In recent times, metal bunk beds have gained quite a lot of popularity as compared to their wooden counterparts due to several reasons. First of all, there has been quite a lot of commercialization during the past few years in production of metal for domestic purposes. This has made metal bunk beds cheaper to produce. Along with that, in the past decade the cost of acquiring wood for making furniture has gone up by quite a notch due to several environmental factors which has impacted the sales of wooden furniture negatively and in many cases people may not be able to afford wooden furniture anymore; especially if the wood used is of a high quality, such as Oak wood.
Along with that, metal bunk beds have also gained popularity due to the relative lack of maintenance required in them. All that is required to keep a painted metal bed in tip top condition would be a fresh coating of paint once in a few years along with occasional, but thorough cleaning using a dedicated cleaner. If the metal bed had been treated with an anti--rust coating when it was manufactured, the chances of the bed being spoilt by rust are even fewer.
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On the other hand, some people do not prefer to purchase wooden beds because of the relatively high maintenance required to keep them preserved in their original condition. Wooden furniture usually loses its shine within a couple of years and requires regular cleaning and polishing to bring the furniture back to its original glory. With that, scratches and cracks that may appear in the wood have to be treated by a furniture expert and thus the cost of repairing the wooden furniture is quite high. Also, wooden furniture is usually not as strong as metallic furniture and as wood is not as malleable as metal, damage to the wooden furniture cannot be reversed simply by remolding it.
Metal furniture is also mostly lighter than wooden furniture and thus the cost of shipping metal bunk beds to people's homes is often much less than the shipping costs associated with wooden beds. Along with that, some people prefer that the wooden bunk bed is polished after it is installed rather than shipped and thus they have to bear the extra charges of the polishing after they have received delivery. Thus, many people have started switching to metal bunk beds from wooden ones due to all these reasons.