King Size Platform Beds

 

To better appreciate the minimal king size platform beds; consider a brief history of its evolution, and that of its American cousin, the mysterious box spring.

The Egyptian pharaohs of 3500 B.C. were the first known people to sleep on dedicated pieces of elevated furniture. Before that time, king size platform beds were essentially portable – all-too-organic constructions of straw, leaves, fleece, or animal skins spread out on the hard ground. In Europe, king size loft beds weren’t common until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and seventeenth centuries; stationary but adjustable, their king size platform bedroom sets and wooden frames held grids of ropes that could be tightened as needed.

King size platform beds suspended sleepers over a cushion of air, which was far warmer than a cold, damp floor. It kept floor dust off the king size bedroom furniture, bed linens and discouraged pets and critters from nesting. Height also made it easier to change bed linens and climb in and out of bed.

The earliest modern king size beds mattresses were simple sacks of straw or down, and eventually of cotton and wool. But in 1871, industry spawned the innerspring mattress, a bouncy entity filled with a field of vertical steel coils; its companion, the box spring, was invented soon afterward.

The box spring literally is a box: a wood frame king size platform beds with drawers holding a series of heavy steel coils, upholstered with an outer layer of foam and fabric. Its purpose is simple: to ventilate the king size platform beds and lift it to a convenient height. Manufacturers claim that it also prolongs the king size leather platform beds life by absorbing some of the sleepers’ weight and movement, and they insist that each king size platform storage beds be supported by its companion box spring and no other. If you buy king or queen size platform beds without its box spring, its warranty is invalidated. (Read the fine print)

As early as the 1920s, excellent latex foam king size platform beds were being produced as an alternative to factory-assembled steel coil mattress sets. But the latex mattresses were expensive, and confusion was rife. Low-quality foams gave all foam a bad reputation, while innerspring mechanics proved easier to explain, illustrate, and advertise. Steel sounded like a better, more progressive investment than a product made of whipped tree sap.

King Size Platform Beds Guarantee a Good Sleep

So we kept on filling our beds with those coils. The only change? The king size platform beds got wider and deeper, enhanced with thicker and thicker bedding (comforters, decorative pillows, and so on) – outsized monuments to comfort and grandeur. If only grandeur could guarantee a good night’s sleep!

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