Cheap Metal Bunk Bed

Ok, if you're looking to save a bit of money on your purchase then I think a good bet would be a cheap metal bunk bed. On the whole metal products are easier and cheaper to produce than wooden ones, so you may well get a better made product for your money going with metal. And as metal is a tougher material all round than wood you've got a better chance of keeping a metal bunk bed in good working order. It isn't going to suffer the same wear and tear as a wooden bed.

Furthermore it's much easier to have rock solid joints with a metal frame than with wood. Once the joints of a metal framed bed have been well and truly tightened up there's not much in the world, apart from the spanner you assembled it with, that will shift them again. The constant small pressures getting in and out of a wood bed, on the other hand, will over time create a degradation of the joints which will certainly make the bed feel flimsy and unstable. And of course eventually the joint will break.