Bed Risers

Going to college can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. First of all, being away from home much longer than a vacation is a test of independence because you'll have to deal with problems (big or small) yourself and mom or dad is not around to answer to your needs.

The first thing that college freshmen have to deal with typically, aside from the tuition fee, is a place to stay, which could be the university dormitory or somewhere else. Another point of concern is whether to share a room with roommate or rent it alone – which is definitely more costly.

Nonetheless, whichever way, a dormitory room is a lot different than your bedroom when it comes to space matters. Hence, maximizing whatever space you have to accommodate your belongings shouldn't be a problem. With a touch of creativity, ingenuity, and hard work, college life shouldn't be that difficult to handle.

One way to maximize the space in your room is to make use of bed risers. Bed risers are bed components inserted onto the legs of a bed frame to raise its height if you need to make storage space underneath your bed. Bed risers for college are typically made from plastic, wood, and steel, and sold in sets of four spacers.

Bed risers normally suspend your bed up to 6" more than its existing elevation from the floor up to the bottom of your mattress. This space is ideal for shoeboxes, plastic containers, school materials, among others. Another use for bed risers is elevating a low back table to alleviate any strain on your neck and shoulders while studying. For medical reasons, doctors sometimes recommend placing two bed risers at the other end of a bed, usually at the end for the head.

Bed risers that attach to bed frame can normally hold up to 300 lbs of weight per bed riser. This means a total combination of 1,200 lbs of weight that bed risers can carry. Plastic bed risers are great for dorms they are disposable and affordable than its steel versions.

Pro glide bed risers are also efficient in dorms especially when you're the type who'd like to redecorate your room frequently. With glides, your can push your bed from corner to corner without much effort. These bed components are easy to assemble, of which the instructions should be found right on the label, requires no tools or handyman, and are more durable than plastic. However, it should cost you a portion of your allowance since it's many-fold times more expensive than plastic bed risers.

So you might be asking, which riser is better than the other? Practically speaking, if you have a bed that is made of light material (such as a light wood) then plastic bed risers are fine. In reality, dorm beds are usually made of wood and are short of accessories.

However, you really don't have to be bothered with that because chances are, your next room is probably in a house of four or nine. When you get annoyed with that noisy experience, you'll most likely find another room to stay. Whether the desire is for a change in environment or caused by many factors, packing and repacking in college is quite a normal thing.

In that case, steel bed risers would just add an excruciating weight on your luggage but they might be useful back home if your pad is a little cramped. Maximizing space is like playing the game Tetris. In order to win, holes must be eliminated so you'll need to use a lot of brains and some more patience.