Kids with Loft Beds

[Caropooh]

For those of you with kids with loft beds.....
How the heck do you change the sheets on the top bed????? My DD's have had one for 2 years now and it's still a struggle. The only way we can put it in the room is in a corner. That makes the headboard and one side against the walls.
Here is a picture of what it looks like. The only differences are we have a second bed coming out at a right angle on the bottom and the desk and book case are switched around places.

 

[palmtreegirl]

My DD has the same bed, also in the corner & I climb up there to change the sheets.

 

[Sandcass]

It is a total pain in the butt! I have to actually get up there in the bed. I have to remove the blankets, pillows, and about 42 stuffed animals each time. Then I sit in the middle of the bare mattress, put the sheet on the head side, then climb 1/2 way down the ladder and put the sheet on the foot part.

The one good thing is that I almost never make my DS's bed day to day. Because nobody can see up that high! (His is about 6 feet up) So it's just when I have to wash the sheets that I go thru this ordeal.

And my DS LOVES his loft bed!

 

[cepmom]

my girls have a bunk bed and I dread changing the sheets!
I get right up on top of the bed to put the sheets on, starting at the foot of the bed and work my my to the head, then I get on the ladder to finish the head area. Then I'm on the bed again putting the top sheet on starting from the foot, working my way back to the head and on the ladder to straighten it out. Same thing for the comforter. It's so frustrating!!

 

[SSDonut]

Caropooh? It's nice. We've been flirting with getting one for my DD7--she has absolutely No space in her room.

Sheesh, I barely get my girls beds changed as it is (with a regular bed on the floor, and no more rails, either)!!

Hmmm, another aspect to consider!!

 

[Beth76]

Ladies, ladies, why are you struggling to change those sheets. Make your little darlings change them. Anyhoo, what age did your kids start sleeping in those? I'd really like to get one of those for my son, but he's only four. I can see him jumping off of that thing, just for kicks.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My DD and DS each have a set (one bunk; one loft). I agree it's a total pain to change the top sheets! I usually save it for a day that DH is home and we pull the bed away from the wall and do it together that way. I climb up myself every now and then just to straighten out up there but I ask my kids to sleep in the bottom beds on a day to day basis and they can easily make those themselves.

Beth, my twins were 4 when we bought the first set - with our pediatrician's blessing - and they originally shared them until we got the second set. We are strict that there is no horseplay up top, especially when they have their friends over, and if someone does sleep over the friend sleeps in the bottom and my child sleeps up top. Toddler visitors love to climb up so you have to keep an eye on them around the beds. I like having the extra sleeping space in the house and I also bought the big drawers that go underneath and basically keep all their summer clothes there so that makes one thing easy, at least.

 

[MamaLema]

It's a pain in the butt, that's for sure!

I try to make my kids help me, but they always sit on the sheets and can't seem to tuck in those corners.

My solution...I make DH do it

 

[ckay87]

I'm with ya sister.

But I did teach DS to do it himself just before he moved out and into his own room. Now the top bunk is used for sleepover guests with sleeping bags!

 

[janette]

Ladies, ladies, why are you struggling to change those sheets. Make your little darlings change them. Anyhoo, what age did your kids start sleeping in those? I'd really like to get one of those for my son, but he's only four. I can see him jumping off of that thing, just for kicks.

My 11yo DD has one, it's a double from IKEA and 5ft off the ground. I had to get up there to install a small shelf she wanted, that was hard enough. If she wants clean bedding she can get it, no one can see it either so won't try to make it.

 

[Pam]

My son changes his sheets on his - okay, he's now 17 (he has the futon couch/double on the bottom, but stll prefers to sleep up in the bunk bed!) - but he's been changing the sheets ever since he got the bed several years ago.

 

[KelNottAt]

UGH! Loft beds and bunks. I hate them both, all because of the difficulty changing sheets. DD's room is even big enough for 2 twins, but she won't breakdown the "L" bunks.

Know what that means? She's responsible for doing the sheets. (She would be anyway, but I keep holding out hope that eventually she'll switch to 2 twins.)

 

[Caropooh]

It sure sounds like we are all in the same boat! Guess I'm not going to find an easy way to do it! Putting the fitted sheet on is not that hard, it's that darn top sheet and blanket! Last night I was balancing on the side of the bottom bed with the side of the mattress for the top bed on my head! All I wanted to do was tuck the excess sheet and blanket in! Neither DD was much help! I try and explain what I want them to do and end up having to show them anyway!
Other than that it's a great bed! DD6 sleeps on the bottom and uses the bookshelves as houses and beds for her dolls. They both will use the desk(at different times!) to do homework! DD6 feels very important sitting there and DD11 likes it to get some privacy from DD6!

 

[froglady]

my girls have a bunk bed and I dread changing the sheets!
I get right up on top of the bed to put the sheets on, starting at the foot of the bed and work my my to the head, then I get on the ladder to finish the head area. Then I'm on the bed again putting the top sheet on starting from the foot, working my way back to the head and on the ladder to straighten it out. Same thing for the comforter. It's so frustrating!!

Basically what I do (I have the same set as the OP; the desk is on the outside, shelves on the inside, and a "rolling" bottom bed at right angles.)

The only difference is that DS doesn't use a top sheet. I have multiple comforters that I wash with the bottom sheet.

I bought mine at Rooms-to-Go several years ago. DS has a tiny room, so it's the only way he can have two beds.

 

[golfgal]

The boys have the loft/bunk bed, looks similar to your picture but with the lower bed like yours. I put the sheets on for the one and only time I am going to do that because it was a pain, just like changing a crib sheet only bigger. The boys have to change their own sheets!

I wish they had those Velcro crib sheets in bunkbed sizes!

 

[Beth76]

Toddler visitors love to climb up so you have to keep an eye on them around the beds.

Ooh, you know I didn't even think of that. I have a one-year-old who loves to climb. I guess I should wait a couple of years then.

 

[Sandcass]

We got our loft when DS was 4, I called my sister, who's an ER nurse and asked her how many bunk-bed related injuries she's ever seen and she said "zero" so that made me feel better. When we have toddler guests over I hide the ladder so there's no chance of them climbing up. I didn't sleep good the first 2 weeks he was up there, but he never has fallen. Even in the middle of the night when he has to climb down to use the bathroom. I know if I had to climb down a ladder 1/2 asleep I'd break my neck!

So, how often does everybody wash their kids' sheets? Sometimes I probably let mine go a month and then feel like the biggest slob. Is this average?

 

[Caropooh]

So, how often does everybody wash their kids' sheets? Sometimes I probably let mine go a month and then feel like the biggest slob. Is this average?[/QUOTE]

I guess we are members of the slob club too then! A month sounds right for us too.

 

[luvmy2sams]

We bought DD6 a simliar loft bed last February. She climbs up there and changes the sheets herself.

 

[twinmomplus2new]

All 3 of my boys have a Loft bed, Noone has a bed on the bottem. It is more like the first photo poster only lower to the ground.

I put shelves under all of thier beds and on the shelves are closed containers of toys, clear so they can see them. I have had them 2 years but they just started sleeping in them, ( The little boys that is)

I change the sheets as often as I change mine. Once a week. They do not use a top sheet. But the quilts do not fit correctly you would have to tuck it under which makes it to tight for them. I fold everyones quilt half way and put it down like a sleeping bag, They sleep in the middle hence the reason for the no top sheet. When I make the bed all I have to do is straighten the quilt. When I do a full change I climb up to do so.