Children's beds: photos, types, materials, shapes, colors, design options, styles

Types of cots

There are several varieties.

Sofa bed

It features a fairly simple and reliable folding design and can easily be located in any, even very small, rooms. The sofa bed is often fitted with an orthopedic mattress to promote healthy sleep.

Armchair-bed

Allows you to perfectly organize the space and rationally use the usable area. Mobile pull-out chair-bed, does not take up much space during the day, freeing up a room for games, and in the evening it turns into a comfortable sleeping area.

Transformer

Multifunctional modular transforming bed, distinguished by its special compactness, fashionable design and increased practicality, and at the same time it can be a sleeping, work or play space.

With lifting mechanism

They have a lifting base, under which there is a niche for storing blankets, pillows or other accessories.

The photo shows the interior of a nursery for a girl with a single bed equipped with a lifting mechanism.

Pendulum bed

It looks like a standard baby cot, but at the same time it is equipped with a special rocking mechanism. The rocking model can also be equipped with drawers for linen or clothes.

Loft bed

It is a structure with stands or long support legs. The loft bed is located at a high level, which allows you to equip the space under it, using a computer, desktop or small playroom.

Car bed

It features a bright and colorful design and a huge selection of models, for example, it can be a police car, a retro car or a realistic racing car. In addition, a children's car bed is often equipped with a backlight that perfectly plays the role of a night light.

Podium

Due to its versatility, the podium bed provides not only a comfortable bed, but also a spacious storage system.

In the photo there is a wooden podium bed with a storage system in the interior of the nursery.

Suspended

It has many advantages, an original constructive solution and an original arrangement in the interior and undoubtedly becomes the central subject of all furnishings.

Hidden

Due to a smart system and a retractable mechanism, it hides compactly in a special niche, merging with the overall design and does not clutter up the room.

Arena

These products are very convenient from an operational point of view, they can have a lowering side, be stationary or have wheels.

In the photo there is a room for a newborn with a white crib.

What material is better to choose?

Most often, they prefer models from the following materials:

• Wooden.
• Metallic.
• Plastic.
• Particleboard / MDF.

Eco-friendly, reliable, with a beautiful appearance and durability, wood is considered the best material for children's furniture. They also choose high-quality structures made of MDF, chipboard and fiberboard or plastic and metal products that meet all standards.

What are the different types of cribs for babies?

There are several basic forms.

Rectangular

Classic, correct and proportional shape, fits perfectly into any interior design.

Oval

It is considered safer than the previous one, since it does not have sharp corners. An oval bed can be the centerpiece of a nursery.

Two-tier and three-tier

Two-story or three-story structures, are a universal option for a room for twins or children of the weather, provide a comfortable sleep and are distinguished by an interesting and varied design.

Corner

Adds additional comfort and coziness to the atmosphere and allows you to use the useful area as efficiently as possible, which is especially appropriate in small children's bedrooms.

In the photo there is a corner bed with soft green sides in the nursery for a girl.

Convenient corner wall model also has a pair of additional bumpers located at the headboard and on the side.

Semicircular

Radically refreshes the interior space of the nursery and brings some originality and peculiarity to the uncomplicated design.

A semicircular bed can differ in a wide variety of constructive interpretations and styles, allowing to bring to life various design ideas.

Bed design options for a child

Thanks to a variety of design solutions, the bed takes on an even more unique look.

With sides

The American design with soft or hard restraining sidewalls is comfortable enough, safe and very stylish. In addition, it provides an effective fixation for bed linen and mattress.

With a carriage coupler

Graceful headboards with a carriage coupler look especially neat, add sophistication to the atmosphere and give a sense of beauty.

With a soft headboard

Undoubtedly becomes the most beautiful accessory in the room. Soft backs can be high, low, have clear geometric or flowing shapes.

Canopy

The children's bed, decorated with a canopy, gives the usual sleeping place a truly royal look and turns it into a charming decoration of the entire interior.

In the photo there is a nursery and a sofa bed, decorated with a canopy in the form of white translucent curtains.

With ladder

A bed with steps will add individuality to the atmosphere and allow you to diversify the play activities of the little owner of the room.

In a niche

The alcove with the sleeping area located in it creates a unique atmosphere and allows you to create a cozy secluded corner.

Backlit

Children's luminous beds are a very original decor with a floating effect. In addition, thanks to such a beautiful, soft glow, the child can not be afraid and sleep peacefully at night.

With forging elements

Light, delicate and weightless metal lace will set the tone for the entire interior design and turn the children's bed into a key interior detail with exquisite beauty.

Decorated with rhinestones

The decor in the form of rhinestones constantly shimmers in the light and forms an elegant, noteworthy and at the same time cozy atmosphere.

Bed colors

The most preferable for the tint palette for the nursery are white, blue, blue, pink, green, yellow, brown, gray, beige, black models or wenge-colored products.

The white design is considered universal, it will endow the space with light and is perfect for children of different ages of any gender. A pink bed will undoubtedly decorate a girl's room and further emphasize the design. Also, wenge shade products that fit perfectly into both dark and light interiors are becoming a rather original and interesting solution.

Bed options with built-in furniture for children

The bed can represent, not only a full-fledged sleeping place, but also differ in functionality. For example, there are often designs with storage boxes, models with a slide or with a sports complex, products with a work area that includes a computer or desk, as well as cribs for babies with a changing table or with a chest of drawers for baby things.

In the photo there is a nursery for a girl and a podium bed equipped with storage boxes.

This design, combined with furniture, allows you to use the usable area much more productively and avoid cluttering with unnecessary items.

Age recommendations

A few basic tips:

• Cots for newborns. So, as a newborn, spends most of the time in the cradle, it should be distinguished by special convenience and safety.
• Up to 3 years old. For one-year-old toddlers and children under 3 years old, they choose the most unusual design of the frame, which can be, for example, a fairy-tale carriage, a princess's castle, a house, or a typewriter. The main thing is that the furniture is safe, low and preferably has rounded corners.
• From 3 to 5 years old. Comfortable, comfortable, functional and not constraining movements during sleep, models made of high-quality materials will do.
• For school children and adolescents. Practical designs made of natural materials, with a boring design, equipped with an orthopedic mattress will be especially appropriate.

With the help of an integrated approach to the choice of model, color and style solutions, it turns out to create a truly practical and comfortable sleeping place.

Features of choosing a bed for girls

For a girl, colored beds with a bright and interesting design under a glamorous gloss or decor, in the form of a soft headboard and a canopy, are suitable. Teenage girls most often choose a modern, classic single, one and a half or double, already more adult design.

The photo shows a one-and-a-half wooden bed in white in the room of a teenage girl.

Photo of beds for boys

A sleeping bed in a nursery for a preschooler boy can differ in a wide variety of configurations, colors and thematic design. Original and modern products in high-tech or minimalist style, in the room of a teenage boy, will inspire and tune in to a comfortable stay.

Bed ideas for two or more children

For same-sex children, you can choose from double, ergonomic bunk, triple or multi-tiered cots with built-in storage boxes or storage cabinets. Sleeping places for a heterosexual boy and girl are often decorated in a different color scheme.

In the photo there is a nursery for a boy and a girl with beds decorated with upholstery of different colors.

When arranging a room for children of different ages, first of all, they take into account the effective optimization of the space so that several functional zones can be located in one room at once.

Examples of beds in different styles

Photos of original design examples in different styles.

Provence

Natural carved wood models with a certain pleasant bulkiness or forged graceful and light products decorated with a canopy will especially harmoniously complement the delicate French interior.

Retro

Products from austere to fancy shapes, decorated with wooden or chrome legs, will look light and elegant and match the overall retro design.

Loft

For this style direction, constructions made of natural materials, for example, unpainted wood or metal, are perfect. The children's products themselves can also be decorated with patina or have leather and eco-leather upholstery, which will become a hallmark of a practical, laconic and expressive loft.

In the photo there is a bunk bed made of metal in a loft-style nursery.

Classical

The predominance of natural and natural materials is appropriate here. Beds are often decorated with picturesque carvings, gilding, curved legs, stylized headboards with upholstery or canopies.

Scandinavian

In Nordic design, the bed should be as laconic and comfortable as possible, be light, natural and natural. The most popular in this style are metal or wooden models, which are sometimes complemented by drawers or decorative boxes.

Country

Products with the effect of antiquity, patina or slightly damaged paintwork, made of natural solid wood, will become a special element of the rustic style.

In nautical style

Quite often, in the marine style, an unusual hanging hammock or wooden cots resembling a ship, which may have a decor in the form of a steering wheel or an anchor, is used. Also, the backs and feet are decorated with tulle canopies or drawings with fish, mermaids, shells or dolphins.

In the photo there is a nursery in a nautical style and a white bed in the form of a ship with a steering wheel.

Design of beds in the interior of rooms

Interesting design options.

Children's room

A bedroom set is the main element of a nursery, therefore, its design and structural details should correspond to certain age characteristics as much as possible.

Bedroom

The ideal option for placing the crib will be considered if it is not placed too close to the window and the battery. For a small bedroom, convertible cradles with drawers are suitable.

Attic

Sloped ceilings in the attic make the room more mysterious and unusual. However, here certain difficulties may arise with the choice of a crib, for example, a two-level or loft bed can only be used with sufficient ceiling height.

In the photo there is a narrow wooden bed in the nursery, located in the attic.

Living room

In the living room in a one-room apartment, it is important to correctly organize the space, for example, a small bed combined with a changing table is perfect for a nursing baby, and a mobile and functional bedroom set with a storage system for a schoolchild.

Unusual examples for a children's room

Original and interesting models with a unique and individual design will become a real art object for a nursery. For example, these can be structures in the form of a carriage with volumetric wheels, a racing car, a wigwam, a treehouse, a boat or a pirate ship.

Also, they often choose a train bed, a heart, two-story models in the form of a hut or soft products made like large plush toys.

Photo gallery

Children's beds occupy a central place in the room, form its impeccable appearance, set a special mood and style.