Kids These Days
Aug. 9th, 2021 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mme_hardyOur 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.
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.
