Ideas for Bunk Beds
If you have two or more children sharing a room with limited space and want a fun and comfortable sleeping solution, bunk beds may be the ideal solution for you. Space is often a precious commodity in contemporary children’s bedrooms, and bunk beds can be a particularly good choice where space is an issue.
Aside from the space-saving features important to parents, bunk beds can also bring an unmistakable feeling of fun and excitement to a child. While the novelty of bunk beds may fade somewhat as your children grow older and their interests change, the convenience and appeal of bunk beds will likely remain with them for quite some time.
Even older children can benefit from having bunk beds, particularly if they have to share rooms with one or more siblings. The top bunk is usually reserved for the older children, and this will give them an additional amount of privacy and space in which to sleep in.
Safety considerations are particularly important when it comes to bunk beds. You will want to make sure the child occupying the top bunk is responsible enough to handle it, and you must make sure they do not engage in any risky activities while on top. In any case, you will still want to install safety guardrails on the top bunk–and possibly even the lower one if your child is still quite young–and this will provide an added measure of safety.
Bunk Beds are great for saving space. I put my older child on the bottom, as he had a later bed time and him climbing up the ladder woke his brother up.
I think bunk beds are a lot safer now than when i was young