Furniture--Bed

The Kid currently still has a crib. His main sleeping area though is our bed. His room is currently too warm for him to stay there, and I think he got too used to sleeping on a normal mattress instead of the hard, and uncomfortable, mattress required for little babies. Ok, it's not too bad, it does have a spring to it, and he can sleep there soundly.
We, the grownups--who are spoiled by our pillowtops--cannot fathom ever laying our pampered selves on it and it's a wonder how our little one's can.

So the problem with furniture is:

• Do we go Toddler (that is "Toddler bed") or straight to Twin
• Buy used or new

Here are a few contenders:

All are from Ikea and available in the US Ikea, except for the last one which belongs to the Ikea in the UK. I am partial to the last, and also to this one:

This particular bed is extendable. It can go from toddler size to full twin. It hails from the Leksvig line and cost around 78 pounds, or roughly 140 or so in good ol' American dollars. I did find it in the Ikea catalog, as well as online in Ikea US, but they have taken it off the website. Not sure why. It's a nifty looking bed.

So is the last one in the cluster of beds above. You can even position it to be like this:

Now that just makes that bed super cool for a little boy, doesn't it.

So we can put it in the lowest position for when the Kid is younger and then switch to this super cool position when he's older and we won't be so worried about the bumps and bruises he gets, if and when, he happens to jump (or fall) off the bed. Which I'm quite sure he might because well, I did, and I am sure Mr.Kid did too.

I tried, in vain, to search for other sites that sells reasonably priced children furniture. Most were in the above hundreds range.

Ikea or second-hand it is then. Better yet, second-hand Ikea! yipee.