I'm a Memory Foam mattress person (health issues make it heavenly) - but started to wonder now that I'm getting sick of the wife scooting the mattress off the box spring every couple days if a box spring really makes sense anymore.
Really feel like our room would work best with a chest at the end of the bed rather than replacing the headboard with a whole new full bed - but the current frame + box spring gives far too much height for any chests that we like (32" for the height of our bed currently).
Would going for a solid frame/wood slat frame in place of the box spring work with a memory foam mattress?
As far as I can tell a box spring is simply a method of raising your bed higher. If you've ever opened one up, they don't have anything special inside them.
I bought a platform bed which is I guess a wood slat. As long as your matress has something firm to sit on it will be fine. I would not go with the runged type of platforms with memory foam for obvious reasons. You want every inch of your matress to lay on a flat surface so that while you sleep it doesn't feel like this...
Nod, that's about what I was thinking. Just seeing if there's any contradicting views before I toss out the old box spring and replace it, heh. And if it was spaced too much (not that I'm looking at any frames that are light on support) buying a sizable sheet of plywood of mattress dimensions (or slightly less) should rectify that anyhow I'd imagine.
Feels so weird finally looking at bed investments of our own though - kept getting hand-me-downs from the elder siblings and parents all my life bed-wise besides headboards and such. ><
Been doing memory foam a long while, familiar with the heat (well, actually got a cool memory foam) - just looking at reducing height on the bed. And thinking of the board solution, might just do that to be cheap in the meantime since plywood to replace the box spring would be next to nothing for the meantime (although probably double sheets since only 1 support bar on the current deal)
I actually hate memory foam, for some reason I always have trouble getting comfortable. I'll always prefer a good 'ole fashioned mattress. I don't have a boxspring, either. I just have a mattress across plywood slabs. (Ikea bed.)
Really feel like our room would work best with a chest at the end of the bed rather than replacing the headboard with a whole new full bed - but the current frame + box spring gives far too much height for any chests that we like (32" for the height of our bed currently).
Would going for a solid frame/wood slat frame in place of the box spring work with a memory foam mattress?
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I bought a platform bed which is I guess a wood slat. As long as your matress has something firm to sit on it will be fine. I would not go with the runged type of platforms with memory foam for obvious reasons. You want every inch of your matress to lay on a flat surface so that while you sleep it doesn't feel like this...
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Feels so weird finally looking at bed investments of our own though - kept getting hand-me-downs from the elder siblings and parents all my life bed-wise besides headboards and such. ><
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Memory foam is hot though, so get cotton fitted sheet then Sheex performance Fitted sheet & linens to go over. Very cool, ESP pillows.
Re: People misusing the term Vanilla to describe a flying, unleash (sometimes trample) critter.
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