We recently moved into a very small house and our bedframe was waay too bulky, so we purchased this frame as a replacement to free up a bit more space (and also to stop me from banging my knee on the old frame nearly every friggin time I went into the bedroom! Hehe) So, it arrived Thurs, then Sunday morning we sold our old frame at a community rummage sale.
Sunday night, too close to bedtime (which was definitely our mistake) we unpacked the new frame assured by the fact that most people commented that it was a quick and easy assembly. Problem is, there was no hardware.
All of the pieces were there but no nuts or bolts to hold them together. So, late at night and nothing to sleep on, and I have MS and can’t get up from a mattress on the floor. We live out in the middle of nowhere, so had to look up the nearest 24hr Walmart and proceeded to trek over an hour to reach it.
Of course, we were told that they didn’t carry the frame at their store and that we could return it and order a new one or contact the manufacturer to have them send the hardware. Neither of those options were much of a solution for our predicament.
So we went into the store and bought the hardware we needed, which was inexpensive but we really shouldn’t have had to purchase additional items. So, we finally got home around 4am and my husband assembled the bedframe then called me in to inspect his handiwork and try it out.
The slats feel awfully flimsy. I’ve had nothing but platform beds for nearly 15 yrs and have seen several different types and brands. With flat slats they’re strong enough that they could be stood on and walked across.
I purchased this particular frame because online the steel platform frames looked so flimsy, plus I thought that the design (rounded slats, lumbar support) might be more forgiving on my terrible back.
Well, upon inspection I’m very concerned that the slats may be far too weak. I definitely could not walk across this. Heck, if I pressed down hard enough I could break them quite easily and I have MS, I couldn’t fight my way out of a wet paper bag.
It claims to hold 1200lbs of static weight and two 300lb persons of dynamic weight. I feel like it’s more like two 300lb persons of somewhere between static and dynamic weight, because any movement at all frightens me.
But, provided the frame doesn’t fall apart in the next few months I can say that the slats do in fact make the mattress more comfortable. It’s just the right amount of give to assist the independent suspension coils in my awesome IKEA mattress in contouring to my body.
That alone assists in spinal support. But, speaking of spinal support, there is another issue I discovered during my inspection. My husband had assembled the bed while I was in the livingroom unable to climb over the mattress to get to the bedroom, so without my input he arbitrarily placed the lumbar support slats such that they offer little support to my lumbar region and far more support to my gluteal region.
I asked if he could relocate them and he said not without disassembling the entire frame. That is seriously not convenient. I played around with the lumbar-now-gluteal support slats and could feel that they became slightly more or less firm, but even had they been correctly place I doubt they’d make much difference.
Perhaps for a normal, more healthy spine it may offer some assistance, but is likely not particularly helpful for someone like me with a spine that’s losing structural integrity. I think I’d be much MUCH happier if all of the slats were adjustable; for the added strength alone it’d be helpful, but adjusting each slat to best assist one’s unique body shape and its particular pressure points could be very therapeutic, and the best part about adjustable slats is that each person may make their own side of the bed to their liking without disturbing their partner, making it even better than a Sleep Number bed because it doesn’t just make the bed softer or firmer but would allow customization specifically tailored to that sleeper’s dimensions! (And if Premier chooses to create this awesome bedframe I deserve compensation for my idea.
Heh) As far as the frame proportions: I very much like the height, it’s not too tall, not too short. I used to have an 18″ mattress and I think if I still had it I’d not like the bed height, but now we’ve got an awesome IKEA mattress with 2″ memory foam topper which is combined about half the thickness of my previous mattress.
I tend to prefer beds that are a bit low, but for people who have thick mattresses and prefer lower beds, this one may not be for you. I’m not much concerned with under bed storage as the room is extremely small making under bed containers impossible, plus the previous frame had drawers underneath (that we couldn’t open in this room) so I’ve gotten used to not having that space, however a problem we had over the winter was that the heating duct was underneath the drawers of the old frame.
The new frame is much shorter in length so the register is now uncovered, plus the clearance under the bed has opened up the space around it, so I’m sure this coming winter will be much more pleasant.
I can’t in good conscience give this frame 4 or 5 stars, nor could I comfortably recommend it to a friend at this time because I’m not entirely sure how it may perform over time, plus the exclusion of hardware from the package was much more than a little frustrating and extremely inconvenient.
