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Call me crazy, but it looks like you'd be able to attach what would be the headboard and footboard to a basic metal frame for a full/queen bed.

Even if the holes don't align, you can always drill holes as necessary, I think.

I work in the baby furniture buisness here in Canada.... While we were lucky enough not to be carrying morigeau when it went out of buisness... it's had some interesting shockwaves. There really isn't a company making cribs in Canada anymore... it's a shame.

As for your extension rails... I know for shermag when they went (and are are still going..) under there seems to be a company who has taken over and is running them as a liquidation centre for any leftover stock. Extension rail kits are the more often "stocked" items, even if they are just sitting unstained in a warehouse somewhere. (you could stain or paint them yourself if it came to it) Trick is finding out how to get ahold of those people if they exist... your retailer might be able to help you out.

Another option is to really get in there and see how the extention rails connect and try using different/mis matched rails from another company?

Here in Toronto a lot of people seem to post "wanted" ads in the baby kids section of craigslist for various morigeau... try using several cities sites if your willing to drive/ship them.

Lastly you can obsessively call around to various juvenile and baby retailers and pray that someone has gotten stuck with some stock and you can take off of their hands (perhaps at a discount!)

and while it's no fun at all that you can't readily get your kit... count yourself lucky that you weren't one of the ones that waited for three months for their furniture to come in, only to find out it wasn't coming, and they weren't getting a refund, and their baby was here/almost here.

"you weren't one of the ones that waited for three months for their furniture to come in, only to find out it wasn't coming, and they weren't getting a refund"

Thank goodness for VISA!!!

I've always had lots of luck with the latter approach in the past -- calling around obsessively to baby retailers in case they have some in stock. Try the large ones, the small ones... try to find a listing of retailers somewhere (the ones that don't have an internet presence may be the most promising, as well as most frustrating!).

However, any good carpenter should be able to make one up for you quite easily.

It's a lesson that parents should learn from: always get the conversion kit when you buy the crib. We didn't either, and then spent months waiting for it. At least we got ours -- the original business closed, so we were lucky!

Good Luck!!