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Would like an inexpensive Full size mattress and box
Spring and looking for suggestions. We bought a Brooklyn bedding queen bed about four years ago and we like it but for a spare room looking at other options.
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Space,
Forgot a foundation (aka box spring). Buy a quality metal platform bed. Makes a foundation unnecessary.
I wholeheartedly recommend this platform bed:
Each person I know who has bought it agrees with my assessment. It kicks butt.
I adapted these headboard brackets to work with it:
My review from 2015:
I believe this Zinus model is the same platform bed repackaged or Zinus makes it and sells it under Spa Sensations:
Robert
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Agree with Robert - we have the same platform and it is great.
Get a decent foam mattress and you are good to go. We have this in queen, but have been very happy with it.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U...le?ie=UTF8&th=1
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Looking for a new mattress as well. My favorite was a wool futon mattress. Slept cool, felt as firm as wet sand.
My wife hated it.
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If there's any chance a sofa bed would be more useful in that room, I've been so happy with my
Ikea Friheten that I've slept on it full time since last July. Seat is 22 inches deep, so I (with short legs) need a pillow behind my back for watching TV from it. I actually use a thin mattress pad folded behind the back cushions, that at night becomes my "bottom sheet."
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Robert M wrote:
Forgot a foundation (aka box spring). Buy a quality metal platform bed. Makes a foundation unnecessary.
Another option is a steel-frame box in lieu of a traditional box. No sagging. No noise -- not so much as a single "creak." And it gives you the height of a traditional box-spring.
I have one like this:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072F9SWDJ