DHP Tommy Twin Metal Loft Bed, Black

Great bed for a kid or skinny adult. For more moderately fluffy and fun sized such as myself, or more I would not suggest it. I bought this for my 9 yr old and he loves it. I did what others suggested and took pool noodles and cut them up. However you might want to try pipe insulation instead as the pool noodles are inner cut too big as well as being too thick so no matter how tight you get the zip ties around them, it’s not going to grip the bar, making it spin if you move wrong. However that hasn’t been an issue with my kid at all but may be for some.I got a cheap rgb led strip and put behind it and wow it looks cool. Definitely better than the $3500 loft mansions they sell to people at rooms to go kids. Yeah of course wood is going to be better, but considering it’s for a kid so they are going to use it eh.. maybe until they are 15 max? And if you have to break the thing down to move that’s an extra back ache. That might be brilliant but I like this better. It does the job for cheap, looks cool, gives a kid the same happiness, and at the end of the day isn’t bad or hard to move…Now with that being said the initial uhh.. box your gonna either need a second person to move it, or your going to have to take it out in pieces and leave the box where it is till you get about half of it out the box. What I ended up doing is using a rug under it to move it through the house to his room.It does wobble a little but not crazy and it’s easy enough to remedy with some cheap shelving and screws. Just take one of those cheap a la carte shelving pieces from Home Depot or Lowe’s, cut them into triangles, use a bit to drill through the metal tubing and then screw in the triangles on the corners. That will stiffen it up a LOT. The other idea I had for the near future is to make the whole bottom back into a desk via same shelving but instead of cutting out triangles get one that is the length of the frame, cut notches in it to fit around the poles on each side then screw down into the poles along the bottom length edge of the shelving:

I got the black twin loft bed so I can put my tables and chairs underneath. I’m a female 186lbs and I forgot to add the mattress pounds. I thought it wasn’t going to hold me but it does. Please weigh at your on risk. I think mine says 200lbs max on Amazon but manual says 230 I think. So I am risking it. I should try to loose weight so I don’t break it in the future lol. I placed a 12 inch bed as well, which is NOT recommended. I have lived in a Navy ship before so my body is use to not rolling off since we had smaller mattresses in a coffin rack style and I was on the 3rd bunk high, BUT IF THERES AN EARTHQUAKE NOW OR SOMEONE DRIVES THROUGH THE WALL I’M AT, I’m definitely falling off lol. Again I’m taking the risk, which you shouldn’t. I am going against all guide lines and I’m not going to be suing the maker for my misuse. If you are one of those who like to sue or return, please follow the guide lines to the T. But other than that, I build it my self, I’m 5 feet 4 inches. There were times I used my head or shoulders to balance the beam, or times I screwed one side and slowly walked to the other side hoping it won’t break on me lol, but I managed. Instructions were easy. There were times I’m like, “wait what about this screw?”, it shows up later, so just follow all the screws in order. Don’t open all of it at once or you may not know which screw is which. I used a box cutter or exacto knife to cut one by one of what I needed per step. Everything is labeled, complete set even with extra pieces and screws, it’s very sturdy, appearance is amazing, just like the photo, it performs what it says it does even more.

You don’t need 2 people for assembly, but if I had an extra set of hands it would have gone a lot smoother. The general assembly, by myself, took about 4 hours. It would have been shorter had I listened to the other reviews about not tightening all of the screws until the end. Seriously, I thought I was just about at the end and it wouldn’t be a big deal to tighten them then, but I was wrong. I tightened everything just before putting the slats in and ran across an issue to where the slats wouldn’t fall in place correctly. So, my recommendation, just before you attach the ladder it’s safe to tighten everything then. Speaking of the ladder, if the screws seem short and at an angle, flip the ladder over. It’s easy to think the ladder should go one way but really it’s a matter of just turning it over and it comes together with the bed easily.Seeing most of the issues stemmed from the white bed, I ordered the black.All of the screws, went in correctly without gapping. The biggest job is making sure all of your pieces are lined up and straight. If something is even slightly out of place, you’re going to get gaps and problems with the assembly.The bed standing alone is quite sturdy. However, when my 4’6” 80LB son climbed to the top there is definitely some movement. Enough movement to make me consider securing the posts to the wall. The underneath height is high enough for him to walk under without ducking his head.Overall, this is a nice space saving bed for the price. There is enough room underneath to add a loveseat or a desk. We do intend on adding something underneath for seating. I will update if anything changes but as of right now, it was a good purchase, for our needs.