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I have a 4 year old and 2 year old. They share a bedroom and my wife and I were looking for a design to make a lofted bed for our 4 year old. I found the Low Loft Bed plans on here and went with it. I built it slightly higher than the plans say and went 5 feet high overall.
But with that, we were able to turn it into a bunk bed for my 2 year old by repeating the steps for the top bunk on the bottom one! A little paint, and we were all set!
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I had followed the plans for the low lofted bed and went to the local big box store and got everything I needed. I added some cheap rope lighting below to top bunk for reading while on the bottom bunk.
This was what I started with from using the low lofted bed plan.
All in all, I had about $150 in this project including the materials for the top AND bottom bunk. The paint was a few dollars more, but we had some of it already. The price is to build the bed and doesn't include the mattress cost.
It was about 2 weekend project of time total. I built it once, painted it, took it apart, moved it inside, and reassembled it.
I just made it slightly higher than the original plans called for and put a bottom bunk on it.
I followed the plans with 1×4, 2×4, 2×6, and 4×4 with some hardware.
I used lots of paint to get good coverage and I sanded the cuts to round the edges over.
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This bed is super sturdy and comfortable. We had over 600 pounds of people laying the the bottom bunk and the think didn't even think of moving!