Twin bed....

[Riverfront Headmistress]

I have a twin bed frame, a matress, and a bunky board. Can I use these together to create a twin bed or will the bed be too low to the ground?

[PinkInTheBlue]

Who is it for?

[Riverfront Headmistress]

Well...I may need a fence put up....

Seriously though, its for an exchange student.

[PinkInTheBlue]

That would most likely be a very, very low bed compared to normal beds. It would be odd to me. :) However, I'm currently sleeping in an insanely high bed and hating it too. Maybe we could mix the two together and come out fine. :)

I'm sure they'd be happy for any comfortable bed but it will be abnormally low.

[Riverfront Headmistress]

I was thinking it would be really low. But I already have everything but a boxspring so I was trying my best not to go get one. Dh is deployed and I only have a small car so getting a box spring would be a PITA at this time.

I was thinking that the girl is short (5'1") and 93 lbs. She is also from France and may like the clean, simple look of such a bed.

[NHDeb]

You could always go to Wal-Mart and get a set of those bed stilts that are made to elevate a bed to allow more under-bed storage.
They raise the bed up about 5 inches.
That would solve the height issue and also allow you to use the under bed space to store luggage or whatever.

[Kuovonne]

Well, that is the setup (a bunky board instead of a box spring) that I use for my kids' beds. Granted, my kids are young, but I have also slept on their beds on occassion, and I never gave the height of the bed a thought.

It is a few inches lower than a regular bed, but once you are laying on it sleeping, it doesn't really make any difference. Now, if the bed were for someone elderly or with impaired mobility, that would be a different story.