Maximizing Work, Sleep, and Play Space in your Child’s Bedroom Keeping your child’s bedroom neat is difficult enough on its own, so the idea of challenging yourself to maximize your kid’s usable bedroom space doesn’t necessarily seem appealing to many parents and guardians such as yourself. After all, with every improvement, you have to wonder if your kid’s toys won’t all end up scattered across the bedroom floor, next to a bed with scrunched up seats and a dresser exploding at the seams. Still, many times it is limited space itself that causes much of these messes to sprout up in the first place. Using some creative bedroom design, it’s actually fairly simple to create a space for your child that is equally perfect for school work, bedtime, and afternoon play, without one facet negatively affecting the other. The best way to optimize space in your kid’s room is to loft their bed. You can either use only the top portion of a standard bunk bed setup (so long as structural integrity isn’t compromised without the bottom section), or you can purchase or build a lofting structure. Basically, the idea is to raise the bed far enough off the ground to free up all of the space underneath it. That practically adds the bed’s dimensions back into the room as usable space, so your child’s bed doesn’t suck up a huge chunk of his available bedroom. Plus, with his or her sleeping area removed from the ground, it will likely stay neater, as your child will be more likely to play closer to the floor with his or her bed up so high. In order to take advantage of this extra space, you’ll want to utilize a sort of kid’s bunk bed with desk combo. The desk should fit really well under the lofted bed, similarly to how students cope with like-setups in dorm rooms at college. By having the kid’s bunk bed with desk moved up against the support structures, you can fit the desk in comfortably and still have room to spare for a desk chair and even some stackable shelves. You can put all of your child’s books, science projects, and more in this space, all tightly managed instead of free-floating around his whole bedroom. After all, many desks are large and bulky too, and having to keep it elsewhere in the room would leave very little remaining free space. And that free space is highly important. Now, your child will have plenty of play space he can roam around in, a separate sphere if you will from his sleeping/school work area that is all wrapped up around that new bunk bed and desk setup. He’ll be able to toss around his toys and do all kinds of free play, and afterward, you can help him easily collect his toys and put them away (instead of having to scrounge around his bed and other areas that were once all meshed together). So long as you encourage your child to use his bed for sleep, his under-bed desk space for school work, and let him know everywhere else is perfectly fine for play, this new bedroom setup should allow him to play, work, and sleep with maximum usable space and minimum extra work for you later on.
