4 Imaginative Bunk Bed Suggestions For a Kid s Bedroom
By: Danica Reynes
Submitted: 2012-02-20 15:09:26 | Word Count: 545
While upgrading the bedroom of your youngster with bunk beds, you can embellish them by following a meadow theme, decorate bunk beds to resemble a palace, install decorative lights or recreate a tree-house using the bunk bed.
If your children sleep on bunk beds in their room, you can modify your kids bunk beds so they will look whimsical and fun. There are lots of bunk beds themes available, just don't forget to consider what your kids want for their room prior to starting the project.
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Decorate the bunk bed like a meadow
Your young daughters might love a meadow concept for their bunk beds. For it to resemble the sky, paint the top bunk with sky blue paint and include images like a sun and some clouds. You can either utilize a stencil to paint the sun and clouds or paste pictures of clouds and a sun on the sky-blue paint. For the lower bunk, paint it with a combination of green and brown so that it resembles the ground. On the lower bed frame surface, you can paint images like butterflies and blooms. To decorate the bed’s guardrails and posts, you can also use additional props like flower garlands. Placing the props on the ladder or hanging them too low can make it very risky for your child’s movement of going up and down the ladder.
Make the bunk bed look like a castle
A castle motif will work well for both little boys and girls. Towers made of cardboard tubes and paper mache can be used to cap the top of bed posts. You can add small flags on the tip of the towers as details. Repaint the bed posts and the framework of the bed so that it looks as if they were made of stone. You can also decorate the floor around the bed so that it looks like a moat. Blue carpeting works well as a moat around the bed. To make an item that resembles a wooden draw bridge, cut a piece of cardboard, paint it to resemble the bridge and then lay it over the blue carpet perpendicular to the bed.
Enhance the bed with multi-colored lights
A simple but functional idea for your bunk bed is to add colorful lights to it. Install colorful push lights on the bed posts and around the bed so that your children can see even in the dark. Paint the ladder with luminescent paint so that it glows in the dark and give your kids a better visibility when they climb in the dark.
Recreate a tree-house using the bunk bed
You can embellish your children's bunk bed so that it resembles a tree house. Buy wallpaper that has a tree and apply it on the wall behind the bed. Instead of purchasing wallpaper, you can just draw on cardboard and cut out the tree design to attach behind the bed. The bed can be painted brown so that it looks as if it is made of wood. Attach props like artificial vines and twist it around the bed railings. Another option is to hang fake fruits and flowers.
With some imagination and resourcefulness, you can easily make bunk beds both functional and aesthetically pleasing for your kids.
