Best bed for small room

[Glittercloud17]

Hi all - my daughter is progressing to a proper full size single bed. Her bedroom is small, about 3x4, I am considering get her a high sleeper - she’d be sleeping 1.8m up which I’m a bit worried about.

Before I buy a high sleeper bed, wondering if anyone here has experience of high beds? - are they a nightmare to change the bedding? Or do the rock and creak? I know it’ll partly depend on the quality.

It will be a nightmare to change, unless you're very tall. A mid-sleeper would be better from that point of view. I'd question the need for that much space-saving, though, if you mean the room's 3m x 4m.

DS had a high bed,
very high, i think he liked it but i wouldnt like to be so close to the ceiling.
the change of sheets, you manage!
of course the positive is more room underneath

How old? Top bunks high sleepers aren't recommended for very young children.

I would look at beds with decent storage underneath, drawes perhaps, to maximise storage leaving the rest of the room free.

I don’t think I’d get a high sleeper for a child’s first single bed - probably a bit young to be that high up. Plus 4x3 isn’t that small a room?

Your daughter must be pretty young. I wouldn’t do this. There’s age advice for kids sleeping in bunk beds and I once saw a kid in casualty who was under whatever the age was (this is many years ago).
He’d fallen out of bed and had a basal skull fracture and was drifting in and out of consciousness- so presumably also was bleeding in his brain.
He was shipped off to the paediatric hospital sharpish, and I don’t know how he fared.

My kids did have high beds when they were older, but you need to be careful

So my DD is 8, she’s had a mid sleeper and lays underneath. I don’t know if I have the measurements of the room right but a single bed would take up about half the room footprint and about a meter squared more at the foot of the bed

*plays underneath

If she wants one then the deal is she changes the sheet.

Our DS had a high sleeper from 8 and he loved it. Even when we moved to a bigger house where he had a huge room he kept it until he was mid teens. I made voile panels that we hung underneath to create a little tent effect when he was younger then we put a computer desk underneath for homework once he got older.

Key things…get decent quality and make sure it is properly put together….and periodically check that it’s still well together. Fit wall anchors if they are supplied. Don’t get a heavy or stiff mattress…it’s easier to change a fitted sheet if the mattress has a bit of give so you can kneel on it and lift the corners! Make sure it has a decent ladder or steps that you can comfortably climb! Last but not least, if your DD isn’t feeling well, don’t put them up there to sleep. I will never forget responding to cries in the night, rushing into the room at 2am, just as DS leaned over the side and hurled everywhere. I don’t think the splatter missed anything in the room 🤢!

OMG that last line 😂

Such good advice. Thank you.

I hate them. My heart sunk when my dgd got one. She likes her hand held as she falls asleep. It’s agony. Definitely tell her she will be changing the sheets. Think about how it will work when she is sick , or has a sleepover, or needs to be turfed out so your elderly relative can convalesce, homeless best friend can stay, or Antipodean relatives visit. They are expensive, and lack flexibility. By the time she is 12 she will want a double bed. And if you move and have to dismantle, it will always be wonky.