One way of providing a bed for your child’s best friend to sleep over is a trundle bed. This is a regular twin size bed on a frame that is low to the floor. The regular twin bed used with the trundle bed is actually a special frame long enough that the trundle frame fits between the head and foot board. When not in use, the trundle bed slides under the twin bed or a toddler bed and frees up the floor space it uses when pulled out. Both beds give up their box springs in order to make this happen, and only have mattresses.
Trundle beds are not a new thing. They have been around for ages, and never seem to go out of style where bedrooms are small and must be shared. It is more comfortable than a pallet on the floor, which will still have to be picked up each morning and put somewhere for the day, probably under the bed. The trundle bed frame merely formalizes this arrangement and provides a better sleeping surface for the second occupant of the room.
Some trundle bed frames include hinges that allow the bed to be raised to near normal height. This allows people who cannot get down to the floor easily (adults) to use the trundle, as in visiting relatives. The bed trundle is lowered to return it to the floor for storing under the twin bed.
In cases where the children have flown the coop and the room becomes a hobby room, the mattress can be removed from the trundle and it becomes storage for all kinds of goodies. Then the trundle becomes better than under bed drawers because the entire space is available and very long items can be stored here. As long as no one needs to sleep on the trundle, this is primo storage space.
As far as a comparison of trundle beds and bunk beds goes, it depends on the regular occupancy of the room in question. Bunk beds also usually have only a mattress, and the two bed sytems use the same floor space. The difference comes in use of vertical space and the personalities of the occupants. There may be more contention on who gets the top bunk than any fighting over who gets the trundle bed. However, once the bed assignment is fixed, the difference becomes the daily in and out of the trundle versus the height of the upper bunk and having two spaces for lying down without furniture rearrangement.
Trundle beds are really useful in households where there are frequent visitors but the room in question does not officially have two occupants. If you are serious about expanding the number of people you can sleep at one time, the trundle bed is a good option to add wherever you have twin beds. With a special frame, you could probably add a trundle bed to a full or queen size bed. You would only need longer side rails and perhaps longer legs on the head and foot boards to allow the trundle to slide under the larger bed. This brings on a lot of togetherness, but some families revel in such arrangements.
Let a trundle bed make your home more flexible in its sleeping arrangements.
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November 12th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
bed frames that are based on steel would give you a more durable bed and a bed that last longer “;: