UPDATE: After a lot of debate, we went with two Ikea Kura beds. I wanted to try one but I was unwilling to deal with disagreements over who slept where. We had to move the bookcase out, which was a bummer but the girls are VERY excited about the new beds. I do feel like they are safer than traditional bunk beds because of the low height. We didn't take time to paint them, but I wish we had because I don't like that there are two sides (blue and white). Also, if anyone else is interested, as well as we could tell there was only two ways of configuring the bed with the ladder, rather than four ways like I had hoped. To be specific, I wanted the beds to be symmetrical, but that seemed to be impossible.
We are trying to figure out beds for the girls. It seems like Ikea is the best option, but we are two hours away so I am trying to figure it out from the website before we go and hopefully make the purchase.
At first, I thought we might go with this bunk bed, we saw it IRL and really liked how low it was:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20102451
But the more I think about it, the more I am concerned to do a bunk at only four years old. I'm just nervous that whoever is on top might get up while half-asleep, forgetting she is up high and sort of fall out. What do you think? DH seems to think it would be fine.
The problem is, we just have so little space. It's a small room and with the configuration of the windows and the bookcase and the playkitchen two single beds would be a squeeze. We don't have a playroom so a lot of the toys are in the girls' room. That's when I started thinking about this:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/ca...ea_rooms_ideas
It's the Kura, here is the link:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10123996
Do you know what they have on the bottom, it's like a super thin mattress? Anyway, two of those would take up more room than one bunkbed, but we'd at least have room beneath (or is that too short to count as "space"?) And they seem lower than the bunkbed and we could do those canopies to further reassure myself.
Any other ideas? We are definitely on a budget so $200 each is definitely at the top range of our budget, since we will have to buy mattresses too.