I sprawl when I sleep so I would not like it. I'm not a large person either. If you want to safe space consider a double dresser bed. We have these. the pictures are ugly on the website but when the wood is finished and the bed made up they look really nice. They are a really well built product for a kit. We bought them (12 drawer units) for the kids when they lived here and they are till using them in their own homes 20 years later. We have a six drawer in our master with a boxspring and we have a newly finished 12 drawer one that is going in the spare room under a queen mattress when we finish painting that room.

We only bought the dresser parts, no mattress or accessories.
I recommend the oak over the pine and to upgrade to the hardwood "insides".
http://www.ultimatebed.com/

I often sleep in a twin bed. Although a little bit chunky, I'm not even 5ft. Whether or not that makes a difference, I don't know.

That bed has a crazy amount of storage! Wow. Thanks.

I had to sleep in a twin bed for about 15 years in the rental house on Martha's Vineyard. It was not pleasant as I'm used to sprawling in a queen size bed. If my husband were still alive, we might have had to go up to a king, I sprawl so much.

Getting ready for some serious down-sizing. Sister is scoping out apartments/complexes. Not super expensive but nice, have security, etc. The floor plans of a few I've looked at seem to be similar sizes. LR are about 12-12 X 15-16. BR 9-10 X 12-13. I have a queen in my bedroom and a double in spare bedroom. Only taking ONE, and leaning toward the double... tho will probably miss the extra length.

I have an extra long twin bed. Most of my married life we had Queen size. Although I'd enjoy a Queen I'm quite comfortable in the twin. Mostly a case of getting used to it.

I went from a full to a twin and love it. Much easier for me to flip mattress. Pull it out for cleaning and it makes more room.

I sleep in a twin. I am all over the bed rolling from side to side all night, plenty big enough for me. I'm very comfy.

I sleep in a twin and like it. My bedroom isn't big enough for anything bigger.

I have slept on a twin size bed most of my life. Even when hubby and I got married, we shared my twin size bed for a while.

We use a king now but all of our kids have twin size beds and I have slept in all of their beds before just fine.

I'm 5'4". I don't know if that changes things or not but I've never had a problem on the length.

i sleep in a twin when son is away at college. DH snores and his alarm goes off at 4:15 for work. I'm just tired of not sleeping b/c of snoring and then waking with the alarm. we have a king bed.

i move from side to side and i have no problems.. 5"3... you just get used to it.

i would rather have more room in my bedroom than a bigger bed....

Sleeping in a twin is comfortable for me, though it's not my usual bed. Even a sofa is fine, if it's long enough. I don't move much it seems. I am 5'8" and slender.

I've slept in a twin bed for at least 16 years. Until a couple of years ago it was a really old twin that was even narrower than a twin normally is now, and I still sleep in that one whenever I go down to our second place in the city. I've never felt the need for more room.

I think the only time I ever had a twin bed was in college. It worked fine for me.

Back in my single life when I had an apartment, I had two loveseats instead of couches. IMO, they fit the room better. They both had pullout beds. Nice, but it made the couches heavy. I would prefer a chaise lounge or recliner to a full size couch so I could nap and have seating.

If you sleep in king bed with someone else, your share of the width is about the same as a twin bed. But kings are longer.

Have slept comfortably in a few twin beds for over 40 years, I've been about 5' 9", rather slim.

There are two in this bedroom, what used to be stepaunt's and stepuncle's beds. while I've slept in the other a few times, usually sleep in the one ... partly because it's often hard to see the other for shirts, pants, sweaters, jackets, socks, maybe a bathrobe.

Thankful that I have a radio that'll run for an hour when I push a bar on one end on top, then another hour when my hand pops out - it pretty well knows where to go.

A bar on the top at the other end will turn it off when I leave the room.

ole joyful

That's Ol' Joyful... always hanging out at the bars.

I used a twin for a number of years. Not a major problem much of the time. You should know when it would be! ;) It worked. I sleep more in the recliner these days than in the bed because of health and pain issues. I've considered an adjustable bed but not sure I want to spend the money on it when a recliner works so well for me.

I slept in twin bed forever it seems and didn't like it and was finally happy to have a double bed.

There are tight rooms but I would rather make it fit then go back to twin bed again.

Again depends on your size and length and how you would be comfortable in one. Have you tried one out and see if you can move freely and its long enough and wide enough too.

I have only slept in a twin at college. I was an only child and had a double bed and never have had anything bigger in my life. In fact ,my own particular bed is an antique rope bed which isn't even quite a double but it takes double size sheets. It's in the original condition. My husband has one too but his was lengthened along the way. I guess people were shorter in 1840.

I own a super single bed. This is a waterbed sized bed. When I ordered my mattress super single came out of my mouth instead of extra long twin. I am 5'4" and love the extra length. It is hard to find sheets... I make/sew my own. My mattress is on two low TV cabinets back to back, thus plenty of storage.

Moni

A twin is 39" wide. A double is 54" wide. Each is 75" long unless your get extra-long (80"). My (questionable) math says you'd save about eight feet of floor space. Get what's comfy.

Rooms in my college dorm had two twins. They looked like daybeds when rolled under deep storage cabinets mounted on the walls above the beds. The cabinets had padded fronts that served as backrests when you sat on the bed. Most of the width of a bed was under the cabinets during the day, leaving a wider aisle between them.