Co-sleeper over here! I was actually very against co-sleeping before having a baby (ha!), but I slowly started to realize that she was really only going to sleep if she was in bed with me.
Once I switched from being a reactionary co-sleeper (simply letting her sleep in bed when we tried everything and she just wouldn't sleep) to a more intentional one (planning for it before bedtime and making it as safe as possible) things became so much easier.
We just invested in the Dockatot. It's a pricey piece of baby equipment, but her first night in it she slept for NINE hours. It's a co-sleeper that I put right on the bed. I feel so much better about our sleeping arrangements now (minus the fact that my partner has to sleep in the guest room because there's no room for him in the bed... at least he gets a solid sleep... ha ha!).
Definitely time to have a massive bed built!
We are for sure in need of one!
we had ours custom made by a company called Anderson Bradshaw but I think they are out of business. It cost £1000 to have it made, which is a lot of money but in terms of the price of beds is NOT really that expensive. You can also make a bed base and put a kingsize and a single together. We did this for years before we got this one. We use memory foam mattresses as they don't have any cording at the edges of the mattresses and no real gap forms. However, the first ones we bought STANK of chemicals and had to be left in a spare, ventilated space for about 3 months before I could go anywhere near them. I have chemical sensitivities so I don't suppose that helped. Have bought a new single since [the kingsize is still going 10 years in] and that one didn't smell at all :-)