Thanks for the a2a. My experience is with the Malm storage bed:MALM Storage bed, white And I do love it! This bed is great for readily accessible storage of off season clothing, suitcase, Emergency Go Bag, etc. Not difficult to open.The recommendation is to use only certain mattresses with it however I suspect it has to do with weight and turning axis when opening. I chose one of the recommended IKEA mattresses in medium firm and use a memory foam topper. My guess would be that a very heavy 18″ mattress plus humans could prove too heavy for slats, causing failure.My IKEA mattress has fit USA sheets and dust mite cover exactly so I've found no discrepancy there.Also, to your point: I did use my very good condition regular mattress on the bed before giving it away due to weight. (Excessive stuff and excessive weight in belongings is unattractive anymore.)BestWhere our store is located, we've got an Ikea nearby so, we've seen a lot of situations with their beds. You would have to judge based on how far apart the slats are from each other as, they've got a lot of different variations.
If the slats are three inches or less apart from one another, you don't need a box spring. If they exceed that amount, you'll need to get one. I'm not sure where you are but we sell queen box springs (separately) for $105. It won't be a big expense. You can even do a bunkie board which is a 2 inch thick version of a box spring. Sidenote: Be sure that you have a STANDARD size bed from Ikea. I've seen some weird European sizes that they use so that you HAVE to buy your mattress from them. As far as I know, Ikea sells a full range of mattresses of every quality and every price, and they do not give any kind of warning regarding the use of which on their beds (apart some generic recommendations) - so I suppose there would be no problem to put another kind of mattress at their place.And I am pretty sure that not every Ikea-branded mattress is built with a box spring.So, if the mattress is sufficiently padded and sturdy, it shouldn’t give you any kind of problem. If you are still in doubt, there is a trick that people used in old times (when the bedframes were old and not supportive enough): buy a sheet of real wood (that is, flexible enough), and put it between the slats and the mattress.
The first thing you will need is an Ikea Expedit Shelving Unit. The Expedit Shelving Unit is no longer available from Ikea, however, the is available and if it had been when I made my window benches, I would have used it because it is a little bit shorter with 4 openings instead of 5. Next you'll need at least 2 sets of Ikea Capita Legs. We got the 4 inch ones which made the window bench plenty tall. It's the perfect height for kids to be able to climb up on the bench, and for adults to sit on it. We got 3 sets of Capita legs because we made two window benches. After stapling the quilt batting, you will repeat the step but using fabric this time. You can choose any type of fabric you want. For the window bench in our nursery, we chose . I had previously cut it and ironed it for a smooth surface once it was stapled on. For our living room bench, we chose . I can't tell you how long it took me to decide on which fabric to use. I would suggest waiting until you absolutely fall in love with something.
For more information on the storage containers/bins I chose for my window benches, look .I get a lot of questions from readers about how to make a bed. Not the pulling up of sheets and tucking in of corners. But: What should those sheets look like? Should there be a top sheet? A comforter and a blanket? It’s complicated business, sleeping. I’ve gotten notes about husbands that sleep hot. Some men are radiators, apparently, all hot and bothered and sleeping in their own pools of sweat, heaven help us. Then there are stories of people who can’t get warm enough. They have layer upon layer of mismatched comforters and throw blankets and nary a wink of sleep. James and I have been sharing a bed now for almost nine years. But this post isn’t about who hogs more of our double bed (James). Or whether it’s appropriate to draw a line of demarcation down the middle of white sheets (tempting!). It’s about what the heck to put on a bed in the first place. Beds are kind of the ultimate example in matters of personal preference.
And I think a lot of that comes down to what you’re used to. I grew up in a house where we made our beds with hospital corners. During the long New England winters, we layered wool blankets underneath comforters or quilts and over top sheets and tucked them all in neatly, folding crisp triangles of sheets and blankets at the ends of the bed and shoving them under the mattress. We didn’t hop into bed, so much as tuck ourselves in like letters working their way into an envelope. In the summertime, I mostly remember sleeping on top of the quilt—too hot to deal with sliding between the sheets or taking off the quilt and finding a place to stash it. But on the hottest nights, the sheets were wrested from their tucked-in corners and our parents would come into our rooms and give us wind baths. If you don’t know, a wind bath consists of laying perfectly still in bed, while someone else raises and lowers the top sheet over you, making a glorious breeze. After a few snaps of the sheets, my parents would let go, letting the sheet settle softly over our skinned and mosquito bitten knees.
If you ask me, a wind bath is the best arugment for having a top sheet that there is. Matters of top sheets and hospital corners aside, coming from a woman who just replaced a couch with a cot, it won’t come as any surprise that I like my bedding to be relatively spare. (Though don’t think for a minute that I’d complain about a more comfortable mattress.) In the pursuit of simple bedding, this is what has worked for us: – Two sets of white sheets. For us, the classic American combination of top and bottom sheet means that we don’t have to launder a duvet cover, or store a large down blanket in the winter months when it’d be too hot in here to use one. In the summertime without A/C, a white top sheet still looks relatively neat, even without a blanket to complete the ensemble. Having two sets of sheets keeps the bed clothed even after we take our weekly haul to the laundromat. And they’re white because I decided that slight yellowing beats fading. – A thick cotton blanket for 3/4 of the year.
In New York City apartments with steam radiators, our cotton blanket has been thick enough to get us through almost the whole winter, with the exception of a night or two when we’ve added on a throw blanket for a little extra warmth. In the summertime without air conditioning, we go blanketless entirely. It’s just us in our white sheets in our white room and if it wasn’t for our blackberry-colored headboard and the crib at the foot of our bed, we might wake up thinking we were in a cloud. – A few sets of extra pillowcases (one could develop quite a hobby of finding beautiful vintage varieties, I’ll warn you) means that in a week when we forget to change the sheets, we at least have clean pillowcases. – A white bed skirt hides our boxspring, and the few things we keep underneath it. – Throw pillows have been relegated to the “couch,” leaving only the pillows we sleep on, plus one, each for bolstering on the bed. (And yes, I have been trying out a buckwheat pillow lately.