>>>>>>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?
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>>I still think Ikea are in a class of their own when it comes to complex assembly. Those Swedes must like a good challenge.
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>I think the difference is that when assembled correctly, Ikea pieces are of much higher quality than other put-it-together-yourself stuff. That requires a more complex assembly process. My experience, though, is that the directions are mostly pretty clear.
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Fair point. I just wish there didn't have to be so many of them.

My daughter Emily is crazy about Ikea. When she was still living here we got one of those beds with wraparound rails that someone mentioned earlier in the thread. Even working together it took us a few hours.

And then a few weeks later she decided the top was too close to her bedroom ceiling. Unbeknownst to me, she grabbed a saw and cut the lower legs down a foot and a half or so. She did it right, too. All the posts even, no wobble. She is going to be a good engineer. Not just for the precision work but for always looking for a better way to do it. I guess I am veering dangerously close to the parental faux pas of bragging about your kids so will stop there.