Kids Beds

Childrens Bedrooms

Kids beds get used as tents, trampolines and castles nearly as regularly as they get used for sleeping in. So it’s a good idea to make sure they can take some rough treatment!

Although kids’ beds don’t need to be big, they need to be tough - and, because children’s bedrooms tend to be smaller than adult ones, and kids have more stuff in their rooms, they need to offer maximum efficiency of space. A couple of popular solutions are single beds with built-in drawers and the single unit bunk/study area.

If you’re happy with your children jumping up and down ladders in the middle of the night - and you can rest assured they won’t mind a bit - the bunk/study option is one of the best available. Many homes lack space for busy kids to do their homework, so this sort of arrangement can work out really well. There are two key considerations when installing this kind of set up: safety and lighting. The safety aspect is, of course, the most important. If the bunk is the type that has a built-in, vertical ladder, make sure your kids know that they should take care going up and down.

It’s also safest if they do their climbing either barefoot or wearing slippers that have reasonable grip on them, but never in just socks. The rungs of wooden ladders are smooth and get smoother with age, so they are quite easy to slip off in stockinged feet. The mattress shouldn’t be too thick for the cot casing of the bunk, either - when your child is lying in bed there should be at least a couple of inches of the cot sill sticking up around the bunk so he or she can’t fall out in the night.

Bunk safety problems get even more pressing as your kids get older - big kids fall harder than little ones, and once they hit eighteen they might be climbing in and out of bed under the influence of a few drinks! Despite these worries, bunks are great solutions for saving space and very, very few accidents do happen.

The lighting issue is one that’s often overlooked. The desks set into bunk/study units don’t get a lot of light, so it’s important to make sure that your child doesn’t get eyestrain, especially during the important years of GCSE and A level when (hopefully) a lot of studying will be going on.  A good quality desk-lamp can solve these problems, although the intense light they give out can cause your child to tire and lose concentration faster than would be the case with natural light. A good, if slightly more complicated, compromise is to recess halogen lights in the ‘ceiling’ of the study area. This gives a more natural wash of light over the study area rather than a single bright spot. If you go for this option, be sure to get all wiring checked by a qualified electrician, as it’s obviously not a good idea to have poorly-installed wiring close to bedding and a wooden bed frame.

When you’re buying any kind of bed for younger family members, don’t forget that kids grow. It sounds obvious, but if you’re buying a bed for a fast-growing 11 or 12-year-old make sure there’s plenty of spare space in it - no teenager is going to be very thrilled if he or she has to sleep with feet sticking out from under the end of the duvet!

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