Baby / Nursey Furniture
The following are brands of popular nursery furniture:
Baby Dan - High quality attractive nursery furniture. This is often very heavy, so ensure a couple of strong people are available to accept delivery. Can be difficult to assemble, use an experienced assembler if you do.
Izzy Wotnot - Good quality furniture, assembly is offered by the supplier for an additional charge..
Mamas & Papas - The most well know and well established nursery furniture supplier in the UK. The product is of a very high quality, though not as easy to assemble as it might be.
Tutti Bambini - Good quality product, the sets offer excellent value for money, with many free extras. All assembly is included in the price.
Regardless of who you buy it from, most white or painted furniture tends to be MDF, this is generally because a better smoother paint finish is achieved with MDF. MDF is not always a cheaper alternative to wood!
MDF - Medium Density Fibre board is effectively saw dust glued together to make a useable material (if you imagine chipboard but finer particles are used). Accordingly it can be made to any shape or size, but it often a lot heavy and not as hardy as normal wood and traditional wood base boards.
Almost all these firms either include free assembly or offer it as an added extra. It is not hard to see why, most buyers are pregnant women who are not in a fit state to assemble furniture and there are so many other things to prepare, if the supplier doesn't assemble it, "parents to be" will undoubtedly buy ready assembled or furniture including assembly.
You may have noticed that nursery furniture appears to be expensive across the board. There are number of reasons why this is so.
- Nursery furniture tends to be purchased by parents expecting their first child. They want the best for their first child, the best top quality furniture they can get and are less likely to settle less. The market moves in this direction.
- Like toys, nursery furniture must conform to higher specifications and legal regulation including amongst others, the type of paint (teething), position of slats, marks for max mattress thickness and so on. As a result all nursery furniture should be tested to ensure it complies.
One of the best suppliers around is
Kiddies Kingdom in Huddersfield and if you click on the banner opposite you will find most f the products described in this section at the best prices too.
Flat Pack Blog
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Whether it is a bunk bed or loft bed, it is important to heed the warnings on the instructions. If you do not attach the slats properly to the upper bunk your child can suffer serious injury. The following two things have been identified:-
- The slats must all be fastened down on the top or raised bunk. On a normal bed the slats are often strung together and fastened down at six anchor point. If the slats fall through the bed you only have 12 inches to fall so no issue. If you are on the top bunk, such a fall could cause a serious injury, especially considering the way the slats might move and trap an unlucky child.
- Slat must be placed right up to the head and foot boards on the upper bunk. Again an unlucky child could slip and get trapped in a seriously uncomfortable or fatal position.
The chances of these two things happening are increased during play and therefore it is imperative that bunk beds and loft beds are assembled correctly.
