Mirrored children's bunk beds made of natural wood in a modern nursery
When choosing a crib, parents cannot avoid the dilemma: one- or two-story bed? It seems that the answer is extremely simple - one tier is enough for one child, and for two you will need a children's bunk bed. Is it really? Our five reasons to choose a double-decker crib may change your mind too.
A children's bunk bed made of natural unpainted wood, a spacious wardrobe with many educational games - an example of a truly useful room for children
An original children's bunk bed with functional shelves and steps and a simulated place for play
Graphics in the design of a children's bedroom with bright accents. An orange bunk bed, an orange anatomical chair and an orange glass for stationery items are interior accents
Most of this spacious room is reserved for games, so a bunk bed will come in handy here.
Children's health and safety
Environmental friendliness of materials and safety are in 1st place.
Cheap homemade furniture can evaporate formaldehyde. Do not think that this will “dissipate soon”; it is better to abandon the unhealthy option. Rounded details are a must in a children's room. When kids grow up, they move a lot, and when they get carried away by playing, they can hit a corner painfully. The side on the second level is a prerequisite to avoid falling in your sleep.
Bed of two floors with a ladder for climbing
Climbing onto the upper bed is an additional muscular load to keep the muscles in good shape. But for children with poor health it will be difficult.
Furniture stairs come in two types – vertical and inclined. They should be safe, preferably with comfortable handrails. Chrome-plated metal bars may feel cold to the touch; painted ones do not have this problem. It is very convenient when the child moves up the ladder, and down along the “slide”.
Beautiful bunk bed
Attention! Remind children that they go down from a vertical ladder facing the furniture, holding on to the edges, and stand on the middle of the rungs. The range of children's beds in two levels is expanding annually
Choose comfortable multifunctional furniture in any style. Minimalism gives more free space, eco-style guarantees the use of natural materials. Boys will like beds in the form of cars and ships, girls - in the form of a princess castle. In general, choose what will make your children happy.
The range of children's beds in two levels is expanding every year. Choose comfortable multifunctional furniture in any style. Minimalism gives more free space, eco-style guarantees the use of natural materials. Boys will like beds in the form of cars and ships, girls - in the form of a princess castle. In general, choose what will make your children happy.
Tree
The design of a children's room with a bunk bed made of wood can be almost anything - it will fit well into the Scandinavian style and eco style, even suitable for pop art style if the wooden parts are painted in bright colors.
Pine and beech are the most preferred types of wood for making such beds, as they are durable, but at the same time much cheaper than the most durable oak wood.
The design of bunk beds made of chipboard has a rather attractive appearance, but from an environmental point of view, such designs are inferior to wood: chipboard contains formaldehyde, which can be released into the air and have a harmful effect on health.
Children's bunk beds in the interior features and advantages
Saving space is far from the only advantage that a bunk bed for children has. Modern designers offer a huge range of functional beds in two tiers, which not only allow you to organize a comfortable sleeping place, but also at the same time create an area for games and storage of children's things and toys.
Bunk beds are of particular interest to owners of a children's room. Saving the family budget is also a significant advantage, since the cost of purchasing a two-story bed will be lower than the investment in purchasing two separate pieces of furniture.
The furniture market offers stationary and built-in models. According to their purpose, children's bunk beds are divided into products for one, two or more children.
When arranging a children's room for one child, it has become popular to use a loft bed. In the upper part of the structure there is a full-fledged sleeping place, the lower part can be represented by a working or play area, or a storage system for objects. The workplace usually includes a writing desk, shelves and drawers.
For active children, the ideal solution is bunk beds with a sports ground (rope, basketball backboard, wall bars or horizontal bars). The storage system in the lower tier can be represented by a wardrobe, chest of drawers, shelves, etc.
Popular types of beds:
- classic model - consists of two sleeping places located above each other and connected by a vertical staircase;
- model with an offset arrangement of sleeping areas - in this design, the sleeping beds are also placed in parallel, but shifted to the right or left side in relation to each other. At the same time, the freed-up space is equipped with a wardrobe, chest of drawers or shelves;
- children's bunk beds with perpendicular sleeping beds;
- transformable beds are bunk beds with an additional pull-out bed.
Bunk beds can be wooden or metal. Each type has its own pros and cons.
Sleeping places
A bunk bed can be single, two or three beds, and also with different arrangements. Namely:
- classic (takes up little space): the upper tier is located exactly above the lower zone (Duet bed);
- retractable design: the lower place can be easily rolled out from under the upper one if necessary.
Bunk children's bed for boys
Bunk children's bed in the attic
You need to choose a model in accordance with the number of children and their gender. Small children of different sexes can sleep in one double bed, but teenagers are better off purchasing separate places to sleep.
Wooden bunk bed for children's room
Bunk children's bed blue
Sofa filler: what's inside
The sofa needs the elasticity of the seats and softness. These properties are determined by the filler and upholstery. The filler can be one of the types described below.
Spring blocks with independent springs
The design provides for each of the springs a separate cover and independence of compression and expansion. This allows you to get comfortable conditions for relaxation, and in the form of a sleeping place - for sleeping.
Spring blocks with independent springs
Spring blocks with dependent springs
In this mechanism, the springs are connected to each other. When one of them is compressed, some compression of the neighboring ones occurs. The service life of such models is no more than 10 years. Over time, the springs will become unusable and break through the fabric upholstery.
Make your right choice
Polyurethane foam, foam rubber
These types of filler are the most common. This material gives elasticity to the seats, lasts a long time and is affordable. As a sleeping place, this would not be the best option, it is too hard.
Composition of sofa filler
The padding of additional elements located on the sofa (pillows, bolsters, etc.) should be soft. Holofiber is usually used for this.
Bunk bed options
If we consider the question of what kind of bunk beds there are, then we can divide all models for children into four conditional groups, which will be written about below. The main task of parents is to determine which modification of a two-level sleeping place is suitable for their kids.
Loft bed for one child
This group includes all options when parents choose bunk beds for a small room with one child. This category of beds can also be divided into subgroups:
The first floor is given over to a workplace.
The main task in this case is to combine it with a table by raising the sleeping area when using a bunk bed, placing a work area on the first tier. Sometimes these bunk beds come with built-in drawer steps, which are ideal for storing a child's personal belongings.
Bunk beds with work area
Bunk beds with table photo
The lower tier is storage systems.
Sometimes the “ground floor” is used to locate chests of drawers, boxes with toys, which can also be hidden in the steps of the stairs; you can often find bunk beds with a wardrobe and drawers. This model almost completely solves the problem of furnishing a nursery, allowing you to devote the rest of the room space to a play area.
Loft bed with drawers
Bunk bed with wardrobe, table and steps
Bunk bed with sports complex or play area.
This option allows you to solve the issue of the baby’s physical training without taking up free space with a wall bars, slide and other accessories.
Bunk bed with sports complex photo
Bunk bed with wall bars
Bunk bed for two children
This bunk bed allows you to compactly place two sleeping places, significantly saving space. Most often, the “second floor” is occupied by the older child, leaving the baby with a more comfortable and safe “first floor”. This classic type of two-level beds can also be classified for ease of selection:
A bunk bed with parallel beds located one below the other.
The most economical solution in terms of increasing square meters. Most often, such beds have a vertical ladder.
Design of a room with a bunk bed
Children's interior with bunk bed
Sleeping places are located parallel, but offset relative to each other to the right or left.
The free space is occupied by a comfortable and gentle staircase to the top or a compact system for storing children's things.
Models of children's bunk beds
Children's rooms with bunk beds
Bunk beds with wardrobe
Sleeping areas are located perpendicular to each other.
Allows you to place sleeping places, a workplace, and even cabinets and drawers. This is a real children's complex, compact and comfortable.
What types of bunk beds are there?
Children's room with bunk bed photo
Bunk bed designed for both children and adults
These loft beds are designed to compactly accommodate both parents and children. Most often there are bunk beds with a folding sofa below, when the upper bed is given to the child.
However, the opposite model also occurs, which can be found even in the Ikea catalog. This option suggests placing parents on top of a double bed, and leaving a safe place below for a crib, which is important for those cases when the apartment is very small and the baby is simply not old enough to reach the second tier.
Bunk beds for adults and children
Bunk beds for adults and children
Bunk beds for adults and children
Bunk bed with sofa underneath
Loft bed photo
Transformable beds
The correct solution would be to classify bunk beds and transformable beds as:
These can be pull-out beds, when the lower berth rolls out from under the upper one. This option allows you to comfortably sleep two children under the age of six required for the second floor.
Pull-out beds
Children's rooms with pull-out bunk bed photo
Modern transformable furniture, which, if desired, can be disassembled into a high bunk bed with two sleeping places, and if desired, compactly fits into the most ordinary sofa. The “Doc” model from Resource Furniture is especially good. This is a relatively new version of a bunk bed for teenagers, when one bed is simply placed on top of the other, forming a comfortable sofa during the daytime.
Transformable bunk beds for teenagers
Do it yourself
The manufacture of any product begins with the development of a drawing diagram with dimensions. The sleeping places can be placed one above the other, or you can make a corner bunk bed. The choice depends on the size of the room and its geometry in plan (rectangular, square).
In order to decide on the size of the bed, you need to decide what size mattresses you will buy for your children. The standard size of a children's mattress is 60/70x140 cm, for teenagers 80/90x190 or 80/90x200 cm. To avoid surprises later, it is better to take care of purchasing mattresses in advance, and based on their sizes, develop a design for the future product.
The easiest way to make a bed is from timber and edged boards. The frame consists of four vertical posts, which in the narrow part of the bed are connected by horizontal elements using wooden dowels and wood glue. The headboard and footboard pieces are then joined together by long side panels using screws. For the stairs you will need an additional stand. The step pitch should not exceed 250 mm.
You can make a bunk bed from sheets of plywood or MDF. Below is a diagram of a bed with a wardrobe and a drawer. The upper berth measures 800x2000 mm, the lower one is sliding: folded 800x1600 mm, unfolded 800x1870 mm.
The next model is made with an extension ladder, which, if desired, can be made in the form of drawers. Sleeping places are the same size 800x1900mm.
The wooden product must be processed with a grinder or regular sandpaper, and then painted with varnish or paint of the desired color. The ends of MDF products need to be covered with an edge.
If you do not have the necessary equipment for cutting parts made of plywood or MDF, use the services of companies that provide similar services based on customer sketches. You can assemble it yourself from ready-made elements.
Make your children's room cozy, individual and imbued with your love and care.
Innovative tiered bed design with smart storage systems
New generation bunk beds are rarely just comfortable and compact sleeping places. Almost every model is designed to make the most of the space in the room, including spacious drawers, shelves, a desk and even an additional sofa in its designs.
Thoughtful and clever design of quality bedroom furniture allows your children to create the perfect order in a matter of minutes by disguising an unmade bed using the Murphy folding mechanism or the widely used roller device. At the same time, interior items do not look bulky, which is the secret of their success and popularity.
Bunk bed with an additional pull-out bed (Vons Furniture project)
I would like to note that architects are trying to take a non-standard approach to organizing storage systems. Therefore, more and more often you can see models with original stairs that serve as both a closet and a place for games and study. And, of course, such decisions can be called not only smart, but also effective.
Luxurious wooden bed with lots of drawers to store your favorite toys and things (project Vons Furniture)
Hybrid furniture design for a fashionable interior of a children's room (project by Leone Design Studio)
Bright colors are a win-win solution for decorating a children's bedroom (project Incorporated)
Stylish nursery interior created using original furniture facades (Incorporated project)
Modern furniture sets are designed in such a way that they can be placed not only along the walls. Look how elegantly the designers managed to divide the space into functional zones using the same bunk bed.
An original way of zoning a room using furniture and color (project Incorporated)
It is impossible not to say a few words about the general concepts of interior design in which furniture is not the focal point. They are usually based on a bright idea, for example, “a picturesque clearing under a fabulous maple tree” or “a room for future travelers and researchers,” and cabinets, tables, beds and various decorative elements are designed to effectively emphasize it.
Delightful innovative children's room design (project Incorporated)
Smart and stylish bedroom design that stimulates children's curiosity and self-organization (Pearl Design project)
Spacious closets and purple accents for little fashionistas (Pearl Design project)
Disciplinary sports theme in the design of a room for boys (project Visbeen Architects)
How to choose the right bunk bed model
There are many models of two-level beds - they differ in design (from classically restrained to fabulously magical), the number of beds and their location, material and color. But the most important thing when choosing is to decide what kind of modification your child needs.
Loft beds for one child
A loft bed is an indispensable solution for a small nursery in which one child lives. The following models are presented in this segment:
- With a workplace on the “ground floor”. The sleeping area is raised, and the first tier is given over to the work area - there is a table, cabinets, and shelves. Some models of such beds are complemented by stable steps in which drawers are mounted (it will be very convenient to store the baby’s personal belongings in them - from toys to linen or even books).
With all kinds of storage systems on the ground floor. This can be a full-fledged wardrobe, chest of drawers or shelves, less often - open shelving and drawers with hinged doors. If you choose such a model, the rest of the room can be used as a gaming area. Often a closet and a table are combined, then the table is positioned at an angle, and the closet serves as additional support for the sleeping area.
With a play area or sports complex. The place for the baby’s active games becomes compact - a wall bars can easily be placed “under the bed”, on the side there is a basketball hoop or slide, ropes and a horizontal bar. These options are good for those families where much attention is paid to the physical development of the child.
Loft bed with playhouse on top
Bunk beds for two children
A model with two beds raised above each other is a classic option used for a nursery where two children live at the same time. The price of such furniture will depend on the materials used. It is clear that the most expensive option is solid wood, but laminated particle boards decorated to resemble wood species (ash, cherry, oak) also demonstrate good practicality.
Two separate loft beds with work area below
As for construction and design, traditionally bunk beds are designed without redundancy, with simple shapes and smooth, non-contrasting surfaces. It is much easier to decorate a laconic frame with textiles or special plywood overlays than to try to harmoniously place a complex structure in a restrained interior.
Among bunk beds for two children, the following types of designs are common:
- The sleeping places are located in parallel, under each other, and the staircase is made vertical. This solution can be called the most economical in terms of free space. As a rule, the top floor is occupied by the oldest child who is able to fully comply with safety requirements;
the sleeping places are placed in parallel, but are shifted relative to each other to the left or to the right. The vacated space is allocated for a flat, stable staircase with wide steps or a closet for storing children's things;
Double bed for children with wardrobe
The sleeping places are located perpendicularly. There may be an option when one of the beds is on the floor, and storage systems or a sports section are placed under the second, or there may be an option when both beds are moved upstairs and “diverge” to the corners of the room, and under them there are workplaces for 2 children. It is believed that this model of bunk bed is good for square rooms, but in narrow and elongated rooms it will look too bulky.
Low bunk bed for small children
Models of bunk beds for three children
Such options can be used either by three children, or by parents and a child. Most often they are a combination of a folding sofa on the lower tier and one sleeping place on the upper tier. But there are other designs.
For example, for three children a transforming bed is suitable, when two sleeping places are located parallel to each other, and another sleeping block “moves out” from under the lower one.
Option with pull-out seat
Or, below there may be a standard double (one and a half) bed, on which two children under the age of 6, who have not yet grown up to the second floor, can sleep comfortably.
Fixed option: 2 seats below and 1 above
Non-folding version: 1 seat below and 2 above
Bunk bed for 4 children
Where to place it
Such structures are placed depending on the capabilities of the room and its features. If the structure is angular, then it is better to place it in a corner. The remaining models fit well along free walls. If there is a work or play area, they are placed closer to the windows, so that during the day everything is illuminated by natural light. The sofa should be able to unfold freely.
The location of the bed must be carefully considered.
Types of bunk beds
The sizes, configurations, colors, dimensions of bunk beds are varied, thanks to which you can create a stylish interior and a unique design in the room. This is a real find for a children's room, which is not always spacious. There are many ready-made ideas for decorating a small room. A children's bunk bed, unlike classic models, has the following advantages:
- original design;
- saving space - makes it possible to place several sleeping places in a small area (in a Khrushchev building);
- has the ability to transform;
- takes up little space;
- placed in any room;
- has a convenient running mechanism;
- practical;
- multifunctional.
Beige and black bunk bed with drawers
Bunk children's bed brown
Modern beds are designed for both one child and several children. The presented photos will help you get a more complete picture of each model and choose a product for an adult child and for children of primary school age. Beds according to the placement of sleeping places are:
- shifted relative to each other;
- parallel (under each other);
- perpendicular.
Bunk children's bed dark
White bunk bed with drawings
Brown bunk bed with ladder
The designs of two-story beds make it possible to rationally use the space in the apartment. Each model is unique in its own way and has a number of advantages.
Bunk children's bed made of pine
Bunk children's bed house
Bunk children's bed loft
There are a lot of design options for two-tier structures:
- bed with sofa;
- corner models;
- transformable bed;
- loft bed.
Modern bunk bed for children
Bunk children's bed made of boards
Bunk children's bed made of MDF
Bunk children's bed pink
Bunk children's bed in minimalist style
Loft bed
A furniture set of this type is intended for one child. The sleeping area can be combined with a play or work area. Loft beds come in a variety of designs. They must be selected taking into account the age of your child. The steps of the stairs are wide enough and safe.
Children's bunk bed with ladder
Brown bunk bed for children's room
Children's bunk bed lock
An excellent option are models equipped with chests of drawers and drawers where you can store various small items: toys, linen, shoes, clothes. This allows you to keep the room clean. Below (under the bed) there will be a play or work area. You can put a desk or wardrobe here. When choosing a model, you need to take into account the child’s height and the distance from the floor to the top tier.
Bed with sofa
This model allows you to save space. It is easy to slide it in and fold it after sleep, thereby freeing up space for the child to study and have fun.
Bunk children's bed light
Corner models
Such furniture is designed for several sleeping places. It can be equipped with sports equipment, a desk, drawers, a ladder, a cabinet, a chest of drawers. Such versatile products are an excellent choice for large families.
Light brown bunk bed for children's room
Light green and white bunk bed for children
Metal
It is more difficult to choose a suitable design for a child’s room with a metal bunk bed; it requires a modern style, for example, minimalism or loft. The bed itself, of course, is stronger and more stable than a wooden one, but it is very heavy, and independent assembly and disassembly of such a structure is not an easy task.
If you choose a metal bed, carefully check that all corners are rounded and that fasteners (bolts, screws) do not protrude above the surface.
