When looking for used or already used bunk beds, be careful to take several precautions that will insure against your buying damaged furniture that could collapse and harm someone. When an offer of a cheap bunk bed sounds good, it can be dangerous to not take a look at certain design and structure features to see if the bed is still in good shape. Make sure to look at and test joints, welding points and under-mattress wood trusses. Also keep in mind the current, and future, weight of who you are buying the bunk bed for. Certainly parents with larger children should consider a traditional bed for safety reasons. Cheap bunk beds can be great deals and sometimes they can be a waste of money, knowing the difference is up to you and the time you take looking at a product you may want to buy.
Don’t trust anyone who tells you that buying a bunk bed for your kids will bring peace and goodwill to your home. Sure kids do love them and that’s going to mean less grief for you in the long term. Your kids will be more willing to go to bed when told and they will also spend a lot of time using the bed to play games, which can only be a good thing.
However I’m not sure any of this is worth the emotional trauma I went through, in the short term, trying to come to some kind of agreement with my kids over who got yo sleep in the top bunk of their brand new white bunk bed! Oh the tears of frustration while they each argued their corner. It went on for a week during which neither of them would sleep in the thing! Eventually we had to agree to let them swap every other month. Then of course we had to argue for another hour about who got the first month. Oh for heaven’s sake.
