Max age for top bunk

[Yats17]

Hi,

Im thinking ahead and wondering how old kids sleeping on top bunk were before moving to a regular bed? What considerations affected your decision?

Thanks

My son is 14 and has a high sleeper. (Cabin bed?) he has a desk underneath.
his room is big enough for a proper bed, but the desk set up works well

Is there an age limit.. we downsized when the kids had left home. Two bedrooms now, we had an IKEA triple sleeper in the spare room. Bottom converted to a sofa in the day. Dgks were too scared to sleep up there,so DD in her twenties used to sleep up there. In our last house,a 1930s cottage, tiny 3rd bedroom,ds of 20 had a high loft bed, with wardrobe,desk and chest of drawers underneath.

I don't think there is a max age? I slept on one until about 17.

Cousin’s kids were well into their mid-teens and still sharing a bunk bed. I’ve slept on the top bunk of it in my 30s when visiting, I’m not sure there’s an upper age limit? Often think DH and I should get bunks as our bedroom is so small

My BIL regularly sleeps on the top bunk when causing SIL - he’s nearly 50 lol

My son was 32. He was saving for a deposit to buy his own place 😬

I’ve slept in the top bunk as an adult. Not regularly but traveling, no holiday, etc. Basically, until they are no longer happy as long as they aren’t annoying whoever is on the bottom bunk.

DS1 slept on his high sleeper until he broke his collarbone aged 15 which resulted in an emergency dismantling and bed purchase. I guess he'd have stayed up there at least until he left for uni otherwise.

i slept in top bunk this summer aged 54…

ETA and had bunk beds at uni so ….

My brothers had to sleep in bunk bed until they were 22 and 18. Eldest was on top as he was lighter.

My kids' bunk bed says it has been tested to a maximum of 14 stone on top bunk; that's not to say it couldn't hold more, they just can't guarantee it past that.

When I've been sitting up there and reading to my son, we've definitely been pushing that limit, if not slightly over, but it's held so far.

My DDs were 23

As a general rule...

The first stage is when you're excited about the novelty and 'coolness' of a ladder to your bed - great.

The second stage is when you're ambivalent to the ladder and don't really care one way or the other - still fine.

The third stage is when your bones ache, your body isn't as flexible as it used to be and you avoid either going to bed or getting out of bed, purely because of the ladder; this often corresponds with the point at which you start gathering things at the top or bottom of the stairs to take them all to the other floor in one trip - this is when you're too old!

Lol amazing thanks everyone. We have an ikea high sleeper with desk underneath, and are still in the "bunk beds are so cool" phase. But DS2 wants to have a go in it when he's a big boy, ie in 3 years time so I had assumed when DS1 was done in a couple of years then DS2 would get it. But increasingly looking like might need a second one!

Dts are 15 and in bunks, never heard of an age limit

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Also, it's not just age but practicalities that play a large part.

If you have a cosy, tiny room, you may be more struck on the idea of being able to have a desk/sofa/storage space AND a bed, rather than only a bed - whereas if the room is big, it may not seem quite as enticing. Personally, I never understood why Peppa and George Pig shared a bunk bed right in the corner of their colossal bedroom.

Also, once you're of an age and a proclivity to start, erm, regularly doing activities that require two of you to be in the same bed, you're going to have to have very robust slats under the mattress and/or use some of those weighty sand bags around the base of the legs (and maybe also guy ropes), like people use to stop gazebos from blowing away!

We tossed for the top bunk on the ferry, I lost

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i recognise stage 3, definitely a pile at the bottom of my stairs currently! See also gathering everything so you don’t need to go down again when you take the plates down (upstairs living room)

DDs have just swapped bedrooms as one is a box room with a high sleeper and desk, and the other a double bedroom. DD1 was struggling with headroom at 14yo.

Realistically we think we are getting another 1-2 years with the highsleeper and then having to have a big re think! Maybe a daybed and fold out desk.

(Its a double high sleeper BTW... it can take adults!))

There's an age limit? I had the top bunk until I moved out at the age of 18. Pretty sure my brother was in his top bunk until the age of 16. My husband had a cabin bed at his family home until 18 as well. Fortunately for him his house has 10 foot ceilings, so headroom was at least never an issue.