Kids These Days

[mme_hardy]

Our box spring wouldn't make it up our old stairs, and our mattress was too shabby to be worth moving. I bought another mattress online, because that's the way to go nowadays. Foam-layer mattresses can't lie on a bed frame; they're really designed for platform beds. To use one in a bed frame, you have to buy a "foundation": it's not a box spring, because there are no springs. I mail-ordered a split foundation so that it would get up the stairs.

Today we did the heavy lifting: assembled the bed frame, assembled the foundation, and stacked the whole megillah. I am now in bed recuperating.

I am 30" off the ground. I can comfortably use the top of my nightstand as a dresser. Our mattress alone is 13" tall; fortunately all our fitted sheets were bought in the oversized-bed era.

It's very clear that the beds-in-boxes are sized for low platforms, which makes sense. An old-fashioned bed frame leads to a very Princess-and-the-Pea-looking bed.

Comments

[dsrtao]

For what it's worth: smooth-finish 1/4" plywood works well between a foam mattress and a supporting bed frame -- not the Harvard style edge-only supports, but the kind with a grid surface.

It also turns out that the grid-surface frames are available in very strong, very easy to set up folding versions.

Eliz was dubious until I pointed out the universal headboard mounts available for the folding frames.

[mme_hardy]

> It also turns out that the grid-surface frames are available in very strong, very easy to set up folding versions.

That's what we bought, only it didn't have the legs and headboard mounts.

[oracne]

Hooray for having a bed!

[adrian_turtle]

I'm glad you have made your bed, and I wish you joy lying in it.