When one of my kids had a loft bed, we used something like this. It made life so much easier!

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Trundle bed > bunk bed

My sister and I shared a room growing up and had bunk beds for awhile. She hated sleeping on the top bunk and most of the time she ended up sharing the bottom bunk with me. My parents got rid of the bunk a few years later in favor of two twin beds.

I have the same situation as you (3 kids, only 3 upstairs bedrooms). Used to have a bunk bed but switched it out for 2 twins and vastly prefer it.

Changing the sheets is annoying, but that’s not why I made the switch. I didn’t like not being able to be close to the top bunk kid. It’s hard to get up and in there to give them a hug, sit with them, etc. Reading at night, top bunk kid is left out from cuddles, seeing pictures, they are kind of on their own island there.

Last, it made the room feel smaller, darker, and less open.

Horrible. Also the top bunk is much hotter than the lower one. We got rid of ours.

It's annoying, but changing bed sheets is annoying anyway.

The trade off is more floor space in an already small room. Since that is worth it, 8 just silently grumble about bedsheets changing and afterall awhile let it go for 2 or 3 weeks.

I let my kids put full-size fitted sheets on their twin-sized bunk beds. This makes it easier for them to change the sheets themselves.

Bottom is fine but top is impossible for me as a a short person. The built in rails add to the difficulty. I regret buying bunks but we had to fit 2 kids in a room and it would have been too tight with twins. The easiest way to do it is have someone tall (son or husband) remove the mattress so I can change the sheet and then have them put the mattress back up. Most of the time I had to climb the ladder and change it while sitting on the mattress which meant fighting my own weight. My top bunk kid is away at college and I’ve just given up. I strip the bed when I know he’s coming home and hand him clean sheets to put on. I don’t think he changes them all break but I am too old to battle the mattress anymore.

Our three year old sleeps on a top bunk over his brother. Moved on his third birthday. He loves it. He’s night trained though. I definitely don’t change his sheets once a week.

if you have the room, I would do 2 twin beds. the sheets are a pain and if you move one of the rooms, the bed goes with the kid.

It’s a PITA, as others have mentioned. The weekly changing sheets is annoying, but the real pain is a middle-of-the-night issue, like a sick kids are a bed wetting accident.

Make sure to buy a lighter weight mattress (that is, not a foam one). Also, it’s impossible to make top sheets look neat, so we just skipped those.

Get twin beds. Bunk bed sheets are such a hassle.

It’s a complete PITA but I wouldn’t not get one just because of that. You suck it up and Macgyver yourself up there to change it.

Anonymous wrote:We have three kids and a four bedroom house but one bedroom is downstairs. I want to move the toddler upstairs and get bunk beds but I'm worried I'm going to dread changing the sheets every week. I've never had a bunk bed in my house before. How annoying is it?

Get a metal one and it's not bad as you can move it easily. Or just set it away from the wall a couple ft so you can access both sides.

For the most part it's not a big deal really unless you are short or not limber. Bottom bunk is nothing as it's not wide.

Ours is awful because I didn’t think about this beforehand, but bunk beds and mattresses vary widely.