i like this bunk bed best
http://www.bankstonandbailey.com/portfolio-pg-7-c2-28.html

if i was choosing for me it would be the orange sofa/bunk bed combo. that is pretty neat! however if it was for my children, i would have to go with the last one. the bed/playhouse one. they would love it!

I like the first ones they look classic, with enough places to hang goodies on them and personalize them. We bought our kids loft beds, sort of half bunk height - with place for drawers and play underneath... seemed ideal at the time - they take up less space for storage, like a mini-room in the area of a bed. Only problem is the cuddle factor goes - an adult person cannot clamber up and down to snuggle and read stories anymore... you have to snuggle elsewhere and then disturb the peace to take them to bed. If I did it again then I would buy lower beds - sod the storage, snuggling is more important!

The first one appeals to me the most too. For some reason the ladders speak to me. :)

Does anyone else think the third ones (Phillippe Allaye) look really dangerous? There aren't any guardrails and they better have a serious mounting system inside the walls. It screams fall or squashed to me. Yikes.

As someone with no kids, no plans to have 'em, none that come around- you might ask ...why is this person here? Well, actually none of that crossed your mind, I know. But the answer, regardless: being less than 5 feet tall, most of the kid stuff FITS me!

Hey, c'mon ...wake back up. Um, so I have this pretty awesome & really solid (therefore safe for California/Seismic) loft bed that I simply have to customize for being over 40 & utterly lacking in the nimble, ie: blue parking placard yet still ambulatory w/wincing limping and cursing...

So the ladder is: o-u-t. While I am madly in LOVE with the Tiramolla Loft bedrooms, by Tumidei - Get me that 552 setup & all I'd need is a wee fridge, toilet / shower and I'd be A1. Ah! Except I'd need about 10grand as well. Dang it! It's just so sharp, so well done... and Lord knows whatever I cobble together will be an insult to one's eye.

BUT! Regardless to all that, here I am looking for ideas. This is about second to asking a kid "Hey, bright little hope for the future? What do you want to be when you grow up?" ...cause yer just dried up in the 'magination department.

Barring all else, the Nurseyworks one leads me to putting some Ikea Billy bookcases on one end as I perhaps lay some similar items down on the horizontal to create a staircase for the up you go, bedtime and most important: '3am gotta go to the bathroom' which no one likes under any circumstance... sure wish there was something between Ikea and DWR. Maybe being in the Bay Area, Fenton MacLaren but I hate my lack of being handy & having to finish the stain, etc on their naked wood- if I stacked their solid pine storage cubes. Good Lord! This is like an email! No, much worse: "Ohdeedoh, call me Ishmael-" thus began my comment. But hey - if YOU have any ideas you creative horde, holler at me wouldya? I'm not just stumpy, I am stumped.

Erm, sorry, thx - KBai