Bunk beds are also available in a variety of colours and materials so you are certain to find a set that works with your kid’s room. Kids love climbing, therefore they love the ladder to the different levels on the bunk bed. To children it seems like an adventure.

If you find your family has grown from one child to two but you aren’t in a position to buy a bigger house, bunk beds can make the difference. All you do is add a bunk to the room and you do not have to worry about getting a bigger house. It is perfect for saving space. If its just one child the top bunk can be used for sleeping and in the space of the bottom bed, you can place a desk or wardrobe.

White bunk beds give an elegant look to a girl’s room. Matched with pink or blue creates a nice theme to the décor. Oak beds are of excellent quality and a great choice. Bunk beds made of oak are solid and come in light brown as well as dark brown. You can choose any shade of wood finish to match your child’s room.

This is the age at which they are discovering new things and their imaginations are growing. The cartoons they watch on television or read in books seem as real to them as the news is to adults.

Decorating a child’s room can be fun for both children and adults. Establishing a theme for a kid’s bedroom is best expressed through a themed bed. For little girls and boys there are a number of different styled beds available.  Car-shaped, carriage-shaped, beds in the shape of shells, swan-beds and truck-beds can all be purchased. There is just about any shape and style available that you or your child can imagine.

Little girls like to feel like princesses and boys want to feel like kings, so choosing a luxury bed can be fun. To achieve this look it is not necessary to buy a specific shaped bed. By adding beautiful bedding and many cushions, the luxury effect is created.

The best idea for a themed bed is a high sleeper. These can be found, for example, in the form of a house-shaped bed in which your child sleeps in its ‘upstairs’ or a pirate ship bed where the mattress is found on the ‘upper deck’.

These beds are so practical because the bottom level can be used to install a desk, for more storage of toys, or for more play space.

Military training bases are one of the most common places that one would come across bunk beds. Soldiers are trained to keep together with their fellow platoon mates and these types of beds encourage these soldiers to always be near to each other. The beds are often used in parts of the fitness drills utilized by the military.

Another popular place one would find these beds being used is at camps – scouts camps, summer camps and various sports camps – where the need for space is sometimes limited. In this situation bunk beds are ideal for housing more than one child on one space of land.

Due to their design, these beds became the standard for the Navy as well. Sailors who spend countless hours at sea in limited space are able to sleep quite comfortably on these beds, while the Navy is able to maintain a healthy number of sailors on the vessel.

These beds are not just useful but a necessity on submarines as the vessels themselves are built in a specific shape and size, and bunk beds allow the navy to maximize the capacity of people that can be accommodated aboard their vessels. They are also referred to as storage beds as in some instances they can be mounted on the wall and can fold away.

These beds have been around for quite some time, and because of their sheer practicality, will be around for some time to come as well.

Children spend far more time in their bedrooms than adults spend in theirs. Apart from being a place to sleep and dress, it’s their living space, playing area, social space, homework station, their dreaming room – it’s probably the most important physical space in their lives.

Therefore, it’s important to design the room with the particular child’s lifestyle in mind. In the case of children’s beds, the design of the bed itself can be form a large part of the design as a whole and the utilisation of maximum living space.

Space-saving designs may be a first choice for smaller children. Bunk beds offer a huge variety of styles and space saving devices. There are single height beds with a variety of useful bases – pullout trundle beds for overnight friends, large toy drawers, sets of smaller drawers and even some with a trundle bed and drawers. There are double-height bunk beds with the bed on top, where the lower space offers numerous combinations of storage or working space.

With regards to double bunks, a note of caution should be adhered to. Some of the metal beds can be fairly wobbly, with movement on one layer affecting the other; so check for sturdiness.

Space-saving aside, there are car beds with wheels and boat beds for small kids. For bigger kids there are real leather beds, sturdy wooden beds, elegant girls’ beds, upper bunk beds with swing-sofas below or fold out futon sofas.

If you can design the bed you want, it’s probably on the market already!

Bunk beds can come in all shapes and sizes many with compartments that offer space to store bedding and other items, toys for instance. Bunk beds use vertical space as opposed to horizontal space, this will free up valuable floor space, vital in a single bedroom. Bunk beds are great for compact or studio apartments where you need all the space you can get, but vitally they make great kids beds.