We are looking at buying a new bed - finally a KING. Getting H into a furniture store is like pulling teeth and honestly I don’t love any local furniture store or expect it to me better than something I can order online.
Most beds I’ve seeing are platform. Lower, slats, no box spring. I’m cool with that and a bed is a bed to me as long as the mattress is comfy. Our current bed is quite high - we’ve had it for probably 20+ years. Box spring and mattress.
Thoughts or opinions on platform beds and the ease (or not) of getting in and out. Comfort. Or, have you used a thinner box spring with the mattress? Some have indicated you could do that - even a 5 inch box spring would give the bed a lift.
I’ve hashed this over so many times in my mind. I hate our current bed (sleigh bed) and REALLY don’t want to keep it (or move it in our move soon).
Our daughter has a really decent platform bed from IKEA. It was easy to assemble (she says) and it’s pretty nondescript. Would really match anything. She has a regular foundation and mattress on hers so it’s the height of a regular bed, not hard to get in and out of at all.
We bought one of my sons a new bed about a year ago. It came with a platform that was a decent height off the ground and the mattress itself was pretty tall (no box spring). Together they are as far off the ground as my much older mattress plus box spring on a traditional metal frame. ETA: I just checked and it is 2 inches lower.
(The platform is also interesting because it has a motor that lifts the head of the bed.)
Love my platform bed. I bought it in NYC in the early 90s and it’s indestructible. I do not miss box springs, and the lower height of the bed is much more my furnishing style (we have kind of eclectic tastes, nothing really matches, lots of rustic and pine and wicker everywhere - at any rate, no huge formal Bedroom Sets that a platform bed might look odd with).
From this place: https://www.gothiccabinetcraft.com/bedroom/beds/king/
We have two boxspring/mattress beds and two platform beds in the house. I think the boxspring/mattress beds are much more comfortable. I am in the market for a step stool for our bed though since it is quite high ; )
I have been sleeping on platform beds for 30+ years. We bought our kids platform beds. No offense to anyone, but a to me, a box spring doesn’t serve much purpose. And I’ve always wondered why they are called that.
We have had our cherrywood platform bed from Dania for more than 20 years now. Mr. doesn’t want to part with it.
Make sure the slats are not flimsy and can be screwed into or somehow fastened to the bed rails or they can shift and fall out… our bed has two metal frames with sturdy solid wood slats (edited: not “flats”) that support the mattress.
These are very similar to what we are looking at. Not the “storage” platform beds. I’d have to travel a bit to get to a West Elm or C and B. Our shopping kind of stinks!
Re: “box springs”…the last couple of sets we bought just have a foundation that really is like a platform that the mattress sits on top of. It looks like a box spring…but it isn’t one!
DS had a great platform bed made by a craftsman he knows. You can’t put anything under this one…the platform goes to the floor. It’s a really nice bed!
We have a queen platform bed in our casita that works well. It has six large storage drawers (two on each side) so no need for a dresser. We bought two more of these in white for the cabin (king and queen) also to supplement storage. We have 14-inch Zinus memory foam mattresses atop each. I like how solid/stable they are. No slats, just three solid rectangular boxes that fit together in a block “U” shape. I ordered them online from Poverty Barn.
These are quite high; top of mattress is 28” off the floor.
They do not have headboards. I posted a while back that DH made a board and batten headboard for the one in our cabin guest room (middle pic above, before headboard added).
