I put a loft bed in my studio just to free up 2 m² of floor: on the first heatwave night, I understood what was really going on under my ceiling
Installing a loft bed saved precious floor space in a tiny studio, but the first summer heatwave revealed an uncomfortable truth: hot air rises, and sleeping four feet from the ceiling means sleeping in the room’s hottest layer. Here’s the physics behind thermal stratification and how to finally get cool air where you actually sleep.