More Space in Your Place – Furnishing Small Bedrooms
April 8, 2010 by tbontb
Filed under Children's Bedroom Furniture
There are times when it seems that there just isn’t enough space in a given room to do anything stylistically pleasing, and you seem to be out of ideas. There’s little worse than trying to come up with a sufficient design when you are lacking space. This is a common problem, especially in kids’ rooms, where dimensions are usually no greater than 12×12, if that. Children’s bedroom furniture doesn’t even seem to be designed to this size specification anymore, which makes it difficult to have any organization in the room. However, there are always ways to get around this problem with certain styles of bedding, such as kids’ bunk beds.
If you take a look at the line of beds offered by Fashion Bed Group, you may find the inspiration you are looking for, with a number of different styles available that will help you maximize the space in a small room, especially you children’s rooms. They offer an incredible line of children’s beds. One way to make space in these small rooms is to use a trundle day bed. This is especially useful in a room shared by two children, allowing one bed to be put away during the day so that there is more room to move around and play or do school work. Daybeds can also function as couches during the day for watching television, playing video games, or reading a book.
Often, there is a need for a toy box, dresser, or other storage mechanism in a child’s room to hold clothes, toys, and miscellaneous items. However, you can do away with one of these pieces of furniture by opting for kids’ storage beds, which can have a large storage space beneath the mattress and even drawers as the headboard and footboard. Using this can clear the space taken up by another large item in the room, therefore maximizing the floor space.
Similar to bunk beds but configured for a single room occupant, you can look at loft beds. These are great structures, providing the top bunk of a bunk bed unit with space beneath it for other uses. For example, you can locate your child’s workstation with a computer and desk space for homework below the loft bed so that the rest of the floor space is still open for moving around. You could also place a dresser or toy chest below the bed, still opening up the room with less clutter.
Again, if two kids are sharing a room, the standard idea of kids’ bunk beds is always a great space saver. They are usually pretty popular with young boys and girls, as well. Just be sure to purchase a sturdy product like those offered by respected manufacturers because kids tend to use these bed configurations as a jungle gym. Obviously, there are several options for ways to maximize the space in a small room, so consider the different items you can use in your children’s room to make it less cluttered.
How to Create a Stylish Bedroom for Your Kids
January 30, 2010 by tbontb
Filed under Children's Bedroom Furniture
Some homeowners become stuck in a rut when it comes to designing and run out of ideas for decorating before they can put the final touches on their homes. Others just don’t know where to gain inspiration for their creativity and end up with the same design ideas over and over again. This is especially true of the kids’ rooms, where space doesn’t provide for lavish décor and ideas about what kids like and want can become a bit monotonous in the minds of an adult. However, if you start with the right children’s bedroom furniture, you can make great things happen in a stylish and imaginative fashion, even with affordable kids’ beds rather than designer furnishings.
Start with something simple, like the different options for kids’ beds. You don’t have to include a plain standard twin bed or even a full size bed in your child’s room to make magic happen. Instead, get a little creative with your design. For example, whether you have a boy or a girl, daybeds can be an option you shouldn’t discount. While this design aspect has been traditionally touted as a girl’s bed, it can also work in a young man’s room, decorated with deeper, masculine colors and a less feminine design and material (perhaps silver, wood, or wrought iron). This will work for him as it would for a female child, providing him with sleeping quarters at night and seating during the day.
Kids’ bunk beds will always function for you in a room where two children must share the space. You have the opportunity to sleep two children in the space of a single twin bed, leaving more floor space for desks to complete school work and dressers where clothing can be stored. For the latest designs for boys and girls in this and other styles of bedding you can find excellent products online that are widely varied, high quality, and easy on the pocketbook.
Kids’ storage beds can be a real blessing as well, eliminating the need for additional furniture like a dresser and/or a toy box or other storage device due to the inclusion of drawers in the headboard and footboard areas and sometimes a large storage bin beneath the mattress.
Even children not sharing a room can get creative and have the benefits of a bunk with loft beds, which are elevated beds that resemble the top half of a bunk bed. This provides living space beneath the fun, elevated bed so that a work desk or storage space (like a dresser or toy box) can be kept under the bed, therefore eliminating the need for extra floor space for these items. As a bonus, these beds are just as much fun for your child as a bunk bed would be, with the coveted “top bunk” being the automatic default for the inhabitant with no additional bunk or roommate over which to fight! These are also available through a number of quality manufacturers, including South Shore Furniture, with promises of sturdy construction and always the best materials possible in use.
Bunk Bed Safety. Kids Bunk Beds Examined
October 3, 2009 by tbontb
Filed under Cheap Bedroom Furniture
Bunks are one of the best things you can do for kids bedrooms. Kids love sleeping in bunk beds, and there are so many ways kids can have fun with bunks that they just can’t with regular beds.
For example kids bunk beds can be turned into a castle just by hanging a sheet off the side of the top bunk. Or perhaps a battleship, or a dungeon.
And kids can spend hours playing on kids bunk beds and having fun.
However there are some safety issues that you should be aware of with kids bunk beds. Take some simple precautions and your kids should have years of fun with their bunks and be happy to share their bedrooms.
Kids can fall from the top bunk when playing. Of course a fall from the bottom bunk isn’t too much of an issue, it’s only 8 or 10 inches off the floor, but a fall from the top bunk is a different matter.
Make sure any kids bunk bed you buy has a proper guard rail right around the top. It is also suggested that you should have a gap of no more than 3 inches or so between the bottom of the rail and the top of the edge of the mattress, as a larger gap can allow a small child to slip through and perhaps catch between the guardrail and the mattress.
And if you have kids bunk beds already and have young children using them it doesn’t hurt to add some extra rails if there is any space larger than 3 or 4 inches that a child can slip through. The top of the guard rails should be 6 or more inches higher than the top of the mattress at least.
And make sure the guard rails are solid and strong and cannot become dislodged in any way. Don’t use detachable railings, you can get these on come bunkbeds and you don’t want them to become detached. Or if you have detachable railings on an existing bunk bed fasten them securely somehow.
And it is also wise to check the slats that the upper mattress rests on. On some kids bunk beds these can be put in place and required to stay there under their own weight and the weight of the mattress. If a child underneath pushes up on the mattress the slats can dislodge and the mattress and anything else on it like sheets and pillows, and another child, can fall on the child below.
This can be simply fixed, just fasten the slats securely.
And make sure that the mattress is the right size for the bed with no gaps anywhere for the child to fall through, not all mattresses are the same size.
Take some basic precautions and kids should have years of fun with their bunks. Good kids bunk beds allow you to house 2 kids in a bedroom with maximum space available where the use of 2 single beds might cause problems.
There are bunks that come in all shapes and sizes, and even bunks with cupboards and drawers in places to add to your storage space. And kids bunk beds look great, much better than regular single beds.
So do your kids a favor and treat them to some kids bunk beds, they’ll love them. Just take some precautions.
And bunks aren’t as expensive as you might imagine if you shop in the right place. The right place for cheap bunk beds is online.
































