It's finally happened, the day that everyone dreads. 2 Kids, 1 husband, the house sold, the van loaded, the parents-in-law waiting - waiting at their house to welcome us. That's right, we've sold up and like many others at the moment, we have nowhere else to go. Rather than lose the sale, we decided that we should move in with 'mum & dad' until we have found the perfect house. Sadly this made perfect sense, so here we are.
We have 1 slight issue though. Aside from our room, there is only 1 spare bedroom. When I say bedroom, I mean 'bed-room'. If you can get a bed in there, you can't really get anything else. The kids are 4 and 6, so have come to appreciate a nice mattress to lie on, and their school generally likes them to be awake. A solution was needed and they weren't happy to 'top and tails'. After much head scratching, a little voice chipped in "well, my friend Paul has bunk beds".
Bunk beds - of course, even I wanted a bunk bed as a little girl, although I never could decide whether top or bottom was best (really, there is a good argument for either...) and this would be perfect for the space available. My only worry was that surely they would be quite expensive? I mean they are 2 beds aren't they? And we would want a solid wood one, not some plastic 'put up' job that finds us with children and a crumpled mess on the floor in the morning, that no doubt I would have to untangle.
As is turns out, bunk beds are surprisingly good value for money, even a nice solid pine bunk bed (I'm thinking that with wood, perhaps my husband could saw it in half later to make 2 separate beds?). You can find them for around £100 - £200, so not a bank breaker, but a ready solution to 6mths of being cooped up in a little bedroom.
The kids love the ladder, have even worked out a 'timeshare' for the top bunk and there is still a little space under the bed to cram some toys, and I still think that it could be sawn in half a little later down the line...
2 comments: on "2 Kids, 1 small bedroom"
You've done the right thing, selling your house without a new home to go to, despite having to stay with parents. We did a similar thing a year ago and rented a very small place for our family to live in. Because of this we have now managed to buy a lovely house with a big garden at a fantastic price because we were ideal buyers. Good luck!
A great way to appeal to the kids to like the bottom bunk is to drape something over the side and create a sort of hide out. Then hang a cool lamp on the wall and some of those peel off wall decorations. This gives a kid sharing a room their own space.
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