>>>>Good point Sherlock. I must have extended the ladder as well (it was a while ago). It was all good except when he broke his arm.
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>>>I assume that happened when he fell off the bed ?
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>>>>Then it was mattress on the floor time.
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>>Those ikea beds have a nice barriers around them to prevent that sort of thing.
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>I'm just wondering why you guys keep mentioning Ikea as if nobody else delivers furniture in pieces. Practically everything we bought since 1979 except, perhaps, some couches where the crew came and assembled them on the spot (read as: screwed the legs on), came in pieces and required assembly. That first set in 1979 and the kitchen we got in 2010 came with the guy who'd put it together, but pretty much everything else we did ourselves. What's the big deal?

Good point. In these years of kids going from home to college to apartments, we've also assembled several things that came from Target, and a couple from J. C. Penney's. OTOH, furniture other than bookcases we've bought for ourselves has pretty much either arrived assembled or been assembled by those delivering it. The only exceptions I can think of are a desk we bought at Staples for one of the kids, and a ping-pong table.

Tamar