One of the issues you often run into with bunk beds is that the ladder takes up unnecessary space.
Knee wall bunk beds.
Knee walls represent found space sometimes about knee high sometimes taller under the rafters in an attic and in the slant of a gabled roof or dormer.
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A knee wall is a short vertical wall roughly two or three feet high that blocks in that useless triangular space.
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The reason is the ladder is really just the outside slats of the bed.
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Apr 10 2016 if we insulated the roof really well we could build the beds in the knee wall which would give us much more floor space.
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So if you have a very small room and need every ounce of space you can get then these bunk bed plans might be a good fit for you.
But you do so at the expense of floor space.
And often bunk beds go into small rooms.
Or scoot a small desk against the knee wall to supply a viable work or study area.
The higher the knee wall the greater the amount of useful wall space you create in your finished attic.