If your dorm room is really tiny, it might be helpful to put your mattress out in the hall temporarily while you work on raising your bed frame.

You can usually borrow a rubber mallet from your housing office.

If you can’t get the corners of the bed frame completely slotted in with just your hands, hammer them down with the rubber mallet.

If it turns out you don’t like the new height of your bed, you can always adjust it again.

Most schools don’t make you pay extra for this lofting kit, but you should ask to make sure.

You may want to move the bed frame from its original position and out into the center of your dorm room to be able to work on it more easily.

It’s helpful to have a friend at one side of the bed while you work on the other so you can slot the legs in at the same time.

You can add a ladder to the side of your lofted bed or just climb up using the slats on the side.

If you want a safety rail and don’t have one, you should ask your housing desk for it.

To have even more space in your room, help your roommate loft their bed, too.

If you’re not sure where the housing office is for your dorm, ask a residential assistant or someone else on your hall who has already bunked or lofted their bed.

A convenient place to put the top mattress is on top of the bottom one.

Always use all 4 pegs, because if you use less, your bed will be unstable.

You have to lower all four legs down at the same time to get them all onto the pegs.

If you don’t have one in your room already, borrow it from the housing office.

You can climb up to the top bunk using the side slats on your bed, or ask for a ladder from the housing office.

Risers help if you only want to raise your bed a little bit, but you won’t be able to loft your bed.

When deciding what height you want to raise your bed to, balance the benefit of extra storage space with the extra difficulty of climbing onto a high bed. You can buy bed risers at a home supply store or online.

If your bed is too heavy to lift, take off your mattress and put it someplace out of the way. Replace it once you’re done.

Stacking items underneath your bed or keeping them organized in bins will help you save space.