Biggest drawback is adjusting the lower bed / desk configuration
firstly, it's important to say, my kids LOVE their new bed. It's meant to be my son's but I'm pretty sure my daughter has now successfully annexed the top bunk.
Putting it together was fairly simple, it wasn't immediately obvious the orientation of some of the pieces during construction, which required 2 quite frustrating re-builds where I need to switch pieces around to get it all to fit. Technically it was my fault, but as a fairly competent self-builder, I'd say the instructions could have more clearly called this out.
The biggest issue we have, is that we want the bed to be used as a desk by our son (primary purchase reason), but he and his sister have the novelty factor and want to use it as a double-bunk for now. Changing from the desk configuration to the bed configuration requires unscrewing, fiddly adjustment, and rescrewing, which is easily 15 minutes work, and requires me (my kids aren't strong enough to do it themselves). The result is that we are simply not re-configuring as a desk, knowing it needs to be changed again that night.
I'm probably going to build a simple quick-release bracket to get around this issue, but that's likely not an option for everyone.
Biggest drawback is adjusting the lower bed / desk configuration
firstly, it's important to say, my kids LOVE their new bed. It's meant to be my son's but I'm pretty sure my daughter has now successfully annexed the top bunk. Putting it together was fairly simple, it wasn't immediately obvious the orientation of some of the pieces during construction, which required 2 quite frustrating re-builds where I need to switch pieces around to get it all to fit. Technically it was my fault, but as a fairly competent self-builder, I'd say the instructions could have more clearly called this out. The biggest issue we have, is that we want the bed to be used as a desk by our son (primary purchase reason), but he and his sister have the novelty factor and want to use it as a double-bunk for now. Changing from the desk configuration to the bed configuration requires unscrewing, fiddly adjustment, and rescrewing, which is easily 15 minutes work, and requires me (my kids aren't strong enough to do it themselves). The result is that we are simply not re-configuring as a desk, knowing it needs to be changed again that night. I'm probably going to build a simple quick-release bracket to get around this issue, but that's likely not an option for everyone.