Loft beds create new square footage for you to use for other home essentials, like a desk, dresser, or reading nook. Another way you can utilize the space made from lofting your bed is for extra ...

3. Think twice about a loft or bunk bed. “It’s fun for a few days or weeks, but by fall break, you’ll regret having to climb up a ladder to go to bed every night," Phillips says.

Loft beds have become as commonplace as pizza boxes and cans of diet soda in dorm rooms. At least 50 percent of the more than 8,000 dorm students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg sleep atop lofts ...