On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 1:29:24 AM UTC-5, Clark Moss wrote:
I'm going to build bunk beds this summer for our boys. I've looked at some
designs online, but I'd prefer to look at some books. Anyone have any
suggestions for books with bunk bed designs? I'll take web site
suggestions too. Thanks!

I don't have any book suggestions, but I do have a design suggestions that
you might be able to incorporate into whatever plan you choose.

The oak bunk beds I built 25+ years ago were built so they can be separated
into single beds, which in fact, they are now.

If you use the mattresses as a reference, you can see that the head and foot
boards of the lower bunk are taller than the head and foot boards of the
upper bunk. When you split them into singles, you use the taller parts as
head boards and the shorter parts as foot boards for a more traditional look.
You also end up with more space for the person in the lower bunk. More
headroom for sitting, less of a cave feeling.

I specifically built "ladder end" bunks so that we didn't have to have a
separate ladder for the upper bunk, although I did eventually build a ladder
for the short time that the beds were in the room shown in the image below.

The guard rails shown on the singles lift off or slide left and right.

Bunk Bed:

https://i.imgur.com/FcqEb1h.jpg

Singles:

https://i.imgur.com/aDjf82K.jpg

These days my 87 YO dad sleeps in one of the singles in his apartment 350 miles away. The other single is a spare bed for when one of the kids come
home. Dad's use of the bed wasn't part of the original plan, but when they
needed to get a hospital style bed for mom, he had to move to a single. The
bed was built for my boys and "passed up" to my dad. ;-)