Very deep bedframe to immobilize mattress
March 31, 2023 2:51 PM   Subscribe

I have a queen size mattress and box spring. Does anyone know of a bed frame that is deep enough for both a box spring and a mattress, so much so that the mattress will be surrounded by material on all 4 sides?

My mattress slides on top of my box spring. Putting grippy material in-between does nothing to stop this. I am dumbfounded by the apparently lack of bed frames that are designed to prevent the mattress from moving around. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
posted by dhens to Home & Garden (5 answers total)
 
Response by poster: I am in the US, by the way.
posted by dhens at 2:51 PM on March 31, 2023


How important is a box spring to you? There are many options for hard-side platform beds where the mattress sits "inside" the frame, which would keep your mattress in place, but they are mostly designed to be used without a box spring, which these days are more of a personal preference thing than a standard requirement. I used a queen mattress without a box spring inside an old waterbed frame for years in my bachelor days.

You could also look at low profile box springs, which would still provide the benefits while being much thinner (here is an example of a 2" queen box spring), while being able to be used with a standard hard side platform bed, resulting in the sides being high enough to keep the mattress in place.
posted by SquidLips at 5:34 PM on March 31, 2023 [1 favorite]


Yeah, like SquidLips says. I have a very shallow king box “spring” (from a kit via amazon; contains zero springs) and it supports the mattress just fine.
posted by armoir from antproof case at 6:34 PM on March 31, 2023 [1 favorite]


Sleigh beds (wood, metal examples) often have high side rails. You might try horizontal strips of "industrial" Velcro between mattress & box spring first. (Or grippy yoga mats.)
posted by Iris Gambol at 7:14 PM on March 31, 2023 [1 favorite]


Have you tried covering the entire box spring with something - maybe a flannel sheet or a mattress pad? If it's a tall/deep box spring you could try a king size sheet/pad. I had a bedframe from Ikea that came with a cover ie the frame was covered in fabric and the mattress (no box spring) rested on the fabric. And it was the opposite of what you're experiencing - there was so much friction it took two people to move the mattress at all.
posted by lulu68 at 4:25 AM on April 1, 2023 [1 favorite]


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