Platform Bed

[JULZ]

I'm thinking of getting a new bed and am looking at platform beds. I like the simplistic style but wondering, since typically you only use a mattress with it, can you still use the boxspring as well?

[jwwb2000]

We don't use a boxspring with ours. Haven't had any issues with the bed and we've had it for over 6 years.

[JULZ]

Originally Posted by jwwb2000

We don't use a boxspring with ours. Haven't had any issues with the bed and we've had it for over 6 years.

See that's the thing, I want to use the boxspring, but will that cause the mattress to slide off the boxspring because typically it's the mattress encased within the sides of the platform.

[jwwb2000]

Originally Posted by JULZ

See that's the thing, I want to use the boxspring, but will that cause the mattress to slide off the boxspring because typically it's the mattress encased within the sides of the platform.

Depending on what you are doing in the bed, the mattrss may slide

But I really don't know for sure since we never even bothered using the boxspring with the bed.

[Pete (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JULZ

See that's the thing, I want to use the boxspring, but will that cause the mattress to slide off the boxspring because typically it's the mattress encased within the sides of the platform.

Mine has a "box" with the matress on top and it isn't a problem. They don't make "box springs" anymore that I know of.

[BS Gal (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JULZ

I'm thinking of getting a new bed and am looking at platform beds. I like the simplistic style but wondering, since typically you only use a mattress with it, can you still use the boxspring as well?

That looks like it would be hard to make - I envision broken fingernails and splinters.

[JULZ]

Originally Posted by jwwb2000

Depending on what you are doing in the bed, the mattrss may slide

But I really don't know for sure since we never even bothered using the boxspring with the bed.

That's what I was afraid of. With only a mattress on the bed, I think I'd feel like I was sleeping on the floor, it just looks so low.

[JULZ]

Originally Posted by BS Gal

That looks like it would be hard to make - I envision broken fingernails and splinters.

[BS Gal (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JULZ

Does the mattress sit down inside the wood area so that you would have to "tuck" the sheets down inside along the wooden edge?

Maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

[jwwb2000]

Originally Posted by JULZ

That's what I was afraid of. With only a mattress on the bed, I think I'd feel like I was sleeping on the floor, it just looks so low.

I guess it all depends on the bed. Ours isn't super low to the ground. It sits about the same height as the kid's twin beds that use a box spring.


And BSgal....It really isn't a pain to make at all. No broken nails or splinters.