The room where there live two children – a complex system. Here parents should try strongly to arrange the place of each child with comfort and to offend nobody. One of the main problems is arrangement of a berth. Often the situation forces to stop the choice on double model of a bed because of the shortage of space.
Today beds for two children happen different designs and models: these are the fixed bunk beds, bunk beds folding and pull-out models.
Bunk beds
Bunk beds will perfectly save to you space. But here it is necessary to consider several factors. First, it is height of a bed and height of ceilings. That then it did not turn out that one child sleeps under the ceiling and complains of the general discomfort and closeness. It makes the sense to look narrowly at option of a bunk bed understanding in two full. Perhaps eventually children will have more spacious room and then your far-sighted purchase completely will justify itself.
When choosing it is worth being guided by convenience, dimensions, rationality and injury risk. The criterion of convenience first of all includes comfort of each child - he sleeps on the top tier or on lower. Without having experience, it is difficult to define at once what is good and that it is bad in each model. Pay attention to bed height. It is the best of all if the top tier is at the level of your head. It is good also for the child, - to him will not be stuffy, and for you since so you will be able to control his state, without rising by steps. Injury risk of a bunk bed holds from such purchase of many parents. And it is correct, especially if to your child who will sleep on the second floor, it is less than three years or it is very active. Whenever possible to avoid injuries, check height of sides of the second tier. Even together with a mattress their height should not be less than 20 cm. Further pay attention to a ladder – steps should not be vertically, to be slippery, without gaps in which the child's leg can get stuck. And surely intelligibly explain to children why it is strictly forbidden to play on the second tier. Width and length of a bed also matters. If you buy a bed for several years, then consider the fact that your children quickly grow. Therefore the berth, the better is more spacious. Of course, not to the detriment of room space. It is good if the bunk bed has additional details, such as sections for storage – a case, shelves, boxes. It is very convenient since you should not buy this furniture separately.
Sliding bed
Other option of a bed for two children is a sliding bed. Here the second berth for the period of day hides under the first and moves forward for the period of a dream. Such option gives good economy of space. Besides, it is almost not injury-causing for children and you should not jump at night at any rustle, being afraid that the sleepy child will fall from the second tier. But it is impossible to call it in any way the most successful option since the second child appears during sleep practically on a floor one level below than the first. It can be harmful as to health when in cold days appears on a floor, and for full mental development of the child. One more shortcoming is in what to the child sleeping at the high level at night will inconveniently rise since it is necessary to step (or to come – that is more often) through the sister or the brother sleeping below. The truth is a kind of a sliding bed when the berth is pushed not forward, and is taken aside. Besides, for such beds the additional box, as a rule, is necessary for bed linen. Experience shows that practically all double models cannot provide to children equal conditions. And if upon purchase, for example, of a bunk bed the first month at children goes bitter struggle for "attic", then after some time the situation changes with an accuracy on the contrary. Same concerns also sliding modular designs where one child is sleeping practically in legs of another. Therefore when choosing model it should be taken into account all nuances including character of each child.