Vertical Challenge

[Griffin NoName]

I got my new bed that I've been rambling on about.

I got a fabulous storage bed base, lots of drawer space, and I chose a fantastically super comfy mattress. So far so good.

Now I've got the two together, one on top of the other, I found out it's way up sky high. Like climb into bed has taken on a whole new meaning.



an artist's impression - not the actual bed !!!

Anyone got any clever ideas for tasteful ramps? 

[The Meromorph]

A nice (matching?) box beside the bed about 12" square?

A 'Trampette' ?  http://www.eurogym.dk/index.php?id=187

We had the same problem. We took away the bed frame (not an option with a footboard  )

Saw holes in the floor to put the bed legs in? 

Footsy jammies with high heels? 

A strategically placed trapeze?

Human Growth Hormone injections?

Practice the Fosbury Flop manouevre?




I'll stop now. 

[Aggie]

Bed frame?  I am not familiar with this item......

_{( all the bed frame money went into making the mattress ridiculously large, but I have two boxsprings )}


On a more serious note, perhaps some staging (a plywood box carpeted to match the room) beside the bed to provide a nice large step-up platform?

[ivor]

A jet pack perhaps?

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[anthrobabe]

footsie jammies with heels 

many bedding stores sell small sets of stairs to go with these high beds. I'd look online also.

My best friend and husband use a milk crate- not recommended as it hurts the feet and will eventually break-- but for a few days might work(put a piece of carpet or a throw rug on it to protect feet)- also not really stable.

I don't have a bed frame myself- I have a futon on the floor.

[Griffin NoName]

Think I'll go with the jet pack. Superb.

(the artistic impression was misleading, it's not framed like that, the frame is internal and the drawers form the entire base, so not removable).

Actually it's "theoretically" an interesting problem (well, mistake to have made). My mother (80) cannot even get up one step, even a low one, and literally wouldn't be able to get into my bed (may be a good thing LOL). I am forward planning !!

The story in the family is Great Great Grandma Sarah took to her bed at 50 and never got up again - perhaps she had this same problem.

[Sibling Chatty]

I can improvise a ramp out of anything. This might work, depending on your level of book overstocking.

To build a ramp for the step up into Mom's house 25 years ago--so that her grand piano on the pianoboard/dolly could be brought in, I took 3 cases of textbooks and 4 bags of paperback books and built a gradually sloping ramp that I covered in extraneous cardboard to smooth in out. You might try the same with extra books and a slab of MDF.

Ramp AND book storage all at once!!

For stability's sake, my friend's husband built a series of platforms, the largest one 4 feet long, 24 inches wide and 2.5 inches deep, the next 3 feet long, 22 inches wide (same depth) and the third 2 feet long 20 inches wide (same depth). Stacked, they provide a gradual step-up system that's stable, and they CAN be turned over and nested to be put out of the way. He's also improvising a ramp to be used in the event that lifting her foot to step up becomes a problem...something to attach to the top 'box' and be supported my the other two.

I'd go with the jet pack, too.

[Griffin NoName]

I've been searching for my ideal ramp......

Do not click this iif you are underage; naughty stuff.

[beagle]

Weird. As if sex wasn't complicated enough already without some idiot building a ruddy assault course between you and the object of your affections.

And somebody should tell them you're supposed to take your clothes off.

[Griffin NoName]

Complicated? I was disappointed by the limitations. None of them are suitable for my needs.

I've discovered modular ramp tiles - unattractive but exciting none the less. I'm drawing up some designs for a jolly idea I've had which I shall be patenting as "Woolly Ramps".

[beagle]

Complicated? I was disappointed by the limitations. None of them are suitable for my needs.

I never understood that bit about having to put a condom on a banana before you started; but all the sex education classes emphasised how important it was.

[Sibling Chatty]

Think about the inconvenience of having fruit flies buzzing about at the most intimate times. The condom retains all fruit flies, silly.

There's a logical answer for everything, if only you stop to think about it.

[Aggie]

I am having more than a few 'don't post that' moments in this thread.   

[beagle]

I'm sort of hoping Griffin is going to post a picture of the finished course.

Wonder how many suitors will have to set out to ensure at least one makes it through the minefield of amour.

[The Meromorph]

Twelve million twice a night and four times on weekends?
(Oops, musta bin a don't-post-that moment that slipped through  )