This is funny you posted this, because I was wondering today if an ikea bed would work in the guest room. I think I decided against it for now. I dont know anything about MASH but I did consider their beds before I bought mine from dwr. I like that bed in your photo. Where I live, there are scorpions and centipedes and I wanted a bed with little surface area touching the ground. I have the dwr modern bed in walnut and really like it. I got it at their semiannual sale for 15% plus free in home delivery. I think they have a couple storage options also. You probably already considered dwr, but just in case... http://www.dwr.com/category/bedroom/beds.do Here's another link, to hive modern: http://hivemodern.com/pages/category123/beds I dont think I would spend 5k for a bed unless it included the mattress. I really do like that bed you posted sochi. It seems like it would work for your new house.

@rileyestrada Typically, if you're building to enjoy the property, current value+ demo+ new build will cost more than the market value at completion with some exceptions. That's why flippers flip but don't build new. When they build new in my market in a neighborhood of big lots with old teardown homes selling for $1 mil, they build big in order to amortize the fixed costs and get into the $2mil+ market. Small doesn't work often. I am starting one custom shortly on a $450K teardown with a $1+ mil build. The home won't and doesn't have to appraise, but it will be lived in to enjoy. The last three we built for clients wouldn't cut it as "spec" homes as they had too many upgrades and few "builder spec" items so they cost more than the market would bear.

Update - will be drywalling over the speaker-cubbies. Painting the others to match the trim. Again, thanks to JTerri, whose mockup had me running off to dial our carpentry guy! Thank you, Lascatx. Its been a long post and you may have missed it, but I think we will either move to a city or a warm climate in the next 2-4 years, so not wanting to invest in anything. Especially rugs which are really hard to reuse in new spaces IME. Jterri, I think a piece of modern art could work well, but the odds I will find something i really like, that fits, at a price where I don't care if i can't reuse it in a few years, are kind of nil. But I will give it some thought, as maybe I could do a print. Also thinking of wallpaper/mural. Robo et al, I was thinking about my rug inventory. Their style is not the direction I was thinking of, but they could be worth looking at (and changing direction for). It occurs to me I have a fairly blank slate and a room with so much light. The only color/pattern is from a few throw pillows (easy to toss) and the ticking on the windowseats (neutral). There are three large off white masses -- sofa, ottoman and round table w tablecloth -- that obscure a lot of the rug and so perhaps could tone it down? So I could go with a rug that has a lot to say. For example here are 2 in inventory. The DR rug shown below was in my MBR here for a while, until i changed to a less feminine scheme w a rug I got in India. Here's the rug 10 yrs ago in my old DR in my first house. This one is really ummm, quite ... aggressive in its design. But OTOH I think the floral OTT quality goes with the highly feminine OTT vibe of my octagonal, cupola'ed, windowseated room. PS ....Wow, looking at these rooms, I think I know how I became a colorphobe! My eyes hurt. Psssst, and would you believe, my DR was a rouge color just before the photos above? Not sure I ever posted this before. In my defense it was actually a reddish pink.

I really don't know what people mean by MDF is not structural, MDF must be reinforced or engineered to bear weight and be used as a support structure, but it can be done. My main workshop table is an MDF torsion box and it doesn't sag under far more weight than bunk beds will need to support. I chose MDF specifically for that purpose because it is a more stable surface than anything else. However, the devil is in the details. You can certainly build MDF bunk beds that are strong and don't have any sag, however, there are designs where MDF would not be optimal. It is really hard to discuss without having some idea of the bunk beds. It is likely that a bed builder will add some solid wood posts as it is cheaper and takes less space than doing the same with MDF.