I think that when you are looking to buy a bunk bed for your children the bunk bed frames are really the thing you want to look at the closest. And I’m not saying that the mattress is unimportant. Because certainly you want your kids to get a good night’s sleep. Let’s face it, if they sleep well it usually means that you will sleep well.

In my experience, and I can only talk about my own children, they seem to be a lot less fussy when it comes to bunk bed mattresses than their parents. I don’t know about your children, but when mine get tired enough (notice I didn’t say OVER tired because then they’re up all night) it seems like they could sleep through a hurricane while balanced on a railroad tie.

So you want to look for  bunk bed frame that has been very well made. It needs to offer, not only a great deal of support, but needs to well constucted. Childrens bunk beds can be fairly shoddily made and you need to do your research. Which is, I suppose, what brought to this website. I have to admit that because I have already done this research for my own kids, you probably don’t need to.

Bunk bed frames come in all shapes and sizes. Some have heavy gauge powder coated tubular steel frames and others have textured chrome plated decorative inserts and chrome lattice end panel inserts. So you need to know exactly what it is you want, form AND function? Since our kids are three years apart, their’s is a single over a double. In other words, there is a single day bed on top of a regular double bed.

You can also buy theme bunk beds with desk. Maybe your kids want a racing theme or football or soccer. The coolness factor has always seemed to be more important to kids than the actual construction of it. Boys are perhaps likely to prefer bunk beds made in the shape of trains, or perhaps boats. While the girls might prefer a underwater painted bunk bed. A combination of trains, boats and underwater scenes might be a way to compromise if you’ve got one of each.

From a health and safety perspective children’s bunk bed frames need to pass industry regulations in order to be sold. Things that would be removed from some designs would be sharp corners, really high top bunk and dangerous ladders that need to be used to climb to the top bunk.

So, check a number of online retailers before you decide to buy one of the many bunk bed frames available on the internet.