Sleep Number Bed? Tell me about your bed frame.

We just got rid of our sleep number bed (had it for about 15 years). But, when we used the bedframe we already had, the bed was crazy high. My husband didn’t want to look around, so we put the bed on the floor. That’s where it stood for the whole 15 years. So I’m not much help, other than recommending you look for something that sits lower to the ground.

We’ve got two of them, one at home and one at the cabin.

Originally we had our bed at home on a plain regular metal frame with the plastic SN platforms under the mattress. Then we decided we needed more storage in our bedroom so we bought a bedroom set that had a bed frame with drawers underneath and a flat wooden platform on top. The mattress fits fine, but it is much higher than our old bed frame was due to the underbed storage. I would prefer to not use the plastic things under the mattress because I’m short, but DH is tall and he likes the taller bed. 

We took the metal frame to the cabin and had been using it there with a regular mattress. So when we ordered our SN bed for the cabin, DH looked on Craigslist and found a really nice solid oak bed frame that we liked and the price was right. It fits just fine and even with the box supports it isn’t as high as our bed at home because it sits lower to the ground (no storage underneath though). This is a traditional frame with the wooden slats going across the middle that the plastic box platforms sit on.

We also have a queen sized SN bed in our guest room at home, and also bought a solid wood bedroom set from someone on Craigslist. Again, no issues at all with the mattress fitting the frame. I think you would only have trouble if the frame you’re looking at using isn’t a standard U.S. size (as in, narrower or longer than a typical bed).