Bunk Bed Bedroom Ideas

Bunk Bed Bedroom Ideas

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The 16 Coolest Bunk Bed Ideas for Kids and Adults Alike

Make room for everyone.

While bunk beds have forever been a kids' dream, designers are currently obsessed with bunk rooms: Composed of built-in beds and often tucked away in awkward attics or guest spaces, they look chic and can accommodate lots of sleepers (just right for extended family who insist on crashing). We found 16 style-savvy rooms with bunk beds to inspire you to try them yourself, whether you're sticking to one set of bunks or ready to go all out and invest in a bunk room. Keep reading for tips and bunk room ideas on how to double up for kids and guests alike.

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Build In Sneaky Storage

With chic, contemporary linens and sleek finishes, this bunk room feels both kid and grown-friendly. And if your bunk room is short on closet space, add bottom drawers. Designer Jenny Keenan integrated drawers under these built-ins.

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BUY NOW Saracina Rustic Wood Bunk Bed, $496

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Consider Longevity

This bedroom designed by Amber Interiors is going to age well over the years. With a full size bottom bunk and twin on top, this is a bed that a child can grow into as they get older. The larger size makes it feel more spacious and mature, while the soft colors and room for playing make the bedroom feel youthful.

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Make a Fort

Alicia Lane Interiors drew inspiration from a train car for this Provo, Utah bunk room. Thibaut wallpaper was brought up to the ceiling, cocooning the built in beds and the curtains invite weekend sleep ins. The best part is those little built-in storage cubbies under the bed for shoes.

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BUY NOW IKEA STORÅ Bunk Bed, $299

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Add a Slide

Have you ever seen a more epic bunk room? Designed by Studio Lifestyle, this bed-meets-play-structure-meets-treehouse is the ultimate sleepover space. The cactus-print wallpaper adds a nice neutral splash of color, too.

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BUY NOW Pottery Barn Kids Tree House Bunk Bed, $1,999

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Hand-paint Details

Primary colors! Hand-painted details! Statement chandeliers! This bunk room designed by Bailey McCarthy is full of circus-like whimsy and vibrant energy.

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BUY NOW Raffa Kids Funk Double Ladder Bed, $1,794

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Keep it Minimalist

All white, slim, and straightforward, this lofted bunk bed is like sleeping in the clouds (with an invisible cloak as a blanket, of course, since it's so minimalist). Sky-high lofts are perfect in a teenager's bedroom for sleepovers if there's a trundle beneath, or a desk for homework.

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Stick to a Theme

The bunk room feels like a ship's cabin and is lined with six bunks, four on one side and two on the other in a Marin County, California, house designed by Erin Martin and owner Kim Dempster. Grommets on the curtains are meant to evoke bubbles. The brass porthole mirror was in Dempster's house when she was a child.

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Customize Steps

This built-in bunk bed by Studio Lifestyle was even customized to include steps instead of a ladder. Tyler Ferrell, a contractor with Killowen Construction, offers a few pointers on how to build a bunk room. First, measure the space. Leave at least forty inches between the top bunk's mattress and ceiling, so you don't hit your head, and two inches on either side so your kids can make the bed (you can dream, right?). Then secure the bunks to wall studs, and also anchor them to a corner post that goes all the way to the ceiling, if needed. Make sure the top railings are at least twelve inches high so no one falls out.

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BUY NOW Pottery Barn Kids Catalina Stair Loft Bed, $1,999

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Go for a Creative Railing

Sally Markham designed a lattice railing for the girls' bunk beds in a Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, house, painting the insides of the circle Benjamin Moore's Peacock Blue.

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Don't Be Afraid of Color

Beyond the boys' room in a Menlo Park, California, house decorated by Matthew Leverone, the coverlets and bunk beds are from Pottery Barn Kids. Bedroom walls in Benjamin Moore Aura in Steel Blue.

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Rethink Your Throw Pillows

In designer Nicolette Horn's island-inspired Oslo, Norway, house, built-in bunk beds in son Frederik's room save space.

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BUY NOW Pottery Barn Kids Regency Bunk Bed, $1,599

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Optimize Space

On the lower level of a North Carolina house designed by architect Ruard Veltman, a boy's bedroom features a pair of custom-made modern bunk beds without ladders—children climb up the brackets. Philippe Starck Ghost chair by Kartell.

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Be Playful

In a New Jersey beach house decorated by Mona Ross Berman, Katie Ridder's Beetlecat wallpaper gives the boys' room a playful but "not overly cute" feel.

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Remember: The More the Merrier

When you have the space for it, why not build more bunk beds? The more, the merrier. Rather than just putting two queen beds in the guest room, Studio McGee added twin bunks crossing overhead to maximize sleep space.

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Pick a Strategic Layout

A Dutch door opens to the kitchen and a children's bunk room beyond in a Balboa Island, California, house decorated by Krista Ewart. Stripes, polka dots, and big blue whales are a surprisingly compatible mix.

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BUY NOW P'kolino Nesto Bunk Bed, $990

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Bunk Bed Bedroom Ideas

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