Would your teen be happy with this bed?

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from ikea : https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/slaekt-bed-frame-w-storage-slatted-bedbase-white-s29291956/

Or is it too young?

(If you have it, could you tell me the height from where you put the slatted base to the top of the baseboard?)

Unless he’s Giant Haystacks, your tall teen can fit in a single bed.

How do you think tall university students manage? You realise they don’t get double beds in halls?

When I was a teenager I had a very small bedroom and I’ve loved that bed for the much-needed storage space.

Not a weird flex! No ones saying a single isn't comfortable but if you have the room a larger bed is way more comfortable again. I'd have a super king to myself if I could!

This. I'd go as far as to say start with a double from first ever bed. Saves lots of in between purchases.
I realise OP has said it must be a single, obviously many people don't have room. However once the DC have left home the double remains a guest bed.

Im 99.9% certain that this is the bed DS1 (21) is planning to get. He has a decent mattress already though.

I wouldn't like it because of the small and uncomfortable looking headboard.

No. They’d be pretty horrified tbh

Mine would be fine. But we forced him out of a cabin bed to a 4ft small double and he adores it. Plus there is tonnes of storage space underneath. It's absolutely transformed his tiny bedroom and made it so much more usable.

I know you said it's not an option but it was such a counterintuitive move for us as his room is so small, and it is so, so much better. Floor space is not that useful for a teen, whereas bigger bed = more "living" space.

It's a very normal single bed, as slept in by millions of people of all ages.

We have the ikea storage / pull out beds so they can have double beds when they want. Don’t quite understand why a normal size bed would be “too young”. Why not consider the pull out one so you don’t need to buy anything else later and can be used for guests?

That rather depends on what you consider comfortable. I like room for things in my room and floor space. A single bed is much wider than half a double (made for two, the flies in the name). So an adult sleeping solo in a single bed has more room than one of a couple in a double. Why lose so much floor space to redundant bed space?

I've just turned DD out of bed so I can measure - he obviously thinks the bed is comfortable enough

From the base to the top of the side is about 8cm so any mattress taller than that will come above the sides. If you mean the board at the foot end, it's about 16cm (hard to measure exactly as the last slat does come up to the end of the bed).

@BillieWiper it's anything but flimsy - the bed is built like a tank and weighs a ton (as we discovered when we moved house with it)! It's been disassembled and moved a few times since we bought it and is still pretty solid.

My son had that, it was the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever laid on and it eventually collapsed. He’s got a traditional wooden framed king sized bed now. I’ve never been impressed with Ikea bed frames but I do like their mattresses.

Ok that's cool then. If he's happy with it then it's all good! X

My daughter had this bed, at 16 and shenis tiny (size 8) we have just replaced it for a proper bed and matress.

Still a single bed, but just a proper wooden one.

We've just bought a very similar bed for DS1 (nearly 10). Sometimes I fall asleep in it when reading DS1 a bedtime story and it's very comfortable.

I'm a small woman but when I fall asleep on DS2s bed (a child's purple single) it feels like sleeping on rocks/the floor.

The mattress isn't included. Check the size of the mattress.
It says you need ÅFJÄLL Foam mattress, medium firm, 90x200 cm - IKEA UK

I'd get a small double (4') ottoman bed. Much more grown up and comfortable, doesn't take up much more floor space, loads of storage (far, far more than the bed in the OP), and works well as a guest bed when teen goes to Uni/leaves home.

Why the insistence an a single, OP?

The bed in the link looks like a child's bed, and my teens would absolutely have considered it too childish from about age 11 onwards. That's not to say they technically wouldn't fit (it's standard size), but it just looks like a kids bed that you'd expect to see in the bedroom of a primary school child.

exactly.

Both my children had double beds in halls (two different Unis) and in their shared student houses too.

My 3 teens have standard singles, so long as it isn't a Thomas the Tank need it similar than why would it be too young? My DD has her bed built in with drawers under because her room is tiny. It's practical storage not childish! Only one out of the 3 would have space for a double so it's tough luck.