Looking for a way to leave more free space in the nursery? Put a bunk bed! And how to choose it, we will tell.
Why it is worth buying a bunk bed
More space is as if one child lives in the bedroom, and not two! You can put a bed with a double place (usually 160 cm) below and one more at the top (for example, 70-80 cm in width). With a similar bed, even in small-sideline can conveniently live a couple with a child.
Easy to make "forts", "locks", now there are opportunities for this and place! Children do not have to use pillows, taking all the decorative sofas and chairs in the living room. Now they are generally enough sheets!
Bunk beds are an excellent price and quality ratio! True, not in each collection and the usual furniture store they are. By the way, when your children become teenagers, you can split the bunk bed into two, if the glued frame allows the glued frame.
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Pros and cons of children's bunk beds
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Such an option has a number of advantages and for a child, which moved from the parent room to the nursery, and for a new family member. However, it is important to weigh all the essential advantages and disadvantages of bunk beds to find out if you are really ready for such a purchase and will not be disappointed to her in the end.
| Pluses of bunk beds | Minuses bunk beds |
| More space in the room | Children up to 4 years old can not be top |
| Children are interesting to play | Children may not share seats |
| Inexpensive but original | Unusually flooded with children |
| Zoning, separation of children in time | Teenagers Testern |
| Child learns to share with someone bed, room | Need to monitor children |
| Need to follow the guests of children | |
| The second tier will always be neakkurata |
Main plus children's bunk beds
Now that your 4-year-old child goes to bed at 20:00, a senior (aged, for example, 6 or 8 years old) can safely read with the light or even play on the tablet at the first level. There will be no longer a "war of light" anymore. True, if one child cannot fall asleep and grinds, the second will feel it and also hardly falls!
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Types of bunk beds
Consider the most popular types of beds.Bed with drawers
If you want to teach a child to fill the bed, change bedding, clean toys, know, make it will be more difficult in the room with a bunk bed. The truth of life is such that on the second tier, everything will always be folded inactively. While a children's bunk bed with drawers will allow you to add storage space.
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Bed with a wardrobe
Some people feel uncomfortable when they sleep on a bunk bed for the first time, as they are not accustomed to have a ceiling (and even moreone else's bed) so close. Claustrophobia concerns both levels of the bed, the place will really be a little! Alas, some children will not be able to get used to it. But not trying, you will never know if it will like them in the end and will their sleep be strong and healthy!
True, there are various types of beds, such as a wardrobe that allows you to arrange the lower bed perpendicular to the top, this option is more comfortable. There are also beds with racks, chest of drawers, dressing rooms.
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Bed with sofa
Because of its size, bunk beds are not so comfortable to teenage children who are used to taking a book from a bedside table and put the phone or tablet in the same time on recharging. We have to constantly climb that up, then down, while the small shelf near the bed at the top will not solve the problem to the end. But you can buy a bed with a sofa, downstairs will be a mini-living room!
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Retractable bed
Children's bunk beds can also be retractable and have a height of not about 160 cm, as ordinary, and 100-110 cm. Retractable beds are convenient, because you can not occupy the top space of the room with a second berth, and then two beds look like one. The retractable mechanism is usually lightweight, with smooth move, a child from 7 years will cope with him.
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Bed with table
Another popular type of beds - with a desk under the bedroom, is perfect for any small children's room. Such an option will like the schoolboy before 12 years, but for a more adult child and a teenager will be closed in such a room at the bottom.
Surely, since you thought about bunk beds, you have read 30 million warnings about the hazards associated with them. And it is not just words! Only in the United States annually happens more than 36,000 cases of injuries associated with a bunk bed (more often with small boys). But buying a model from a proven manufacturer with high-quality assembly, you can be calm for your children.
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Bunk beds for children of different floors
Below you will see the most commonly different beds for boys and girls, and learn why it is important. For all-choice children living in one bedroom and using one bunk bed, there are also two-color options (pink + blue) or neutral (white, gray, lilac), like the one in the photo below.
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Children's bunk beds for girls
For girls, a children's bed can be decorated with flowers, selection of princesses, various prints, beautiful decorative ornaments. Most often it is the bed for girls who have textile upholstery. Color gamans are different here, usually based on white or very light wood, with pink, purple, lavender shades, in Fuchsia and others.
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Baby bunk beds for boys
For boys beds are usually less bright. Popular colors - beige, black, white, as well as accents of blue, blue, lilac and purple flowers. A certain topic can be traced in the bed decor - space, marine, futuristic, coastal, etc.
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What bed is better to choose: from wood or metal?
The best option is to buy a bunk bed of wood, better from the array. Metal frames are not suitable for children, although they are often used, but this is not the most cozy and attractive option, despite the bright colors. True, metal beds are usually cheaper.Prices for bunk beds
The cost of bunk beds begins from 10 thousand rubles (top manufacturers: Golden Kids, Rooroom, RV-furniture), on average, about 30 thousand rubles. Designer options from leading grades are about 40-50 thousand rubles.
If you still doubt and want to buy an inexpensive bital bed, pay attention to the products of Russian and Belarusian factories.
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Bunk bed do it yourself
Children's bed with two tiers can be made with their own hands, from wood, but it is worth considering a few moments.- Small children may want to sleep at the top, and it is dangerous for them.
- Brothers or sisters may not share the upper and lower bed and will fall asleep with the battle.
- Little children of your friends or kids from the next apartment (for example, if less than 6 years old) should not be left unattended in the room with a two-tier bed.
- You will have to prohibit children too actively frolic on the bed. She can rake, break, fail.
- A self-adhesive bed can be dangerous for children if you do not have furniture production experience.
Below is a detailed video instruction for creating a bunk bed.
Secure Tips for Secure Bunk Beds
- Always choose the correct mattress size for the bunk bed.
- Do not allow children to sleep up to 6 years on the upper bed. Do not leave children under 6 years old unattended in a room with such a bed.
- Places on both sides of the upper bed, even if one side goes along the walls with gaps of no more than 8-9 cm.
- Ceiling fans should not be available to a child with an upper bed.
- Add backlight steps so that the child see where and how it rises.
- Make sure that bunk beds and stairs to them are safe and durable. To do this, read the instructions. If it is specified in it up to 50 or 60 kg, then in the store, find a teenager (or a miniature girl), let him gently climb on the bed and tests it.