Kids Furniture, Beds and Study Tables

Choosing kids furniture

Children's furniture is bought twice if it is bought for the child's current age rather than the next four years. The pieces that last are the plain ones: a single bed rather than a themed one, a rectangular desk rather than a moulded workstation, open storage rather than compartments sized to today's toys. Themed furniture dates faster than a child grows out of it, and it is the first thing families here end up replacing.

For bunk beds, the measurement that decides everything is floor to ceiling. Measure it before looking at designs. A child sitting up in a top bunk needs around 75 cm of clear space above the mattress, and the mattress itself sits on top of the frame's platform height. If the room has a ceiling fan, measure to the underside of the blades rather than to the ceiling — that is the clearance that matters.

Guard rails on a top bunk should stand at least 16 cm above the mattress surface, which makes mattress thickness part of the safety calculation rather than a detail. A thick mattress on a frame designed for a thin one lowers the effective rail height. Tell us which mattress you intend to use when you ask about a bunk and we will confirm whether it suits the frame.

For a study table, prioritise legroom and top depth over width. Around 60 cm of depth takes a laptop and an open notebook side by side; less than that pushes the screen too close and the desk stops being used. Seat height and desk height have to work together — a child on an adult-height chair at an adult-height desk will not sit at it for long.

Storage is most useful when the child can reach it. Put the everyday things below about 120 cm and keep the high shelves for what an adult puts away. It sounds obvious, and it is the difference between a room that gets tidied and a room that gets tidied for the child every evening.

Fitted schemes — bunk-and-storage walls, built-in study runs — are measured and quoted against your room rather than sold as a standard unit. Send the room dimensions and a photograph of the wall, along with the model name and SKU of the design you like, and we will confirm what can be arranged, the current price and the estimated delivery time.