OK.. is there a knack to....

...making the top bunk bed???

I just spent what felt like forever trying to get the fitted mattress protector and fitted sheet on!! Our bunk has a wooden rail right around it, which makes pushing the sheet down the side quite hard, and i'm lifting the mattress from underneath to try and get it under.

I only have access to 2 sides of the bed too.

What I'm doing at the moment...

fit it over 3 corners as best I can while standing on the floor... then I climp up and somehow manage to lift up that final corner, while I'm kneeling on the mattress, to get it over. Then the top sheet just kinda gets scrunched down the sides, but isn't really tucked in properly. It's really irritating me LOL.

Is there a knack to this?? How do you do it?

LOL Liz, we had bunks (Well technically still do) but we brought ones we could split and make two single beds and that is what we ended up doing. So I can't help you with your answer cause our top bunk was only made the once till the time it was split, but I will be watching this thread as I know one day my boys will want them to be bunks again.

Yeah, ours splits into 2 singles too, Tallon has had his for nearly 2 years, and Kayla's was still in the box in the garage.. but we decided to make them bunks when we got it out for Kayla, just to save space really. But geez it's hard work making that top bed! LOL. Even the bottom bed is harder now, coz i can't really move the beds off the wall.

do you have foam or innerspring mattress?

i used to have bunks when i was younger (and have a set in spare room now) with foam top mattress - i stand on bottom bunk, bend the mattress in half an hook the two back edges, then let it flop back down and do the front corners. if you do a top sheet and bunk isn't too heavy, drag one corner out by a foot or two and sneak in behind it to do the sheets.... most bunks aren't too heavy and will slide pretty easily out from against a wall. the ones we have at the moment are single on top double on the bottom and still slide ok for making the bed if need be

innerspring mattress. I haven't tried dragging them away from the wall, coz they'll be quite heavy, they're solid wood, with the 2 mattress on. Plus DH doesn't like me moving the bed just from one end coz it puts the legs off square.

innerspring is a little harder - wood bunks shouldn't be too heavy to move (but if your DH doesn't want it moved from one end it might make life difficult

maybe hook the backside on from underneat, so you ahve those two corners done first (lots of up and down - then the front corners...

I make one half of the bed (top and bottom that are closest to me, and then I climb up the ladder and make the second half, or DH comes in with a stool and climbs up and makes the other half.... I wash Matilda's sheets fortnightly, so thats what I do. Its a pain in the behind, thats for sure! And Matilda will only sleep on her special sheets :rolleyes: so I have to wait until the sheets are clean and put them back on.

only allow your kids to have bunks when they are old enough to make it themselves :rofl:

DSS has to make his (he is 11) and i sometimes give him a hand, man its tricky, no wonder he takes so long...
I do the same as you, crawl over the bed...
I think the trouble is that we have a 'good' mattress for him, the bunks we had when we were kids were like foam and so would pull up and move easier

GL :)

My DD has a cabin bed, when I was heavily pg I would send her up there to tuck the sheets over the 2 furthest-away corners, then I would pull it towards myself and do the final two corners.

Definitely agree if you are having a bunk bed then have a foam or thinner latex mattress on top for ease of wrangling!

do the hardest corner first cos the your not also kneeling on a tight sheet.
then work the way to the easiest on for access.
we only use a fitted bottom sheet and a flat cot sheet thrown over the middle part and a quilt

The trick: don't use a top sheet! Do the fitted sheet the way you do right now, then just fold the blanket, or doona or even just the sheet (if it's too hot for a blanket) in half and lay it on top sideways. This is how beds are made in Europe. I HATE tucked in sheets with hospital corners. They make me feel trapped.

Saša

Here's how I do it: Get DH to pull the bed away from the wall, he stands on one side and I stand on the other, and we make the bed together. Then, he pushes the bed back. :)
Actually, if I have to do it myself, then I start with the corner I have to get on the bed for, and pull the sheet back along with me to do the parts I can reach from the floor, if you know what I mean. Then you don't have to try to pull the sheet tight when you're sitting on it. Top sheet is more tricky. For that one, I lay the sheet down so that it's where it needs to be, then I climb onto the foot board of the bottom bunk, stand up, and reach over the foot board of the top bunk, lift the mattress, and tuck the top sheet in. It's a bit of a challenge, (can't wait to try it at 9 months pg!) but it works for me.

We have this issue too...mostly I just pull the blanket up and straighten it a bit and fluff the pillow a bit...DS doesn't have a top sheet, and has fitted one on the mattress. So I don't actually 'make' the bed, I just neaten it a bit lol. When the sheets need to be changed I get DH to pull the mattress down onto the floor, then I change the sheets and quilt cover/pillowcase and it all gets put back up top.