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sickmumma · 26/08/2018 16:32

We are due another baby next year, my daughter will need to share her box room with the baby once they are old enough to go into their own room. Just thinking of ideas of how to make it work short term until we move in a few years time. I have seen bunk beds with build in toddler rails/cot bits on. They are quite expensive but money not a worry if it makes it more livable (within reason!) I wonder if they do a bunk with built in toy storage type thing so we can get rid of the toy units for now and free up more floor space.

Daughter currently has an Ikea Kura bed with a snug underneath where she plays and her dolls house and then a GLTC storage unit across the opposite wall.

Rooms roughly 2.8m x 1.8m wide however had a small built in wardrobe next to the door so probably more like 2.3/4m long taking that into account so literally a box room!

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ifIonlyknew · 26/08/2018 22:26

how old and tall is your daughter? Could you get away with two toddler beds in there? they are surprisingly long and I know people who have kept them for years until the child has literally got too tall for them.

our old house box room was 5ft 11 by 6ft!

sickmumma · 27/08/2018 08:13

She will be 5 by the time baby arrives but probably won't move the baby from our room for another year after so a 6 and 1 year old!

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Cupoftchaiagain · 27/08/2018 09:00

The ikea gulliver cot converts to a cot bed, which fits underneath the kura bunk. Also Google ikea kura bunk hacks, we are about to do one of these to make a very low bottom bunk (girls aged 2 and 6, room not much bigger than yours)

Elpheba · 27/08/2018 09:04

I’m thinking when we do this we will put the 3 1/2 year old on the top of the KURA and then little one on a mattress (on slats) underneath it. Like a previous poster said there are loads of hacks of this online which give great ideas.

sickmumma · 27/08/2018 22:32

Ideally keeping the kura would be great and I did think about having it as a bunk as I know many put a mattress underneath but I was a bit worried about having the mattress on the floor as they weren't very thick and when we moved we had a mattress on the floor while our new bed arrived and it wasn't that comfy and the actual bed part does make a difference. How will you add the slats @Elpheba ?

Going to google kura hacks now...

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sickmumma · 27/08/2018 22:33

Also to note my daughter has been in the kura since age three as a high bunk, we also have the tent canopy on top and she has been absolutely fine!

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newlounge · 27/08/2018 22:37

I have kura and when my youngest moved into bed she went straight in bottom, Ikea do a slatted base you can use but I didn't bother just got a mattress and it's perfect as low down so no worries about falling out

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