Cabin Beds
 
How many times a week (or a day) have you asked your child or children to tidy their room?  Then how many times has the answer come back: “There isn’t enough space to put everything away,” or “There’s no point because I’m going to play with my toys again soon.”
 
Storage can often be a problem in children’s bedrooms, so when thinking about the best solution it is certainly a good idea to consider buying cabin beds.  Not only can cabin beds provide an exciting way for children to go to bed and for exercising their imaginations, but also they offer a great opportunity to increase the amount of storage available in a bedroom.
 
Cabin beds come in two basic styles, with perhaps the best known being one that looks like a top bunk bed, with steps or a ladder leading up to it but without the expected bottom bunk bed.  This leaves plenty of space underneath the top bed for being imaginative in terms of putting in additional storage units or having it as a multi-use space.
 
For example, when children need to do homework it can be very distracting being downstairs at the kitchen or dining room table when lots of other interruptions, like cooking or somebody watching television, can break the concentration.  Try putting a desk in the space underneath the cabin bed to make a private place for work to be done without so many distractions from elsewhere.  Put in a little overhead light and there is the perfect kids’ workstation.
 
Another way of using the space is to put in some shelves or a small chest of drawers or wardrobe so that the clothes that inevitably are strewn all over the floor have a proper resting place.  Children’s clothes need not take up a huge amount of space – they just need to be organised properly – and this is a good way of achieving this result.  Many beds have desks, drawers or wardrobes built in, and these can be pulled or slid out as necessary.
 
There is nothing children like better than having their own den, and it is easy to transform the underneath of cabin beds into a place for imaginative games by hanging a piece of fabric from the top so it makes a private space.  Children can play inventive games with torches and toys, making the bedroom a fun place to be even when they have to go to bed.
 
High cabin beds have safety rails to prevent any accidents, and can be put up against any wall.  Those that do not have the top bunk configuration are generally built so they are quite high off the ground but without the need for a ladder or steps.  They have good storage space underneath them, most usually in the form of drawers and cupboards, and with a few strategically based cushions, they can easily be turned into a sofa/sitting area.
 
Practical and fun, these beds come in a wide range of heights and sizes, with excellent storage and recreation options available as well.