Choose a bed-wardrobe for a child

Rare Russian family boasts large children's room. Usually the rooms in which our children live are so small that only scattered toys already cause a feeling of cluttering. But even in such rooms, the child needs both a bed and a wardrobe. The way out is a children's bed-wardrobe. How to choose such a useful and functional furniture, and that at the same time take into account, we will tell in this article.

The main plus is that this furniture really saves space. During the day, the bed is neatly transformed and retracted into the closet, and at night it is again a comfortable sleeping place. The child will be able to cope with the transformation process independently - it is not difficult, the furniture is completely safe and easy to operate.

It is possible to make such furniture and to order, announcing to the master all your preferences in color, size of a berth, type of fastening and mechanism, and also on the basis of room footage.

The main disadvantage of such furniture - in high prices. Any ordinary bed will cost 2-3 times cheaper. Moreover, it is almost impossible to install a bed-wardrobe with your own hands, unless, of course, there is a professional furniture maker in the family. In other cases, the installation requires a careful and accurate approach, so it is better to use the services of specialists. Therefore, saving is unlikely to succeed. For which you have to pay.

The bed in this furniture is always real, but the wardrobe can be fake. Depending on this factor, as well as the method of transformation of the bed, there are several types of such furniture:

• Face. This is a model with a vertical bed retractable in a fake closet. The model folding from a wall is not suitable for very close rooms. It is relatively inexpensive.
• Horizontal This model involves a bed that is transformed and retracted into the closet in a horizontal position. The cabinet itself can be both real and simulated. Saves space very well.
• Coupe. In this model there will be a full wardrobe, and there will be a lot of shelves, drawers, including a built-in bed downstairs with additional lockers for various “trifles”. There are options for a single bed, sometimes there is a need to make a bed for two. This is also possible.

The furniture can be completed with various mechanisms for lifting the bed. The most economical is the rise of the spring type. The mechanism uses twisted springs, familiar to most users. It should be noted that the service life of the springs is not so great: they stretch and need to be replaced after 4-5 years.

More expensive, but also more durable and reliable mounting option - gas shock absorber.

This is the most suitable type of lifting mechanism for a children's bed-cabinet, because the mechanism does not require the application of any substantial physical effort for opening. Even a child can easily cope with such a system - it is enough to push the mechanism with one finger and it will decompose on its own.

A rough and simple manual mechanism in the production of children's folding beds try not to use, because it requires considerable strength from adults, and the child can not cope with it.

The question of what to make the bed is the most serious, since the health of the child depends on it. Many wood impregnations cause severe allergies.

If there is a financial opportunity, it is better to take a bed with a base of MDF. Most often, manufacturers offer children's models with a sleeping base of chipboard. This is also a good option, although MDF is stronger.

At the base, for durability and longer life, metal frames or corners are used. They impart rigidity and do not allow the base material to be pressed through. It is best to make all the side parts, as well as the facade, which will be visible when folding the bed, out of beautiful solid woods - cherries, oak, pine.

The mattress on the bed should be chosen from natural materials with otropedicheskoy basis and frame inside. The product must be tough enough, not falling, so that the child’s posture does not suffer.

Before you choose a bed-wardrobe for a child's room, you need to determine what size the furniture should be in folded and folded. Both of these parameters should be written down on paper, and the overall dimensions of the room should also be indicated there. After that, you can go to a furniture store or a company that is ready to make furniture to order.

The second option will turn out to be somewhat more expensive, but it will be exactly what you want and optimally integrate into the overall interior of the children's room. The designer will model the future product in 3D format and even “insert” the bed into the overall interior, considering the size of the room. You just have to wait for the order to be ready.

Materials must be of high quality, and the lifting mechanism must work like a clock.

The straps that fasten the bed should be strong, moderately wide, with good clamps. If they slip or weaken, the laundry will simply fall out inside the cabinet.

All these parameters should be checked very carefully, not forgetting to ask the vendors for a quality certificate for the product and safety data sheet.

To make the bed comfortable for your child and like him, you should take the child to the furniture store with you so that he can lie on the bed, assess whether he is comfortable and if something is not disturbing him.

The only tangible disadvantage of such furniture in the nursery is that parents call the high price (starting prices start at 50 thousand rubles). Most often, according to reviews, problems arise not with serial beds, but with models made to order.

If a company that does not have the proper experience, did not calculate with gas shock absorbers-fasteners, then the bed constantly “seeks” to slam.

Therefore, it is recommended to order children's furniture from large manufacturers with extensive experience in creating such built-in furniture.

Most parents, who have long doubted whether to buy a child - a transforming sofa or a similar bed, chose the option with a wardrobe bed. They were quite pleased with their choice. True, some say that the belts that hold the mattress and bedding sometimes interfere with the child, as they are felt in a dream.

A bed-wardrobe, especially in a single furniture ensemble, can “help out” the parents of two children, who have only one common children's room. With the correct calculation, you can get two vertical beds at night, and a lot of free space for playing and practicing during the day.

A double bed, which during the day can be easily turned into an ordinary wardrobe with a mirror-like surface of sham doors, will fit perfectly into the interior of a teenager's room.

Horizontal folding beds only visually take up a lot of space, in fact, the difference with the vertical options is quite insignificant. If you choose a bed taking into account the general color background of the room, other pieces of furniture in it, you will get a very harmonious combination that will look spectacular.

A model bed for a schoolchild and a teenager should not be pretentious: the simpler the lines and colors, the more organic the furniture will “flow” into a small children's room. This is how a room can look like if a folding bed will be combined with a functional wardrobe and shelves for textbooks, books and other items important to the child.

It looks very stylish folding bed with ornaments on the front. The main thing is that the ornament corresponds to the overall design of the room, in harmony with the curtains and wallpaper. Then it will be possible to save room space not only at the expense of a folding berth, but also visually.

Quite often, a folding bed is part of the complex children's corner for small rooms.

It also has shelves, a wardrobe, drawers and a desk. At the same time, many manufacturers try to stylize the furniture with “universal” children's motives - kittens, flowers, rainbows, fairytale characters. Such furniture is great for preschoolers and pupils in primary and secondary schools.

And it looks like a bed-wardrobe in the folded state, when it was possible to choose the right color for the whole room, including furniture. This option is relevant for the girl's room for several age periods. At first it will be a preschool room, a little later - a student.

You will learn more about the wardrobe beds in the following video.