and change as the kids needs grow and change I am not 100% convinced that it would withstand the test of time. Although boys don't usually care as much about what furniture "looks" like... just ask Bruce.

I haven't found out how much the bed costs, and don't know if it's in the budget or not... but I think it is pretty cool!