I am upgrading my sleeping experience from a smaller-than-twin rollout bed to a queen-sized double-high air mattress with a pillowtop tonight. And I’m all excited about it! So I thought I would ask what you sleep on and why.
I need something portable because I am materially minimalistic and I have moved more than once a year on average since hitting adulthood. I don’t like to waste money on uhauls or storage, so I prefer a bed that will fit in my car. Hence the air mattress. But it’s a DELUXE air mattress with a pillow top. It even has a built-in air pump. According to reviews, it doesn’t bow in the middle and is more comfortable than most or all (depending on the reviewer) regular mattresses. (I haven’t slept on it yet though)
Queen box spring and mattress. A full mattress on top of that. A small memory foam mattress and feather bed on top of that. Then the frame is placed on 8 inch risers.
Box springs, mattress with pillow top, feather bed, on a frame.
I prefer it on the floor. I don’t know why. Sleeping on the floor has always seemed cozier to me, somehow. Right, I need the space under the bed for storage. When my little dog gets too old to jump up on the bed, it’s all going back on the floor.
rachelellogram, report back on your mattress! I’ve been curious about those.
An airbed which is the “emergency bed”, I use it when I’ve just moved into a new unfurnished place and don’t have the bed yet. The futon is my sofa in my house (there is also a daybed, whose separate two beds are mattress on a slats frame); the other bed in my house, and the two beds in my current rental place are mattress on a slats frame.
Mine isnt quite Bed Mountain but it’s close. We have a king size box spring and mattress but our bedframe is a platform bed so I literally have to climb into bed. The edge of the platform makes a very nice step. I’m considering a step stool for the dogs, not because they can’t jump into bed but because the landing is usually painful for me
I spent some time on a “double high” queen air bed, and it was quite nice, except that the dang sheets slipped off the top more matter what I did. I was thisclose to putting a strip of industrial strength stick on Velcro to the side, and another to my sheets, when I was able to get back into my regular bed.
Conventional mattress and box spring with bonus pillow top mattress cover. It’s on a beautiful bed which I adore - it’s a metal sleigh bed with pretty viney flowery shapes. I love sleigh beds, I love metal (iron look, but not really iron) beds, so this is the bed of my dreams.
Ooh, here’s a picture! Click on Elegant Metal Sleigh Bed. That’s my bed, only we got it from Ashley.
I currently have a queen size mattress on a box spring and a small memory foam on top. I did sleep on an double air mattress for a year or so. It was great, but if you don’t have carpet in your bedroom I would invest in a rug to go under the bed. My mattress sat on the floor and was freezing in the winter. My final set-up was a rug, mattress, blanket, and then the sheets. I was in a basement suite at the time though.
4" thick no-name-brand memory foam overlay on cheapest possible futon on a platform storage bed (captain’s style, with lots of drawers underneath). Queen size, but the bed does convert to king-size and we’re thinking seriously about upsizing, 'cause the dog and one of the cats and sometimes the baby boy sleep there with us.
We’ve had air mattresses in the past (starting when we couldn’t get even a queen-size up a narrow staircase) but cats eventually find a way to puncture them, the rotten critters.
