Are you looking for the right bed for your children\’s room or your bedroom? Are you perplexed on what type of bed to buy? With the different types and styles of beds in stores, for sure you end up confused on which one to choose, right? Before you decide on something, you must first assess its suitability in meeting your needs and requirements.

For several years, these type of bed is the preferred choice by households not only because of its durability, but also because of is multi-functionality, convenience and comfort. For those who are curious on what platform bed is and what makes it different to the ordinary bedroom beds we have, read the article below to again more ideas and information about platform beds.

What is platform bed?

It is the type of bed found in huge bedrooms and master bedrooms which are usually made from hard wood and which is flat and has raised surface. When you have these types of bed, you do not need to have a box spring and a mattress with frames on it. More so, this bedroom fixture come in different styles and designs.

Since 1970s, this type of bed has been widely used by households because of its usefulness to the members of the family. Due to their growing demand over the years, furniture manufacturers made enhancements and improvements on the furniture to accommodate the different needs of clients. More so, specialty furniture stores also lowered their prices to meet the different financial capacities of households. For those who have not used nor seen platform beds, it is best that you should know its advantages and disadvantages before you decide to purchase them. You should not based your decision on mere perspectives of friends, neighbors and colleagues. Below are the pros and cons of owning platform beds.

Advantages:

It is comfortable to sleep in because you cannot feel any springs or box of wood in the edging of the bed. Because of the softness of its mattress, majority of those who own these beds spent half of their time lying on the bed and sleeping.

They are durable, heavyweight and sturdy, thus you can be sure that it cannot collapsed easily even if the one using the bed is heavyweight and even if users apply heavy pounding on it.

Because it has no springs attached to its mattress, you cannot hear any noise from it, thus you can be comfortable sleeping on them without any disturbance at all.

You do not need to buy additional cabinets or storage units because there are beds which had its own cabinets, drawers and storage spaces.

Disadvantages:

Because of its expensiveness, not everyone can afford to own this type of bed. Most often this bed cost from $100 to $4000. To attract more clients and to better establish its market niche to different levels of consumers, manufacturers lower their prices.

Some of these beds are not easy accessible to elderly people because of their very low mattresses and their short distance from the floor, thus, making it harder for them to get in and get out of the bed. Because of this design, users need to buy a riser to address the problem.

Because of its specialized mattresses, some users have difficulty looking for those which do not have box-type edges.

Whatever bed you pick to buy be wise on your choice and consider comfort and quality of sleep that you can have.

Author Bio: Karissa Claire Dupree is a design specialist and enjoys writing about any type of home decor such as water wall fountains and stone wall fountains as well as other products.

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