Sep
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Make sure that you as parent comply with the recommendations of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission with regards to children’s bunk beds. This advice applies to all bunk beds, including but not limited to, double or triple bunk beds. In fact the CPSA classifies a bunk bed as any bed with the bottom of its mattress foundation more than 30 inches above the floor.
First and foremost the CPSA advises that no child under the age of six years old ever be allowed on the top bunk of any bunk bed. It is compulsory for all manufacturers to permanently affix this warning to all bunk beds made in the United States.
Secondly the CPSA recommends that the space between the upper edge of the bed frame and the lower edge of the guard rail be a maximum of 3 and a half inches. If the gap is greater than this it is recommended that it be adjusted to three and a half inches or less. In accordance with a ruling of the CPSA the top bunk must have guardrails on both sides. Only in cases where the lower bunk mattress foundation is 30 inches or more from the ground will this requirement be applicable to the bottom bunk.
To reduce the risk of your child being entrapped between the bed and wall, in particular if you have very young children using the bunk bed, the CPSA recommends that a guardrail be placed on both sides of the lower bed. There are childrens bunk beds on the market that provide the option of guardrails on both upper and lower bunks.
The CPSA further recommends that where the bunk bed mattress or foundation rests on a ledge then some means of support such as fastened cross wires should be used to offer additional support. This will help prevent the bunk bed mattress or foundation from collapsing. This applies to bunk beds while fully assembled or when in use as stand-alone beds.
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Sep
28
Many people just buy a kids bunk bed or a midsleeper bed to hold up the mattresses but it’s good to get a bit more creative with it than that and looking for a bed for your child can be difficult unless you know what to look for
Here are a few points to consider when looking for a suitable bed for your child:
Room Size - It might sound obvious but you need to consider the room size - width x height and also shape. Honestly it would amaze you to know how many people buy a bed they like the look of only to find out that it doesn’t fit in their room. The market has exploded in the last few years with lots of styles to choose from.
Bunk Beds and Midsleepers come in many colours and materials from metal, wood and even plastic. Beds can be a huge source of inspiration for a child, one day they are in a space ship or a pirate ship on their next big adventure and the following day you are being invited to a puppet show that is being performed underneath their Midsleeper. You can really get creative and dress them up with drapes and fabric. Endless fun for your youngsters.
Also consider the terms used for Childrens beds, Midsleeper - Cabin Beds - Loft Beds - Bunk Beds are often the names given to a similar style of beds. So if you’re in the market for a new kids bunk bed or a midsleeper now is your chance to get creative.
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Sep
28
Every little girl lives in a fairy tale storybook world all her own, so why not help her bring that passion and creativity into her actual living environment?
A custom theme bed is the perfect way to set the stage for your little girl’s fairy tale fantasy. Be it a modest forest hut or a decadent princess castle, it’s now possible to make your little girl’s bed stand out as the centerpiece of a whole storybook reality.
And with today’s developments in creative carpentry there’s no reason anymore for a bed to be just a bed. It can now be a full-fledged multi-functional magic kingdom where a little girl can not only get a good night’s sleep filled with sweet dreams but where she can also frolic and play. Loft beds and canopy beds help add to the fairy tale mystique, as do multiple levels that allow her to climb, slide, and crawl around and through, allowing her multiple settings for the various scenes of her fairy tale romance adventure.
Custom bedding, drapery, and throw pillows can unify the theme, adding further splashes of magic to her fantastical realm, be they bedecked with images of her favorite fairy tale characters for her to share her dreams with or twinkling, shooting stars for her to make wishes by.
Fairy tale worlds are filled with vibrant colors and both the custom theme bed and the rest of room surrounding it should be filled with the same eye-catching vividness that fills her fantasies. Bright pinks, reds, blues, and yellows make a custom fairy tale bedroom come alive. Touches of glitter or other reflective surfaces will make more than her eyes sparkle - they’ll make the whole room sparkle. And fancy borders in lace or floral molding or other such touches of simple elegance add both depth and enchantment to the overall atmosphere.
Painting murals befitting of your little girl’s fantasy world help extend the theme beyond the bed to the rest of the bedroom in a relatively easy and affordable manner. Paint the forest creatures that live in her enchanted forest. Paint elves, gnomes, and fairies too. Paint tall trees and vibrant flowers and sinuous vines across her private landscape. You can even paint a river, stream, pond, or waterfall running through the scene if you like. And above it all, paint a sunny blue spring sky where it’s always clear and bright.
There’s no shortage of storybook stories a little girl can act out when she has her very own custom fairy tale themed bed and bedroom. Let her be carried away into boundless worlds of the imagination without her ever having to leave the safety and comfort of home. Because, after all, there’s no place like it.
By: Joann Means
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Joann Means, interior designer, and her husband Johnny Means, master craftsman, have spent the last several years bringing fairy tales to life for little girls and boys alike, far and wide. Their creations are both beautiful and functional, stimulating a child’s fantastic imagination and never-ending craving for fun and excitement while at the same time serving a parent’s need for safety and security. Come see the enchanted realms the Means’ have already created for other little girls and boys at Sweet Dream Children’s Interiors
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Sep
27
Kids of all ages love Bunk Beds and Loft Beds because they offer more floor space, a little adventure, and a cozy nest for sleeping. Bunk Beds, futon bunks, and ladders are now available online so they are easier than ever to purchase.
As wonderful as they are, bunk beds have inherent dangers associated with them. There is no substitute for sitting down with your child on Day 1 of the new bunk bed and carefully explaining the safety rules. Ask kids to repeat what you have told them to ensure that they have understood. Here are some basic safety tips to avoid injuries using a bunk bed. Some are for parents in the initial set up and some are for kids to remember every day that they use the bunks.
Top Bunk Safety
On the top bunk, use only mattresses sized to fit perfectly. The top bunk is generally a twin, so use only a twin-size mattress: 39″ x 75″.
Don’t use a mattress more than 8″ thick. The guardrails on most bunk beds are designed to accommodate up to an 8″ thick mattress. Thicker mattresses place the sleeper too close to the top of the guardrail, rendering the rails ineffective in preventing falls.
Always use guardrails on all sides of the top bunk, particularly on the long sides. Check to ensure that the surface of the mattress is 5″ or more below the top of the guardrails. If you need thick or heavy comforters on top of the mattress, you might want to select a thinner mattress so the sleeper stays well below the top of the guardrails. 6″ thick mattresses are often sufficient for kids, whose lighter weight does not require extremely thick mattresses.
Never allow a child under 5 years old on the top bunk. While kids under 5 may be agile and have good climbing skills, they may need a few more years to refine their internal sense of caution and safety that would help them regulate their own behavior on the top bunk.
Teach children always to use the ladder for getting up and down from the top bunk. Many bunk and loft beds have slats on either end that may look like climbing structures that kids see at the playground. However, only the ladder is specifically designed to support their weight that is increasing with each passing year.
Teach children to climb the ladder only while facing the ladder. While it may look easy to them to climb down facing outward into the room, it is safer to climb down facing the ladder and holding on securely.
Respect the manufacturers’ weight restrictions! Some bunk beds are constructed to handle up to 400 lbs. on the top bunk, but not all are. Read the accompanying safety materials to determine the weight limit. If none came with your recycled bunk bed, a medium-sized adult (approximately 200 lbs.) should climb to the top bunk to check the sturdiness and rigidity of the frame. Determine a maximum weight and do not allow a heavier person to use the top bunk.
Caution your children not to jump on a bunk bed (ever) - either on the upper or lower bed. Bunk beds are not designed for it. While the dangers of jumping on the top are obvious, even jumping on the bottom can weaken the entire structure or result in banged heads.
Overall Bunk Bed Safety
Place the bunk bed tightly against the wall to prevent children from becoming trapped between the bunk and wall. Use both long-side guardrails and caution your children from trying to slip down the back of the bed to the lower bunk.
Regularly check that the ladder, the guardrails, and other parts are tightly screwed down and properly in place. Fixtures loosen over time, so look over the whole structure once a month and tighten loose screws.
Hanging items from any part of the bunk bed is dangerous. Kids may reach over the edge for them, swing from them, and generally risk falling off or strangling.
All children benefit from a nightlight that will help them use the bunk or loft safely. Soft red lights allow dark-adapted eyes to see enough to get down without jarring them into a permanent awake state in the middle of the night.
Watch your children get up and down a half dozen times before leaving them alone with the bunk bed. Advise them on the safe ways to enter and leave the top bunk and ask them to show that they understand by doing it.
Following these simple safety tips should help you and your family enjoy your bunk or loft bed free of injury! Don’t forget that bunk beds also come in futon designs that enable you to have a futon sofa as the bottom bunk. There you can read to your child before bedtime - a sure way to calm things down and engender a lifelong love of reading!
By: Mary Engle
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Sep
27
A type of bed in which one bed frame is stacked on top of another is called a bunk bed. Beds are serving more than its purpose to sleep; today it is a part of interior decorations. Many consider it as a luxury especially with those beautiful bed frames. Bunk bed is used in many places, especially for its less space utilization. It allows two people to sleep in the same room utilizing space for just one. Real estate prices soaring high and getting a place for rent becoming a major concern for every individual, space saving methods are thought out by everyone. These beds serve the purpose beautifully. They are used in ships, army garrisons, hostels, dormitories, prison cells, camps and children’s room, etc.
Babies, when they grow about two to three years old, are normally shifted from cribs to bunk beds and toddler bunk beds come into picture. There are different types of bunk beds like the standard, futon and loft etc. These beds are available in various price ranges, depending on the materials used to make them, like metal or wood, and also the accessories available. The frames adds to the elegance of the bed. Bed frames are part of the bed, generally made of metal or wood, painted and decorated to suit the room.
But safety of children has always been a concern while using these toddler bunk beds. Most of the times, accidents occur due to the absence of guardrail on all both sides of beds. Many a times only one side has got the guardrail and the kids seems to fall. Sometimes accidents happen when the guardrail spacing is more, causing children to slip through these. Therefore the gap between the rails should be minimized on all sides of the bed. In some beds the upper mattress gets easily dislodged with a small push especially when the kids play. It is a dangerous situation as it can fall on the kids on the lower bunk. These beds must be properly fastened to the bed frame for the children’s safety.
Thus while selecting the beds especially the toddler bunk beds proper care must be taken with regard to the guardrail which needs to be fitted on both sides, properly screwed and bolted to firmly attach to the frame. The height of the guardrail must be such that the kids cannot fall off. The spacing between the guardrails should be very less. Always have the guardrails in place. The mattress being chosen should be of a right fit for the toddler bed. The ladder to climb to the upper bed needs to be properly fastened so that the kids would not slip and ensure that they use only the ladder to climb. Bunk beds are like normal beds supported by four poles and another bed is stacked over it and to get onto it a ladder is used.
By: Yachika Verma
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Yachika Verma has many hobbies and interests. As well being a keen blogger and article writer for many sites, she has also recently created a site focusing on
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26
There are also products on the market that you can purchase that can help you. These are generally marketed as products to help you to get rid of bed bugs. Whether they work for that reason is another story. But, they can definitely help you to know if you have bed bugs in your home.
These products are quite like that of flea traps where they will lure the pest into the trap and are supposed to keep them there. Unfortunately, most of these traps are really only good for determining if you have bed bugs in your home. Most are not nearly effective when it comes to ridding the home of the pests.
All of the things that we have talked about thus far in the article are good signs that you have bed bugs. If you notice them, think you notice marks on your skin or on your children’s skin, then you may have an infestation of bed bugs in your home.
Those that travel or have visited homes in which there are an infestation should take care as to determine if they too have brought the bed bugs into the home.
Beyond a doubt, the best way to know if there are bed bugs in your home is to use a professional service. They will come out and look for the tell tale signs and being experts will be able to tell you for sure what they have found. Now, we have talked quite a bit about the bed bug but what you want and need to know is what to do if you have discovered that you have bed bugs in your home.
We spent that time talking about it so that you would fully understand what these creatures do, how they live and how they affect you. Knowledge is power and in this case, it can help you to get rid of bed bugs once and for all.
We will provide you with a step by step approach to methods that can help you to get rid of bed bugs once and for all. If one method does not work, move on to the next one. The goal here is to determine what the best method for your infestation is.
The first and most important step in treating bed bugs is to determine that the bed bug is actually a bed bug. As we mentioned, bed bugs are commonly mistaken for other creatures.
The problem here is if you treat them as you would other creatures you will have no success with treatment.
Likewise, if you treat another animal with the treatments recommended for bed bugs, you are likely to have few results as well. A flea will not respond to the treatment of a bed bug. And a bed bug will not respond to the treatment of a flea.
The next thing that you need to do is to consider if you plan to treat the bed bugs yourself or if you plan to call in a professional to handle the situation.
If you have a serious infestation of bed bugs, it is likely that you do need to use a professional to handle the infestation if you will have any chance of getting rid of them in the long term.
Let’s take a look at the options when it comes to each of these treatments. You do have some options here. One method that can be effective is to use a mixture of pyrethrums and fresh water diatomaceous earth. These products will work to provide you with a natural solution to getting rid of bed bugs.
It will cause damage to the nervous system of the bed bugs in the form of a mechanical action. Then, the bed bug will die.
It is essential for you to not use these types of products that are salt water diatomaceous earth as this can be quite dangerous. In fact, any animal that inhales it, pets and humans alike, can have lung damage.
In addition to this, this product has been found to cause cancer in mammals of all types.
If you plan to use this type of product, there are some manufacturers that do provide an insecticide mixture like this for you to use. If you purchase it, you will want to insure it is used with the utmost respect for the directions provided with it.
Another option for the self treatment of bed bugs is to use fruit and vegetable insecticides. These will do the same as above but will also provide the necessary safety to other animals including humans. These products are made of canola oil and pyrethins.
By: Peter J Lee
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Baby Health
Sep
23
The majority of children have some difficulty during the night. To wake a couple of hours after going to sleep with a nasty cough is common. As is snoring, bed-wetting, and restless sleeping [thrashing about and waking often].
There is a simple explanation, and a direct solution. Remember the simple lesson of the mouse and the elephant. The only way to cause asthma is by breathing like a big ……elephant. One of the easiest ways to breath like an elephant is to sleep on your back. In this position there is no resistance to huge deep breaths. Turning on your side makes it physically more difficult to breathe so deeply
Sep
22
One of the most well-liked home furniture choices these days, is the couch bed. Couch beds provide a chance to save some space, but are extremely practical and create versatility in living spaces. Lounge beds tend to be the very best solution for bedrooms having restricted room that should have both a bed and lounge in them. While typically utilized in tv rooms, settee beds tend to be now becoming rather popular for youngsters rooms mainly because of their doubling up abilities. Settee beds are a exciting and practical option for kids room home furniture.
It’s pretty common know-how that kids tend to be a disaster waiting to take place. If you want to give them a massive amount of room to play you’ll need to keep home furniture in child’s rooms to a minimum and you realise they’re going to litter the room with toys and other things. Naturally, a bed is an essential piece of the room and it is significant footprint can take up a large amount of precious space. That can leave very little space for studying and playing.Older kids will need different home furniture in the daytime. If they have a sofa they are able to sit comfortably to do the stuff they take pleasure in. Much of the time a bed is of no use throughout waking hours and basically uses up space without being used all through the day.
In several instances a settee bed for a kids’ space is the ideal answer, allowing youngsters to utilize and take pleasure in their personal space very easily. At times moms and dads don’t think about it nevertheless a couch can turn out to be a important component of a kid’s room after they get to a particular age. When growing youngsters start to read a large amount of textbooks they need a comfortable place where they can sit and concentrate. Typically when a bed is used as a reading area it can lead to a child to feel sleepy and become powerless to focus on just about anything but sleeping. In the event that your kid has a settee she will be able to use it a great deal for quite a few more purposes and have fun also.
An additional fantastic feature of utilising a lounge bed in a kids’ room is it saves a large amount of space. Then you may have the room you will need to fit in a wardrobe or different useful furniture. With out the added in clutter of extra home furniture a space seems larger and is more comfy and helpful when they need to have room for work, amusing pals and sleepover get-togethers. You are able to discover a sofa bed for a child’s room in virtually any coloring, type or layout you want. Numerous of the styles we discover for general use will moreover be very good for use inside a kids’ room as well. Kids will generally prefer the convenience of an upholstered sofa. There are also kid’s couch beds made to work with particular themes in case you plan to generate a themed room for your little one.
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When choosing the perfect bedding set for your child, there are a number of factors to be considered. However, before even bothering to take these into consideration, first and foremost, we must remember the function of a child’s bed. A bed to your child is so much more than just a place for them to sleep. It is a restful and comforting haven. It is a place of security and warmth where they are protected by from the world. A bed, to put it simply, is a sanctuary.
With this in mind, we can easily pick out the perfect bedding by asking ourselves a few simple questions. First, what makes your child smile? If it is a certain TV character, then choose the bedding that depicts that character. If it is butterflies, then find bedding with a butterfly design on it. If your child is smiling, then he or she is comfortable and happy.
Next is the aspect of comfort. You will want your child to be able to sleep in perfect comfort every night. Find something filled with cotton, or, if possible, feather down. Comfort is a definite aspect of any safe environment of a child.
Lastly, no children’s bedding is complete without that one last little angle. It requires a Mommy and/or a Daddy to come in at night, tuck the child in, kiss them goodnight and run the dreaded boogeyman off. Combine all this into one package and you have the perfect solace for your child.
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In an urban home where space is at a premium, storage space is a premium so here are some space-saving ideas for the small bedroom .
The bed, being the key piece of furniture is more effective as a high-level bed with plenty of boxes, drawers or cupboards underneath. The cupboards do not have to have doors, which need space to swing open. Instead, think cubby holes for storing books, clothes and shoes.
If you’re living in a studio flat, you can still make use of the minimal space. For example, ’store’ the sleeping area on top of a tiny kitchen and bathroom, leaving the main room as a living area. In any arrangement where the bedroom is raised up, or in a gallery, have open-tread, ladder-type access to the upper level, rather than a solid staircase which will create visual barrier.
The bed which folds up against the wall is another space-saving alternative. Build storage shelves on the wall above the folded-up bed and hang a blind or curtain which, when extended, will hide the entire wall.
Bunk beds which fold away are useful in a child’s room. But you lose the advantage of the copious storage space which can be built in underneath a high-level bed that is a permanent structure.
Clothes storage becomes a greater issue in a confined space. Part of the solution is to be disciplined and ruthless about how many pieces you should have. Seasonal storage, where you store away winter clothes in summer and summer for winter, will help the situation if you have an attic or other place to stash away a couple of old suitcases.
If you’re a naturally tidy person, consider banishing your wardrobe door which opens out. This is because it shrinks the room visually. Alternatively, remove doors which swing open conventionally and use sliding panels, folding doors or a curtain that hangs flat when closed. Maximum use of up-storage is vital and custom furniture built into the available space, is more efficient than free-standing. If your wardrobe finishes short of the ceiling consider extending it upwards to create less-used storage spaces.
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