But after about a week of sleeping on the floor, it’s safe to say that my perspective changed. I had to get a bed! So I started looking online and I realized that I needed a lot more than just a bed. I needed storage, a lot of storage because my room didn’t have a closet and all I had for my clothes was a small hand-me-down dresser from my older brother.

All I kept finding were futons and other “college” beds, like bunk beds. And that’s when I heard about divan beds from one of my neighbors who had been living there for a year. He was like, “you have to get a divan bed!” So I checked them out and he was right. These beds have drawers built into them, which is awesome because I can store so much stuff without using another piece of furniture.

Of course, I started looking at the double divan beds right away because I wanted to have the biggest bed possible. But then reality hit me when I realized that my tiny dorm room was built for single divan beds, not doubles. It was cool though. I was still able to find a single divan bed that had tons of storage space in its drawers. And the mattress… wow, don’t even get me started. It’s amazing! I feel like I’m sleeping on a could every night. The flipside to that, though, is that I literally have to drag myself out of bed every morning because I just don’t want to leave it.

It’s been about a month since I bought my divan bed and I couldn’t be happier. It looks great and stores all my clothes and my towels! I didn’t need much more to turn my dorm room into a comfortable pad, just a night stand, a writing desk and a couple of lamps. The best part is that with the money I saved buying my cheap divan bed, I was able to get a sick flat screen! Ahhh… college life!

Once we got to the store I figured it was safest for me to start looking at furniture, at least I wouldn’t have to worry about patterns and designs and accents. But before I knew it was surrounded in a sea of dressers, wardrobes, this tables, that tables and beds. Lots of beds. I thought I was going to drown in the middle of this superstore. It was like that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when they put the boxed up ark into storage in that massive warehouse – just endless rows of furniture.

So I had to come up with a plan. I knew my wife would have endless questions for me if I didn’t offer her some options. I decided that I needed to find a solution that would kill as many birds with one stone as possible. And that got me to thinking… how can I get multiple pieces of bedroom furniture into one? Because this is how guys think. If you don’t believe me, then how else did we come up with the turducken?

Anyway, back to my plan. It seemed to me that there had to be a bed that my wife would find suitable to her taste and that also had tons of hidden storage spaces. So I started walking through the aisles and I was surrounded by every kind of bed imaginable! Bunk beds, brass beds, canopy beds, platform beds, futons… everything you could imagine. And then I saw it. It was like a dream. Before me was a bed that was big enough for the both of us, actually looked nice and had drawers built right into the base! It was a kingsize divan bed with extra deep divan bed drawers. I felt like a kid on Christmas morning as I rifled through all the drawers marveling at all the space we would have. I knew my wife would love it and, more importantly, I knew I was that much closer to getting back home and in front of the tv!

About fifteen minutes later my wife found me as I was laying on the mattress. I didn’t have to say a word. She saw it all on my face. Our bed had been chosen. Ever since then, divan beds have been my favorite kind of bed.