We're planning to use it mainly as a sofa in the living room. I have read more negative reviews when it is used a queen/king size bed. I want to hear some positive reviews too! Well, negative reviews are still welcome before we spend our money with this furniture.

Picture is taken from one of the showrooms in IKEA Philippines.

So I am in the middle of packing for a move. The landlord is letting me have the bed frame I was using. He didn’t have instructions but the frame has Hemnes on it so I found the PDF of the Assembly instructions.

I feel so frustrated. Is Ikea furniture hard to disassemble? I don’t know why I can’t figure this out. I’m looking at the instructions PDF but I can’t figure it out. I feel close to just giving up and leaving it for trash. 😂

And some parts look different in the pictures then my bed. But overall it is my bed plus I did double-check that Hemnes is the mode name on the frame. There are 4 screws with nuts on them, holding the sides of the frame to the headboard and foot of the bed. But they are in these weird little circle openings that I can’t fit a socket wrench in to remove the nut. And I definitely can’t fit a drill or screwdriver in there either.

This post probably doesn’t make sense but I am at my wit’s end. 😂 Are these frames not meant to be taken apart?

Hey fellow IKEA peeps, recently got our LO an Ikea hemnes daybed. He absolutely loves it. I was eyeing it for a while and so glad we bought it.

I ordered online and had it delivered. Because I had a feeling thing was heavy and I was right! It comes in four boxes. I assembled it by myself (F, 5’7, 134lbs)— now I’d say it’s possible to do it alone BUT it helps if you enjoy putting things together and don’t mind breaking a bit of a sweat. It took me the better part of an entire afternoon. I also had to haul each singular piece upstairs, so it was a lot of trips because the boxes were too heavy on my own.

I love the color, we got the yellow. It’s not too bright, it’s a matte vs glossy finish, and feels fun in our kids room.

We used two 6” mattresses off Amazon. I tried to research endlessly what options felt the best and ultimately got these, https://a.co/d/fJhGENW. They are great. A medium firm. My LO is under 50lbs so not much weight is on them. They’re still a good width if we need to extend it and have them side by side for the king version.

Anyway, feel free to ask any Qs. The only thing, I’m not sure if all hemnes daybeds do this, but our bottom platform doesn’t fully sit against the upper frame. Added a photo. It’s not a deal breaker and doesn’t mess with the functionality— just pointing that out.

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