How to make a baby bed in the form of a house. Children's bed on their own, features and subtleties of manufacturing. Traditional loft bed options offered by our projects

Now, thanks to new technologies and progress, there are special small inflatable playhouses or a bed is made into a small hut.

Having your own corner is very important for a child, even from a psychological point of view. Having a personal house, he learns independence and cleanliness. He develops imagination, ingenuity, a sense of responsibility.

But, unfortunately, not every family can afford to purchase an inflatable or plastic house or a crib. But there is a way out. After all, you can do everything with your own hands. To do this, you need a little imagination, tools, equipment, material and a few hours of free time.

Bed-house - what is it

Please the child fabulous house every dad who is at least a little familiar with woodworking tools can. And children such "real estate" is perceived with great joy.

All children dream of having their own corner where they can drink tea with dolls, bring guests to their place and, if necessary, hide from the whole world. Therefore, it must be safe and durable. It should be remembered that the product is made for a child, so you can only use harmless means for gluing and painting parts.

Beams and boards must be well processed so that there is not a single burr. Protruding screws and other metal parts are also prohibited.

The attic can be made into an extra bed. And it will already bunk bed. The stairs to the second floor should be durable and comfortable, because it is on it that the child will climb and descend several times a day.

It is better to make the construction simple, without unnecessary clutter and not the right details so that it can be easily kept clean.

For a child, it is enough to make the contours of the house. Walls during the game can be built using cloth, not wood. It is easier to wash or shake out the dust.

It is also worth remembering that the house is a sleeping place for the child, so it should be comfortable and promote a healthy night's sleep. It is important to ensure that the baby is spacious in it. First of all, it is a children's bed, and then only a place for games. So, summing up, what properties should a bed-house have:

Having made a house bed with your own hands, you will be sure of its 100% high quality.

Design

Before you start working, you need to clearly know what you want. It is important to have an idea of ​​​​what you will do to the smallest detail. For design, you can use a pencil and paper, or use a special computer program CAD. Determine the size of the crib. It must match the size of the mattress.

It can be made on legs or it will just be a slatted bottom. If legs are provided for the bed-house, it is possible to make drawers under it with the help of guides or wheels to use the space with benefit under it. It is also good to build additional sleeping place.

For those who are making a crib for the first time, the craftsmen recommend taking a solid pine beam in a 50 mm section. Boards with a cross section of 40 mm are suitable for the manufacture of the railing of the arena wall, which can be made removable.

Be sure to carefully calculate the size of the roof and pipe. The height of the vertical supports for a crib with legs will be approximately 1300 mm, and products without them are slightly smaller - 1100 mm.

The strength of the structure depends on the material

From choice the right material depends on the strength of the bed. This should be remembered, because children love to frolic on it. Therefore, it is best to take an all-lamellar glued pine lumber. It has no knots, it has flat surface and does not require surface treatment. The disadvantage of this material is the high cost of the material.

But you can take a tree and cheaper, however, it is necessary to pay attention to knots, resin pockets and moisture content of the material. An ordinary wooden beam is sold in any hardware store, but for work it should be well prepared. Also, material consumption is high due to irregularities and other shortcomings.

The process of preparing the tree for subsequent work

The beams are cut according to the dimensions in the project. Then using thicknesser machine all workpiece errors are removed. In the presence of knots, these places are smeared with wood putty, it also processes areas where there were resin pockets, but first they need to be processed with a chisel.

On the grinder, we go through all the workpieces, first with a tape with a grain of 120, and then a second time at 240. Now all the parts are perfectly smooth and ready for painting.

Fitting Assembly

Before assembling the product, you must pre-assembly, which will show the flaws. It is assembled in parts with the help of corner clamps. To do this, it is better to use confirmat 5 × 70 and a special countersink with a 5 mm drill. Via angle clamp two parts are installed, we mark the places where there should be holes and drill, then we wrap the confirmation. Do the same for the rest of the connections. The holes must be the same and not intersect.

We dismantle the bed. Sometimes, after creating holes, these places have to be treated with abrasive 240.

Painting

We cover the details with paint. Painting will be better if done with a pneumatic spray gun. But before applying the first layer, the parts should be well cleaned of dust. You can use enamel or acrylic paint. Sometimes masters use polyurethane varnish. Apply two coats together with primer and leave to dry for at least 12 hours.

However, you can build a house from any children's bed by attaching an air canopy to it.

All parents know that a baby bed must be comfortable for the child to feel comfortable. This is especially true of beds for a newborn baby. During sleep, the child should feel good. For this reason, the choice of this subject should be treated with special responsibility but do it yourself. Moreover, a do-it-yourself children's bed will be the pride of the parent, because it is made with special love and warmth, which means that it will be comfortable first of all. How to make a bed for a child? Consider a detailed manufacturing scheme.

Drawings and diagrams

It is advisable to draw a drawing yourself in advance, a diagram on which it will be displayed future project cribs for girls or boys. If you plan to make a bed a house or a dolphin, then everything will be much more complicated. It is better to use in these cases finished photos and drawings. The photo shows all the necessary measurements and the location of each element. In the manufacture of schemes, everything should be observed exactly to every millimeter, the strength and appearance of the bed will depend on this.

Assembling a crib for a girl and a boy with my own hands- This is enough difficult task which requires a lot of responsibility. Therefore, many prefer to buy already ready product. But still, you can do it much better on your own, for this the main thing is to follow the entire manufacturing scheme and do not forget to use the drawings. And if you show imagination, you can make a bed a house or a car.

Drawing

Side Diagram Scheme of a children's bed with drawers

Materials and tools

To work, you will need a number of materials and tools, as well as important details which should be stocked up in advance.

materials

Baby cots are too expensive, and sometimes their cost depends on appearance and destinations depending on gender - for a girl or a boy, so it's better to make it yourself. Before you start making this piece of furniture, you need to develop a project, purchase necessary material. The main thing is to have an idea about the structure of this element. With initial dexterity skills, you can make premium furniture, while spending a small amount of money, which would be enough to purchase a simple bed made of MDF or chipboard. It is desirable to perform a preliminary drawing, project. Drawings and a project will help facilitate the entire process of assembling a product for a child.

Before you start a project for making a baby crib, you need to purchase materials:

• edged boards - they must have a wood base coniferous: spruce or pine;
• bars that have a section size of 50x100 mm. These elements will be required for the manufacture of the main frames and legs;
• rails with cross-sectional dimensions of 20x20 mm. These components will be needed to make the filling;
• be sure to purchase plywood. Its thickness dimensions should be approximately 5 mm.

What kind of bed was not made for a house, a car, you need to remember important rule- bars and slats should be chosen from wood of special strength. The quality and further wear of the product depends on them.

Required Tools

The crib has a very simple design, it can be assembled by a beginner in this business, but it is still worth preparing necessary set tools, without which the entire project work would be impossible. Be sure to prepare the necessary equipment for making a crib for a girl or a boy:

• you need a jigsaw electric control or a saw for cutting boards and beams;
• grinding machine;
• you will need a manual type milling cutter that has many nozzles;
• it is advisable to purchase a file designed for woodworking;
• drill or screwdriver;
• tools for measuring work- roulette and level;
• clamps will be required, with the help of which the blank elements will be glued;
• brushes and rollers for finishing works– painting, varnishing and decorating.

Instruments
Application manual router makes work easier

Details

In addition to the basic materials, you need to purchase and related elements. Without them, the work of making a crib would be simply impossible. So, what you need to purchase from related materials:

• need to buy screws. Preference should be given to products of a phosphated type, which are designed for woodworking;
• prepare wood glue;
• special putty mixture for finishing work on wood;
• corners made of durable steel, which are needed to fasten all parts;
• be sure to buy a wood stain to impregnate the wood and protect it from moisture. Otherwise, the product will not last even a year;
• you will need varnish for painting furniture or paint for finishing interior work.

Do not forget about decoration, it is desirable to decorate it, as you can see in the photo. You can make a bed for a house, a dolphin, a car. It can be decorated in the form of these products. If the crib is for a house, then you need to purchase the appropriate decoration elements and textiles. If the product is made under a dolphin, then preference should be given to blue decoration elements. If it is intended for a girl, then it can be decorated with various pink ribbons, flowers, and a pink canopy of multi-colored textiles with drawings can be hung around the edges. If for a boy, then you will need to use the same ribbons, only blue, light blue, green.

You need to buy a mattress. It is better not to save on it, the further comfortable stay of the child in bed depends on it. It is advisable to purchase an orthopedic product in specialized stores. It renders beneficial effect on the formation of the spine of a growing organism.

accessories
Required to assemble parts furniture ties and special drill

Manufacturing instructions

To get a high-quality and functional product, we advise you to follow the instructions below in detail.

frame

The frame of the crib consists of the backs and the base itself, on which the mattress will be laid in the future. The width of the frame should be calculated based on the size of the mattress. The frame is made of two crossbars. These crossbars are made from edged board. He calculates the length of the crossbars on his own, it all depends on the age until which the crib for a girl or a boy will be used. Usually the standard length is 120 cm.

How to make a frame:

• we measure the desired length of the crossbars with a tape measure and make notes with a pencil;
• with help electric jigsaw we saw off the boards for the crossbars of the desired length, there should be only two of them;
• from the edges of the crossbars, you need to put a 25x50 mm bar on the glue and screws;
• it is 10 cm shorter in length, so we leave dimensions of 5 cm from each end;
• under the screws you need to drill a hole, it should be drilled close to the edge so that the tree does not burst;
• with the help of corners we connect the frame with the headboards. Fasten with screws and glue. We fix in 4 corners;
• at the end of the fastening place, we cover it with a putty mixture for wood.

frame
Location of fasteners
foot board

Base

Next, the base is made, on which the mattress and other bedding will be laid in the future. It is desirable to use as it a material of good strength, capable of withstanding heavy loads.

How to make a base:

• from slats 20x20 you need to cut boards that will serve as filling the base;
• they should be cut so much that they completely fill the entire base. It is not worth saving if there are few of them, in the future they will quickly break down;
• they should be attached to the slats of the frame. You need to attach them with an emphasis;
• the installation step should be 10 cm, 2 screws should be used for each bar;
• For the installation of each self-tapping screw, a hole must be pre-drilled. During the tightening of the self-tapping screw, its cap should completely go into the wood;
• holes should be coated with a putty mixture for wood;
• after the putty dries, everything needs to be sanded.

Plank fastening scheme Installing the planks
Cutout under the foot of the bed
Attaching cross bars

legs

Instructions for the process of making a crib for a child are not complete without making legs. The legs of the crib are made according to the scheme:

• from a bar 50x100 you need to cut blanks. Under the head they should be long, and under the footboard shorter;
• you need to complete 4 blanks. 4 for the head and 4 for the foot;
• using glue, you need to glue the blanks in pairs. To do this, you need to take one blank, attach it to another and make sure that they are inserted evenly;
• twist them with self-tapping screws;
• when fastening workpieces with self-tapping screws, the screw heads should be sunk deep into the wood so that they hold on tighter;
• we close up the places of fastening with putty for wood;
• when everything dries, the surface of the wood should be carefully sanded.

We coat the boards with glue and fold in pairs
Finished legs

Dowel holes

For the headboards, you will need boards that have a groove with a width of 25 mm. If a milling cutter is available, then these holes can be cut and machined by yourself or in a carpentry shop. Holes for dowels must be drilled at the ends of the planks with grooves. During drilling, it is necessary to determine their distance from the edge with particular accuracy - they must be strictly on the same level on all planks.

The holes should have the same depth, which is half the length of this piece of wood. These holes must be drilled with a drill. And in order not to be mistaken, on the drill you need to mark the size of the recess and stick a piece of paint glue.

Dowel holes

headboard

The headboard should be made according to the instructions:

• from boards of edged type it is necessary to cut boards having the same length dimensions. They are needed to fill the headboard and footboard;
• the groove for inserting the planks under the headboard must be filled with glue in advance;
• insert the boards into the grooves and fix them evenly;
• holes should be drilled in the leg for dowels. It is better to attach the back and mark the insertion points with a pencil;
• drill holes in the marked places and pour glue there;
• we plant the back in these holes, this should be done tightly so that there are no cracks and distortions;
• making a second back.

An important point regarding the gluing of parts. After gluing, all elements will be movable, so it is important to set everything exactly at 90 degrees and leave to dry. Otherwise, in the process of further assembly, you can simply damage the entire structure.

Headboard diagram
The shape of the headboard can be any
decorative headboard with legs
Finished bed sides

Assembly

After all the elements of a baby bed for a girl or boy are ready, you need to check for chips and various defects. Features of preparing bed elements for assembly:

• if there are any chips, then they must be repaired with a putty mixture;
• when everything is dry, all elements need to be sanded;
• after grinding, the components must be treated with a primer or stain. This will protect the material from moisture and retain its properties for a long time;
• when all the elements dry everything needs to be painted. The color of the paint depends on the gender of the child, for a girl, you can use gentle tones - pink, red, white, light green, yellow. And for a boy, blue, blue, green, yellow are suitable;
• paint all the elements with paint, you can apply multi-colored staining. Perform this step as you wish;
• if the bed is made under the house, then you need to show imagination and draw everything necessary elements. If the bed is a house, then you need to note the windows, roof and others important elements. If the dolphin, then you need to show all your artistic skills and paint in the form of this animal;
• after drying, you need to purchase textiles for a bed for a girl or a boy desired color and drawing.

Attaching the backrest to the foot of the bed

One of the main advantages of making furniture for your home by hand is the ability to make it right size from material of suitable quality and color. Everything is limited only by the imagination of the creator and the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe children's room.

For example, for a boy's room, a do-it-yourself bed-house can be made in marine tones. As a result, the child will receive not only a great place to relax, but also a real game military headquarters. The girl will be happy with the decor in the form of multi-colored flags, a delicate tulle canopy and other cute little things.

Preparation and manufacturing process

Children's rooms, especially those with design scandinavian style, very often include a bed in the form of a frame or frame house as an indispensable element. In a workshop or in a store, such interior elements are quite expensive. However similar bed can be made by hand even with a very modest budget.

Equipment and materials

To make a children's bed-house with your own hands, drawings are easy to make. All you need is the dimensions of the future structure and a couple of blanks.

You can buy material at a hardware store. A bar is also sold there, from which the construction of a house-bed is made. For the manufacture of a children's bed for the dimensions of the mattress at 165 centimeters long and 80 centimeters wide, you will need:

1. Wooden bars in the amount of two pieces 40 by 70 with a length of 1660 millimeters.
2. Four wooden beams 40 by 70 with a length of 1200 millimeters.
3. Two slats of flat section 10 by 70 by 1660 millimeters.

Step-by-step instruction

The implementation of the idea of ​​this bed can cost about fifty euros. You can cut costs and use parts and bottom from old bed on rails.

Making the base

First you need to make a base of four bars with a length of 1200 millimeters each. This design is the vertical support of the bed. After installation and fixing, a small piece is sawn off at the top of each support bar at an angle of 45 degrees. This is necessary for the further development beautiful roof with two slopes.

Previously, the cutting line should be marked with a pencil using a square or rulers. Here the wood racks are marked and cut down using a conventional hacksaw. But in specialized hardware stores you can buy a device for cutting at one angle or another.

Roof assembly

For the manufacture of the roof are used wooden bars in the amount of four pieces with a length of 730 millimeters. After fixing them, you should perform the same procedure as with the base boards - file their edges of the junction with the roof at an angle of forty-five degrees.

Important! It is worth immediately paying attention to the resulting cuts. To prevent cases of injury to the child, it is necessary to treat the cuts with a piece sandpaper. From the cut 1200-mm vertical supports, the structure of the house itself is assembled. All this is attached to the roof ridge, made of bars of 730 millimeters. The upper part of the ridge, using pre-prepared wood glue, is attached to general design future bed.

The joints of all parts of the roof and vertical supports must be additionally glued, preferably two or three times. After that all top part must be planted on 40 mm self-tapping screws. It is necessary to screw in bolts and self-tapping screws at a distance of up to 4 millimeters from the junction lines of the two parts of the roof. This should be done without pressing too hard, as the wood tends to delaminate.

A little tip: when you drill the entire structure, use a vise. Drilling should not be very fast, use only drills from high-quality, suitable for the tree material. After screwing the two roof slats to the supports, the frame of the future house is obtained.

Gradually, our creation takes on its final shape. The procedure is repeated with the remaining parts. As a result, we get two identical frame structures - these are the walls of the end of the house-bed.

Frame fixing

To complete the end frame composition, it is required to screw an 820 mm bar down. This baluster is a cross support holding the mass uprights designs. This measure keeps the entire bed in balance.

The distance from the transverse bar of the bed to the floor of the room is 150 millimeters, since the project implies that the bed has legs. But this does not mean that you have to repeat everything thoroughly. The bed can be without legs. In this case, the transverse beam will need to be screwed close to the lower edge of the vertical supports, without indents.

Please note - an eccentric screed was used to assemble the side parts of the crib. It is also important to note that for such a fastener reception, your calculations must be very accurate. The result will be hitting the right spot. If such gluing turns out to be too difficult for you, then it would be better to use self-tapping screws. Then you need to additionally buy flat corners measuring thirty by thirty millimeters. This approach greatly speeds up the process and simplifies the assembly itself.

If a design with corners is easier and faster to assemble, why do some people still stop at gluing? The answer is simple - iron corners look less stylish and aesthetically pleasing. The eccentric adhesive liquid firmly and securely holds all parts together, their connection is hardly noticeable.

Related materials and items for the screed process can be purchased from specialized stores for repair and construction. For such concealed installation it is required to drill holes in the bottom bar of the bed using the previously indicated 11 mm drill. The hole should be located clearly along the middle line on the crossbar. Please note that the hole is through. Its depth reaches 130 millimeters.

The hole separates about 40 millimeters from the edge of the crossbar block. Here it is worth paying attention to the size of the bolts and screws used. The next step is to drill from the side, just in the middle of the beam, with a six-millimeter drill neat hole. It should fall clearly into the recess made by us earlier. A screw must fall into the resulting opening, then the entire structure is fixed with an eccentric.

Another good tip. You can put all the wooden parts of the bed on long self-tapping screws, pre-treating them with an adhesive. Please note that the connection without fail must be balanced with angle brackets.

Assembling the base of the house

To assemble this part, we will need several thick bars with a section of 40 by 70 by 1660. They will meet the characteristics of the sides of the crib. With inside thin planochki (10 by 70 by 1660) are screwed to the wooden bars with the help of self-tapping screws.

Be sure to keep an eye on so that the screws are always at an equal pitch from each other. These plates serve as a support for the installed frame that supports the bottom of the house-bed. The frame frame has already been assembled by us with the help of a gluing liquid - screed. At this stage, it is critically important to accurately measure and adjust everything, to avoid mistakes in your own calculations.

Prefabricate from a piece wooden block template 6 cm long. It has several holes for screws. They are located at a fixed distance of 25 millimeters from each other. With its help, the estimated holes on all other future racks are measured.

With help wooden template and a pencil mark the place for the holes. It is important to draw marks on both sides of the bars on all four crib posts. It is important to place the upper end of the template exactly at the level of the upper edge from the transverse bar of the crossbar.

After finishing the basting, a drill of 6 millimeters is taken, through holes are made in the marked places. A similar procedure is performed only four times - the vertical racks are tightly and securely connected to the sides of the bed.

On the inside of the longitudinal rack, you need to outline a place for the future hole into which the eccentric is placed. It is produced with a 10 mm drill. outer side processed, after which screws of greater length are screwed into it - up to 10 centimeters.

It is important to consider that the self-tapping bolts should smoothly enter the prepared holes, connecting the verticals with the side parts of the bed. You can also additionally perform gluing the structure.

Particular attention should be paid, of course, to the junction points. After all the operations carried out in the holes lower tier the adhesive liquid is poured in, after which the bolts are tightened. You need to carry out a similar operation with all parts frame structure, then connect all this with the sides of the bed-house.

General frame fastening

The sides of the house-bed are already securely screwed to the ends. Now follows the strengthening of the overall structure. This is done with the help of four bars. For this we will use parts 1660 millimeters long.

Be sure to take into account that the length of the beams must exactly match the length of the sides of the crib. All components are fixed in the same way as in the previous stages - with the help of an adhesive mixture and self-tapping screws. Do not forget also about the additional strengthening of the composition with the help of corner fasteners.

Production of the rack bottom

In this case, the crib has slats from the old slatted bed. If you do not want to use the old bottom or do not have one, then the hardware store can offer you an excellent alternative - specialized lamellas. These beds are suitable for standard mattresses.

The slats are fastened directly on the flat planks, on the sides they are fixed to the four sides frame base. You need to twist all the parts one to the other so tightly that the parts of the screws do not stick out of your product. You can also leave a small gap between each plank - in this case it was 8 centimeters. bottom standard mattress it took 14 rails to be screwed.

Tip: from the pieces left after cutting the lamellas, you can make a beautiful side. For young children, this is a must-have element of safety. It is assembled using one or more brackets fixed at each corner. That's all, the work on the house-bed is over. The time spent was about noon.

We move the children to the nursery, we first planned to buy a ready-made bed, but we couldn’t choose until we got an online store with beds-houses. I caught fire like this, but it’s expensive to buy (from 50k), and, taking into account my own nuances, I decided to do it myself. Everything was bought in Leroy, everything came out at a price of about 10,000 rubles (+ 8,000 for trimming and a grinder). Net time days 7.

The project was drawn in visio. I did cutting and grinding in an apartment without repair, assembled and painted at home. Acrylic paint on water, almost no smell. Assembly on confirmations, then covered with facades on furniture bolts. All holes were filled and painted. Colored colors for multi-colored planks.
In total, if there is time and place, it is not very difficult. Children are happy, they moved with pleasure :)

We begin to assemble the tool table. Of the tools: trimming, an eccentric grinder, a manual milling cutter, a hand saw, a square, 4 small clamps, a screwdriver, which is also a drill.

Homemade milling table. Frazier borrowed. The table is old for repair, it's not a pity.
In general, all the boards were with a factory rounding - chamfer. But there are no bars, I had to chamfer in this way.

Tortsovka thing!

The most hemorrhoid grinding turned out to be. Don't start without a grinder. And do not a residential apartment. Tiny dust everywhere.

Wallpaper, you can decorate them.

Frame assembly. Bar 50x50. For confirmations.

Facades on furniture bolts.

Painting with a velor roller White color in 3 layers.

The base color is ready. Later, he cut out another window, removing 4 boards.

The size of the lower bed is 90x200, another 20 cm near the wall in the form of a shelf for pillows. Thus, the lower part is extended by 20 cm, when you sit down you do not hit your head. From the bottom base to the top 110 cm.

The staircase was made specifically from the inside so that it does not take up space in the room, there is not much of it anyway. The size of the upper bed is 90x160. From the new for myself, I discovered that it is extremely easy to make a children's ladder, a bar, a feather and a round profile on PVA.

Then the self-tapping screws were puttied and painted separately, so that in the final everything is fine.

The final - back wall from 12mm plywood covered with wallpaper. Ikea shelves have been waiting in the wings for a long time. Illumination is temporary (for a long time), I will finish it. You can sit on the bed like on the sofa, just put more pillows.

Toddlers are not chasing the maximum likelihood; for them, a certain visual similarity is more important in the presence of an element of a fairy tale. That is why every child dreams of his own housing - he does not perceive his own room as such. At home, you can build a temporary house of chairs and a blanket, but it is not very believable, and it is not eternal. In the presence of personal plot you can build a real tree house, it will cause a storm of delight in the child, but not even every dad can do this with his own hands. But the children's bed-house is a solution that allows you to make your baby happy without any extra effort.

Features and Benefits

Of the common things for all beds-houses, one can only distinguish that they all have a sleeping place, they all resemble a house - one way or another. Everything else depends solely on the specific model and the imagination of its designer.

Such furniture can be more like a bed, or more like a house. In the first case, a kind of roof imitating a gable roof is placed on an ordinary bed. In the second case, the product is a full-fledged house, which is sometimes even taken out to a sufficient height to make it useful to use the space under it. This house has a bed. Come across and more complex structures, designed for two children and equipped with additional devices (like simple horizontal bars, Swedish walls etc).

It should be noted that a children's house bed is considered more popular among girls, as boys more often prefer a typewriter bed.

This does not stop manufacturers - they produce models with designs for both young ladies and future men.

Types and styles

Although the house bed seems to be an invention that does not allow design ideas to roam, hundreds of variations of this type of furniture have been created today, each of which is significantly different from its counterparts. In order to “push” parents away from an overly standard approach to the issue, it is worth exploring in more detail what these beds are like.

So, the house can be rather a decoration for the bed, just as the bed can only be an addition to the house. Another thing is that even the decoration of the house can look completely different: from a formal frame that imitates gable roof, before unusual look panels that lined a bunk bed that looked like a tropical bungalow. Often large structures are made with a playhouse - it is inseparable from the bed, but also provides for a purely play area inside itself. A large house for two, made in two "floors", can also be equipped with a slide for descending from top to bottom.

Do not think that the bed is strictly inside the house, and on top is the roof. There are beds with a house below. The sleeping place is located, as it were, on top of the house, while inside it is exclusively a play space. It's like a bed in the attic. If the bed is still located below, then there is usually nothing above, and it is strictly forbidden to climb on the roof.

Design Options

An additional plus of children's beds-houses is also the fact that their wide range makes it easy to pick up interesting design decision for any interior and any style.

The simplest option is a frame assembled from individual support beams. Some manufacturers do not even cover such a frame with a roof - it is assumed that fabric will serve as the material for it, which can either be purchased from the manufacturer itself or cut out independently, at your own discretion. However, more often the roof is still made of the same material as the entire bed as a whole.

As for the walls, here the variety of options is even wider. The simplest of them is a fabric stretched over a frame, or no walls at all, just supports. In models for young children, walls are often not provided, since babies are uncomfortable in a small enclosed space, but there are special railings that can be removed as the child grows up.

A good option- these are "real" walls varying degrees strength. Such a solution can look like anything, but more often it is still given an external resemblance to a real house, although houses can have the most diverse design.

Material

When choosing a baby bed-house, attention should be paid to the material even more than when choosing an ordinary baby bed. The period of use of such furniture usually does not exceed several years, so this attitude is not caused by the desire to extend the life of the product, but by safety requirements.

Even if we are talking about a small formal add-on over an ordinary bed, there is always a risk that the baby will break the supports made of fragile material with his pampering. So the structure (albeit not too heavy) will fall right on it. If we talk about those houses that provide for the location of the bed (especially - play area) at the second level, then the requirements for them in terms of the quality of materials are prohibitively high, because children will probably jump and play pranks there, and it’s good if they are alone.

So high requirements narrow the range of materials acceptable for use to actually one - usually this type of furniture is made from solid wood. MDF is less common - this material is also acceptable, it is cheaper and almost as strong, but still the load on it should be reduced. The design of the boards has the right to exist, but it is advisable to trust them only with decor. Finishing the topic of materials of wooden origin, it can be noted that chipboard is not suitable at all - it is toxic.

As for not wood materials, they are also not widely used. In terms of strength, some metal would be perfect, but it is cold, there is no proper feeling of comfort. The total weight is metal structure quite significant. Plastic is appropriate in some places, especially as decorative elements, but before buying, be sure to ask the seller to show the certificates. Some inexpensive types this material is also toxic.

Popular brands

To set general direction, you should familiarize yourself with the manufacturers of beds-houses that are most in demand on the domestic market, and also find out what is the general tone of reviews about their products.

For the better, the products of the famous Swedish company Ikea. Outwardly, of course, everything looks rather modest - this is just the case when the manufacturer did not take care of the presence of stationary walls and a roof. There is only a frame here, which can be covered with an awning produced by the same company.

The peculiarity of the house is the presence of two floors at once, one of which is reserved for a sleeping place, and the other is intended for games. The creators deliberately did not make any hints about which floor was created for what - this moment was left at the discretion of the consumer.

The company emphasizes its desire to develop and make products better every year - as an achievement, it is presented that its furniture is no longer used plastic parts. At the same time, a crib is made of chipboard - even if it is of high quality, the question of whether it is worth taking this remains open.

But the only Russian supplier that has collected a sufficient number of reviews on the Internet has received mostly criticism. Judging by the mass commenting, the choice in favor of brand products "Legend" made by many, the reason for which was a very attractive appearance of the goods. At the same time, the commentators themselves note that furniture made from chipboard has no place in the nursery. In addition, the visually beautiful crib is quite different bad smell glue. This is unpleasant even for an adult, and even more so for a child.

How to choose?

If you are going to purchase this or that model, pay attention to whether it meets the main criteria for choosing a children's bed-house. Here are the main points to pay attention to:

• Security. The health of the child is above all! Always study the quality of the materials from which the product is made. We are talking about the strength of the base material, the reliability of fasteners, and also that no part of the crib emits toxic substances.

Another important point: the house should be carefully polished, it should not have sharp corners. If the purchase is made for small child, the crib must also be protected with railings.

• Convenience. Absolutely everything in the house should be comfortable, starting with its size. The house should not be too cramped, otherwise bumps cannot be avoided. An optional, but important factor is the ability to invite friends to “visit”, because playing with a company is much better, and perfect house should be able to accommodate everyone.

Certain advantages can also be seen in removable walls and ceilings - they are very convenient to remove for washing. In addition, while restoring order inside the house, it is quite practical to clean them up - this reduces the risk of injury due to active movements in a narrow space.