Beds
 

I'll be moving out in March (Finally!) and I'm looking to buy a bed. I'm not bringing the bunkbed that I've slept in since the age of 7...

I'm looking to buy a queen sized bed. I like a variety of styles, recently I saw one on the Pottery Barn website that's on sale. It's just an upholstered headboard but it looks very nice.

Where did you guys buy your beds? And for what price? Of course I'll need a mattress as well.... might even just have that for awhile. Who knows.

Thanks for any tips!

I got my bed from Sleep Country Canada for 800 bucks, came with everything except the bedding. Best tips I can give is to shop around look for deals a lot of places have specials where you can get everything at a better price then picking up the frame here and a mattress there. Another piece of advice is lay down. Get into your sleeping position and lay there for a couple minutes. Move around into the various positions that you think you might sleep in and dont be afraid to check out 3, 4 or a dozen different matteresses. Comfort is the key when you spend just as much time sleeping as you do awake.

I never buy beds; I buy mattresses. They usually throw in a bedframe for nothing. Then you can bolt on whatever headboard or footboard that you want, if any.

Unless you're buying a headboard/footboard made of really good or nicely-carved wood, the mattress is the largest part of the buy. Don't cheap out, buy a good brand, Sealy or Certa. A few years down the line, your back will thank you.

Also, may I suggest getting a split boxspring. You may find yourself living at some point at the top of a flight of stairs that's too narrow or twisty for a standard boxspring to fit through (mattresses will bend, boxsprings won't). Since a split boxspring comes in two pieces, the individual pieces are narrow and can be carried up any flight of stairs. And a split boxspring should cost the same as a regular boxspring. Cheap insurance.

Have you ever thought about buying an air matress? A girl I knew had one and it slept great, was easy to move, and was affordable. All the times that she moved, it was definitly worth it.

Just a thought.

We just bought a king-sized platform bed with a special mattress made for platform beds (so you don't have to use a box spring). The whole thing came to like $1200 (ouch) but we bought it from a local place that sells funky but inexpensive Scandinavian furniture (sort of a step up from Ikea).

Got ours from Slumberland. About $300 I think. Full size bed with 10 yr warrenty against warping and lumping. Pretty satisfied. After we'd purchased it I found an ad for a lower price on that particular mattress. We hadn't picked up the mattress yet so when we went in to pick it up I asked about the add. They gave us about $40 back to make up the difference between the original and the sale price. They were good to deal with and the mattress has help up pretty well through 4 moves and about 450 lbs for 5 years. Satisfied customer.

I built my own.

It's a lot cheaper, and I made it nice and high up so I could fit all my extra junk under it.

And I have a nice queen sized futon on top of it. I forget how much the futon cost though.

Ì bought mine off a local man who makes mattresses. I got a king size and standard double bed for the price a double bed in a furniture shop.Its an option well worth looking into

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America the Beautiful Dreamer- it's where we got our kids' bunkbed and also our futon couch. We plan to get a particular bed frame there, which is not shown on the site, but it is a very low frame- no headboard or footboard.

i just have two matresses sitting on the floor

Re: Beds
 

I went to Sears in 1994, and left with a mattress/boxspring to be delivered, and a set of sheets and comforter set. After all, you haven't owned that size bed before so you'll have to get at least one set of sheets etc., right?

I went there because the bed my parents got me as a kid was from there, and its mattress/box spring lasted 20+ years before giving out. That was a Sealy, as is my current set.

I got them to throw in what turned out to be a cheap-ass bed frame, which I replaced a few years ago with a good bed frame. That's all there is. I have no headboard or foot board. I don't really see the need for them. I guess I could have one made to attach to the frame I've already got, but I don't find it terribly important and I don't really have the space, or the money.

I found that I preferred the mattress set on a frame. Seems like the added few inches of height helps, and the frame seems to add something to the bed which makes it more comfortable, to me. And it only cost something like $65 or whatever.

I'm up to 4 sheet sets, and I've been looking for a decent comforter for over a year. The one I liked the most to look at was horribly expensive ($300) and was "dry clean" only. Ridiculous! I do things like have sex in bed, which would get the comforter wet, and I have a cat (who might claw the bed), and I tend to eat on the bed. "Dry clean" only, my ass. Called the company who made it and told them so. They didn't care. Fuck 'em.

My almost 10-year old comforter is showing its age, so I might have to spend more time looking. I'm told this is a good time of year to do that, what with linen sales and such.

In mattress/box spring sets, you get what you pay for. Keep that in mind! Otherwise, for a formal "bed", you're just furniture shopping. Quality matters, no?

We got ours from Sears over Labor Day. They had a 50% off sale, so we got a $1200 mattress (with boxspring and lame frame) for $600. I believe it's a Sealy Posturpedic. Sears sells a "Searsopedic" or something like that, but I don't believe it's as good quality.

Seriously, go to the mattress stores and lay down for a while. That helps bigtime. And I truly think that a bed is one of the few purchases that is really worth the price. Even if it's expensive. It's probably the most important piece of furniture you'll own.

Mattresses are the key. We have a king-sized pillow top, and it is so easy to sleep on. If you get a pillow-top mattress, be sure and turn it over every few months. At least that is what is recommended.

OH, man... Our new bed is a king-sized pillow top. I never thought I'd like sleeping in something like that--I'm a Tough Guy; I like Firm Mattresses--but I gotta tell you. I've NEVER been so comfortable in a bed in my life. It's just amazing.

I was also worried it'd get too hot for me, and it really doesn't.

I got my bed at an unfinished furniture store and had them finish it. Its absolutly beautiful, king sized and unique.

:)

I'm still in love with the Pottery Barn headboard, but I'm going to shop around this weekend and see if theres anything else I like.

Go to Bob's Discount Furniture, get a nice pillow top mattress, and enjoy the quality without the price. Mine is good, no problems, and as comfortable as it gets.

I'd just get a headboad/footboard at a yardsale or somewhere used. I'd buy the mattress new though, never know what kinda critters you can get :)

I have a metal futon frame with a 10 inch thick matress, and I love it! I use it as a bed, and when needed, a couch. Then later on when I'm out of college and get a new bed, I can use the futon as my couch. Due to the cost of futons in comparison to beds, along with my expeirince with one, I recommend the futon. You can get some really good deals on them if you go somewhere that specializes in real futons. Don't go to the discount places... some of them call a one or two inch thick futon pad a matress, and the frames some of those places sell are too weak to hold a real futon matress.

We were given a king sized waterbed (still in the box). I was cleaning out a loft for a friend and her son used to own a waterbed store. I had some 12 foot unfinised 2x12's and my dad and I made the frame ourselves. It has lasted us for 10 years and is still going strong.

Amen. I got my matress at a Discount Furniture. I dont remember the brand name but apparently they buy all the same materials/parts from the same manufacturers as Sealy. So whats basically a queen size pillowtop posturepedic and box spring only cost me like 385 with the heavy duty frame.

guess i must be lucky, my parents built a house when i was fifteen, and i got a brand new Queen sized bed. taken it with me through a couple of homes now, i love that bed, lost my virginity in that bed. ahhhh good times.

good luck with finding a bed just for you.

I bought my boxspring and mattress from Sam's Club, they have name brand matresses for cheap and I love mine. It is extra firm and the only mattress I have slept on in ten years where I didn't wake up with back pain.