{"title":"Cabin Beds","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cabin bed sits high enough to use the floor underneath, but not so high that a child needs a full flight to reach it. Mid sleeper is the same bed under a different name, and the two words are used interchangeably across the trade, so this collection holds both. What changes from one frame to the next is what fills the space below: drawers, a wardrobe, a desk, or nothing at all, left open as floor to play on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery frame here is wood, and every one takes a UK single mattress at 3ft x 6ft 3in (90 x 190cm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCabin beds with storage\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStorage is what brings most people to a cabin bed in the first place. A single bed takes up around 20 square feet (1.9 sqm) of floor whether or not anything lives underneath it, so drawers and cupboards built into the frame come out of space the room had already given away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical effect is usually one fewer piece of furniture. A room that would otherwise need a bed, a chest of drawers and a toy box can often manage with the bed alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCabin beds with drawers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawers sit under the mattress deck and pull out from the side or the end of the frame. They take folded clothes, spare bedding and the sort of toys that need to disappear at bedtime. Because they run the length or width of the bed, the drawers are shallower and longer than the ones in a chest, which suits jumpers and pyjamas better than it suits anything tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSide-opening drawers need clear floor beside the bed to open into. End-opening drawers need it at the foot. Which one works depends on which wall the bed goes against, and it is worth settling before ordering rather than after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCabin beds with a wardrobe underneath\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of these frames carry a wardrobe section instead of drawers, or alongside them, giving hanging space rather than folded space. In a room where a freestanding wardrobe would foul the door swing or cover the window, moving the hanging rail under the bed is often the only way to get one into the room at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rail sits lower than a full-height wardrobe, so it suits children's clothes rather than adult coats. School uniform, shirts and dresses hang without touching the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMid sleeper beds with a desk\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of these beds include a desk built into the space below. On others the space is left clear, so a desk you already own can slide underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn included desk is fixed at a height that suits the frame, which keeps the whole thing tidy and means nothing needs measuring. Leaving the space open is the more flexible choice: a five-year-old uses it as a den, and the same gap takes a proper desk and chair four years later without changing the bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCabin beds with a desk and storage together\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frames that carry both split the space below, with the desk on one side and drawers or a cupboard on the other. These are the deepest of the range in terms of what they replace, and they suit a school-age child in a room that has to work as a bedroom and a homework space at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorth checking which side the desk sits on relative to the window. A desk facing into a wall with the light coming over the child's shoulder is easier to work at than one lit from in front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSingle cabin beds and mid sleepers\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery bed in this collection is a single. That is the size the design depends on: the frame carries the mattress on a raised deck, and a wider deck would need more support underneath, which is exactly the space the bed exists to free up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA UK single mattress is 3ft x 6ft 3in (90 x 190cm). The frame itself sits wider and longer than the mattress, so measure the outside of the bed against your wall rather than the mattress size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCabin beds for small rooms and box rooms\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe box room is the reason this type of bed exists. In a bedroom of 7ft x 8ft (2.1 x 2.4m) or thereabouts, a standard single plus a chest of drawers plus a wardrobe leaves almost no floor, and the door often cannot open fully. Stacking the storage under the mattress gives back the floor in the middle of the room, which is the part a child actually uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade-off is height rather than area. The room stops feeling wide and starts feeling tall, and low ceilings are the one thing that rules these beds out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMid sleeper bed heights\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA mid sleeper is defined by where it sits between two other heights. A standard single bed puts the mattress a foot or so off the floor with nothing usable beneath it. A high sleeper lifts it clear enough for a full desk and chair, high enough that an adult cannot reach the mattress without climbing. A mid sleeper sits between the two, and that middle position is the whole point of it: enough clearance to store or work underneath, low enough that an adult standing beside it can strip the bed and put a clean sheet on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo measurements decide whether one fits. The first is your ceiling: a child sitting up in bed should not be near it. The second is the distance from the top of the mattress to the ceiling, which matters more than the height of the frame, because that is the gap the child sits up into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the part that is hard to judge from a photograph. In our Enniskillen showroom you can stand a child next to one and see straight away whether they can get up unaided, and whether you can reach across it comfortably to change the bedding, which is the job you will be doing twice a month for the next ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eLow sleeper beds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA low sleeper is a shorter version of the same idea, raised enough for drawers underneath but not enough for a desk. It suits a younger child, a room with a sloped or low ceiling, or a parent who would rather not have a ladder involved at all. The storage is usually drawers only, since there is not the depth for a hanging rail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are also a sensible first step. A child who is not ready for height still gets the storage, and the room still gets its floor back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhite and grey cabin beds\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painted finishes cover most of what these beds are bought in. White reads as neutral and keeps a small room from closing in, which matters more here than it would on a low bed, because a large frame in a dark colour occupies a room visually as well as physically. Grey does the same job with less glare in a bright, south-facing room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNatural wood finishes go the other way and pull towards the rest of the furniture in the room rather than standing apart from it. Since the frame will be the largest object in a small bedroom by some margin, the finish is worth deciding before the shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCabin bed FAQs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a mid sleeper bed?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA single bed raised partway up, with usable space underneath for storage, a desk or play. It sits between a standard bed and a high sleeper in height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the difference between a cabin bed and a mid sleeper?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn practice, none. Both describe a raised single bed with the space below put to use. Cabin bed is used more often when that space is filled with built-in drawers or a wardrobe, and mid sleeper more often when it is left open, but the two words are applied to the same beds and are best treated as interchangeable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat age is a mid sleeper bed suitable for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuidance for raised beds generally starts at six years, on the basis that a younger child may not judge the edge or the climb reliably while half asleep. Below that age a low sleeper is the safer version of the same idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow high is a mid sleeper bed?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeights vary between frames, so the figure to work from is the one on the individual bed rather than a general rule. What stays constant is the intent: high enough to use the space below, low enough for an adult to make the bed while standing on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAre mid sleeper beds safe?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey carry guard rails on the open sides and are built to be climbed daily. The two things that make the difference in practice are the ceiling height above the mattress and keeping the child within the age the frame is intended for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat size mattress does a cabin bed take?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA UK single, 3ft x 6ft 3in (90 x 190cm). Depth matters as well as area: a mattress that is too deep raises the sleeping surface above the guard rail and reduces how much it protects.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/9950\/5537\/collections\/Foy_s_Interiors_-_Cabin_Beds.jpg?v=1785322319","url":"https:\/\/foysinteriors.co.uk\/collections\/cabin-beds.oembed","provider":"Foy's Interiors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}