How to change sheets on a loft bed without losing your mind
Changing sheets on an elevated loft or bunk bed requires shimmying up a ladder, clearing away clutter, and wrestling a heavy mattress in an awkward space. This makes the routine so physically frustrating that both parents and older kids end up dreading the task or getting rid of the bed entirely.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Making the children change their own sheetsDid this help you?
- 2Buying fancy zip-on sheets designed for easy changingDid this help you?
- 3Switching from a loft bed to a regular bedDid this help you?
In their words
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“For me, it's more about the difficulty of changing the sheets! My 9.5 year old loves his loft bed, but I hate it. As an adult, having to shimmy up the ladder, clear off all the stuffed animals, lego, and other crap he keeps in his bed, and then wrestle with a mattress, mattress cover, and sheets is TOUGH. 0/10 do not recommend.”source ↗
“Changing the sheets is the absolute worst. No matter who is doing it, it’s complicated and annoying. I didn’t miss our kid’s loft bed when we got rid of it.”source ↗
“Now that he’s in 8th grade (13), he’s so over having to climb into bed and changing his own sheets so high up.”source ↗
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