MeanestMomInMidwest Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Is your bed against the wall or do you have two open sides? If it is against the wall, who has to sleep by the wall? Our bed has always been near the wall and I always have "wall duty" I'm thinking of rearranging the furniture, but don't know how I'd like not having the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly IN Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 We have open sides. Both dh and I are night risers so we need both sides to be open. Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 We have open sides. I'd feel claustrophobic sleeping by the wall! Also, dh gets up at 4:45 A.M. and there's no way I'd want him crawling over me if he was by the wall. Chelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanestMomInMidwest Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 We have open sides. I'd feel claustrophobic sleeping by the wall! Also, dh gets up at 4:45 A.M. and there's no way I'd want him crawling over me if he was by the wall. Chelle the wall makes me feel safe. I know I cant fall out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 the wall makes me feel safe. I know I cant fall out. Well, there you have it then! You have a valid reason to leave the bed right where it is! Can you rearrange anything else to achieve what you want? Chelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I would do everything I could not to push one side up against a wall. We each have a nightstand with a light and a clock-radio. I also have a telephone. I always sleep on the side further from the bedroom door. Why? I dunno :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanestMomInMidwest Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 Well, there you have it then! You have a valid reason to leave the bed right where it is! Can you rearrange anything else to achieve what you want? Chelle Probably, because what I really want is change. Dh teases me because I never leave things in one place too long. He likes things to remain the same, I like to change. My compromise to him all these years is the bed has remained in the same spot...his compromise to me was to buy me all new pulls for the kitchen so things would be different. maybe I'll buy some paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I don't like beds up against the wall because they are harder to make that way. Dh and I have never had our bed that way, but we have had the children's beds like that sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I refuse to have any beds against the wall. They are too hard to make against the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Open sides. The walls are cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ever since I read in a Feng Shui book that it is important for a relationship, or if you want a relationship, to have both sides open and inviting and not cluttered- I have made sure I do that to some extent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibbyl Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Is your bed against the wall or do you have two open sides? If it is against the wall, who has to sleep by the wall? Our bed has always been near the wall and I always have "wall duty" I'm thinking of rearranging the furniture, but don't know how I'd like not having the wall. Too difficult to make up bed when it is against a wall. Do I have to say how seldom this would be a problem for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ours is open on both sides. My bedroom growing up was 12 x 9 and I always had to have the bed against the wall. As an adult I never had had it against the wall. It's a pain to make, we have a king size bed and I'm short, and I like to roll out of bed, not crawl over someone. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Dh teases me because I never leave things in one place too long. The last furniture/room move that I did required me to promise I'd leave the house alone at least til 2009! It's been like 2 months and it's killing me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 For most of our marriage we had open sides . However, a couple years ago we switched bedrooms with ds so he would have more room to spread out with his legos and trains and such. Our bedroom is tiny. The bed only fits in there one way, in a corner. Poor dh gets the wall side because I often have to visit the bathroom in the middle of the night. He really hates climbing over me but agrees it's the way things need to be managed for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Open sides. Even in our first house where the room was 12 X 14 we had open sides. In that house I slept furthest from the door...and when we moved I assumed I still would. Nope. The bed in our new house is on the opposite wall as the old house and turns out dh 'can't' (ha!) sleep on the right hand side of the bed. So now I sleep closet to the door. And yes, beds against the wall are too hard to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Open sides....we've always had it like this since we've been married, despite the fact that I like to rearrange often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Open sides. Any other arrangement would be impossible in at least 2 of the 3 places we've lived, and I'm not really sure why I would want it to be. Are adults really afraid of falling out of bed? I'm giggling, but in a light hearted way, I swear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I would do everything I could not to push one side up against a wall. We each have a nightstand with a light and a clock-radio. I also have a telephone. I always sleep on the side further from the bedroom door. Why? I dunno :-) It is because that way if the monkeys come during the middle of the night they will take Mr. Ellie instead of you? (I was just feeling random) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 It is against the wall for 2 reasons. One being my computer station is next to the bed against the other wall and there is not enough room to have the bed in the middle with it there. And 2nd I co sleep with dd, and prefer having her between the wall and me and have always preferred that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Our king sized bed is right next to the kids' pop-up daybed, so we essentially have a double king-sized bed going in our "dorm." I am second one in...I don't have to climb over anyone to get out though -- I just go out the bottom of the bed (low footboard). :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 ... since I am single ... but my bed is up against the wall and if there was any other way to arrange it, it wouldn't be against the wall. I do have a row of pillows between me and the wall though (for the reason someone else mentioned here ... walls are cold). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I never push a bed up against a wall (unless it's a twin-sized day bed). It's not an attractive arrangement, and yeah, it's pretty awkward for the one who has to climb over. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhM Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Queen bed centered in room. Even thinking about sleeping against the wall gives me the willies! Dh & I have our own night stands, but only I have the reading light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 We have an open bed arangement. Usually there is a door to the bedroom and one to the bathroom. I almost always get tne one next to the bathroom, unless of course it also turns out to be next to a large plate class window. For some strange reason this almost always put me on my hubby's beft side. Not quite sure how that worls out but it has for the past 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Our bed is not against the wall because neither of us like to crawl over the other to get out of bed (and with my bladder issues, it would not be pretty;)). My kids' beds are against the walls because it works better for their small rooms and because they are not sharing their twin beds. Making the bed isn't that much of an issue with a twin bed - all they have to do is pull it a few inches from the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn in OH Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Open sides. I like us both to be able to get in and out of bed without disturbing the other person. I'm also slightly claustrophobic, I can't be on the wall side if we are someplace where the bed is against the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 We both have open sides. Our room is long and narrow so having the bed in the middle works well with a side table on his and the dresser on mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 It is because that way if the monkeys come during the middle of the night they will take Mr. Ellie instead of you? (I was just feeling random) YES!! That's it!!!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 It is because that way if the monkeys come during the middle of the night they will take Mr. Ellie instead of you? (I was just feeling random) What about the monkeys that enter through the window? ;) :lol: P.S. (Open sides here....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3boys_mom Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 our bed is up against the wall DH likes the security of sleeping next to the wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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